SOOOooo... gil making as a BTN?

[AlexionSkylark]

I got my i290 HQ crafted gear and folklore books, and started farming yellow scrips. And then I realized that the i300 gear will NOT throw me over the 1200 perception cap and I'll need to do some serious melding to get over that threshold. I'm sitting now at 1019 Gather / 1006 Perception.

However, I kept noticing... The only thing I'm to gain from having 1200 perception is the ability to harvest HQ items from legendary nodes. HQ Torreya Logs sell for SCRAPS at my server (around 3.5k gil, just about the same as a NQ Rhea), and the HQ Rheas, while they go for 10~15k, almost nobody wants them! I've one listed for 3 days now (found someone selling a pack of 8 for 4k, bought and relisted at 12k) without a buyer. The NQ ones I had put there sold after a day, however.

Also, I'm already at cap for Ephemerals it seems, any more gathering/perception would be overkill for those.

So, I wanted to know 3 things:
1 - Why bother with getting 1200 perception? the investment in melds doesn't seem to justify it, really looks like it's a waste of gil ATM.
2 - Is there another way to make gil with the class that I'm not seeing?
3 - And the yellow scrip gear? I seem to have hit the cap for everything with i290 HQ crafted, is there even a point in farming those?