Disregard, been fixed at some point.
Figured i'd put the process back up in case people can find some way to make it work.
Basically u needed to use gatherbuddy next to a felwort node on a character that hadn't unlocked world quests. The character would be able to herb the node even though usually they wouldn't be able to, because of gatherbuddy.
You then server hopped and repeated the process. The node would eventually reset on each server you picked it on. Allowing unlimited felwort