Although the top 10% is only a few thousand AP minimum, getting that much can take a long time, or requires continuing through HoT+. The average new player is only going to have around 400~600 AP after reaching 80 and finishing the personal story.Let me put it this way: the lowest AP person on my friends list is at 496 AP points. They are also listed as being at 60% at leaderboard. So, ~60% of players have below 500 AP. Correction, i looked at my guilds lists as well, and found someone at 394 AP - 60%, and someone at 300 - 50%. So, 60% of players are below 400 AP, and 50% are below 300. Meaning half of all players didn't even get to halfway point in the Core storyline.Almost all of my 11 toons have stopped at the Claw Island chapter because I hated it.