COMPLAINT: Can't progress level 79 story quest until level 80 role quest complete?

[Iscah]

But I'm already blocked by quest level. I can't do the role quest until i'm level 80 anyway. How is that helpful?

Sequence now:
1. Work through early Tempest quests.
2. Accept this quest as a Lv79 character.
3. Arrive at Grenoldt's forge and learn that you need to complete your Lv80 role quest to proceed.
4. Go away to achieve two goals: level up and complete that quest. (Possibly you also need to do the earlier quests in the chain, which might give you the EXP you need to reach 80.)
5. Return and continue to the end of MSQ.

Sequence if you needed to be Lv80 to accept the quest:
1. Work through early quests.
2. You reach this quest at Lv79 but can't accept it until you level up.
3. You go away, level up and immediately return, eager to continue your MSQ.
4. You accept the quest, reach the forge.... and learn you have to go and do your role quest. Possibly the entire chain.
5. Leave to do other quests (again).
6. Now you can continue.


The current setup means you're interrupted once, not potentially twice, and immediately know everything that you need to do before you can continue.

[AphraelAmarantha]

Sequence now:
1. Work through early Tempest quests.
2. Accept this quest as a Lv79 character.
3. Arrive at Grenoldt's forge and learn that you need to complete your Lv80 role quest to proceed.
4. Go away to achieve two goals: level up and complete that quest. (Possibly you also need to do the earlier quests in the chain, which might give you the EXP you need to reach 80.)
5. Return and continue to the end of MSQ.

Sequence if you needed to be Lv80 to accept the quest:
1. Work through early quests.
2. You reach this quest at Lv79 but can't accept it until you level up.
3. You go away, level up and immediately return, eager to continue your MSQ.
4. You accept the quest, reach the forge.... and learn you have to go and do your role quest. Possibly the entire chain.
5. Leave to do other quests (again).
6. Now you can continue.


The current setup means you're interrupted once, not potentially twice, and immediately know everything that you need to do before you can continue.

I disagree since at the very beginning of the msq when you are introduced to the Crystarium tavern they tell you that you have to do your role quests to get thru the msq. So thru the entire msq, Ive been doing those quests as soon as I was the correct level. So it is very jarring and frustrating to suddenly come to a quest where it says its level 79 but you actually have to be 80 to clear it. That''s dumb. If I need to be 80, don't let me accept it until i'm 80! It's like going for a test where the test is for MATH 210 but then you discover midway thru the test that you need MATH 310 to clear MATH210 even tho MATH310 is the next year's course. Like wth? You shouldn't be able to accept that quest until you meet both conditions, level 80 and the final role quest complete. This knocks out two birds with one stone.

Tbh, I just think they shouldn't force you to do side quests just to advance in the main story. They are SIDE quests and side quests should always be optional. They didn't do this crap in any previous expansion so I don't get the purpose of doing this now. All it does is be frustrating and block my progress in the game. I just want to do the story, not do all the other stuff because to be quite honest, I suck at this game lol. I cant do savage, I'm terrible in Alliance raids and already have a hard time keeping tanks alive who do super large pulls in dungeons and I am really really super bad in any other role but healing. I just want the story lol. It's the only reason I play the game really.