Just throwing out some info for people struggling to gather collectibles for scrips.

1.)Do not use toil, hit the slot to open it up.
2.) 600 gp makes it very very easy. Can be achieved with food or melds.
3.) When you first unlock a node, you wont get anything worthwhile from it with the wasted actions/gather attempts to unlock it. Use a discernment + methodical on it. This will let you know how many you can gather. See below.
4.) With discernment if you get 150-168, you can do disc + meth x3 and then gather 2 times on 450 rarity items.
5.) With disc+ meth if you get 169+, you can gather 3 items by using disc+methx2 and the 200 gp ability you learn at 56 mind something + meth.

For exp use the same basis.
1.)For yellow copper use disc+meth then meth then solid reason and gather x4.

400 rarity items use disc+meth and if you get 169+ use meth x2 then solid reason and gather x3. At 56 use disc+ meth mind+methx2 and gather x4. If you get less then 169 use disc+methx2 and then meth and gather x2 until 56+ then you can disc+methx2 then mind+meth and gatherx3.

450 rarity is the same way. Use disc+meth and if you get 169+ use disc+meth again then mind+meth and gatherx3. Otherwise use disc+methx3 and gatherx2.

I was getting upwards of 1.4mil every 30 minutes post 56. This makes leveling obscenely easy.