Quote Originally Posted by Lemuria View Post
Two major differences here. Firstly, in WoW the cap is a hard cap. You literally don't even unlock the ability to level past your cap without the expansion. Secondly, in WoW, once the level cap is 'earned' by getting the expansion, you can still earn experience in earlier areas. It's not like all of your new levels had to be earned in expansion areas only.
But wasn't 11 the same in the sense of... some areas were locked behind expansion which ended up being really great EXP camping spots and skill leveling spots e.g white gate city raids? If not in fact the only exp spots open after a couple of levels. (Wouldn't know because I never really cared for leveling past a certain point myself.)