44,550 scrips?

[Callback]

Is this thing serious?

It takes that much to unlock all the folklore?

How the hell am I supposed to even scratch that? Especially with just an iLvl150 HQ set and 600GP.

[KorraBelle]

1: Get to Fisher 60
2: Buy Goblin Jigs
3: Fish your inventory full of Illuminati Perch
4: Realize you just watched 9+ seasons of several shows on Netflix while fishing
5: Be 4 tokens short of book
6: Enjoy the tan you're gonna get in Hinterlands

[Callback]

1: Get to Fisher 60
2: Buy Goblin Jigs
3: Fish your inventory full of Illuminati Perch
4: Realize you just watched 9+ seasons of several shows on Netflix while fishing
5: Be 4 tokens short of book
6: Enjoy the tan you're gonna get in Hinterlands

Is fisher legitimately the best at gathering blues (I suppose it might be due to GP limitations slowing the other 2 down?) or is that just for a joke?

If it is actually useful, what of helping the collectibility? Patience or no patience? Does that have an effect on it?

[Culfinrandir]

Fisher can be better just because you're not limited to a few minutes an hour to go for a collectable. I found I got quite a lot of blue scrips this way but still haven't started the 44,550 scrip grind. For red scrips I preferred Chysal Greens & Adamantite Ore.

[Callback]

Followup question: Why should I bother? It's way too much of a grind considering it's all going to go obsolete the next time the level cap increases.

[whiskeybravo]

Followup question: Why should I bother? It's way too much of a grind considering it's all going to go obsolete the next time the level cap increases.

Consider it took a year and half for the first level cap increase. While it might not be exactly that long for the next, it's certainly not around the corner.

I personally stopped gathering scrips after I got btn and min main hands. No desire whatsoever to grind 44k+ blue scrips. And that was like 6 months ago lol (I'd prolly be done by now if had taken it seriously, but oh well)

[Roth_Trailfinder]

It's worthwhile IF you have a use for the stuff you can gather off of the Folklore nodes (or the folklore fishing).

If you do not need those things - say, to sell or to use in crafting your own 2 star crafting/gathering accessories - then getting the books is not going to help you at all and you can skip that grind.

That said, it is not that hard if you check to see what Rowena wants, and be sure to hit the 10, 12, and 2 o'clock nodes every 12 game hours. Fishing, I found to be a tad too much RNG, so I used Miner and Botany, whichever gave me the better BGS collectible for that particular node window.

[AskaRay]

I like to fish then when the other nodes are up in the Hinterlands, grab them (since Morel and Cuprite are essentially back-to-back).

Honestly you don't NEED all of them, unless, of course you have lazy friends and have unofficially been designated to gather everything forever. Then maybe you need all of them.

Either way just get the books you know you'll use first. For example I got all the mining books because I mostly mine. Next I'll be getting botanist books because even though BTN makes me barf, everyone I know keeps asking me to get them some Seventh Heaven. So, guess I'm doing that now.

[KinGurie]

If you have the inventory/retainer space, you can also stash the cuprite and morel, then turn them in on the days that they have a bonus.

[Granyala]

Followup question: Why should I bother? It's way too much of a grind considering it's all going to go obsolete the next time the level cap increases.

I can only speak for the miner Folklore items: They sell for 20-30K in HQ a pop. But they sell EXTREMELY slowly on my server (your mileage may vary ofc, servers are different). I'm lucky if I manage to sell 1-2 a day.
If you ask me: unless you need them for your own crafting, they aren't worth the effort of collecting 15K blue scripts.

This is also why I haven't bothered with getting the books for my botanist.