Quote Originally Posted by Fuma View Post
Not to give spoilers but you kinda do need to complete 2.55 to enter Ishgard, so if the new job guilds are located there it doesn't make much sense to be able to access that area before completing 2.55 questline.
That's honestly my question, though. Referring to Dragoon as another example, the main NPC you interact with is found out in Coerthas. Currently jobs don't really have "guilds" to begin with, but they decided to use those for the new jobs while also placing them behind the gates of Ishgard. They could have placed the job quest NPCs out in Coerthas like they did with Dragoon, but they chose not to and for reasons that haven't been explained.