You can buy the best gear but without a solid rotation you are toast. The 3 star rotation I use can turn nq mats into hq items about 70% of the time. My stats are craft 410, control 390 and CP 395 with food. The 3 star rotation has luck on the quality side. It appears that the 4 star will have luck on both the quality and progress side. I did give a shot at the 3 star listed for hq. The rotation is grizzly and I did come in decently on quality but having said that you need perfect luck with a lot of 50% and 80% skills. We will see what it looks like in a day with new gear stats. I am hoping that the main item from oak knots can be bought. To recover the gil on selling i110 gear, it would help to get it out the door with in the first 2 weeks. The 2.2 patch was not too hard to get the i90 gear HQ and out the door.