Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
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
I tried this, but the 1 - 2 seconds it takes to move / click the "hidden" spot will cost you about 1 minute in time overall out of 15 minutes. When I go all Crystals I average more nodes per Favor = more Favor mats. It might be easier on a PC but on the PS4 it costs time.