Nothing kills that "I Just hit level 50, defeated the Ultima Weapon, and 'finished' ARR!!" buzz quite like realizing you have several days (depending on time available and luck with duty finder) of errand running ahead of you, pretty much with no reward, before you can finally open up the gates to Ishgard and progress onto the Heavensward content.

Is it going to be this bad again going from Heavensward to Stormblood? I hear the story is excellent but right now that story skip potion is sounding awfully tempting.. which i guess was the idea.