Quote Originally Posted by Moomba33 View Post
Edit: I realize I kind of talked around the point, but overall I think it's ok for the content to have some harder recipes mixed in since all rewards can still be earned by players with easier missions, the red alerts, ect. Admittedly I don't know how much slower it is if you avoid A ranks altogether.
It could be very slow if you avoid A ranks unless you have all day and camp for Red Alert. Red Alert does not have a fix spawn time and I have seen players notifying it pop in 3/4am mid night.

Some A ranks are dorable by orange script gear with some meld and accessories. Orange script left without main hand give you around 4XXX stats, if someone just hit 100. Takes about 2 cycles/4 full custom deliveries to get enough orange script to reach around 5000 stats.
4000 stat is quite a struggle even with food, 5000 feel more comfortable.

Gathering on the other hand I feel it is less of equipment or stat but the need of GP generation. Hi-Cordial could not keep up especially given the very tight time limit and how far spread the nodes

The real kicker I found is the “leve” sync. I believe they are created with 10/50/90/100 level in mind. For example my 90 crafter have a much easier time doing this the same B ranks unless than my 99 crafter.