Guild Wars 2

I crafted mine.

I farmed the cloth, fine materials and salvaged rares for the ectos.

Took longer than ‘a few hours’ tho. About a week casually.

Fastest way? Buy gems. Trade for gold.

Fastest and cheapest way? Learn the crafting, find the Orchalcium and Orrian Nodes, and buy what you don’t have (Gossamer/Non-Node Mats). You can probably do one piece a week if you really take your time.

(Supposedly) Faster/cheaper way – Run lots of dungeons with a group that doesn’t wipe.

Any way you go, it’s gonna cost a good amount of time or money. There are no real shortcuts in most of the game since AN is pretty quick to catch on to those. If there are any right now, people won’t post them on the forums so they can keep exploiting them.