Farming 1-17 has been a pain in the butt when you're lacking power, if you dont line up correctly each time you wont kill the outlaw leader in time, after a while I crafted some seeker gloves and gave it to linette, making the farm much more consistent (I was only winning 1 of every 3 tries.), I also leveled up all my production facilities to 21 so they now produce 100 of uc resources which in turn you can trade for 300 common resources, this will make me able to farm the rest of the uncommon equipment and hopefully progress further.
Since then i have been grinding 1-17 and 1-14 for magic gloves and hats and I finally have them.