One of the small frustrations I have with Star Wars: The Old Republic is the amount of XP you gain, at least early in the game. By doing all of the quests given to me, I have started to really outpace the content. On Coruscant it was especially bad.
By the time I was dealing with the Justicar's, I was already 2+ levels ahead of the content. At that point I started to skip quests which didn't seem important, same goes for Heroic's and Bonus Missions. By skipping content, I managed to arrive at Taris only 1.5 levels ahead of the content (17.5). The next planet, Nar Shadaa, starts at level 20, so I am going to have to skip missions on Taris too.
The fact I am being flooded by XP also makes me reluctant to do Warzones and Space Missions, since they also reward XP. I could really go for an XP off switch at this point. I've heard the XP situation improves in the later levels, so we'll see what happens.
I really dislike skipping content. One reason is I might miss out on Custom item rewards. The SWTOR item databases available have not tied item rewards to missions yet, and TOR missions do not tell you the rewards ahead of time. I could always go back and do them later, but that just doesn't feel right.
Another reason is that some of the quests are fun and interesting. I'd really hate to miss the start of a quest chain just because I need to limit my XP intake. I've also been avoiding Cantina's so I don't build up any bonus XP.
In the near term, there really isn't much that can be done. I doubt I'll see an XP off option, or a change to the XP rewards in time to be useful to this character.
