I did something similar. As I mentioned elsewhere, on the morning of November 2nd, I rolled up "I L L Y R I A", and started playing. By Sunday the 4th she was already level 37. By early, early Saturday the 10th she hit level 50. And by Thanksgiving weekend she had unlocked and empowered every one of her incarnate slots. In the end she got her Alpha and Lore slots to Tier-3, her Hybrid slot to Tier-2, and her Interface and Judgement slots maxed-out at Tier-4.
She also has two distinct builds fully IO'd with over a week remaining before shutdown. No purples though. I sold all the purples that dropped for more INF.
Three night's before shutdown I emptied all IO's out two of my own SG bases on 2 servers and dropped them into the market for 1 INF each. A lot of em sold, and I wished I had done it sooner.