I have been looking to do the same thing, forgoing the red script upgrade and just grabbing the achievement reward as it has the same stats, and also has the cool golden glow when mining. I also did the Botanist achievement and agree that the miner version is unbalanced, which is unfortunate since the achievement was bugged until just recently due to a error in the number of nodes required to be recorded in the gathering log. I tried buying some of the "Traders' Favors" to see if these unique nodes would count towards the achievement, but since they are not in the gathering log, they sadly do not. Looks like I will have to wait until I am done grinding for Folklore Tomes.... sigh.
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