Again it is those CS that FF11 has left that sets it apart from every other cheap gear grinder and current reforge gear is not that great or must have now. Most of it is ok to good but not much of it is worth rushing out to get as well as nothing is stopping you from doing the current battle content to get the seals and doing it a little at a time. then unlike other battle content they even built in a way for when the rush has past to still collect the items needed to reforge your gear so again there is 0 rush.

Those fights are also NOT new and from the ZM/CoP era of the game just rehashed to increase the difficulty which at normal is about as hard as they were at 75. Take away the story and you're left with a outdated version of 14 since everything recently we have gotten has either been reused fights or straight copy of 14 systems. New skirmish gear is coming along with other new gear like reforged relic that will most likely be as good if not better except for a couple of macro pieces.