Should I abandon all char farms and focus on gear?

I’m at 4.1mil @hardvig I’m spending the next two months just farming gear... teams for malak, then working on seps, clones and then my toons outside of gp matchmaking for ga.. I’d like to be able to keep top 45 toons for offence (8x5 squads plus a spare) and have the next raft of toons for defense..

So my opinion, farm shards till you have 7* on the ones you want, then farm gear till your done..