What are you struggling with specifically? Gear? Most efficient way is to just star during events only and settle 21 max on most items that you have a couple spares of. 22 if the item is cheap and you have lots of spares (e.g. cra) and you have enough meso to minmax with nothing else to work on. Foddering items like sup earrings and belt are pretty cheap as well. Settle 2L (I like real 2L but fake 2L is fine ig) on everything and get like a decent min settle flame. Priority is definitely stars > pots > flames. That's kinda just my way of making mules though. Probably don't need all that gear but if you want a comfy ctene mule then this route isn't that bad.