This litle gem of a SWTOR / Tony Hawk’s pro skating mashup was made by youtube user hardataq. The song alone brought back so much nostalgia, and I’m sure Tony Hawk would be proud, If he weren’t busy making bank off a career he had in the nineties. I pretend my speeder is like a skateboard too, ramping off stuff and grinding rails usually when I’m on the Republic Fleet waiting for my mates to get ready to head off (they’re so slow). There’s a cool little edge on the wall next to the GTN kiosks that I treat like a quarter pipe! Check it out below:
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SWTOR Sith Inquisitor Assassin PVP Build
Today we are going to continue posting the builds swtorsavior.com has put together for us. As always I I will recommend you to get the guide to get the full advantage of all swtorsavior.com amazing features. It is available right here. If you are playing as Sith Inquisitor and on the Assassin advanced class then you need to give this build a go. Awesome PVP build with very high damage. Also remember to check out NIGEL DAVIS newest Intergalactic Intel were he goes through Shadow/Assassin Tanking
The Guild Sphere: Imperial Security Bureau (ISB)
Today we feature the republic guild ” Imperial Security Bureau ” ISB is a small guild (around 23 members including alts) looking to increase in size to get ready for heroics and operations. They are a close group of dedicated players that like to have fun and help each other out. Many of the members have experience from WoW and have played MMOs for quite some time. Right now they are looking for some cool people who want to run the end game material and have a good time. All classes/levels accepted! They are always helping each other out whether it’s sending gear, running someone through a flashpoint or leveling alts together. Where did your guilds name come from? The guild name stands for Imperial Security Bureau. It’s those Imperials you see in the movie wearing the uniforms. Our guild consists of many people who are very into the Star…
Bounty Hunter Mercenary Build – High Damage Build For Leveling
As we promised yesterday, we are going to continue posting the builds swtorsavior.com has put together for us. This time we are going to show you a The Bounty Hunter Mercenary build. As I also mentioned yesterday, you need to buy there guide ( it’s worth it) to get the full advantage of there guides. It is available here. The Bounty Hunter Mercenary class is more of a defensive class but they have made this build so you get max damage for those of you that are trying to level up fast.
1.1.1 Patch Notes — 1/31/2012
As we all know BioWare took down the servers for some weekly maintenance today. As always they took the time to upload a new patch fixing bugs etc. Normally I don’t mind the maintenance as I work while the servers are down, but this weeks I’m on vacation so I was quite sad that I couldn’t level my Trooper. Then I thought I would catch up with some good old World of Warcraft – only to find out that the servers was down there to: Anyways. Below are this weeks patch notes. Enjoy! Classes and Combat General Fixed a bug that could cause the Global Cooldown to appear as if it has been cancelled when it is actually still in effect, resulting in a feeling of unresponsiveness to input. Corrected an issue that could cause an ability icon to appear usable but be unresponsive to clicks or keypresses for several seconds. Players revived by other players, including…
The Sith Inquisition: Sorcerer Healing Build
The guys over at swtorsavior.com has created a video showing some excellent builds. Over the next few days, we will be showcasing some of the best builds they have come up with, but if you want the full advantage of there guides, you have to buy the swtorsavio guide, which is available here. Here is a build that you can use if you are playing as a healer with the Sith Inquisitor Sorcerer. Please read the notes about this build: Dark Heal – First healing skill that you pick up and later on should only be used if you need to stop someone from dying fast. Dark Infusion – use Infusion to replace Dark Heal as soon as you can as you are leveling up, again the only time you need to go back to Dark Heal is to stop someone from falling and emergencies. You can also use Static Barrier as well as Dark Heal to help tanks. Once you…
TOR TV: WHY ISN’T THERE AN EASYMODE FOR DATACRONS?
We all know how damn frustrating it can be to get them datacrons. Especially the datacrons located on Taris ( if you don’t have a guide for it of course ) . Like the guides for datacrons we have right here. Anyways here is a hilarious short video, showing all the struggles two heroes have to go through, to get the +2 cunning datacron. warning foul language ahead. Interested in SWTOR Movies? We have new movies most weekdays here on swtorstrategies! Have suggestions for movie we ought to feature? Get in contact with us here
Ilum Datacron Locations
Ilum was the ice planet home to many of the Adegan crystals used in the construction of Jedi lightsabers. The caverns containing the crystals were long ago turned into a Jedi temple. Unlike the crystals of other planets, the crystals of Ilum could only produce green and blue lightsaber crystals. Ilum was first discovered in 22,800 BBY when a Jedi, navigating hyperspace in the Force, felt a strong pull deep from the Unknown Regions. Following the sensation, the scout had found a world rich in Force-strong crystals. The mystique of the discovery added it to the ceremony of lightsaber construction. Read more about Ilum here and check out the Datacron guide below: Don’t forget to check out constantly growing list of guides for Star Wars: The old republic 83) Aim + 4 Datacron Coordinates: X 920, Y 1072 This Datacron is located in far southeastern Ilum, to reach it you will need to…
The Guild Sphere: Imperium
In today’s Guild feature, Zyraal from the Guild Imperium took the time to answer our questions. Imperium are curently looking for active members on Zaalbar US-West PvE, so If you’re a mature, fun-loving, well-spoken/typed(don’t have to be a grammer nazi, just not putting “ne1 want 2 go on sum runz?”) adult with a sense of humor, you might belong in this guild. If you like running ops with a “Come on guys we can do this” attitude instead of putting people down, you might belong here. If you’d rather help than criticize, and have patience if someone doesn’t understand immediately, you might belong here. If you have a slow or non-existant temper, you might belong here. Check out the interview below: Where did your guilds name come from? It actually came from the motto of a previous guild I ran, “ex tripidum imperium” or “From Joy, Power. We all play games to have fun…if you…
TOR TV: “Looking for Group” *Cold Repulbic Mixtape* by Richie Branson
Richie Branson made this Hillarious rap song about “looking for a group” in SWTOR. The song is all about the pains of looking for a group when you’re not a healer. Track samples the sith inquisitor theme music composed by Mark Griskey and co. Richie plays on the Ven Zallow RP-PVP as a sith assassin named “Branson” and “Kazen””. Shoot him a message if you’re playing! Check out more music at www.richiebranson.com Interested in SWTOR Movies? We have new movies most weekdays here on swtorstrategies! Have suggestions for movie we ought to feature? Get in contact with us here
Maximizing Medals in PvP
I just wanted to share a few tips that I use in pvp to make grinding commendations and valour more efficient and making those losses not bad as they seem. I’m a vanguard tactics spec trooper so other vanguards will find this pretty helpful as well as some other advanced classes. Damage medals There are a few in this category and they come at 75k and 300k damage done plus the 2.5k single shot. The 75k should be easy for dps classes and 2.5k in a single shot isn’t unreasonable. Pick up a power up, use stim/adrenals if you’re biochem and it is an easy medal. Obviously aim for low level players and use any cooldowns together with relics for extra attack. On my right bar I have my adrenal, relic and 25% crit ability. I just activate these at the same time and I can hit upwards of 4k….
TOR TV: What Do Smugglers Do?
Youtube user Zadenk made this little gem of machinima. Vidoes like this mame me realize that most Jedi dialog is pretty boring, compared with the stuff you get away with as a non-Force user. I also love the fact that people are being super creative on top of BioWare’s creativity. I mean it’s a win, win. Great game and cool videos from people. Interested in SWTOR Movies? We have new movies most weekdays here on swtorstrategies! Have suggestions for movie we ought to feature? Get in contact with us here
TOR TV: Star Fleet Dental kill some guy over and over
Star Fleet Dental has uploaded a new movie. This time it’s all about killing, grieving and corpse camping.You might wan’t to check this forum thread before this video make any sense. Members of Starfleet Dental were given the extraordinary chance to test their skills against the self-declared top player of Veela and SWTOR forum loudmouth “Territo. A hard fought battle that ultimately ended in sadness as sweet, sweet Arus foolishly challenged Territo to a duel.
The Guild Sphere: Martial Cadence
League of Legends anyone? Today I had the chance to speak with Eroth from Martial Cadence. The guild is currently recruiting people on Darth Bandon and raid primarily on Tuesday and Wednesday at 8:30p.m. est (7:30 central). they are a guild formed by real life friends and currently the most progressed that they know of on the server, Republic side. They have all but Hard Mode Soa down, and they are looking for skilled players to fill some slots. They are currently looking for ranged DPS especially, and if enough interest is had they will start looking into 16 man. Check out the interview below: Where did your guilds name come from? When we were getting ready for the game to release, we had to deliberate on what the guild was going to be called. After getting some of them shot down that were my favorites, (Serious Business was my…
Gabe Amantangelo Interview
Totalbiscuit aka The Cynical Brit got an Interview with Gabe Amantangelo up at his youtube channel. Topics Covered Flashpoints (2:00) Questing/Immersion (5:00) Balancing skills PvP/PvE (10:00) PvP Level Brackets (13:00) Faction Imbalance/Ilum issues (14:30) UI Customization (17:30) Crafting Professions (21:15) Endgame Character Development (23:00) All of the right questions were asked, nothing new or concrete was given in return. Due to this, TotalBiscuit has mentioned that he might not do any more BioWare interviews, as it is impossible to get any interesting answers our of the company employees.
1.1.0b Patch Notes – 1/24/2012
BioWare used todays maintenence to patch a few issiues. The most important this time was fix that should help out on the ability delay that has been hevely debated. Check out the patch notes below: 1.1.0b Patch Notes – 1/24/2012 General Implemented optimizations to improve performance on Republic and Imperial Fleets. Classes and Combat Significantly improved the delay when activating player abilities, particularly when in lower framerate situations. This allows for improved ability responsiveness in hectic combat situations. Operations General Operations will no longer allow more than 16 Operations Group members to enter concurrently. Karagga’s Palace Operations Groups will no longer be forced to reset the Operation if the group wipes when attempting to defeat G4-B3 Heavy Fabricator. Fixed an exploit that would allow players to repeatedly loot the chest after defeating Jarg and Sorno. Miscellaneous Bug Fixes Fixed an issue that could cause graphical inconsistencies, which most often manifested as…
May the schwartz be with you: Return of the Jedi – Missing Elevator Scene
Footage of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader in the elevator on the way to the Emperor’s throne room. Vader: So… What happened after you left Bespin? Luke: What happened? I was without a right hand for 5 hours. What kind of a father cuts off his son’s writing hand? Vader: This is Star Wars, Luke. Nobody writes anything in this universe. The only writing I ever see is that Aurebesh junk on Coruscant. Luke: Dad, what are you saying? Vader: I never learned to read, dumbass.
The Guild Sphere: Piratehookers
First of all I would like to apologize for the lack of guild features, but SWTOR has gotten the best of my spare time, but we are back with some new features. This time the guild “Piratehookers” to the time to answer our questions. Piratehookers are located on the server Bondar Crystal – US PvP East Coast and is currently accepting new members who are interested in hardcore radiding. Where did your guilds name come from? Piratehookers is the name of our Counterstrike: Source team which competed in ESEA-Main along with various LAN’s and tournaments. Can you give me a quick 2-3 sentance description of your guild? Our guild is a semi-serious raiding guild dedicated to clearing endgame PvE content which includes 8 & 16 man operations in nightmare difficulty along with Hardmode flashpoint runs. We will also have fun doing PvP and dailies together. We are still building our raid roster but have high hopes and big…
Operation & PVP Guide Videos
Are you having a hard time deciding between PVP specs for your Marauder? Perhaps your guild is wiping on bosses like Bonethrasher, G4-B3 Heavy Fabricator or Annihilation Droid XRR-3? Well then you’ll want to check out these video guides. Marauder PVP Guide (Rage spec): This guide covers the rage spec for the Marauder, be sure to check the annotation if you want to look at the Annihilation spec instead. Annihilation Droid XRR-3 Guide (Hardmode): This is the first boss in the Eternity Vault Operation. The guide covers both the normal and hardmode versions. Bonethrasher Guide: This is the first boss found in the Karragar’s Palace Operation. Since the video was made they have now fixed the bug where he attacks you as soon as you enter the room, which used to cause a lot of issues. His knock back has also been reduced a bit. I hope these…
TOR TV: A New Meme (probably the greatest machinima to date)
This may be one of the the dumbest thing I’ve watched all week – and I have had a REALLY strange week so far — but it still made me laugh out loud. Kudos I’m not sure how to describe this video, I guess you just have to watch it your self. Please help us out though and write your own description in the comments 🙂 Interested in SWTOR Movies? We have new movies most weekdays here on swtorstrategies! Have suggestions for movie we ought to feature? Get in contact with us here
TOR TV: REAL World PvP on Ilum Patch 1.1
Reading Reddit and the official forums yesterday I became a sad sad panda. For some reason people are more interested in broken stuff, then all the cool stuff that works really well. I don’t understand what is happening and why the community is developing in to such a unproductive sad place, becourse we all know that Star Wars: The old republic is an AWESOME game. If you don’t you won’t be reading this story in the first place. Below is a 2 hour video showing FUN openworld pvp. I don’t expect you to watch it all, but the next time you feel like exploiting or in any other way destroying open world PVP on Ilum, see a few minuts of the video, and understand that you are doing it wrong! Interested in SWTOR Movies? We have new movies most weekdays here on swtorstrategies! Have suggestions for movie we ought to feature? Get in contact with us here
New Video for what’s to come in SWTOR over the coming months!
It’s just about time to pay up for another month of SWTOR subscription, and BioWare has started teasing us with what we have to look forwarder to in upcoming patches. Personally I’m impressed, it all looks really really promising. Check it out below: See what the future holds for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ in this brand new video which showcases some of the new game content and game systems that we will release in the coming months. In it, you will be able to take your first look at upcoming game content, including new Warzones and Flashpoints. You will also have the chance to get a sneak peek at the expanded Legacy system that’s coming to the game, UI customization, as well as new Guild features!
1.1.0a Patch Notes – 1/19/2012
Due to the small “miss happenings” after yesterdays patch updates, BioWare launched an emergancy patch to fix the issues. Check it out below: Operations Karagga’s Palace Fixed an issue that caused assigned loot bags in Karagga’s Palace to distribute items with class inappropriate stats. PvP Ilum Players can no longer enter the opposing faction’s safe base area, thus preventing players from continually “camping” the other faction’s base. Turrets inside faction bases were not intended to be destroyed and are now immune to damage. The population cap for instances of Ilum has been reduced to improve performance. Implemented optimizations to improve performance on Ilum. Miscellaneous Bug Fixes Loading screens no longer appear when other players spawn nearby.
Star Wars: The Old Republic Patch 1.1
SWTOR’s first major game update is now live! The updates goes under the name ‘Rise of the Rakghouls’ and features a number of additions to the game, including a brand new Flashpoint titled ‘Kaon Under Siege’ and an expansion to the ‘Karagga’s Palace’ Operation that more than triples its size! In addition to the new playable content and new item sets that you can acquire, Game Update 1.1 includes a number of bug and other various fixes which you can see in detail in the Game Update 1.1 Patch Notes below: Edit. SWTOR-Tanking.com did a small video going over the patch notes: General Anti-aliasing is now available and can be enabled in the preferences menu. Classes and Combat General Healing caused by crowd control abilities no longer generates threat. Tooltips for abilities modified by skill points now display correct damage values. Guard This ability now transfers to a new friendly target without…