Do yourself a favor and get an Ares's Cuirass. Salvage is terribly easy and the drop rate on 35s was increased noticeably.
All in all, the worse part is building the assault points to pay for access... so yeah... too weak of a reasoning to not do it since assaults are just as easy. All you need is a couple friends (possibly one with TH) who are willing to help you with a few runs or are interested in obtaining some salvage armor.
With Salvage armor presumably as the peak of the magian trial revamped armor, it is now very likely that Ares's cuirass will become more powerful than it already is.