I'm playing my first high-lvl character, and just finished my first round of the Vale quests and 1 shroud completion so I'm starting to get an idea of what's involved in greensteel crafting (it's hard to grasp just looking at a planner). It appears that you get 1 large ingredient per shroud completion, with 1 completion per 3 days, and it's possible to get other ingredients without completing the shroud so you don't have the 3-day downtime. So, assuming 2 large ingredients per week, an 18-large ingredient item like an earthgrab hp cloak would take about 2 1/2 months. A 32 large ingredient item would take about 5 months. This can be reduced by buying or trading for ingredients, but they're extremely expensive for a fairly new player (and of course I don't have other high-lvl alts yet to help farm).

On the other hand, a tier 2 item with no large ingredients could be made much more quickly - just a round of the 5 vale quests and then faming the small and medium ingredients. One really helpful item would be a holy/goodburst kama. This would serve as a zombie slasher, and have a clicky to true ressurect once per day. I've heard some other classes make mauls for skeleton smashers with the tr clicky, but I haven't seen it discussed for monks with kamas. Another possibility is flaming/shocking burst kama with a 2/day displacement clicky. Tier 3 could be added later for greater disruption (on the holy one) and permanent blur (on the flaming one), but that would take months of farming. I probably wouldn't do that until I had everything else I wanted for all my characters.

The questions are, do my observations seem about right? Would it be a good idea to make a set of those kamas? Any other really good tier 2 only items? Thanks