2 years to gear 11: not a complaint, just a question

Find a guild that runs new raids every couple days. Save your crystals from the arena and GW and use them to buy gear in the store. You can get close to 200 crystals every day from just doing everything. The most expensive pieces in the store are no more then 1400. That's about 7-8 days and most toons only need 2-3 of the best pieces. I use spare energy to farm the easy stuff. Cuffs, Stun Guns etc. I mostly save my crystals. You can jump from G10 to 11 in a week or a couple at most.