Originally Posted by
Rath
It does seem to work well in some areas, but I think it is more the spacing of the nodes. While doing some areas like churning mists, you have some locations with mobs and they are decently spread, even when paired. By just reseting the one pair that is next to each other I went from 2-3 mats a favour on my first 3 buffs up to 5-6 on my last two. I think this is how CWH was working as well, as that south pair is literally next to each other and the NW pair can be flying distance apart.
I edited out the steps in that post as the node will actually appear in any location. Regardless, in some places I will use that method as it is much faster. Also, some nodes are prone to getting +1/2 gather attempts and it really adds up.