New level 50 LTW

[Zigkid3]

Recently hit 50 leatherworking.
got all my BiS HQ equips (though i haven't melded materia on them yet).

some questions:
can you not mass quick synthesis starred items? I can't quick synthesis hippogryph leather. do all star items require manual synthesizing?

when making profit off making stuff for the market boards and churning out HQ stuff, do you use HQ mats or NQ mats?

what's your rotation for 40 durability items, i pretty much have a 70/80 durability rotation figured out, but for short durability stuff like 40 that i want to try to HQ i'm not sure how to go about this.

suggestions on making a profit as a new leatherworker?

[Ed_N_Ants]

I'm not positive on the star items because im not level 50 with my crafting yet but I can answer the rest of your questions... I would assume that you cant quick synthesize 2 star items but again im not positive on that... If your trying to make a profit and sell hq stuff the best thing to do is use HQ mats because they increase your chance of success, however if the prices for the mats are going to exceed your profit you are going to need to purchase non hq stuff... Personally you should work on other classes if you want to make money on the board because buying hq items is gonna cost you a lot more than getting the raw materials and making them yourself... If you quick synth something your chances of getting HQ is a lot lower than if you Do it manually, so I would advise doing it yourself... As for rotation some people put in their input on that but I have different methods to keep things fresh and increase my success rate depending on the material the item and if the failed synths... Best way to make a profit is to look on the boards and see what isn't saturated... Leather used to be a great way to make money but now everybody is trying to sell it and undercut everyone else... So troll the market and look for items that are in demand and not too many sellers as long as your price is reasonable they should sell pretty quickly...

[Gamemako]

can you not mass quick synthesis starred items? I can't quick synthesis hippogryph leather. do all star items require manual synthesizing?

Yes. No one-star or two-star items can be quick-synthesized.

when making profit off making stuff for the market boards and churning out HQ stuff, do you use HQ mats or NQ mats?

Once you have the gear and cross-class abilities, you will make HQ items out of NQ mats.

what's your rotation for 40 durability items, i pretty much have a 70/80 durability rotation figured out, but for short durability stuff like 40 that i want to try to HQ i'm not sure how to go about this.

Use Manipulation at 20/40 dura to keep your Hasty chain going and eliminate risk of 10-dura Excellents. Other than that, pretty much the same -- spam the heck out of Hasty, finish with Byregot's if you have it. My rotation looks a bit like this:

Comfort Zone
(Tricks of the Trade on any Good that show up starting here)
Inner Quiet
Steady Hand II
Hasty Touch
Hasty Touch
Manipulation
Hasty Touch
Steady Hand II (shows up here on average, depends on how many Tricks procs you get)
Hasty Touch
Comfort Zone (should show up by now)
Hasty Touch
Manipulation
Hasty Touch
Ingenuity
Steady Hand II
Hasty Touch
Hasty Touch
Byregot's Blessing
Standard Synthesis

suggestions on making a profit as a new leatherworker?

Depends on your server's markets. On my server, mass-produce cheap Raptorskin Merchant's Purses and sell for ~8k. Mats are worth maybe 500 gil total, should HQ it 100% of the time. There are also other cheap top-tier stuff like Raptorskin Survival Belts, Raptorskin Rings, and Raptorskin Chokers which you can produce in high quantities and sell pretty quickly. One-stars aren't worth it unless you're pretty confident; the cost to manufacture is higher (depending on item, it could cost you 5-10k in other materials beyond your own dirt-cheap hippo leathers) and prices on Coeurl have fallen into the 10-15k range. I used to sell for 50k each, but those days are long gone.