Are Red Scripts useless now?

[eschaton]

then turn them into blue scrips and get sands for the relic

There has been a claim that Glass Fiber farming can be relatively easy with the use of blue scripts and desynthing. Mind you that the sample rate here is still small, but it looks promising enough to give it a try:

"Each piece of gear only costs 3 Blue Gathering Scrip Tokens + 1 Type-1 Counterfoil."
http://i.imgur.com/PjKQpVr (LavitzB - Reddit)