What exactly is locked behind squadrons? How do we make it as painless as possible?

[Arrius]

the 4.1 squads will be able to be leveled to 60.
glamor for them unlocks at level 51+
you can run them only through 5 dungeons (and it's mainly to help you level up alt jobs)
3 new emotes can be unlocked via the squad. which is sit ups, sit ups and the all important squats.

I don't think you can level alt jobs reliably with them, as they are primarily a squad feature and not something to fix a underlying issue with DPS queues.
Also, it seems the dungeons you can select are :
Halatali
Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak
Bryflox's Longstop
Stone Vigil
Wanderer's Palace

[uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweugwemu]

Captain would be the last rank logically, unless the next expansions are military expansions with no sensible regions connection. Commander need to stay in regional/zone and no way we'll in charge marshall of entire GC without stripping adventurer status. I do want them atleast add more dungeons for our squadron.

[BillyKaplan]

Captain would be the last rank logically, unless the next expansions are military expansions with no sensible regions connection. Commander need to stay in regional/zone and no way we'll in charge marshall of entire GC without stripping adventurer status. I do want them atleast add more dungeons for our squadron.

It can be honorary ranks, or even actual ranks where you delegate command to the current residing ranks because you're too busy spending your days crafting. Lore wise we're already a one adventurer army who succeeds where aforementioned GCs fail with tremendous support. The only possible setback is that we're basically starting diplomatic incidents left and right but if it took them this long to even acknowledge your being a healer in a a cutscene, I think they'll just go on ignoring such details.

[cain8602]

I don't think you can level alt jobs reliably with them, as they are primarily a squad feature and not something to fix a underlying issue with DPS queues.
Also, it seems the dungeons you can select are :
Halatali
Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak
Bryflox's Longstop
Stone Vigil
Wanderer's Palace

Huh. Can't help but notice that three of those are story dungeons. Maybe ones people generally have trouble clearing/queing for/people find tedious? *shrugs*