Question before Heavensward

[Anova]

Buying Heavensward immediately unlocks the level cap of 50, even if you can't reach Ishgard yet.

I can't say how much exp you will earn from doing lv.50 dungeons, but the quests still give no exp at 50 (except those added by Heavensward).

If I knew I was going to buy the expansion, I'd probably just buy it when I hit 50. The only exception is if there was a big sale coming up (like Black Friday or Cyber Monday), at which point I'd take a look at my progress and see if I could get by with staying 50 for a while longer. Maybe I'd level some cross-classes or crafters. It's up to you really. But generally, there's a lot more sources of exp now, and the beast tribe quests scale to 50, so later classes you level shouldn't have a problem catching up.

[ruskie]

Buying Heavensward immediately unlocks the level cap of 50, even if you can't reach Ishgard yet.
I can't say how much exp you will earn from doing lv.50 dungeons, but the quests still give no exp at 50 (except those added by Heavensward).

The level 50 dungeons mob kills in them now give exp. And the lvl50 main story quests also give exp if you have heavensward from what I understand so ideally you would want to get heavensward when you hit 49 or so so you get all the exp.