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As something of a casual myself I have about 1-4k of each resource. Install an addon that tracks resource node locations, explore around a bit before you find a nice circuit to farm nodes around. Personally I did a few circuits around north-east clockwork city during the event. Its a good path, even during the event I had it to myself at times.
Just put some music or a movie on in the background.
In every crafting material boxes you will find a stack of 200 mats for every level and so on, but you also will find scrolling down in that box another box, which again includes all the mats. Basically you can get the specific mat you need out of the box and also grab the inside box, in which you again only grab the specific mats and the box in there, if you need even more.