Always Underleveled

Meh - recently got to 50 on my Sniper, however completed class quests at 45 (5 levels of PvP to finish) Oddly enough I needed a little help on the last quest bit, however the rest of the story was completed solo. She only did one FP - BT.

Only ever did the class quests on each planet and my daily PvP each day to keep the xp ticking over (had the class quest and warzone legacy unlocks)

My Merc completed class quests at 47 and my first toon (Assasin) at 48. I prefered the challenge of being underleveled for the quests rather than the cakewalk of being 3+ levels over - true, I died a few times more, but enjoyed the journey.

This is actually what I was thinking, too. Otherwise nothing adds up!

And yeah, a lot of this thread looks like one of them Transactional Analysis games, namely, "Why don't you/Yes but" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transac..._You.2FYes_But

I will play a round, why not. OP, why don't you kill every golden elite you see? It's lots of quick XP. It only works if you are skilled and geared, though. There, I even played the "Yes but" part!

That depends on you being willing to fork over some cash. You can buy XP boosts from the Cartell Market. Combine that with rested XP and the levels just fly by very, very fast. Used to do that on an older toon of mine who was severely behind the leveling curve. Took me two 3-hour boosts to get to where I am at the right level for the quests.


Oh, and never, never EVER skip mobs. I tend to do that, too, when I play a stealth class, and I immediately start to notice that I don't get enoug XP.

This is exactly what this is. Good call.

Maybe because you just did your class quest for your level and it's advanced to the next step.
Your class quest will not always be the same level as you.

Ok, I have no idea, if you are doing all the bonuses for the missions and are a sub, how you can't be OVER level. I'm a sub. I never skip a bonus on a mission. I never skip a bonus world mission series. I only ever do Esseles/Black Talon (until recently) for my flashpoints. I do complete most Heroic missions until I get to Alderaan. There is usually not enough people there at the times I'm on to complete the Heroic 4s, half the time I can't even complete the 2+. Once I leave the homeworld @ 18-19 level, I'm over level for each planet I go to, by at least 1 and sometimes 2-3 near the end. I've leveled to 50 once in the middle of Voss, the other time at the end of Voss. Both of my 50's are stealth classes (Assassin and Operative) and I frequently bypass enemies that do not count toward a mission bonus. I do get every Datacron on each planet, but that should not account for much.

Not sure how you are doing this being a Vanguard. You can't stealth, so I doublt you have been able to stroll by enemies that I slipped past in stealth. It is a mystery. The only explaination I can think of is that you bypassed a whole planet. Make sure you go in progression even if you over level a planet. Zoom out your minimap to max and go for any triangle you see.

Other than that, go to one of the many SWTOR sites or wikis to find out what is missing. I can't imagine that the Heroics alone are bogging you down that much.

EDIT: I've also have done no PvP until I reached level 50.

You need to pvp more and if you are really doing all the side missions than you must be skipping a lot somewhere or doing something very wrong.

I was normally 5 levels over all the planets on my main and around that range on my Sniper alt.

I seem to have the same issue as the OP. I am a subscriber, yet I don't seem to be getting enough xp. The first 2 months this game was launched I played a vanguard to 48, merc to 33, PT to 37, and a smuggler to 39 and I was always overleveled.

I came back to the game a few months ago and have leveled up a jedi shadow to 50, Pt to 50, operative to 41, and my current project is a sith assassin to 45. I seem to always be underleveled. On my sith assassin I do every quest and bonus mission associated with it. I skip all the bonus series, except taris and tattooine. I always do the daily pve mission and pvp daily. On top of all this I am always using the +25% bonus xp cartel items, yet I fall behind in lvls a little bit. For example I am on voss now on my sith assassin, i started there at 43.5. I am now getting lvl 46/47 quests, even though I am only 45.5. Another example, i started hoth at 37.5, I did every quest/bonus mission on that planet, I ended up lvl 40.5. I don't understand how I end up getting less than the 4 lvls per planet when I do all the quests and bonus missions, while I am using the 25% xp boost. With the xp bonus I should be way overleveled.

I just made a lvl 1 character with zero rested xp. When i kill a lvl 1 mob I get 33xp, when I kill a lvl 2 mob I get 35 xp. Is everyone else that is not having an xp issue getting the same amount of xp I am

EDIT: I do want to clarify I skip 95% of the heroic missions and most of the bonus series, but I do all the regular quests and bonus xp missions associated with them.

huh. so I created a lvl one alt for the purposes of testing xp and lvl 1 creature=33xp, lvl 2=35 but... experience from 1 to 10 is identical between f2p and subscribers.

I have created couple of characters since f2p launch and they seem to be leveling at my usually expected pace.
so it really sounds like some sort of rare bug. possibly game is not reading the status of subscription correctly and switching experience gain to f2p/preferred rate.
its honestly the only thing I can think of.

I would open a ticket.

Well crap the xp is the same from 1-10, ugh I don't really want to level a char to 10 to confirm I am getting less xp, but I might have to.

With my lvl 45 assassin I killed a lvl 45 mob for 609xp, a lvl 46 mob for 624xp. Now these xp values are WITH the 25% xp bonus. I really don't want to take off my bonus xp to test this. Hopefully someone has a lvl 45 alt with the 25% bonus up that could give me their xp values.

I am afraid this issue is impossible to fix if the game is giving me f2p xp because the ingame support can't see if I am receiving f2p xp versus subscriber xp. I know I am considered a subscriber for other things, such as I get all 3 crew skills, I can use more than 2 characters etc.