Hey all!

Quick backstory on me here: longtime player here. All I’ve ever really done in this game has been on war/magic classes. And spent most of my time raiding. Dabbled a smidge into crafting and gathering back in the day in ARR. But I only leveled a botanist just high enough to dig up maps in Heavensward and haven’t really done anything on that side in years. Recently started getting into, just reached max level on botanist yesterday and plan on doing some crafting a little later.

So my question is, where do I even start? I did a tiny bit just to try figure out this “new” concept of collectables and stuff but for the most part I’m kind of at a loss of where to begin. Just spent the vast majority of my saved Gil on melding out my tanking accessories so I’m only sitting on probably a million Gil at this point and until I can start building that back up I can’t really just buy a crafted set of gear. Any and all tips you could give me would be much appreciated!