Will do all of the above, very much appreciate the help. It's my actual crafting gear I'm trying to make HQ right now. Since I'm tinkering with all of the crafting classes I wanted to make a really nice set of all HQ level 14-16ish gear, which is mostly why my gear stinks right now. I guess it does make more sense to make normal gear first, equip that then do again for HQ. As for Culinary to 37, I keep reading that - but the first 15 or so levels were hard from an inventory standpoint, so many of those recipes needed 5 or 6 things if memory serves. I think I made the horrible mistake of leveling up all gathering and crafting at the same time and am constantly running out of space, gigantic pain in the buttocks. I was really hoping that the HQ items for the recipes I was using would carry me most of the way - turns out I'm just burning HQ items.