Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
As long as your gear is all at least level 60, you shouldn't have any problems with minimum craftsmanship. From there, meld to max out CP then add on what control is comfortable for your budget.
This is the most important part. Craftsmanship is handled by the gear (usually HQ gear), Maxing out CP will be THE most important thing. Getting +4 or +8 control on a piece of gear is mostly for fluff since that usually cant make or break a craft.

Also (since I cant link out to other site here) check out Teamcraft (just google "FFXIV Teamcraft") you can put in your level and stats and whatever food you want and HQ materials and then you can run through rotations in a simulator instead of potentially wasting materials in game.