Save your scrips for i180 variants.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Unless you have someone feeding you the gathered stuff needed to get the crafting materials, you need to buy them, or gather them yourself. Given their cost, gathering them is more likely for most people.

When you are gathering them, you have a choice : spend those gathering tokens on gear, or spend them on Favors to try to gather the hand in items for crafting materials.

IMO it is better to save the crafting tokens for at least the main hand (which should make it far easier to get the folklore RGS items) in one or both miner and botanist .. which leaves you unable to get Favors, and thus unable to get the crafting materials for those almost 6 weeks (for both tools) anyway. Could save those red crafter tokens for when the Favor items become available, but how many materials can you get with your Favors? Maybe it is worth saving the crafter tokens, maybe it is better to get some crafting gear.

[PirateCat]

When you are gathering them, you have a choice : spend those gathering tokens on gear, or spend them on Favors to try to gather the hand in items for crafting materials.

Getting red scrips from folklore nodes is about all the new gathering gear is good for right now. You can get the minimum stats for folklore nodes without any of the new gear (and minimal overmelding on the basic level 60 gear) which also gets you the maximum appraisal progress anywhere else. At minimum stats you can reliably (if slowly) get HQ folklore items using the reveal -> gather +50% -> gather x5 -> HQ chance to 100% rotation.

It comes down to time. If you have time to use the bulk of your gathering scrips on favors, you probably also have time to cap on the scrips without needing to collect from the folklore nodes to get there. If not, then you'll have spare gathering scrips anyway and the new gear is a good thing to use them on.