Quote Originally Posted by Shioban View Post
We found that to do it in any normal stretch of time, at least a FEW pieces of darklight were needed, or at least a primal weapon to make sure the foray into the dungeon didn't last the full two hours.

That's just my opinion, but Square Enix are adding a gear requirement for dungeons come patch 2.1 which should solve the issue.
As stated previously, the armor that drops in AK is less powerful than DL, therefore, SE will not require people to have ANY DL to run it.