Dear Square Enix - I want to Craft

[Aeyis]

Except players should be gathering these materials -while- favor farming.
My money is on that being the -point- of the current favor implementation; To support this huge material sink that the collectible system requires.

That being said, Favors are ridiculous and cutting down the time while maintaining the reward is a good thing.

Most of the materials on the nodes are worthless. Doubly so for botany. On top of that most of the useful materials are hidden and as such only appear at 1/3 the rate of normal items.