yup gardening is the way. you can also craft it into enchantment stone for more profit. usually i just compare how much crystal i can gain per 10 stamina to choose the best one.

next is to always check the exchange first before deciding to loot/craft which item. make sure the item has demand.

you're welcome. keep on leveling your gardening because next you can gather firefly grass at level 5 and grim grass/ ochre seedling at level 7.

last week i made around 350k+ per day just by selling this level 7 gardening mats in sapir. pretty sure it will be higher in more crowded server.

for me don't focus too much on upgrading your blue weapon to 50. because the difference in base stats is not that significant. just slowly collect the materials from instance will do.

I suggest to follow this sequence:

upgrade awakening tier 1 (weapon=2 pcs)
refine +2
upgrade awakening tier 2 (weapon & acc=4pcs)
enchant awakening tier 1 (acc or armor)
refine +4
upgrade awakening tier 3 (weapon, acc & armor=6pcs)
enchant awakening tier 2 (acc or armor)
refine awakening tier 1 (armor=2 pcs)

this is what i do as f2p with limited crystal budget. so far i'm at enchant awakening tier 2 with 1 piece to activate.

As for me I always farming solo and get quite a decent amount of cards. Around a total of 1 white card and 9 blue cards. What can I conclude is, it totally depends on luck. Sometimes even when doing daily board quest you still can get a card if luck is on your side.

my guild pp said wanna get card daily then go for p2w hahahaha, the result really really significant different... the reason because high dmg can ks people getting loot with low lvl exp gain (you can try with odin enable check the result yourself)
if you really want farm card, bootup your dmg as much as you can... when killing marina my attack already reach 6-7k f2p (during mco i'm too free then keep check exchange every 10min buying upgrade ingredient with lowest price as much as possible) and collect flower with 1 stamina (after 1 month not worth doing that already because mining worth much more value and high demand)
another myths is farming spot, no idea but i have to admit i do get the card by doing this but still not as good as p2w player ... i could said from my guild mostly every 2 day get 1 card, some everyday get card  (hahaha) ... "high dmg is only way increase your chance by luck" this only best info i share with you, party or not does not matter if you want party better party with people same dmg output else you gonna sad or leech from others but good player wont let you doing that ... add oil add oil hahaha

not really a trick, you just have to be there early. I prefer to go underwater temple. underwater don't have special weather so you need to be quick or gather when everyone else is still sleeping. lmao

Anyone tried full set blue?

For high levels use... Because all the eq passive suitable for afk, pvp and mvp

you did it.. what do you think.
is it better than using blue accessories?

The damage formula is as follows:

P/M. ATK x (100% + Final P/M.PEN – Target Final P/M.DEF) x (100% + Final P.DMG/M.DMG Bonus) x (100% + Attribute Damage) x (100% + Passive Skill DMG Bonus) x (100% + Race DMG Bonus) x Size modifier% + DMG Bonus

PATK need to minus target's def while F PDMG bonus is the multiplier after the fact.

Try comparing both and see the discrepancies between both card effects.