It feels to me like there's a huge gap between trash and bosses. Case in point being the dragon and its annoying mow down that would hit my whole team for 200+ even when defaulting and chaining it with its bully move which ignores default altogether. It would just outdamage the healing I could output and wipe my team fast.
So I used summon friend and picked one that would wipe it through the floor, but it annoyed me a lot.

Also, how in the world did you save the PG to buy the Norende gear? I rebuilt it a lot (got most of it at level 9 before getting to yulyana woods) but I can't afford squat since equipment costs several thousands apiece and I barely make 50 per open world fight.