Quote Originally Posted by Naunet View Post
All I want is to be able to do dungeons, access zones, and unlock classes regardless of story quest completion. This character is level 55 and still can't touch any of the HW content. It's absurd. My main was 56 before she got to Ishgard, and because what I really wanted was to play as an AST, I was forced to waste all of that XP on WHM and now have to grind dungeons/fates from 30-50 and will have to deal with XP graveyards in HW content.

That is poor design.
Opinions are a wonderful thing aren't they? I still don't see anything wrong with them gating jobs behind MSQ. If a player wants something, they'll typically do whatever it takes to get.