Thread: 3.1 and Exp question

Regarding your EXP question:

Yoshi during interviews have stated that the Main Story will have the EXP rewards implemented/adjusted for higher yields. This to me infers that you WILL be able to level up to 60 before you even step into Heavensward. If there IS a Level Cap break, I'm sure it will be tied to the Job Quest and not Ishgard, considering it wouldn't make sense to "increase your level" using the MSQ.
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I for one have 16 leves completed, 6 Beast Tribe Quests completed, and a couple 4X quests completed in my Quest Log to turn in for instant Level 51 when the expansion hits. However, if it doesn't work for whatever reason, I'll just discard the quests. No harm done preparing.

It's been explicitly stated that there is no quest or mechanic to increase your level cap to 60, it is simply increased automatically if you have the expansion registered to your account. The only mention of older content not giving XP was with regards to the host of level 50 dungeons that we have as they feared many players would simply farm them to get to 60 instead of doing new content. They will give no XP rewards after 3.0 launches but this will be restored at some undefined point in time later on.

The 2.x series MSQs will be giving new XP and loot rewards now though so it is expected that a new player will actually be around level 52 or so by the time they finish the 2.55 story (assuming they already had the expansion registered).

3.0, All content unlocked in Early access.
Without HW you can get to 60 but you will not get EXP from level 50 content only level 1-49
You will not get ability from 51-60 as they are locked behind quests.
You will not get to be new race.
you will not get new jobs.
New Tomestones will be locked out.
New scipts will be locked out.

Bug fixes, hot fix
3.0X alex 2 weeks
Bug fixes, hot fix
3.05 2 more weeks
Bug fixes, hot fix
Bug fixes, hot fix
Bug fixes, hot fix

3.1 Close to 4 months after 3.0 is out.
3 more dungens
1st round of job balancing.
unknown 24 man content.

Originally Posted by CrystalRainbow

Without HW you can get to 60 but you will not get EXP from level 50 content only level 1-49

You will be capped at 50 if you do not buy HW. That is how every other MMO does it and there has been nothing to suggest otherwise here.

Originally Posted by Wobble

What is frontline open area I wonder? And for OP I would assume you could get exp from the wanderers palace, how much I'm not sure since it's a level 50 and we never gained any in it.

i posted this in another thread so i will just quote it but tl:dr no exp from 50 dungeons.

Originally Posted by Musashidon

it was because they felt people would stay in lvl 50 content to hit lvl 60 fastest and they want people to level mostly in ishgard.

they did say they will add exp to the content eventually.


here's the quote and link for source http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/125...dia-Event-5-19)

With the way the hard and expert dungeons from A Realm Reborn will be kept separate [[from Heavensward content]], will it be possible to level up there?

Yoshida: It was a tough decision, but we decided to leave it so that you will not obtain experience there at the start of Heavensward. As a development team, we believe that moving on past level 50 should happen on the Ishgard side. Because the new dungeons have a different pacing than the ones from A Realm Reborn, we were also afraid that people would gravitate towards the older instanced dungeons for more efficient experience.

After the situation settles down from the release of Heavensward, we might change things around by assigning some experience value, but that remains to be seen.