hich build

lv 1 https://wynndata.tk/s/v6zilr just clean full leather, make this right after you exit tutorial to give yourself some wiggle room when grinding em trail.

lv 9 https://wynndata.tk/s/ge03zi
all classes should have the same weapon here, if you have no t2 mats then use 1 strong flesh + 1 therck chain instead of 2 to perserve durability.

lv 19 https://wynndata.tk/s/gu16m5
same thing as lv 9 build, just with lv 19 armor

lv 29 https://wynndata.tk/s/dzjhka
so many ings can be used here.
blood of nivlan beauty: mana steal
rotten bone: poison/water dmg
undead heart: hp
warped skin: defense
etc.
you can deviate from the recipes and add anything as long as you stay within 150-200 dura, helps if you get t2 mats

lv 39 https://wynndata.tk/s/b1hi7t
again anything works here. ings you get around nemract area could still be used.

lv 49 https://wynndata.tk/s/fe8s35
you get frostbitten flesh by killing the zombies inside bobs tomb. they drop somewhat often. you could craft this during a prof speed to save yourself the trouble of getting 12 t2 ingots but its not needed. the game is still easy after this, your weapon doesnt matter too much.

lv 59 https://wynndata.tk/s/nc24bo
this is where the viking stone spam starts. viking stone is an ingredient you can get from icy island, next to nodguj. they drop from the icy warriors, and a decently rare drop. advisable to finish the quest, bring a lot of scrap and join a loot bomb world to grind here, since youre gonna be here for a while if you dont get some loot bonus (cooking/scribing/alchemy has lb ings).
you can also get viking stone from opening chests in troms jungle, dernel jungle, and the olux swamp. this is also where you will start lootrunning for ingredients.
a substitute for viking stone is ice fragment (instead of giving int and water dmg%, it gives agility and lb) that you also get from killing icy warriors, and you can use this instead of tailoring. the tradeoff of water dmg for loot bonus is very negligible, its fine if you want to go 6 ice fragment for pants and boots instead.

lv 69 https://wynndata.tk/s/6otwu3
the same recipes as lv 59. since youre lootrunning you should be able to find t4 water powders. you should also take t4 air powders. its up to you if you want to get t4 fire powders, but its not needed if youre not gonna make a fire weapon. put t4 water on your weapon instead of t3s when you recraft it. also should start running dark forest, light forest, and kander forest as well.

lv 79 https://wynndata.tk/s/l5y8qw
skip all the lv 70 bosses before you get this set (or even wait for level 89). now you can start using soft silk/hellish cinders/native jadiete. you can also use accursed effigy if you want. note: YOU DONT HAVE TO PUT THIS ON YOUR ARMOR IF YOU DONT WANT TO LOOTRUN FOR THEM. just get 2 soft silk and 2 hellish cinders and you should be fine. crafted armor is naturally tanky, and youre most likely gonna be playing WFA on hich anyway. just put your defense and agi on the high 50s and you should be fine for bosses if youre careful.
you can get soft silk from the moth rare mob at dernel jungle lake or dernel loot chests.
you can get hellish cinders from the 4handed rare mob at kander forest or dernel/df/kander loot chests.
you can get native jadiete from dernel/df loot chests.
you can get accursed effigy from the big pillar rare mob at kander forest or in dernel/df/lf/kander loot chests.
also something to note, on the cave right next to the orc battleground, it will spawn a decaying heart most of the time if it has been full for a while.

lv 89
this is the part where you should start experimenting on your own on wynndata with what ingredients you have collected. theres so many possibilities with the ings you got from lootrunning or killing mobs, you cant just follow 1 set recipe, since hich isnt linear. sometimes you can have a lot of soft silk and sometimes youre gonna have 0. so you can either recraft with the lv 79 recipe or make your own, just keep it tanky so you can survive level 90-100.

lv 99 https://wynndata.tk/s/8gz5bq
the final build i made for my hich, and it doesnt look much different from previous builds. it doesnt have to be days of lootrunning for the build to be good, i just made do with what i had and hoped it would work. (i also leveled my scribing to 90 for the 5 skill buff ingredients, to make the bosses much easier). also saved the air powders for a ws/air dmg% dagger/spear: https://wynndata.tk/cr/465052358, though woodworking cant use agullo beak. not doing the deja vu quest until now would also help you, since you dont want to throw away the 1/4 mr ing early. also, remember not to spam soft silk/hellish cinders past the skill point req that you can do, since crafted items dont count toward reaching skill point requirements. good luck!