In this post we have another leveling/PVE build courteous of www.swtorsavior.com. This build will give you an awesome DPS build for the Bounty Hunter Powertech or at the very least it will allow you to get to grips with the talent tree and the point allocation until you find your playstyle. Before I post the build I will give you some information on the Bounty Hunter Powertech class assuming you are brand new to the class and the game. If not you can skip this down to the build below. The Bounty Hunter Powertech is a Heavy Armor class and you can either play as a Ranged DPS or Tank depending on what build you use. The build below is a Ranged DPS leveling build for the Powertech. Your main weapon will be blasters and an important thing to remember when playing SWTOR as a Bounty Hunter Powertech is that…
Author: Soeren Kamper
Guild summit: Patch 1.2 trailer
Someone was quick to save the trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic 1.2 patch when it was on the live stream. We are expecting a much better version tomorrow and will update is as soon as it goes live. Until then, check his version out:
SWTOR Friend Trial program detailed
  Following up on Lisa’s live blogging from the guild summit, BioWare just announced Friends Trial. This system let you invite your friends to check out the game for free for a whole week! Check out the official press release below: BioWare and LucasArts are excited to announce the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Friends Trial starts tomorrow, March 6th!* For a limited time, players who have an active Star Wars: The Old Republic subscription will be able to invite up to three of their friends to explore the Star Wars™ galaxy.The Star Wars: The Old Republic Friends Trial is an opportunity for players to invite three (3) of their friends to take part in a 7-day trial of the game. During this trial period, invited players can explore each of the four Origin Worlds, and experience the opening adventures for each class as they start along their epic journey.Current subscribers can…
Memes of the week: February 27 – March 4
Last week we posted a weekly rundown of SWTOR Memes we collected around the web. The article was well received, but some people asked us about what this meme thing is, so here’s a more than a little information on that. I pronounce it so it’s rhymes with ‘dream’; some pronounce it so it sounds like ‘mem’ (from mem-ory). An Internet meme is an idea that is propagated through the World Wide Web. The idea may take the form of a hyperlink, video, picture, website, hashtag, or just a word or phrase, such as intentionally misspelling the word “more” as “moar” or “the” as “teh”. The meme may spread from person to person via social networks, blogs ( such as this), direct email, news sources, or other web-based services. An Internet meme may stay the same or may evolve over time, by chance or through commentary, imitations, parody, or by…
Jedi Consular Shadow PVP Build – Solid PVP Build For The Jedi Shadow!
Hey guys, Another build coming at you courtesy of http://www.swtorsavior.com. This one is for PVP and the class we are going to be running through is the Jedi Consular Shadow. Now for those of you that have played World of Warcraft you will find it easier if you think of the Shadow as a Rogue. Your job is to get in and out without being seen and cause as much damage as you can! Essentially you want to get to the back lines of the enemy and take down all the healers and squishy DPS players. If you have just started PVP with a Jedi Shadow it can be tough though so here is a solid build to use: Jedi Consular Shadow PVP Build: The main skills that you will be using with this build in PVP are the Spinning Kick which although it requires stealth it will allow you…
Interview: Gabe Amatangelo, Lead PvP Designer BioWare
As part of the local launch festivities, the guys over at TOROZ had some time to talk with Gabe Amatangelo, SWTOR’s Lead PvP designer. The Oceanic community had a lot of questions and they were able to get most of them asked in the time they had with Gabe. There were some things of interest to all of us in this interview. For example, there will new PvP changes and additions, the introduction of ranked PvP, UI changes (everyone has been asking for) and much more. See below for the official video of the interview. Thanks to TorBoard for the giving us the notes because the video is a bit difficult to hear: Gear/Warzone/Commendation Changes Lesser end-game commendations (Champion, Centurion, etc.) will not be exchangable. There will be two levels of warzones. Regular and Ranked warzones. Regular warzones will give out regular WZ commendations, and Ranked warzones will give out ranked…
Jedi Consular Shadow Leveling Build – Use This And RACE To Level 50!
We Got another build for you today courteous of swtorsavior.com. This build also includes full rotations so you will pack a punch when using the Jedi Shadow. This is a leveling build (PVE) and is more geared towards DPS… Jedi Consular Shadow Leveling Build Here is a quick run through of the point allocation: Level 10 – Shadow’s Respite (1/2) Level 11 – Shadow’s Respite (2/2) Level 12 – Infiltration Tactics (1/3) Level 13 – Infiltration Tactics (2/3) Level 14 – Infiltration Tactics (3/3) Level 15 – Misdirection (1/3) Level 16 – Misdirection (2/3) Level 17 – Misdirection (3/3) Level 18 – Security Breach (1/2) Level 19 – Security Breach (2/2) Level 20 – Shadow Technique (1/1) Level 21 – Vigor (1/1) Level 22 – Circling Shadows (1/2) Level 23 – Circling Shadows (2/2) Level 24 – Masked Assault (1/1) Level 25 – Profundity (1/3) Level 26 – Profundity (2/3)…
TOR TV: False Emperor Hard Mode – 2 Man
The False Emperor takes place right after the Battle of Ilum and your faction obtaining Darth Severin’s stealth fighter. Your party uses this to invade Darth Malgus’s space station in order to take the fight to him. MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD! Do not watch this unless you are ready to have the higher levels of Star Wars: The Old Republic shown to you!! Fappy and Dreary of the Krath Server walk you through the False Emperor flashpoint in SWTOR — 2 MAN!
The Guild Sphere: Imperium
Today I had the chance to talk with Council Member Kirai from the guild Imperium. Imperium is a hardcore guild that does pve and pvp very frequently – pritty much all week. Currently The guild is close to 300 members and have been around since pre-release on the Krath-US West server. The guild Have an awesomely designed guild site (imperiumtor.com) and are currently working on getting an podcast running. Check out the interview below: Where did your guilds name come from? Latin for Power to command Can you give me a quick 2-3 sentance description of your guild? Large, pantless, hardcore raiding guild, we run 3 raid groups almost every day of the week and have a pvp squad as well. Were laid back when not raiding but while raiding its no-bull shit zone and meaningless stuff isn’t tolerated. Otherwise were a fun entertaining guild all above 18+ one of…
Memes of the week: February 20 – 26
Memes like “Advice Animals” and “Rage Comics” have been big part of social media the last year. On some websites like Tumblr and Reddit they have become so big that many is starting to find them annoying. Some might ague that subreddits have been destroyed by the amount of these memes being submitted. Examples of now useless subreddits is r/gaming and r/wow. Many reddit moderators have therefor taken a stand against these memes. This includes the moderators on r/swtor . This action is both good and bad, as might keep the subreddit way more clean and easy to navigate, but it also goes against the nature of reddit, and many good jokes never get to see the light of the day. So tarting today, we will bring you a weekly recap of memes that you never got to see. Philosoraptor on SWTOR: By AppleJuiceCookies Unimpressed Sith. By donnymocker Saw this odd glitch last night. By Novogrod The truth about death in SWTOR: By captapocalypse Regarding…
TOR TV: PTR Patch 1.1.5 – Showing New Crystals, Shader Settings, /Random, & Speeder Price Reduction
This video shows the new PTR Patch 1.1.5 changes where /random functionality, new high-end preorder crystals, very low shader complexity were added and high end speeder costs were reduced. This video was created on February 24th, 2012, the same day the patch was released to the PTR. Any future changes are not reflected within. This is an additional change featured in PTR patch 1.1.5 that showcases the unnamed crystal vendor as well as the items sold by the vendor. This video was created on February 24th, 2012, the same day the patch was released to the PTR. Any future changes are not reflected within.
1.1.4 Patch Notes — 2/22/2012
BioWare patched the game a day later then normal this time. We are all used to patches coming on Tuesdays, but for some reason the company chose today to bring the game up to version 1.1.4. Here are the full patch notes: General The key formerly bound to /bug can now be mapped to any action and no longer opens the /bug window. The command is no longer able to be bound to a quickslot, but player can still type /bug in chat to open a new bug report. Classes and Combat General Using abilities with indirect targeting (such as area of effect abilities) will no longer cause players to be flagged for PvP if a PvP-flagged player from the opposing faction is within the ability’s range, and the ability will have no effect on the PvP-flagged player. Imperial Agent Operative Medical Therapy: Kolto Probe and Recuperative nanotech will now properly benefit from this skill….
New BioWare video: A Look At Star Wars: The Old Republic
BioWare have just released a brand new video entitled ” A Look At The Old Republic” This video is properly meant to be used for marketing purposes more then for giving game updates for the players. It’s still a fun view, even though it doesn’t contain any new information for veteran players. Check it out below: Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ has been an incredible hit, becoming the fastest-selling MMO of all time with over a million players starting their own Star Wars™ saga in the first 24 hours! See for yourself what just a few of these players have to say about their experiences with the game in this new video!
SWTOR Smuggler Gunslinger PVE/Leveling Build With Step By Step Point Allocation
Swtorsavior have released a new pve leveling build. This build is for the Smuggler using the Gunslinger advanced class in SWTOR. It is a PVE leveling build and as mentioned in the video is a good base if you want a solid leveling build as a Smuggler. As always I will recommend you to get the guide to get the full advantage of all swtorsavior.com amazing features. It is available right here.
Jedi Knight Guardian Leveling Build – Step By Step Point Allocation From 1-50
It’s time for us to showcase a new leveling build from swtorsavior. Since we have had complains about only showing Sith leveling builds, we will do a republic build today. Please don’t hate the messenger with these builds, as we are not the creators – the guys over at swtorsavior takes all the fame for that. This is a leveling build for the Jedi Knight Guardian advanced class and i give you a good basic leveling build that you can use. This is by no means set in stone as you will find your play style but when you are starting the game and looking to level a Guardian this should help you out. 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.
TOR TV: Chocolate Daddy
Laxon from the danish guild Danish Guardians, has created this amusing little dance video. I came by the video over at swtor.dk were they also feature a short interview with the creator.  The video is all shot ingame and is an answer to all the “let’s play swtor” videos on youtube. Both the creator and me agree on that we need more creative and amusing videos rather then all the “watch me play SWTOR” video. Check it out below, and read the interview( in Danish) over at swtor.dk 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
Sith Warrior Marauder Leveling Build 10-50 Point Allocation
Here is a new build from the swtorsavior.com guys. This is a leveling build for the Marauder advanced class in SWTOR. Although by no means perfect if you are new to the game it will set you off on the right foot and I have used this one with great results. 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.
The Guild Sphere: Republic Misfits
Today I had the chance to interview Judgepayne and Tali from the republic guild “Republic Misfits”. The guild plays on the U.S. East Mind Trick – PvE server.  Right now the guild are looking to expand their roster with more 50s for Operations and PvP. They are in need of: two level 50 tanks (Vanguards), four 50 RDPS, and two 50 healers. Check out the interview below: Where did your guilds name come from? Battlefield 3 I think, it was a brainchild of Asst. GM mf-jones. What is a 2-3 sentence description of the guild? I’d describe us as a laid back, but serious guild that’s just looking to have a good time. We have the devotion of helping others in the guild rank up/get better gear, along with focusing on our weekly raids and hardmodes. How did your guild come about?. We started as a group of real life friends who…
TOR TV: SWTOR Horror.
Youtube use phpalph made this horror movie of a player waking up at the fleet – all alone – but with the all time most annoying droid in the SWTOR universe to keep you company. The moovie was shot on the server Frostclaw. It has Heavy/Very Heavy population during peak times, but was shot in the morning on a more empty part of the fleet. 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: Unnecessary Bleeps in Star Wars: The Old Republic
In today’s TOR TV, we Bring you the brilliant idea of Jimmy Kimmel’s segment “Unnecessary censorship” to the world of video games. For people who don’t know what Unnecessary Censorship is, it refers to the practice of adding censor bleeps, mosaic blurs or black bars to source materials that were neither profane or explicit to begin with. The bleeps are typically dubbed over words to make it sound as if they were explicit. Mosaic blurs and black bars are placed over people, objects, or text to make it appear as if they are covering up pornographic or explicit material. Some times that makes not funny things hilarious. Judge for yourself: 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
1.1.3 Patch Notes — 2/14/2012
It’s Tuesday and BioWare have once again had their weekly server maintenance. Servers are back up now -way earlier then promised for the 3 week in a row. You can check out the latest patch notes below.  Classes and Combat General Surge rating has been re-balanced. It now reaches diminishing returns the same way as other damage ratings, and its per point damage contribution has been reduced by approximately 10%. Bounty Hunter Mercenary Arsenal Stabilizers: Correctly adds pushback resistance to Unload. Trooper Commando Gunnery Steadied Aim: Correctly adds pushback resistance to Full Auto. Companion Characters General Some taxis that failed to re-summon companions upon reaching their destination now properly re-summon them. Companions no longer indicate they wish to speak with you when you are not yet eligible for their next conversation. If a player is invited to a nearly full group and declines, that player is no longer prevented from summoning a companion. Crew…
Sith Warrior Juggernaut Leveling Build – Step By Step Point Allocation
As we continue showcasing SWTOR builds from swtorsavior.com. we now have a Sith Warrior build for you.  This is a level 10-50 leveling build for the Sith Warrior Juggernaut class. If you are new to SWTOR and are looking to level fast with this class then this build should help you. We don’t claim that it is perfect as with the builds they are down to personal preference but again if you are new to the game you will be able to use this one to get you started. 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.
The Guild Sphere: Relapse
 Starting off this week, we have a new guild itnerview for you. This time I had the chance to speak with Audentia from the guild Relapse that plays Republic on the EU server Kai-Kan. Relapse is PVE guild and has more or less down the hole game. Check out the interview below: Where did your guilds name come from? Relapse: To fall or slide back into a former state. To regress after partial recovery from illness. To slip back into bad ways; backslide. All our members are ex-raiders from other mmo’s. We believe it’s an appropriate name because hardcore raiding, and the game in general, feels like we are slipping back into bad (but very engaging and enjoyable) habits. Can you give me a quick 2-3 sentence description of your guild? Relapse is a (semi-)hardcore raiding guild on Kai-Kan EU. Even though we play on a server that was opened during…
TOR TV: Sith Trifecta
Youtube user rovon2501 created a little tribute video to the leveling of three characters from 1-50 together. All 3 toons are all members of “Hate Machine” the Imperial side of Begeren. The video is incredibly smooth, well produced, and excellently narrated. I think the little in-jokes and carefully balanced approach is what makes the movie so effective. 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