Shaman Epic - What's in a MQ?

[August]

So my wife and I have been playing SK/SHM combo and everyone is telling me SHM epic is so easy I can do it by the time she's 46.

I looked up the epic itself and while not outrageous, it has a lot of steps.

I've asked some high levels with epics and they tell me 'just grind the faction'. - I see MQ for 30k. Am I missing something? Am I able to just do some simple quest and bypass the majority of the content?

Thanks,

August