All crafting jobs 50 and looking at some input on what to do next.

[Simaril]

Definitely start with 1 class. In my experience melding was very expensive, and making the 50 HQ items is tedious. I had a pile of materia, but I valued the cost of melding one set at current prices near 700k. The next set I got very lucky and was way lower.

As far as HQ 3 stars - think about baby steps;
1) To make the items to get the master book it's best to have the best available gear.
2) To get the new mainhands you'll actually need that gear just to reach the stat minimums.
3) To craft HQ 3 stars you'll need HQ materials, which means you will need more than 1 master DoH... (alchemy for just about everything?)

SO; figure out what 3 star stuff you might want to make, and which master DoHs that requires. I did alc first (least tedious 50 items to make?), then wvr (seems very tedious by comparison). Profit magins are huge, but sales are few and far between. Supply of materials and finished products is low. I'm uncomfortable with the market, but confident it will pay off.

Also, QFT:

(Also you can just edit your original post to get around the 1000 character limit.)

[PROBOUND]

I did alc first (least tedious 50 items to make?), then wvr (seems very tedious by comparison).

Really? I heard that ALCH was the most annoying due to the fact we cant HQ Vitrioil. Does the 2 HQ Rocksalt make up for the loss in base quality?

[Simaril]

Really? I heard that ALCH was the most annoying due to the fact we cant HQ Vitrioil. Does the 2 HQ Rocksalt make up for the loss in base quality?

I liked Alc's spirit of salt because it's a one step process. I do not like Wvr's silver brocade because you have to make a silver ingot, and 2 twinthreads (which require crystals not shards), then the silver brocade. I had 2 silver brocades come out NQ when the quality was at 92% and 96... I found it extremely frustrating that even with the extra effort of 3 HQ crafted materials it was not 100%. Failing at spirit of salt was much less demoralizing; "oh well I need to gather/buy more salt". You can get 10 HQ volcanic rock salt every time, and I happened to have a stack, and the gold to buy more.

50 silver brocades = 100 twinthread, 50 silver ingot = 200 crawler cocoon (gather or MB), 100 effervescent water (gather or MB), 300 lightning crystals, 150 silver ore (gather or MB)
50 spirits of salt = 100 volcanic rock salt (gather or MB), 50 vitriol (vendor or MB)

TLDR: If you don't mind buying the HQ mats for brocades, then sure, they'd be easier.

[PROBOUND]

TLDR: If you don't mind buying the HQ mats for brocades, then sure, they'd be easier.

Makes sence when you break it all down like that. Thankfully i'm a 2star miner so the rocksalt won't be an issue. thx for the info