Quote Originally Posted by LunaFaye View Post
Wrong, as I have shown in many other threads on this forum, after reaching level 50 and than ending up with doing the side quests, daily roulette's, trials and dungeons you need to unlock anyways etc. gets you to level 55 without skipping most of the content, and level 53 with skipping most ARR content, when entering Ishgard. The first part of the heavenwards msq together with the first 2 maps/zones can easily get you to 60 if you're not skipping anything. So that would give you plenty of ARR dungeons that you might have skipped, and the whole msq including their dungeons from 3.1 - 3.35 for your other characters.

I would recommend buying the expansion as soon as possible or lose out on the exp.
I'm pretty sure she was just referring to the 2.x MSQ's to get to Ishgard. There are 100 of them and each quest grants 4800 exp, which won't even get a character halfway from 50-51. If you do side quests, FATEs, roulettes etc. Of course you're going to get crazy exp from them. Most things you unlock post 50 (lv50 relic, HM dungeons/primals, Frontlines, Odin instance, etc.) are not required to progress the MSQ, which is what you need to do to get to HW, and there is a TON of other things a player can do while they're grinding the MSQ on their main(s). Things that will make them a little more self sufficient going into 3.0

2.x is amazing, and so many just blast right trough it. I encourage for OP to take his time not only with 1.0 content, but the 2.x content that follows afterwards.