Or as I told someone earlier – don’t be Blender. Our guildmate ended up at 49 with half a level to go, with absolutely no source of XP outside of space missions, flashpoints, PVP, or dailies – all because he chose to skip almost all bonus series and probably a lot of bonus quests, as well.
The Stoppable Force
a long, long time ago, in a blog far, far away
What a bad situation! The bonus series worth doing are on Balmorra, Taris (super quick on the Imperial side), Alderaan, and Voss. Do all those and you’re totally golden.
I have done maybe two flashes, zero pvp, and no bonus series on planets. I do the space missions everytime I play, and have abandoned several regular quests. I am generally two to three levels above a planet before going to it, so unless things really slow down at the end (41 and still have a bit of Hoth left), I’m not seeing running out as being a problem. Most of the bonus series that I have gotten have been grey already.
Point is, you’re doing other things besides “just do the solo quests and ignore everything else.” You have to do SOMETHING besides the solo quests – in your case space missions. If you do ABSOLUTELY nothing but solo quests, skipping all the bonuses, you won’t make it to 50, period.
Eh, is it me or is that a bit of a “duh” statement?
If you do nothing but quest and then skip a lot of quests… you might find that you have to go back and do a couple of them after all. Maybe it’s because I don’t think of the bonus missions as something completely separate. They are still just more quests.
You would think so, wouldn’t you?
Yet people seem to keep ending up underleveled… I suspect largely by people coming from games like WoW, where you basically HAVE to keep skipping quests to remain in relevant content.
Can’t quite see how your friend managed to end up like this, if you are much under the level for your class storyline you basically won’t beat it, unless someone else does all that work for you.
After doing all the bonus series on Taris, Nar Shadda and Tatooine, I was almost too high for Alderaan, so I skipped most of the non-Storyline stuff on Alderaan, Quesh and Belsavis, and all the heroic stuff on Hoth, then did everything I could find on Corellia, and I still hit 50 a fair bit before finishing my storyline.
I was kind of wondering that myself, to be honest – how he managed to beat things, that is. He’s literally the only person I know to end up in that situation.
I should interview him for a blogpost… naaaah.