Will player level be > ilvl?

[Radacci]

Your claim is that effectively, levels 51 to 60 will go from 80 to 130. Why do you insist Coil gear will be the entrance level raiding gear for Heavensward? That is not how expansions generally work. You're not going to have to raid coil to raid on Heavansward

I think you're misunderstanding me. I was saying that lv 51-60 will NOT be 80-130.
And i didnt say you need to raid coil, to do heavensward raids. I said that if you DID raid coil, and have ilv 130, then you'll get through expansion story, easily, and probably can start raiding right away. It was other ppl that said you'll probably need ilv 150+ by the time you're lv 55, which is what i'm saying, it will NOT be.

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actually, you're right. I was considering the story from post-praetorium, and forgot that all the other story quests, after, are part of the main story as well
eh ok, so 2.5 may introduce new expert dungeons, that are ilv 100, and you go through there, for story. expansion story will have ilv 110-120 dungeons...so my point still remains, if you got ilv 130, when expansion comes out, you'll breeze through the story, to 60. then the lv 60 content starts off with ilv 120-150.
Well, they did say expansion would have as much content as launch had, but i highly doubt they are gonna throw in ilv 100-150+ just between lv 51-60 (that would mean you'd need to get a new tier of gear, every 2lv) Most of the content is probably going to be for lv60, with a few high lv dungeons for 51-60. But yah, i doubt that the expansion story is going to exceed what you can accomplish, with FCoB/poetics gear.
I'm not saying that the ilv will stay the same, just that it will continue, where it currently is/will be in 2.5. They increase in 10lv increments, so since Snowcloak is 90, then 2,5 will probably have some ilv100 dungeons. and then expansion will continue at 110.
end game jumps 20ilv, so from 130->150. Expansion will probably have some lv60 dungeon, that drops ilv130 stuff as well, so you got the option of that, poetics, final coil; then new tome stuff at 140, for ilv150 raid. Then in 3.2, they'll add some ilv 170 raid, and so on.

As a player, I would be completely pissed if the developers put effort into such a frivilous task when players are clamouring for content.

there's different teams working on different things. it's not the same teams that program/tweak, and develop actual content. so one doesn't interfere with the other.

Given the progression of the last 4 patches, I'm mystified by this line of thinking.

non-raid content, is currently at ilv90.
for 2,5, it will be 100, so expansion-non-raid-content, will start at 110.
while raid content will go from 130/135->150/155.