Unlocking Heavensward

[Claymore65]

Actually, the quests only give about 20-30k EXP each. Doing all of them, and the dungeons, barely puts a dent in your EXP from 50-51.

It got me from Level 50-51, but they don't provide a ton of EXP I'll admit. I haven't completed all of it yet though. They might have boosted the total EXP gained at some point though.

I can certainly understand the annoyance of being stuck behind the MSQ, and I can feel the pain with all the fetch quests mixed in there. However, the story for 2.1-2.55 patches is actually pretty great thus far (the Ul'Dah storyline is really interesting and Merlwyb is pretty awesome in it). Just chug on through and you'll be in Heavensward.