Level 60 Crafting Questions

I'd recommend getting all crafts to 50 so you can use cross-class abilities that is needed for easy HQ crafting + after 50 you need prettu much all cross abilities there is for your "red/blue script collectible" crafting. those scripts are just like tomes that you can trade in for 180 gear.
My guess would be to have 50 on all gathering as some mats are obtaianable from different classes.

And to be honest I never thought you could make that much cash as a culinarian more than what ive heard about raid food and so on,so thats a great haul
I'll help you get your crafts to 50 in no time or atleast high enough for all cross abilities. I'll have to look into what levels all crafts need to be for that + i think that the best gear you can have at lvl60 would be 150 before collectible crafting.

Yeah its normal Ive got 5 retainers currently and my guess is that i'll have 6 by the end of the year depending on how much space i need for keeping all my mats.