Quote Originally Posted by AvonRekaes View Post
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You could potentially get your gear within a week.. but it wouldn't be after just a "few" dungeons. Full set of Dark Light (we're not counting your relic weapon here) runs you a little over 3500 tomes of philosophy. You get 100 tomes per run. So approximately 35 runs for full Dark Light. You could have someone craft a HQ of the crafted sets and full meld it, but that can get spendy and still requires about the same number of philosophy tomes in the end, maybe a little less. Unless you buy the finished crafted piece anyway.. those usually go for a good chunk of cash (at least 800k least I looked, usually more around the 1mil or more mark). You'll also need your relic, so 900 more philosophy there.

If you're pugging it, going by shouts I've seen.. you'll probably need full DL and/or the HQ crafted and melded set to be allowed into the group at all. Some also require some pieces of mythology gear and a +1 relic, which if you're running WP or AK for the philosophy tomes, you hopefully have enough to get a piece or two there. The cost is around the same, but WP nets only 30 tomes of mythology, and AK nets 40 tomes. It also caps at 300 every week (up to 450 with 2.1).. so it'll take a minimum of a few weeks to be able to pug with groups requiring that stuff. Philo has no weekly cap.

Not trying to push it on you or say it doesn't require time, it definitely does. Just trying to give you an idea of just how much time it takes