Jeebus the red script grind is real.

[DreameR7g]

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You make good points. Although, the actual effort of gathering the material takes at most 2 minutes. Its mainly the waiting which can be seen as eating up time, inflating the 8-10 hours and if you remove the waiting time, it is actually around 3-4 hours or maybe less. I'm giving broad generalizations of course.