Don't buy the merchant armor. No matter how you aug those, TDS T3 is better. There are dropped armor and those can be aug'd to be better than TDS T3 with some trade-offs. Like for my warrior, I am going to be losing anywhere from 80hp to 200hp per slot, but will be gaining much more A/C and a WHOLE LOT of +hdex/hagi. I already have one slot5 aug that is +40hDex, but it's lore. I have another slot 5 aug that is +32Dex and can put that in every slot. So we're looking at some really big numbers for +hstats here, what that actually means I am really not sure lol.
Weapons are a huge improvement for me as I am only group geared. Went from a 118dmg/22delay 1hs to a 136dmg/20delay 1hp, with better a/c, slightly lower hp and whatever. But then got a 1hs that I think is better for a tank 139dmg/22dly 132ac 2800hp. this is the info at lvl105, not what it shows for lvl110. Still looking for a slot 5 aug for it.
For the currency, do Faith in Relife as much as you can. Especially if you have a rogue. Run the rogue around for 5 minutes to click some stuff, kill three mobs you spawn, hail Mayor West, run the rogue down to hail Bokon Karass and done. I think you get 500 Remnants for it, not sure. Might be lower. You get 333 remnants for it. For me that's, 333x6 @10 to 15 minutes to complete
Here is the really big thing about this gear. None of the TBM stuff that I got that will go better than TDS T3 (with trade-offs) says prestige on it. I even put a type 7 prestige aug on and the overall gear still does not say prestige. Not sure if that's normal. But it would seem that the base components of the TBM gear is not prestige. Maybe they just haven't gotton around to it yet, who knows.