Farming for gear lvls or farming for charcter shards

I haven't farmed gear in months, I get it all from raids/TB/TW etc. There are way too many characters that I need to farm, and not enough energy to farm them all. The drop rate on gear is far too low also so I can't farm it or I get frustrated. But since you are lvl 56 you may not be getting enough gear from guild events to do this. It all depends on how much gear you can get without traditional farming, but I would generally say that farming characters which are required to unlock legendary/heroes journey toons should be the priority.