Quote Originally Posted by Alexander_Dragonfang View Post
It would not make the nodes less valuable. You will still be limited to the same number of nodes and materials from them as before.
Unless you give every single timed item it's own individual cooldown timer then this would indeed make the nodes themselves less valuable. Hell even just giving them the timer as you explain will make items less valuable just by the fact that I can log in grab whatever darksteel I need instead of either waiting for the timer, or buying it from the marketboard. The timer in itself enforces the scarcity of the items more than the time between gathering attempts.

Just as Blue scrips enforce scarcity of crafting items.