Strangers will always question you. Like interviewing a job. Just show your certs and use a few smart chosen sentences to make yourself stand out.

I've also completed AK right after I finished CM/Praetorium story. But I won't do it again until my team (yep I'm lucky to have close to full party RL friends playing), gets a few more DL accessories to replace those pink or grey 40's. The wall boss was one more step closer to squishing us and it didn't feel comfartable. I don't see the rush (well unless you already have some server firsts, or there's a possibility of competing for future server firsts) since I started off lazily. Next time we do AK, I'd rather do it easily and more comfortable, being able to kill the demon wall half way through or something.

I'd rather save my conscious for the real end game HM where there is no more gear to gear up and all depends on the number of wipes required for the last person to remember everything correctly.