Yeah you need to hit up the DZ with a full group - that will get you chances at gold gear, phoenix credits for blueprints, and DZ exp. Outside of that, it will be really hard to gear up using hard dailys only. Depends on how much time you have to dedicate to it i suppose. Dailys first, then DZ.

I had HUGE issues with a gtx 66ti. it would crash every 10 minutes. :(

(3 FUC—-allouting DAYS later) i found out how to fix it, which was clocking my card to its theoretical maximum from nvidia inspector. I just beat the game last night, played 12~ hours daily with no crashes or frame rate drops on high settings.