Stop Gating The MSQ By A GOd-Aweful Dungeon Grind :(

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You describe the problem perfectly: gear grinds may or may not be 'easy', they're tedious for many with limited time to play and many other things they find FUN to do, and have no place in the main story progression which is where many of us prefer to spend our time rather than endlessly running the same dungeons simply in order to progress that story!

Either remove this God-aweful gating in the MSQ or stop the MSQ gating so much other stuff .. you know, like the ability to actually play the next expansion!

The other aspect this affects is the ability to play multiple jobs, you need to grind for each JOB you want to play (there's absolutely NO REASON story content in 5.1 should be 20+ iLevels above 5.0) which makes the game's core concept 'one character, all classes' a joke when it actively prevents you doing this unless you're prepared to run the gear grinds multiple times.

You're exaggerating greatly here - its not "endless dungeon running" - the game makes it very easy to gear up with roulettes giving you a neat bonus on both kind of tomestones when done at max-level. Seeing how a lot of things are also aimed to be done once a day (roulettes) or once a week (loot-lockouts on various raids) you're not entering into an endless grind but rather into playing 20 minutes a day to do your expert roulette at minimum. And even that is probably only needed for about a week, specially if paired with some other ways to get gear.

And as I explained: Many of us also prefer to play through dungeons with people who are appropriatly geared. Considering how easy and not really time consuming it is to do that, its not even to much to ask.
You also sound like you'd want to skip the current MSQ to play the next one, with finishing the story beforehand...? I'm confused now - do you care about the story or not?

And in regards to playing multiple jobs... you have the time to enter the endless grind of leveling up more than one job through quests and dungeon-runs (mainly dungeon runs, lets be honest here), but you dont have the time to get some gear by doing some dungeon-runs once you reach max-level...?