There’s no way it’ll take 40 hours for 1 piece of gear. You’re lost. Takes like 4 hours at most. Maybe 5. I have to say that this season is the worst ever for alts or new players, that’s for sure and I wish they would quit being greedy and feeding off of token systems, which is supporting the same type of idea as an illegal website. The rating-gate is meant to get blizzard a lot more money, because people want to buy carries with gold. It’s pathetic really. But there are ways around it man. I promise. It just takes time. Not to get the initial starter gear, but the gear after that. You can play random BG’s kind of ok-ish with maxed out level 5-7 BG gear. Anything rated, you have to literally have the starter gear maxed out to 7 (which isn’t possible just yet because of time-gating Renown levels), but once that time passes, it’ll be much better for you. Come back in 2 months and you’ll enjoy your time spent here a lot more. Btw Blizzard you should be ashamed of yourselves.