Unbalanced Experience

[Waeksyn]

You are correct that gearing your crafting jobs is difficult and time consuming.

Continue to level to 60. Most important, get your botany and miner to 60 as well and start mining and crafting red scrips.

Your weekly allowance of scrips should get you the mats you need to craft 4 pieces (as well as some extra "oids" that you can sell to start buying the materia you'll need).

Alternatively, focus only on gathering to 60. Take all your red scrips and mine the favours. Your 9 weekly favours should net about 180 "NQ" oids and 20 "HQ" oids. which you can sell. On my server, that will sell for at least 8M, which you can use to buy the gear and the materia. If you do that, focus on the Trader's favours because the Matron's (botany) are more difficult to collect (nodes are further apart and therefore you get fewer attempts).

You can do this while you get your crafting classes to 60 and then switch from selling to crafting.

Crafting yourself is faster and it's nice to wear gear with your name as crafter on the piece.

You may want to "bootstrap" the process by first buying a main hand / off hand for blacksmith. You then use your pimped BSM to craft tools for most of the other jobs (like Carpenter that can then craft other off hands).

Either way, it is a long slog.