by playing a lot with rook and TB lol
A lot of people couldn't get favor before last night's patches - ever - because their favor was stuck, and with a negative balance. Playing with rook and TB wouldn't have done anything to help that.
Sadly, it is actually an improvement that now everyone has no favor and can't save any favor items, because at least it puts everyone on an even playing field. Whereas before last night's patches, those who didn't run into the favor bugs had a huge advantage over their victims who did; because they could use some favor items yet their victims could not.