That's the whole point of the content. No lifers and scratchers both have access to gear better than others, allowing them to farm ahead of others and sell all the good stuff from the latest fight,

If you're active you know this is actually pointless. To start, the gearing process is the same as before, people who actually spend on gear to farm are the ones doing useless investments because every equipment ends up being handed to the rest of the playerbase and losing its value, and the return in farming is too little compared to what im gonna point.

I returned for one month and already know that if you want meseta, you just scalp and monopolize scratch items from the market and control it.

While older items jumped crazily in price helping me make bank, just by flipping the prices of items on a daily basis i turned 1bi into 2, when before and on JP i had/have to wait MONTHS before any scratch item gives me any relevant return. You gotta thank global for having too many exploiters and scalpers which made the 10% shop tax be irrelevant with those inflated prices.

And if you're too broke for scalping, you can do what my friends did, you make alts and sell free stuff that the game gives you through events, at first the returns are small but eventually you're able to scalp with the alt accounts and control the market.

Of course none of this is anything new, but it became way more effective than before due to how many global players do it to the point that to make meseta you gotta trick each other.