Working for your gear and endgame items seems fair to me. I get that the game is trying to make endgame stuff obtainable for everyone it just seems they didn't plan it out well. For the people who studied the game and mastered the mechanics of their roles and boss fights its kinda lame a horde of noobs can farm easy hunts all day and get basically the same stuff, and pretty soon you got a entire server off clueless 118 people or whatever.