So who is NOT getting Heavensward?!

[Lemuria]

No. You cannot level pass the previous expac's level. You can try and argue it. But that is not how it works.

If you are at or above the maximum level for a given expansion, killing creatures from that expansion's zones will only give 10% of normal experience. Quests will continue to give their standard EXP, or gold for level-capped players. - From the World of Warcraft Wiki.

So, yes... you still earn experience points from quests normally and while mob kills are reduced in XP it's not zero. Thus it IS possible to level up outside of expansions.

Regardless, the two aren't even comparable because, as mentoned, the level cap rise is locked in world of warcraft without the expansion. It is not locked here.

But wasn't 11 the same in the sense of... some areas were locked behind expansion which ended up being really great EXP camping spots and skill leveling spots e.g white gate city raids? If not in fact the only exp spots open after a couple of levels. (Wouldn't know because I never really cared for leveling past a certain point myself.)

This is true mostly for Treasure's of Aht Urghan which added Colibri camps, but the level cap wasn't raised at this point. When the cap was incrementally raised to 99, eventually Abyssea became the go-to for levelling.

To be fair, there was some level gating in XI. Some of the testimonies for Maat, for example, could only be earned in expansion zones. However, that being said the game launched with the necessary expansion (Rise of the Zilart, btw) by default in many countries and had been out for quite some time for the others before this was introduced.

[TitaniaZero]

If you are at or above the maximum level for a given expansion, killing creatures from that expansion's zones will only give 10% of normal experience. Quests will continue to give their standard EXP, or gold for level-capped players. - From the World of Warcraft Wiki.

So, yes... you still earn experience points from quests normally and while mob kills are reduced in XP it's not zero. Thus it IS possible to level up outside of expansions.

Regardless, the two aren't even comparable because, as mentoned, the level cap rise is locked in world of warcraft without the expansion. It is not locked here.

Uhm... Revising... Misread.

Edit: Well are you sure its not Locked? Are you getting HW? If not then you can prove it. If not... well I can't prove it because this... is FFXIV's first ...uh true expac. (Unless you count ARR... but that is an aberration of MMO history anyway. XD)