Quote Originally Posted by MeridaQ View Post
question could I wear all SB gear minus main and offhand and still be able to effectively get favor mats? Does gp matter, gathering, perception etc? Sorry for the tangent but nomad mentioned it. I have just been hoarding.
You can do it in SB gear just fine (I SBed a lot of sets doing favors before this), just keep on all your lv60 gear with Gathering on it and the rest you can have SB stuff. You'll only have maybe 80% chance at the favor item but nothing a Field Mastery 2/3 won't fix.

As for the favors it's a massive QoL upgrade - 15 minutes was brutal. Unfortunately any node with +1/+2 items really cuts into the favor time, as does the greater proportion of time devoted to travelling between nodes and the favor node pops. Ideally they would add another minute to the five and it would feel a lot better if 18-20 items per set of 5 favors is their target.