It takes 2 weeks to obtain the body/leg aka 4 weeks total but you are only getting one piece of gear in that 2 week period. You invest 825 tomes and now you have the i260 body piece. To say it takes 4 weeks to get the i250 gear is mistaken because while you are working on the alexander 250 gear, you have the option to work on multiple sets. Accessories/Belt only taking 1 token to obtain compared to 375 ACC. So if we were to assume one gets 4 accessories/belt in 1 week, that you could say it like 950 tokens taking 100 off per for them being i250. But still, i250 is catchup gear and for those who want to micro/get their IL up the quickest. If you have i240 gear from last patch, in all honesty you don't need to take the time to obtain this gear.


However, you need to think of alexander normal gear less about being needed for i240 players and more for returning players, players who didn't play much last patch. Pretty much the dungeon/alexander and now crafted gear are the various ways to help players catch up. If they don't want to farm tomes to get the gear from last patch and run Weeping City to upgrade them to 240, they can just run Alexander and be done with it, at a slower pace.

So if you want to know why it's still the same cost as before it's because reducing the cost would honestly in a way be an insult to players who spent the weeks getting their 240 gear, just to have easier 250 gear appear that is a joke to obtain, that's why it has to take 4 weeks to obtain, because honestly, imagine if you could get 250 alexander body gear in 2 weeks and everything else in 1 week. Then pretty much someone who wasn't playing in 3.3 can come back now and in 2 weeks already be better geared than the person who spent their time getting the i240 gear.