Level Cap Increase

[Zumi]

Must have Kirin mount to level up past 50

If that were the case I could already level up past 50

[seekified]

The quickest way of doing 50-60 will naturally be to do the new dungeons, so without having finished the 2.55 questline so you can access all that, levelling would be pretty slow. I doubt we'll see a repeat of what the Northern Thanalan FATE situation was in 2.0 - I got my DRG from 41 to 50 in about nine hours of fating thanks to that, which is hardly the way you're meant to experience the game.

[Jasmine_Aurelia]

God I hope not.

[Niwashi]

God I hope not.

Why not?

I know some reasons for wanting an unlock quest. They're reasons some people would care about and many others wouldn't, so I can understand a divide between wanting it and not caring. (And there's the tendency of people who don't care about something to object purely for thinking it's unnecessary.) But what possible reason could there be for actually wanting there to NOT be such a quest?

We're going to have new quests regardless, so why not have the first one unlock the level cap?

[StouterTaru]

We're going to have new quests regardless, so why not have the first one unlock the level cap?

The only reasons I can think of are the same reasons not to gate the expansion content behind the MSQl; it's 40+ hours or so if you skip reading and watching cutscenes, double that if you want to follow the story. But since they are already gating the expansion behind the MSQ, and that will be the only place where being 51+ matters, I could see them adding in a level cap increase quest.

[Gralna]

The only reasons I can think of are the same reasons not to gate the expansion content behind the MSQl; it's 40+ hours or so if you skip reading and watching cutscenes, double that if you want to follow the story. But since they are already gating the expansion behind the MSQ, and that will be the only place where being 51+ matters, I could see them adding in a level cap increase quest.

and what is your source for this, last i heard only access to Ishgard was revealed to be gated behind finishing 2.55 MSQ.

[Haibel]

The only reasons I can think of are the same reasons not to gate the expansion content behind the MSQl; it's 40+ hours or so if you skip reading and watching cutscenes, double that if you want to follow the story. But since they are already gating the expansion behind the MSQ, and that will be the only place where being 51+ matters, I could see them adding in a level cap increase quest.

and what is your source for this, last i heard only access to Ishgard was revealed to be gated behind finishing 2.55 MSQ.

All expansion area's are gated behind MSQ, But I don't see anything that would suggest that the level cap would also be behind that same gate. I also don't believe the very first thing we are going to do in Heavensward is stroll into Ishgard. There will be some story before that happens.

[JakzChurchill]

I did some guesswork using the information we know and came up with some predictions on to how far the 2.1~ would take you into level 50+.

Looking at the previous exp increases (no definable pattern I can see) I worked out it will take around 8 million exp to hit level 60.

Level 49 quests give 14,500exp each, so I put level 50 at around 16,000.

If every level 50 quest gave 16,000 you'd be level 52 by the start of Heavensward.

If each new patch gave an increased amount of exp youd gain around 2mil from the quests putting you at level 53.

So if they unlocked the level cap from just owning the expansion you'd enter heavensward at the very least 2 or 3 levels into your cap, This feels fair to me and I can this being the option they take.

[Niwashi]

I did some guesswork using the information we know and came up with some predictions on to how far the 2.1~ would take you into level 50+.

Looking at the previous exp increases (no definable pattern I can see) I worked out it will take around 8 million exp to hit level 60.

Level 49 quests give 14,500exp each, so I put level 50 at around 16,000.

If every level 50 quest gave 16,000 you'd be level 52 by the start of Heavensward.

If each new patch gave an increased amount of exp youd gain around 2mil from the quests putting you at level 53.

So if they unlocked the level cap from just owning the expansion you'd enter heavensward at the very least 2 or 3 levels into your cap, This feels fair to me and I can this being the option they take.

But that's just taking the quests into consideration. How many tens of thousands of mobs will people kill while farming all the level 50 dungeons? There's enough content at level 50 to have kept a great many people busy for over a year and a half. The people who get to it in a couple months, or next year, or whenever, should get to do all of that, too.

(Personally, I'm going to begin the expansion at level 1, because the Au Ra are one of the main things I'm looking forward to from it, so I'll be starting over with a brand new character. Unless SE decides to include a few lower level zones in addition to all the 50-60 ones, I won't even reach any of the expansion areas for at least a year or two after getting the expansion. In the meantime, all the ARR 2.0 - 2.55 content has to work as it was designed to, regardless of having the expansion on my account.)

[Radacci]

Remember this is XIV, not XI.
Key word is *accessible*
It's highly likely you will be able to lv to 60, as soon as you register Heavensward, without having to do any quests.
It's like with Reaper of Souls expansion for D3, the disc contains a 2.5mb file, that doesn't really do anything, you don't patch the game; the normal patch to D3 already has all RoS content, but you need to enter RoS key, to get access to it. you cant level to 70 without RoS, even though there's not even any extra patch for it; you only register the key, then you have instant access to all RoS content.
I'm pretty sure that patches for ARR will contain Heavensward content as well, or you wouldn't be able to see mach/DK/astro ppl, or the equips they are wearing. But you'll need to register exp key, to lv to 60, and all that.