Edit: Coulda swore that said DL lol, carry on, DF is bad.
I understand the OP's pain, because it's a very frustrating cycle for every new 50.
The problem is, to get the gear, you have to be able to get into the instances/farm the tomes. I started with WP and worked my way up; I've got about 4 pieces of DL so far, most of my AK gear, and I've been 50 for not quite a week. Do I expect to get it all right away? No. Would I like to have the ability to get into runs and get Tomestones so that I can get into harder content? Yes. I'm lucky to have a static tank/healer to do AK with, but we're only 3 people. The super long queues don't help, nor do the restrictive requirements.
There are tons of CM runs with no requirements. Do those or start one yourself.
'Looking for 2 more players with +1 relic/full DL or better for AK speed runs! NO DERPS!"
Suffice to say, they were still looking for people after I did 3 PuG runs.
AK is easy, so so easy and can be done in junk gear as long as people understand the mechanics of the fights. Parties advertising absurb gear requirement runs are silly. Only titan and coil requires some what decent gear...rest can be done by new 50s, albeit not as fast as a blinged out crew but still feasible.
This entire thread is silly. People are looking to clear trash farm content as quickly as possible to get their stuff and get out, its totally reasonable especially once you've run AK/CM 50-100+ times over the last few weeks since launch. With full DL and Relic+1 on AK you can clear in 30 minutes instead of that customary 50-60. The demon wall doesnt even get to spawn bees, it just dies.
So.. if you have to run it 8 times for your cap, and plan on doing anything else that week thats not AK (and CM), it's totally reasonable to want to minimize the time spent in the dungeon to free up time for more CM money runs or simply to go and enjoy the game while not worrying about hitting your weekly cap.
I got kicked from an ak shout group pn PLD because I don't have relic and "LOL you'll never keep agro". Que'd up solo a min later, relic+1 bard and relic monk. Bard was throwing his dots on everything and smelting everything down, not once did I lose hate to him or the monk. We cleared it in a about 20 mins and those guys were still shouting for a tank.
I love when groups yell out requirements like that- they are basically screaming "I'm going to be a little bitch through the whole run, so be prepared!" =D
Those people are the same ones who have complete nerd rage psychotic meltdowns when someone misses a mechanic. I'd rather find out who they are BEFORE I get into the group than after. If my run takes 5 more minutes with normally geared people, but I actually have fun, then I'm all for it :)