Getting bored of grinding any tips?

If you do not play a lot, remember to log out at a cantina or the fleet for the bonus xp when rested.

The best leveling strategy is to look for other players and group with them. Use space bar through all dialogues, enable showing dark side/light side points in dialogs. This speeds up things considerably, but removes immersion and fun from the story.

By grouping with other players, you just breeze through the quests and you advance way faster than solo. Plus you can do the hero quests, which reward good gear and are more challenging to play.

If you look for ways to stop the "grind", there are so many ways to level. You can
- Do PvP (which is a different sort of grind, but still a grind. Fun though, at least every now and then)
- Do quests
- Do Flashpoints (you haven't mentioned them, so I assume you haven't done any. Try them, they are worth it)
- Do the space game (at least the one quest for the new missions when they become available, maybe a daily every now and then)
- You even get xp for exploring, although this takes some time and not a lot reward.

So you can really level in a lot of different ways. Try them and find out what suits you best. If you think 2 hours is long, it will get longer. You need around 2.5 - 4 hours for the last 5 levels, depending on your "throughput". As a casual gamer, it will be normal to take around 5-6 days /played to max level. If this is too long for you, this is probably not the right kind of game for your taste.

This is the quickest/easiest leveling MMO I've ever played. I'm not attempting to be condescending when I suggest: maybe an offline single player RPG is more ideal for your time restrictions?

This is a really ungrindy game so not sure what you're talking about. When you log off do you put your toon in a rest area? Do you do space missions? Do you do the bonus quests? If not that's the way to go.

Holy crap, 2 hours for a level and you are COMPLAINING??

I officially hate you, you are whats wrong with this industry.

Thanks for the replys,

I have played several MMO's and grinded them out. I guess maybe this game isnt for me as I'm finding myself wanting to hit 50 and pvping with my friends more than actually careing about the story because I honestly don't. It feels like they have sprayed loads of perfume over the same basic grind, kill 10 of these colect 10 of that etc.

I enjoy the combat I just don't enjoy the repetition of the planets and quest, The only planet I have actually enjoyed thus far is Tatooine because it was more open feeling.

Thanks for the replys appreciated

If you played that other game at release you would have known it took almost forever to make it to 60 when SWTOR does 50 in 5 days (played, not 5 days).
The game was not much better at release (aka really buggy) and if you say something else you were either not there or lying

Fastest XP are the space missions (Edit: for the newly introduced missions). Doing bonus quests is usually worth it as well, if only because you don't spend any traveling time while doing it. Since you want to pvp do the pvp daily if possible (if you are on a balanced server or on the better side).

Other than that... well, if you know mmos, this one isn't the reinvention of the wheel. But with 5-6 days to maxlevel it is rather convenient and userfriendly.

Actually if you are complaining that it do take you 1-2 hours of playing to reach the next level in this game i dont think a MMO is for you.

By your crazy definition of "grind" anything that constitutes character progression is a grind.

Rested and unrested XP seems to make no difference.

Forum PvP seems to be way more interesting than the game itself.
But occasionally it is fun to log into the game, play a round of SWTORFox and to send the companions back to work.