Ehcatl Sealant....

[Rath]

SNIP

1.) Sealants are easy to buy or easy to get from dailies. You take time to make gil or do your daily quests.
2.) BSM is the best for getting MCD, you make and break artisan/forager tools and get 3 at a time. You sell 1 and it pays for 10-15 sealants.
3.) Offhands are 3 star and a joke to HQ
4.) Unlocking 4 star is 10x harder then anything unless you are a skilled crafter. If you just used others macros for 3 star or less, then you have to rely on RNG from hell. There was a few posts on how to do this manually without macros that works very well using hasty and rapid. This method is not "100%" but I made my HQ turn ins in 4-5 tries and reclaimed the low-quality ones, I am 12/16 HQ on 4 stars using this same method (I use NQ mats).