If you do an hours worth of things daily, it will take you a month or two. These were daily things you were probably already doing anyway. It seems the most efficient way is to do a little bit of everything: beast tribes, alex, law. It may even force you to do things that you haven't done recently or try things you haven't done at all.

If you want it NOW then, yeah, it's going to be overwhelming.

We are laboring under the assumption that it will be outdated by February or March, but that may or may not be true. I'm thinking this is a series of progressions that will scale with the savage drop and/or eventually surpass them. If it becomes/remains BiS for most of 3.xx, it will be worth it. If SE proves otherwise with the 3.2 patch notes, then, yeah, there's the screw up. Not the grind itself.