Am I Malak Ready?

OK, so after spending the past 7 days grinding gear for Canderous and spending tons of crystal refreshes and currency on gear for him, I've realized that Canderous being an instant g12 after g8 is totally false. I was too lazy to look up his gear after reading responses on this thread and just took peoples' word for it. I should have taken to the old adage - trust, but verify - but laziness won out.

After getting g8, which took more than expected - 100 mk3 carbantis, 50 stun guns, and 50 stun cuffs, I was hit with another 100 mk3 carbantis, 50 stun guns, and 50 stun cuffs to go from g8 to g9. So I was like, maybe that's what was meant by the g8 stun gun. I was met with another 50 stun cuffs from g9-g10.

Maybe some people have surpluses of stun cuffs but to me they're close to carbanti level in how much they're used and I'm always short on them. Then I saw the g10-g11 requirements and it needed another 50 stun cuffs and the real killer - a full mk 8 biotech implant - the dreaded 50/60 golden eyeballs which I'm always short of because almost every character takes ridiculous amounts of - something that's imo in far shorter supply for me than stun guns and carbantis. It also takes 50 taggeco holo lenses which are usually not in such high demand but whcih I have 0 of atm.

So I finally went to look up the gear requirements. And g11-g12 is ridiculous - it takes another 50 stun cuffs, and the worst piece of gear to get, a full mk 6 a/kt stun gun - something that takes a ton of high demand mats including a full mk8 biotech implant, 50 carbantis, 50 stun guns, and 50 mk 4 zaltin bacta gel salvage. This is the bottleneck mat for a lot of (probably most) g11-g12's. Also 50 mk 9 biotech implants which I would have to farm almost from scratch.

Bottom line, Canderous Ordo is NOT even close to being an instant g12 after g8 unless you're someone who's played for years with every character maxed and just sitting on piles of mats. He's not an expensive character to g12, but he's not a free g12 either. He's pretty much a standard character to g12 in line with most other characters.

So my Canderous is going to be stuck at g10 for a long time now - he is not worth the expense to g12 atm when I have so many other greater priorities. I'm not sure whether to use him at G10 or Juhani at G12.