This change is way overdue.  There are so many things in game that you miss out on being stuck at level 49.  I don't want to go into the arguments of staying at level 49 but so many players make this decision.  The introduction of a life skill buff with the black spirit energy exchange was the last straw, level 49 characters do not have access to this.

Making this change should not disadvantage PVP players as you have to be level 60 to get into things like AOS anyway.

Please consider this change as I think it would improve the new player experience as well.

Why downvote? What is the negative effect for making this change?

Bcause when Im 59 and no pvp option what will stop me to grief any spot. I can KS and you wont be able to kill me....You cant do shit
Making it to lvl 59 will be griefing paradise. But hey PA already kill PvP on normal servers so why shouldn they continue with their none sence....

You can grief at 49.... if you wanted to.  But the main reason people stay at 49 is to get away from PVP griefers.  Nothing like killing a level 56 farmer in lifeskill gear skinning deer.  Griefers all round spoil the game.

Can we at least get all character levels access to the Black Spirit Energy buffs?

I agree on increasing the pvp free level restriction but 59 is too much The arguments people have already talked on top of this conversation are true. In my opinion the pvp free level should be 56. So you can have access to awakening kit but still be pvp free.

Nah people are great at finding ways to ruins other's games.

As Khondo already said, people stay at lvl49 mainly to avoid griefers, not become them...

It doesnt make sense players need to lose stats in order to be protected from griefing. It'd be nice if instead of being linked to player level, pvp protection could be a permanent choice from character creation or a toggle you can change for one character every month or so (anything with a large cooldown).