Quote Originally Posted by bswpayton View Post
every class one through 50 with as much as getting a chocobo and taking a break from the story.
Chocobo use, heck mounts in general, are locked indirectly behind MSQ. You need to progress enough in the MSQ that you are forced to join a Grand Company. Once you have done that, My Little Chocobo opens up as a side quest from your GC. Complete that quest to get your Company Chocobo, and the ability to use mounts in this game.

So, what you want to do IS ALREADY GATED.

I did not include it as part of the quotation, but stop dilly dallying. You can only open things up to do (such as gathering your own materials for high level crafting) by working on the HW story. Oh, ALL of HW's optional dungeons are locked behind completion of 3.0, at a minimum. There are no optional dungeons for 51-59, each one of the five dungeons under 60 in HW is a story dungeon. Some of the level 60 dungeons are optional, some are story dungeons.

But, other than the two gates I mentioned in HW in a previous post, all the rest of the gates in HW *make sense* ... but you'd need to actually DO the MSQ to realize it, to realize why. Come back AFTER you've beaten 3.45 MSQ and tell us why the gates should not have been there.