Coming back to the game after several months of hiatus and i'm attempting to get back into crafting. (it was the source of said hiatus) I left off building classes up to 60 since i'm on a rather... small server and haven't been able to find a linkshell for crafting or anything of the like.

So how does the gearing up process work now, and how much time am I looking at investing to get to 2 star crafting?