I'm really not too worried about playing with the 2 Star HQ stuff tbh, I'm not a High end bleeding edge crafter it will probably be weeks before I even bother with more than the basic melds, and longer before I worry about Red Scrip crafting. if anything I'll collect red script casually and use it to buy the Upgraded tools. Since I fully expect SE to decide to make an omni gear set again in a few months anyway.

As far as Food goes atm, I'm sort of addicted to the Onion Soup HQ

I intend to craft my own jewelry shortly as well, but I will farm most if not all my own materia for over melds, so its sort of a gradual process

while I'm on the subject, does Craft get high enough on current gear so you can do the 320 progress items in one shot, ever?