Can I progress in storyline without doing dungeons?

[sheepysheepy]

Can't they just allow the vanilla storyline to give you the right gear to progress? Then if you want different or even better stuff you grind for it.
Of course they can try and cater for everyone. Isn't that the point?

but in the story you kill primals, it is infact the main crutch of the story to defend the land from primals..

so how are you meant to progress in the story if you never actually want to kill ifrit..

etc.