MSQ After Level 50

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A: Experience 1-50, follow MSQ, follow class quest, go to different zones and quest hubs, go to dungeons and sometimes fight a primal.
B: Level 50 experience, watch dialog, fight Primal.

Does the experience go back to A or is it B for the duration of the game?

Oh, yes, there is actually an exact formula they use. You are currently doing the ARR patches, which were mostly trials (most of the dungeons were from blue sidequests then, so you could take a detour and do those).

When you begin the first expansion, each expansion will follow this exact formula:

• MSQ (mostly slowly walking on an adventure through 6 new areas and 2 new city hubs)
• Level 51 Dungeon (sidequest in Heavensward)
• Level 53 Trial
• Level 53 Dungeon
• Level 55 Dungeon
• Level 57 Dungeon
• Level 57 Trial
• Level 59 Dungeon
• Level 60 Dungeon
• Level 60 Trial
• Patch X.1 Dungeon
• Patch X.2 Dungeon
• Patch X.3 Dungeon
• Patch X.3 Trial
• Patch X.4 Dungeon
• Patch X.5 Dungeon

Each expansion's level growth is 10 levels, then the experience gain will barely be anything for the patches. It repeats like that for every expansion, with MSQ between each dungeon/trial obviously. Usually at least one of the dungeons is a sidequest dungeon, until Shadowbringers where they stopped doing side dungeons (except 2 max level ones each expansion). You will notice side features/dungeons by the blue quest symbols.

The level of the second trial of each expansion changes from 77 to 79 in Shadowbringers, and that formula is kept for the following expansions, so that the two "last bosses" are closer together.

The patches for the last two expansions (Endwalker and Dawntrail) have had an MSQ trial more often though, similar to the level 50 patches, instead of being blue sidequests:

• Patch 6.2 Trial
• Patch 6.3 Trial
• Patch 6.4 Trial
• Patch 6.5 Trial
• Patch 7.2 Trial
• Patch 7.3 Trial is expected

But up until then you won't have so many required trials.