Originally Posted by
Canadane
Gear is where all your stats come from.
As you level up, things get harder to make and you'll need better gear.
It's the same idea behind battle classes, it's a linear growth. So it's likely not (entirely) your rotation, it's probably the gear.
Now you have a couple of choices here. You can make your own gear since you have everything leveled, or your can buy it. You say you don't wanna use the market board, well there are NPC shops that'll sell you NQ versions of crafting gear. Enough to get by, at least.