Darklight is the best gear to get you into Binding Coil, so unfortunately you are going to have to grind a bit to get that stuff. You're probably going to need to run Amdapor for better gear anyway, then you move up to the hard mode Primals for better weapons, then run Praetorium I think it is for tokens to get the Darklight gear while working on your relic.

It's not as if you were supposed to beat endgame within 3 days. Gotta put something in there to keep you playing until the next patch. :P

It's pretty much the exact same scenario as it was in WoW, at least when I was playing. Get to max level, run dungeons for gear, run heroic dungeons for gear and use tokens to buy upgrades, then start raiding.