Level cap increase with HW?

[Elim]

You don't need to be in a new area to get exp. My friend got experience from handing in level 45 leves before he even started the new story quests. However you can't get exp from level 50 ARR dungeon mobs...for whatever reason. I guess the devs thought people would just powerlevel by spamming them - or it was too much trouble adding exp to the mobs.

And yes you need the expansion installed to get experience past level 50.