star-wars-the-old-republic
Besides the obvious ways to earn experience like:
which other ways exist get earn XP in SWTOR? I've only played about 30 minutes till now and wanted to know if i will get XP for:
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I spent some days with my guild running missions and the new results are in:
Pre-nerf, we estimated the best missions to get us about ~5.5k/hour. At the moment, we're looking at about ~1.8k/hour at most. Keep in mind, this is from low-level missions and as those are very short, there will be more downtime between missions so the end result will be quite a bit less than that.
This thread. does a good job of explaining how points are calculated.
In short it seems that badges and points just show how much / how proficient you are in the PVP Warzones. Points are awarded for hurting opponents, healing allies, and whether you are attacking or defending in the zone at the time.
I hope this go some way to explaining what you wanted to know :)
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Here's an expanded list, although I make no promises about its completeness:
Completing bonus objectives in a quest.
Helping a member in your group complete a bonus objective in their quest.
Yes, that means that more than one person in the group is doing the same quest, you get the XP for your bonus objective plus the bonus XP for helping your friend for each member in the party that had the quest and bonus objective.
Exploring new areas. Each time you fill in a new part of a world's map you get a spot of XP, plus another spot when you've discovered all areas on a given map.
Reading 'lore objects'. They vary from blatantly obvious to incredibly easy to miss.
Participating in PVP warzones. I'm not privy to the exact formula by which it calculates the reward, but you gain XP, "valor" and cash even if you're not on the winning team.
Things that don't give XP:
As to your last point, SW:TOR does have a 'resting' bonus; rest areas are cantinas on planets, the main space station of your side's fleet and the interior of your ship (earned after completing your class story arc on your side's capital planet). Rested XP accrues while you're in a resting area whether you're logged on or not at a rate depending on your level. So far I haven't seen or heard of an upper bound on the amount of earnable resting XP.
Finally, after completing the first "chapter" of your class story arc (mid-thirties) on the first character you get that far, you get the not-optional option of choosing a 'legacy name' that can then get displayed as part of your character title and is shared among all alts on that server regardless of side, and all your alts on that server will start to accrue "legacy XP" that's again shared. It currently doesn't seem to do anything, but it's there for Bioware to attach stuff to later on I guess...