In the mad dash to prepare for SB I finally (FINALLY) got my FSH up to 60. In my travels throughout the starting areas in Gyr Abania, I am having real trouble pulling up anything at all. I haven't seen any of the fish for the leves come up yet, and I'm only successfully catching maybe one out of every ten casts, which is deplorable.

I never did the requisite DoL gear grind, having no $ to put down on it and I'm still leveling my DoH's (through beast tribe quests which takes for-freaking-ever but I don't have the gear to do collectibles/foils etc, never did them so I wouldn't even know where to start) and I can't make decent gathering gear for myself. I had a ton of kupo nut vendor tokens so I bought myself a set of trailblazers but my right side is garbage.

Since my ilvl is still awful (under 90 lol) do I have to just bite the bullet and farm a truckload of gil to buy somewhat decent gear to have any hope of gathering with any kind of efficiency in the new areas?