Quote Originally Posted by Lemuria View Post
No. Everyone will automatically have their maximum level raised to 60, expansion or not. They're only restricting where you can earn experience. Basically, if you do level-capped content (level 49 or so) you'll earn experience points like you would normally. The current level 50 dungeons don't award experience since they're level 50 and the devs basically did a lazy and didn't add experience to these dungeons.
Do you have source? I'm pretty sure they said you can level to 60 without needing to do story... but you still need heavensward.