Please Allow 50's to Enter Ishgard w/o having completed MSQ

[Felis]

I find it strange that so many agree with your odd reasoning...I mean theres a pretty obvious error in your argument:
A lot of the MSQ happens at level 50, at which time new players will have already completed ''leveling up''...
In addition even the leveling up part of the MSQ takes quite a bit of time to complete.

You have to see it how it will be in 3.0, not how it is in 2.0. In 3.0 you will not have completed ''leveling up'' while reaching the lv50 msq.

When the game launches, it will be like the start of the second season of a drama, so we'll still want new players to check out the first season. We want to keep the "first season" there, but allow players to quickly move through it so that they can enjoy the "second season," so based on that, we're increasing the ease of approaching the old content.

We'll be doing an overall review of the amount of experience given by main quest rewards in A Realm Reborn as well as the equipment handed out by quests and make it such that you can simply go from A Realm Reborn to patch 2.55 and have your item level be high enough that you can equip the gear and move right on to Ishgard.

They said going from 50-60 would be the same amount of time from going 1-50 in 2.0 days. I highly doubt a new player running cape westwind and the castrum's would receive such a significant boost in XP gains that they would be level 52 or even 55 by the time they hit 3.0 content. Expect leveling 50-60 to be much slower than what you expect and the amount of XP needed to be far greater in comparison to the previous 1-50 levels.

They should be lv50 the moment they reach castrum with just the mainstory quests. But there are still other mainstory quests between the fight against Ultima and the march into exile. That should give them lv 52 - 53 before reaching 3.0, I guess.