Question for the Devs; will Heavensward include a new STARTER City-State?

[Ecks007]

You seem to believe that new 1-50 leveling content and 51-60 leveling content are mutually exclusive.

Given the vast amount of story that begins only after attaining level 50 I would say yes, yes they are mutually exclusive.

Well, not so exclusive for players in the 51-60 bracket as we do have the ability to go back and do lower level content and still gain some exp from it. Lower level players can't do higher end content because they do not get appropriate exp (if they even get any). For example, a level 35 player might be able to go to a level 47 FATE, but their contribution to that fate is heavily taxed to the point that it's really not worth it as they wouldn't get the full experience (assuming they can even survive and complete the FATE).

Likewise, a level 35 player can't join any dungeons that are above their level range.

With 60 being the new level cap we can expect to see level 60 dungeons, probably only a few at first. But we can also expect to see hopefully a handful or more new dungeons ranging from level 51 to 59 (though more likely the highest until 60 will be 57 or 58).

tl;dr version: 51-60 content is exclusive to levels 51-60 (duh). 1-50 content (gasp) is still able to be accessed by anyone 50+.

Added: Now that doesn't mean a level 10 person can't make it to a 51-60 area, but there just wouldn't be anything for them to do there. Right now I can take a level 1 character to Revant's Toll, but that doesn't mean there's anything there to do other than run around exclaiming how awesome you are.