It’s a bigger waste of time than Facebook or YouTube?

I mean, a few hours here and there over a 3 year period, mostly while watching TV isn't really a huge investment. Plus, we're all playing a 20 year old elf sim, so not sure you're really in a position to judge.

Curious how it turned out for the OP in the end.

Guardians are actually decent farm for certain classes without many other options, considering there are two zonelines nearby and a bank if you have feign death. The small bricks of velium needed for thurg pots drop regularly. Boon of the Garou and a few other staple Velious spells drop semi-regularly. Sapphires and gargoyle eyes are much more common than one would expect. As a SK with epic/cos, you can pull to any safe spot assuming all pathing mobs in between are pure green, then afk autoattack for 2-3min while tabbed out. If you treat the robe as a potential bonus, it's a relaxed camp for gearing alts and guildies for resists/fashion.

My bud un-retired for like 3 months and the quit. Luckily prior to spending hours trying to farm him armor :).