Ilum XP Farm

so I"m well aware of who started this on POT5. are any other servers doing this?

btw, I hate that this was posted on forums..

I got to Ilum at level 17, and had bolster applied from then. I did 1-50 in 18 played hours.

haha


I bought the BH transport with CC at level 1. Useed to to fly to Ilum and started my XP grind there as a brand new level 1 toon.

Frankly the only thing I can read into the people that are against this so called "exploit" (even going to the extent of saying BW should crack down or ban them) is that they feel the need to try and force everybody to play the way they think the game should be played...

Dont we have enough of this already?? I mean everytime people come up with a way to play the game that Bioware does not approve of they introduce a "fix" to put a stop to it.

Everyone has a different idea of what is and isnt fun - Just let people play the game however they want to

As Im a person who likes to take it nice and slow I still only have 2 characters at 50 even though Ive been in this game non stop since EGA and Launch. But thanks OP, at least now I know i can go to Ilum and get some extra XP so that I can go through the class quests (which is what I really want to do) while skipping the planet quests and sidequests which can be tedious and get boring after your 3rd time of doing it.

You just gave me a way to speed up my class questing - THANKS!

so out of curiosity, I made my way to Illum (which is easy enough to do, without having to buy priority transport) on one of my alts. it bolsters your character. but not your companion. so you cannot really accomplish all that much solo. you HAVE to be boosted.

that said... if people want to do that? let them.

P.S. it does explain though why I've been having issues with SCORPIO tanking for my operative. I thought she wasn't being boosted, and now I know it to be a fact. which makes it annoying to quest there even as a 45 (unless you don't depend on your companion as much)

xp gain from basic kills is just not worth it, when quests even in lowbie areas give so much more now...

To those who still doubt the Ilum 'technique', for whatever reason:

http://imageshack.us/a/img834/2066/swtor50in18hrs.png

and that's probably 2-3 hours slower than it could have been.

Right or wrong, exploit or not, it's happening, en masse, across servers. On POT5, what started as a fun and social way (whole guilds, out there, chatting, joking and enjoying each other's company, regardless of level) to powerlevel to 50 had, by Sunday, become a ruthlessly cutthroat factory for grinding out new 50s.

Bioware, over to you...

I had nothing to do with it, I have a feeling a ban hammer may be on the horizon for players who participated. I was not willing to take that chance. Would have been nice, but not willing to chance it.

If that's the case hundreds of people will be banned. There was at least 2 groups of Imperials and one group of Republics and people were coming and going constantly.

I hope not, really I do, but...I remember back what happened to a lot of the players who chose to exploit the first Illum loot boxes. Just seems to me that it's a safer bet to just not get involved. Since Devs have little communication with us about things we talk about, I'd rather not chance it.

They should make it where any levels under 40 to 45 can't make it outside the main base on Ilum. I can understand being able to access the comp custimation vender etc. but they have no reason to be on Ilum otherwise. Problem fixed....