What build are you? Moon isn't too strong at all. SOE +7 set can tank SOM +8 glaive pretty easy unless you're INTQuote:
Idk man. I have a full Eden +7 set and an Eden +7 weapon and still get wrecked by most moon players - so grinding is not really worth it. It's all good tho, if all you do to get JCs is tracing some turk in a huge caravan lol. Still that got boring quickly - at least for me.
Overall I think that moon is too strong apart from all the other available gear types. But it's Moon so I guess it's reasonable.
Considering all that, you did a great move in reducing the requirements for said SoM weapon. The fact, that you need to compete against moon players in all relevant activities to receive the money/arena/job coins got frustrating really fast.