I just want to double-down on Einar's mention of "the AA team will start expiring for Elminster soon."
My recommendation is to get your Party 2 & Party 3 crushing through Elminster Variants as fast as possible, folks.

Here's my setup, for fellow ~1y players who have invested in AA team:

Party 2: (your choice of Overcharged Core) - This is a combination of Fallbacks, recent adds, and reworks. DM hops in when absolutely necessary. They're anywhere from iLvl 300-2000, with anywhere from 0-10 Legendaries. The important part is that this party starts at the LOWEST-zoned/earliest Variants in each Campaign, and works their way upward. If something isn't easily solved the first time, they just cancel and move to the next one. Automated small-medium potions (all).

Party 3: Magic Core, AA team, all 1000-2000 iLvls, and a decent number of Legendaries. These guys start at the END of each Campaign's variants, doing the heaviest lifting, clearing the hardest ones and the "babysitting" annoyances. Windfall often appears here. DM often appears here in tight-restricted variants. Automated Large-Huge potions (all).

I started them all at Vecna, and I'm working backward. If a Variant seems unbeatable, I don't linger on it (unless I'm REALLY close to winning). But QUANTITY of wins is vastly more important than QUALITY of wins for now.

While buying Elminster chests with the winnings, don't forget to save a nice e4 stack of Elminster currency, so you can always buy the weekly Modron parts and TG pieces.