Quote Originally Posted by Eloah View Post
At the same time though, you kinda want your final skill and job gear before you confront the final hurdle.
In the current system, yes. But it's not a terrible thing if they take away the requirement by making it that nobody can be expected to have done the job quest before clearing the game - especially if they either give us a different way of acquiring "initial Lv80" armour, so all that we're missing is the skill, and have the boss difficulty be set with that expectation.

Having just gotten an alt through Stormblood, I didn't like having to stop what I was doing in the Lochs with the buildup to the assault on Ala Mhigo to play an unrelated storyline, just so I could have slightly stronger armour and not be "that person who couldn't be bothered doing their job quest before they queued for the Lv70 dungeon".

Doing it in your "free time" after the credits, and not right as the main story heads to its climax, would be much better for story pacing.