Firstly, why is there even a level limit to begin with? I could understand limiting forum activity for trial account users, but if you've paid for the game license, that should entitle you to a little basic freedom of speech.

Secondly, I've only been able to find 1 bit of info suggesting that if I'm level 30 that I should be able to make a few posts per day, yet this new player section seems to be the only place that I can create a new thread. I have made sure to set my lvl 30 char as my main char in the profile and that didn't help.

A forum cap on level limit is a pretty crumby way to treat new players to the game and make them feel less valuable than the rest of the community. Bad job SE.