OK thank you all for the advice.

Finally hit all 70 last night and have crafted my zelkova right side HQ. Can finally start using custom deliveries for yellow scrips instead of levelling. The last post encourages me. My browser doesn't let me see the materia you used but I'll try again from home. It's nice to hear that there is a way to do it without VIs though.

Some of you asked about goals ... I think broadly I'd like to be able to make anything but I don't have much/any confidence about ever being able to make gil from crafting. I'm on a legacy server so don't believe there are any markets that aren't completely saturated by people with far deeper pockets than myself.

So my short term plan is to upgrade my DOL tools and gear to 290 HQ, finish crafting the left side 290 HQ and looking into yellow scrip tools with the goal of augmenting them. Then I'll look into what will be needed for the 320 left side set and see if I can gather/buy the mats to have an FC mate craft it.