His statement is completely nuts.
Honor Shards are not really a problem but 1340-1370 in a week... lmao. If you don't buy from the market, it's simply not possible.
There are certainly *not* enough guardian shards available to do that.
The weekly reset is giving a good boost, but after that, you are dependent on lucky upgrades.
For example, the daily chaos dungeons and guardian dailies are like 1-2 upgrade chances at most per character. And unless you really invest *alot* of time into the game, you won't have more than 2-3 characters at T3 anyway.
And you need like 7+++ upgrades on average per item to go from 1360-1370.
The books certainly helped the most but I had to use like 3-5 books per upgrade as well.
Using Mari's shop is basically saying you need to spend gold to get what you want anyway. So I don't even get it. Obviously it's "easy" when you just buy stuff.
Right now, with the 2 events up and the general increase from last week, it's "okay" I'd say.