Quote Originally Posted by Jade-Nephrite View Post
I think quite frankly players DO NOT want to gather those items in addition to the 11 hours for Favor mat farming.
Except players should be gathering these materials -while- favor farming. There is no reason to pass up hardsilver ore while doing hinterland favors, nor is there a reason to pass up aurum regis sand / abalathian water while doing sea of cloud favors. (Speaking as a miner). If people are hitting the dirt, pushing as many nodes as possible, one red script equates to almost 10 stacks of mixed materials (probably closer to 2-3 on hidden items).

Unless they're doing crystals, which is pointless when you just do Eph nodes for obscene cluster crystal farming

My money is on that being the -point- of the current favor implementation; To support this huge material sink that the collectible system requires.

That being said, Favors are ridiculous and cutting down the time while maintaining the reward is a good thing.