It's gonna take some time.

Definitely! I was fairly lucky with my drops, but I had gotten my hopes up thanks to people's comments on Wowhead.

Things like: "I got it after 4 hours of farming!" - "9 hours for me!"

Then it goes and takes me daaaaaaaays of farming, haha. XD In groups, I would see other people loot crackling shards and I was just. Ugh. Where's mine?