I understand the OP's pain, because it's a very frustrating cycle for every new 50.

The problem is, to get the gear, you have to be able to get into the instances/farm the tomes. I started with WP and worked my way up; I've got about 4 pieces of DL so far, most of my AK gear, and I've been 50 for not quite a week. Do I expect to get it all right away? No. Would I like to have the ability to get into runs and get Tomestones so that I can get into harder content? Yes. I'm lucky to have a static tank/healer to do AK with, but we're only 3 people. The super long queues don't help, nor do the restrictive requirements.