Bosses, Crafters, and Materia.

[derenkirby]

Ermmm the dungeon gear n such is actually very good for how easy it is to get, materia stuff however takes ages and/or a lot of gil. Stop being lazy n wanting the best stuff with no effort put in, if dungeon gear were as good as standard with materia what would be the point of materia, which is one of the best things this game has going for it (gear sink with rewards).

Besides all content has to be balanced for the gear people have anyway, by making materia gear better than the easy to get dungeon gear but have it take a lot longer means that people can have progression n possibly become all powerful (if finding all content easy is fun to you) without making the current endgame too easy for everyone. Perhaps once there's enough beginner endgame stuff in the game then they could balance some stuff for a challenge to people with full sets with full materia.