Advice for farming dusklight plz

[EvilJoshy]

Hi all. SMN is my main and for that reason I lvled ALC along side it :P
In HW I fell behind on my gatherers cause I had a job change and couldn't get a static that raided my hours. In SB my old RR static is mostly back together and were practicing Neo Exdeath. I like to consider myself as the raid group's meth dealer >.> So I power lvled my DoL again so I don't have to buy the mats anymore. I don't have optimal melded gear and I don't plan on getting any. I strictly use min/bot for mat gathering and I don't like spending millions of gill only to watch an overmeld break What little gear I have melded I only threw in what materia I had lying around. Also I never unlocked fishing. I really don't want too. I find DoL to be boring to lvl. I tend to have a movie playing while gathering. Since I skipped my DoL in HW I'm sort of new to collecting and ephemeral nodes and I have some questions.

I've been using this link for my rotation. http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest.../blog/3429812/ Does anyone have a better one?

When farming dusklight aethersand, since its very RNG if it breaks down into sand, is it better to go for quantity or quality?

Does it have to be a certain purity grade to turn into sand? Or can any purity become sand, just not very likely?

Should I be using food?(Probably a stupid question) Which food should I be using?

How do you tell if the ephemeral node has a bonus gathering attempt?

How important are cordials? Pretty ironic that I am asking this since I can make them. I'm just looking for one less thing to gather/craft.

Slightly off topic but applies to DoL and DoH, is the yellow scrip gear better than HQ/melded gear? I noticed you can't meld materia to yellow scrip gear so I would imagine it would have be better to be worth getting but it can only be used on a specific job and not all within that field.

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[Yeol]

Go fishing for False Scad and only keep the ones with 205+ collectability.
I get on average 40 HQ and 40 NQ Dusklight Aethersand in an hour.

If you want to use MIN/BTN. I recommend watching this video.

About gear, Yellow scrips are okay if you can't afford HQ gear fully melded for DoL.

[Legion88]

Purity: 6/8 for aethersand.

If you have no ephemaral node up try this false scad.

[QT_Melon]

As others have mentioned fishing for False Scad is actually best.
There isn't a time you have to worry about. It's the same place where Eastern Sea Pickles are. Use a normal Gig and put on Collector's Glove.
Next to that area is also nodes for the Adventure and the same gig can be used for Snow Crab,
Reduction for the Scads give Dusklight, and Crab is Dawnlight (less worth) however they also give Water Clusters which you'll need for the food so it's still a win.