Quote Originally Posted by Hiruke View Post
What? You don't need to finish the 2.55 story to level past level 50. Once the xpac is released, you can level past 50, period.
Good! I'm glad that you can continue to level past 50 without having 2.55 done! (can continue past 50 but cant go in the new areas). I was not sure about that, but now that you explained how they are doing it, it seems they are taking a step in the right direction!

That being said, I've never heard of an MMO expansion being gated behind a 250+ quest chain before! O.o I understand building off of the previous content and keeping it relevant, but there will be a lot of new players with the expansion, and I get the feeling that they may feel a bit annoyed at the quest line. You reach 50, but then can't go to the new areas and got to keep running around the "old world" for a week could really burn some people out.