Well, for starters. I feel you took a bad route in terms of gear purchases because T9 is where the body/belt drop. Where as everything else is T8 and below.
My suggestions to everyone:
1. Always buy the ring because coil only drops one. (This will never be a "waste" in soldiery.)
2. Get the body because probably not beating t9 soon.
3. Craft gear, if you can't afford. Make a primal selling group befriend a crafter and work it.
4. Crafted belt is your friend... once fully melded you can hold off til t9 belt.
5. If you struggle with t8 the order in which you should make crafted gear goes as follows, Belt > head > pants. Pants last because Allagan pants are decent from normal coil.
Not trying to make you feel bad by any means, but there is no point to gear out "best in slot" crap until you have everything on farm status. Most weathered gear is pointless to buy outside the missing piece because sand of time usually goes to weapons first, and odds are you'll replace it with a piece of high allagan way before you get the sand for it.