I noticed - as I'm sure others know - how easy it is to respawn Ephemeral Nodes. You just go to a nearby regular node, open it, close it without gathering a single item, then go to a node from a different pair and do the same thing.

This is useful if, say, your rotation depends on getting an Impulsive Appraisal proc, but neither one does, so you finish the attempt without spending any GP, leaving you with 600+ GP.

My question is whether this behavior for spawning Ephemeral Nodes is deliberate? It seems questionable to me, since other situations (like Favor nodes) require completely finishing off nodes.