Picking back up from 50

[Maeka]

If you bring everything up relatively evenly (Gatherers a little ahead of crafters due to the need for materials) you should be able to create your own accessories as you level up to them.

Not really, because without HW scrip gear, forget trying to make anything from Stormblood. Even if you're wearing the Lv62 stuff, you're still going to have a bad time and you'll just end up with NQs that are under-tuned. The recipes are tuned assuming that you are either wearing SB HQs or fully melded endgame HW stuff.

For some dumb reason, SE expects you to stop your leveling and grind out an obsolete expansion's endgame to get ready for the basic stuff in the next expansion, even though the Battle Classes don't work this way. You can grab Lv60 NQs and kill Lv60-61 mobs easy.

You can't, however, get Lv60 Craft/Gatherer NQs (because they don't exist), and even if you had Lv62 NQs the stuff is still too hard.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Not really, because without HW scrip gear, forget trying to make anything from Stormblood. Even if you're wearing the Lv62 stuff, you're still going to have a bad time and you'll just end up with NQs that are under-tuned. The recipes are tuned assuming that you are either wearing SB HQs or fully melded endgame HW stuff.

For some dumb reason, SE expects you to stop your leveling and grind out an obsoleteexpansion's endgame to get ready for the basic stuff in the next expansion, even though the Battle Classes don't work this way. You can grab Lv60 NQs and kill Lv60-61 mobs easy.

You can't, however, get Lv60 Craft/Gatherer NQs (because they don't exist), and even if you had Lv62 NQs the stuff is still too hard.

I actually oppose to the idea of scrip gear. You're talking about the class-specific gear sets at level 60 and level 70, right? They're mostly complete waste of scrips. The only one piece of scrip gear I bought was the level 58 chest piece from the shared Adept set. Other than that, I was pretty much using shared gear all along the way which I crafted myself.

All you need is some cheap CP melds using Tier I, II, III materia, and you should be good with everything. All the non-star recipes from level 51 to 69 are quite easy to HQ using pure NQ mats. All we need is to fully utilize our lvl 50 cross class skills, which could be something that fresh All-50 crafters are not quite use to yet. They just need to gain more experience, read more about how people generate rotations, and gradually get better.

[Rosekitten]

At the moment im leveling my gathering up and i'll use the script gear for that just to get the boost and help push along getting the better materials.. i have a NQ set bought from the moogles for gathering and crafting so I hope that aids a little.. >.<