I tested the different turn-in options for a Waylaid Crate: Journeyman Textiles and the results don’t make much sense.
The crate gives these options:
20 Wool Cloth
40 Silk Cloth
20 Medium Leather
I filled one crate with 20 Wool Cloth and another identical crate with 40 Silk Cloth.
The results:
20 Wool Cloth sealed as a Journeyman Crate and rewarded 10 Merchant’s Favor.
40 Silk Cloth sealed as an Apprentice Crate and rewarded only 5 Merchant’s Favor.
This seems backwards.
Silk Cloth is a higher-level material than Wool Cloth, and the crate requires twice as much of it. On top of that, Silk is considerably more expensive and harder to acquire at this stage of the beta. I paid almost 8 gold for the 40 Silk just to test this.
So currently:
20 lower-tier cloth = Journeyman = 10 Favor
40 higher-tier cloth = Apprentice = 5 Favor
There doesn’t seem to be any reason to ever choose the Silk option. You’re supplying twice the quantity of a higher-tier material and receiving half the Favor.
If the intention is for different materials to produce different sealed crate tiers/rewards, I think the Silk and Wool results may have been accidentally reversed. Otherwise, the Silk requirement or reward probably needs another look.
Tested this directly today with two Journeyman Textiles crates during the beta.