crafting noob needs help

[Ksenia]

You are hand over fist ahead of me because all the leg work to crafting has nothing to do with crafting.
http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/1445972/
I came back with all 50 crafts, 50 mining, 48 Fishing and 43 Botany.
As you can tell, I ignored DoW and DoM and I also ignored MSQ. My crafting is locked behind hundreds and hundreds of quests that are in no way related to crafting.

You are going to want to get Botany up, fishing as well just because you might as well. All my levels are GC turn ins and just crafting various gear from level 42 to 50. You will find, I'm sure you already have that leveling isn't really that hard. You can do it by accident in many cases and it takes guess work out of other aspects of the game.

As for mastercraft, it's another ball of wax all together. I stopped forward leveling to get Weaver Desynth up and it's just more grind, it isn't hard. At 50, at 60, it's controlled by the DemiMateria you have really, DemiMateria comes from Desynthing and I can either level it or grind gil to feed to someone who has leveled it.