Now that the super cheap i90 gear from hunts is gone, you actually have to start running dungeons and farming drops. Or you buy gil and buy the crafted ilvl 90 (no new player will be able to afford the AH prices).

With 2.4 it got 20-40x more time consuming to get to a point where you can go random expert.

Kinda a lame change if you ask me, considering the fact that poor peeps needing dungeon drops get trolled by outdated shitty craftmat drops.