Honeslty I personally wouldnt care about the grind if every new piece of post-patch content that isn't even savage/ex didn't require absolute top item level. I had to stop MSQ at the Alzadaal's to go do other things and found out I couldn't do Aglaia either so I had to go and grind the Smileton/Dead Ends/the omicron dungeon over and over for accessories just to meet minimum, then same blocker issue but at Troia and then again at Barbariccia. The fact that you have to grind the gear even to access the casual story-level content is ridiculous in my eyes. And now there is a blocker meaning that basically for rest of the patch, even if I were to successfully grind a job to 90 that isn't a healer I still wouldn't be able to do even the upcoming casual content as that job just because I don't have tomestones for the gear, as I am spending them all just to get to measly ilvl 620 for the healers.