Originally Posted by
Drathos
Gearing really isn't that hard. There are plenty of SoO flex groups on OpenRaid that take people from like 520+ ilevel, which is very easily achievable through Celestials+Ordos+LFR+Timeless Isle. My most recent level 90, a frost deathknight, was 520 ilevel within ~2 weeks of being 90, and now at about 2.5 days /played at 90 is at 540. Sure, it doesn't have the cloak/meta(could have the meta by now, but I've been lazy with it because I don't really care about it), but I've never seen an OpenRaid event that requires you to have the cloak, especially not for flex.
Within 2 weeks at 90, you can very easily have a full set of 496 from Timeless Isle. On top of that, you usually get 2-3 Burdens, which means 2-3 535 items. Add to that 1-2 Ordos/Celestial items(not unreasonable for 2 weeks of coining) as well as whatever loot you get from ToT and SoO LFR, and you're at 520+ in no time.
EDIT: I guess Ordos isn't available unless you already have at least 1 cloak, which might be a problem for people who only just came back to the game(and was a bad decision by Blizzard imo), but being less slacky about doing LFR to gear than me on that DK would make up for losing that loot.