Quote Originally Posted by Roth_Trailfinder View Post
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.