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This might not be rocket science, but here is a few tips and tricks I learned while leveling my alts.
- When you make an alt, you will probably look for ways to space missions, warzone daily quests, and flashpoint daily quests are attractive since you can get tons of EXP for basically doing little to anything at all and with 0 travel time. In fact, you can do all 4 of those things while being docked at the fleet.
- cross faction alts.
- In normal mode flashpoints, the Warrior gear dropped was heavy armor, which Khem Val can use.
- Flashpoint dailies. An extension of the above, if you’re going to have a guildmate/friend run you through a flashpoint, grab the flashpoint daily first for additional EXP.
- On that note, heroics. Heroics are like FPs – If you can do them quickly (have high level dudes 1 shotting everything for you) they are very much worth it. Heroics and fps with people of your same level can be terribly derpy and make you frustrated. Time, location, etc, are also factors. Instanced heroics are fairly painless – I recall doing a couple on Voss where you just go into a cave and kill 5 dudes.
- Cross-faction alts. If you’re making a cross faction alt, you can feed it items and money through the Hutt Cartel GTN on Nar Shaddaa. Your alt can put up a trash item for lots of adena that you come and buy, or you can put up items you’d like to give your alt for 100 gil, then you log on the alt and buy them.
- Biochem and Bioanalysis are best for just leveling. Flashpoints (especially if you run them like I suggest w/people of same basic class) should give you all of the gear you need, plus you have supplements from quests and commendations. There’s no need to pick up an armor or weapon skill. Biochem allows you to make medpacs which are significantly better than the white ones, and also make stims to use while you level.
- On that note, Dromund Kaas is good for early Biochem. While there are fair amounts of gathering nodes for all of the gathering skills, Dromund Kaas also has a particularly large number of mobs that you can use Bioanalysis on. There are multiple silver mobs outside the spaceport and Kaas city which makes it easier to be Biochem early on as an Imperial.
- space mission with 1-2mins left on the clock, you can still get some extra EXP by shooting down random things.
- class quest is over. You can start getting daily commendations for gear before hitting 55.
- We have an easy to understand chart for companion gift preferences right here.
- negative effect on EXP. Plus, if you level with another person, and you should be able to do the 2p heroics, and probably some of the early level 4p heroics.
In my opinion, the difference between doing dailies and buying companion gifts versus leveling normally and not skipping planets is how much money you are making, especially if you’d like to keep your spaceship geared up for dailies. But Belsavis and Ilum dailies are a great source of income, and you don’t need to be 50 for them.
So, what did you learn while leveling your alts?
