No - here's the exact text from the website - be sure to read it all - especially the bit near the end where it says you just have to email them to increase the daily limit by upto 10x and the monthly limit by upto 5x :
Awesome, I'm glad you pointed that out to me, I wont bother with that then!
Although I think it's interesting that the 10 fold increase matches level 2 status.
This same thing comes up every day in the MtGox support channel on IRC - they should really make it clearer as a lot of people get verified and then don't appear to realise they can just increase the limits by sending an email in.