Quote Originally Posted by SimonRose View Post
You might want to save up those red scrips for gear and do the favors after you get fully geared up. You're only allowed 9 red per week, and a red mainhand tool requires 26, so that alone is 3 weeks worth. Then you have all the rest of the gear to upgrade, which will take quite awhile.
SE will probably eventually make it faster and easier to gear up. They have a design philosophy of making the leading-edge players pay way to much, doing a gentle nerf a little while after the content is added (as they did with Favor mats and Crafting collectibles), and then doing a major nerf sometime after next-level content is added to make it easier for players who join later to catch up.

That said, my MIN and BTN have been done gearing for a little while now, using a mix of scrip and crafted gear. I have the red scrip MH, hat, shirt, and gloves and gently-melded BIS crafted everywhere else. I didn't see much advantage to the red-scrip pants and shoes.