Brandstone Meteor Dust

[Solstace.2514]

I’m slowly completing the requirements for the legendary trinket visions.  One of the requirements is to craft  6 astral weapons which requires large amounts of brandstone dust.  I have the home node and I’ve been doing the meteor harvesting events.  My question is whether there is a quicker or more interesting way to farm it.

 

Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve found these meteor events to be incredibly tedious.  I end up sitting at the Astralarium for 10 to 15 minutes doing nothing.  Then randomly a meteor comes and I rush to harvest because it’s time limited.  I pray enough ppl tag it to improve rewards snd it’s always a gamble in waiting for 5 tags because you can easily run out of time.  Occasionally a full meteor lands and usually the rewards are terrible because many players are unfamiliar with that one and end up attacking it too fast.

 

I don’t mind farming stuff but this event just drives me nuts because I can’t play the game.  I have to sit around and do nothing.  So out of an hour of gameplay, I have 3 to 4 minutes of harvesting and 56 to 57 of essentially afk or staring at my screen while not playing.  
 

Am I missing something?  Is there an easier or at least more engaging way to do this?  I’ve never played a game that essentially forced you not to play for most of your time. 

[Khisanth.2948]

That is pretty simple. Do anything that gives gold and just buy it. For example I could just go around gathering stuff and buy the equivalent of 40 powdered rose quartz per meteor. I could do the t4 fractals and get the equivalent of ~100 powered rose quartz per meteor.

[Farohna.6247]

I also find the meteors extremely tedious and frankly boring.  Better to go do something to earn gold and just buy it, and farm your home instance daily.