Allow players to unlock and Upgrade Ody gear via grind

[Pixela]

The reason Ambuscade is so good is because it offers two ways to progress.

It offers the skill road and it offers the grind road.

Odyssey does not.

You cannot grind to obtain the gear from normal kills, you have to kill the bosses. Many casual players with trusts pay others to get them the boss clears, this is a failure of design.

Why not simply allow players to unlock the gear purchases via some form of grind by killing monsters? Maybe via moogle mastery or by reaching a set amount of segments?

Something that gives a way for these players to get the gear themselves and them upgrade it.

[Uriah]

Because there has to be something for the other half to do. If people aren't able to sell things, they will quit. Every decision made has to consider that.

Make it that easy, takes away the merc market, takes away the mercs subs. That's an instant "no".

[Voidstorm]

Just kill them. There are youtube videos of people solo'ing them. If it can be solo'd by a top tier player, then it can be killed with 6 extremely under-geared players.
It is not the game's main story, they're end game battles. Also, this is an MMO, its meant to be played with other people.