I just recently leveled up all of my crafting jobs to 50 via leves so I have a bunch of the crafting quests to finish. My equipment currently consists of level 40-ish gear so my stats are pretty crappy.

Should I spend the time to get Forager's gear, master books and Lucis tools or should I skip that stuff and aim for 3.0+ equipment?

Also, I have not completed the 2.0 storyline so that is another thing I will get to work on.