[Suggestion] Lower the ranks required for current story missions

[Teknoman]

That makes sense that Square wouldnt want people to be able to cut through the missions quickly, only to hit an empty space, but something will need to be adjusted once more story missions are implemented. I think Betelgeuzah has the right idea.

The harder missions bring me to another point. I'm not sure if you can take player parties into future missions, since my sig is evidence enough that i'm not that high yet, but can you bring along a party of people that may be on the same mission? I remember in the beta, some missions wouldn't allow you to take along another person for help. If you could bring along a party for the mission, then you could battle your way across the field to the mission destination. On the same note, are there any missions with actual boss battles yet?

Maybe they werent implemented since the new battle system is still being worked on/refined, and perhaps its just past FFXI experience talking, but i'd expect to have fought at least one boss in a party by rank 25-30. Even more so with Uematsu at the helm for the soundtrack, since he really delivers when it comes to boss themes.