I'm curious as to how 4.0 will be handled as well. I didn't mind that they gated HW access behind ARR completion, due to the nature of Ishgard and all. However, gating the jobs themselves I didn't agree with. Even more so when, once you get them, the 30-50 quests all take place within ARR areas anyway. Having the 30-50 lvling be available to ARR users (on condition they reached 30 on a starting class, of course), yet locking them out of post-50 xp and skills unless they have HW would've been a fair compromise.