I believe the weakest mobs in Kael that drop armor are the mobs at 4 way. Its not uncommon to see someone soloing or a small group killing there. Chest pieces would be the rarest of the different armor slots and even then you have a 1/4 chance that its leather that drops which is why you don't really see them up for sale. Outside of plate armor because of plate house there isn't really an abundance of Thurgadin Armor drops out there. I would expect it would take a month or 2 of consistent grinding to get a leather BP to drop going that route, maybe longer (I don't think I've ever seen one drop).
As someone mentioned if you spent the same time and effort farming plat, even simply porting people, you can probably get a SS leather tunic as soon or sooner as there is more abundance of SS armor drops as people frequent HoT a lot more than Kael arena.
If you obtained your Coldain faction by killing giants then you probably have even better faction in SS than you do Thurg, the SS armor does require Ally but, as also mentioned, you can literally hang out at the WL zoneline when a guild is doing faction pulls and tag the mobs for 300+ faction boost each pull (can be done every 30 mins). Not to mention if you tag some of the Kael bosses which also get faught at the zoneline (especially statue/AoW) you can get big CoV faction boosts from that too.
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