I agree. The Favor stuff is way overkill grindy. They are not hard to get, just very time consuming. Plus you are using up Crafting red scrip (as well as Gathering) tokens to got them. I plan on only getting the chest pieces for Crafters, and chest and tool for gatherers. But if I want to craft 2 star off hand tools, then I end up using up crafting and gathering scrips to get the favor stuff.

Rather broken system and way too grind intensive.