Quote Originally Posted by Buckles View Post
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I think there am was to get people mining mats for a few hours that they wouldn't normally mine. It wasn't as much an issue in ARR because many of the materials were readily available through beast tribes and easily farmable. Many of the mats in HW are hidden node mats and you require as many, if not more, than you did in ARR. I could see that something like the Dravanian Hinterlands Mining Favors are great for the hardsilver ore market and the Churning Mists are great for Cloud Mica and Hardsilver Sands, however CWH only has Citrine and it's pretty worthless.

Maybe I missed this flood of posts, but I've yet to see anyone complain about Ephemeral nodes which are up for about the same duration, spawn at specific times and gate the exact same recipes as you require them for Land/Sea/Leaf borne aethersands. It's the same mechanic, except I actually like the Favor nodes more because you actually have to do more than just interact with the node like you do with ephemerals.