Tait Watson have been active on the official forums regarding Bolstered mods. Bolster was designed to replace Recruit gear because lets face it… Recruit gear sucked. It sucked for the people wearing it and it sucked for the people on their team because they were essentially a free kill. The best fix for Bolster imo is to remove it completely from 55 Warzones. Bam, PvP gear instantly is BiS. But what about the fresh 55? Right now Obroan (67) is the top tier of PvP gear, and Conqueror (65) is second. Add a third tier by bringing back Partisan (63), and have it cost 1 credit. Let people min/max Partisan as the “introductory” gear. Full min/max Partisan with augments will put you around 28k hp. Full min/max Conqueror will put you around 30k hp. Full min/max Obroan with augments will put you around 31.5k. Genuine gear progression without being as…
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2014 Community Cantina Tour Locations
BioWare’s Courtney Woods updated the forum community with a list of locations the Community Cantina Tour will be visiting through out 2014. Below is the list of locations as well as the estimated date time frame for the events. When we come closer to the event they will post a blog with further details for that Cantina Tour – until then these are subject to change! Atlanta, GA – February 28th Boulder, CO – March 21-23rd Boston, MA (PAX East) – April 11-13th Vancouver, Canada – May 23-25th Los Angeles, CA (E3) – June 10-12th San Diego, CA (SDCC) – July 24-27th Cologne, Germany (Gamescom) – August 13-17th Seattle, WA (PAX Prime) – August 30th – September 2nd New York, NY (NYCC) – October 9-12th Las Vegas, NV – November 7-9th Austin, TX – November 21-23rd It’s interesting til notice they only will visit Europe once, and no meetings a…
The Annals of Star Wars: Pre-Republic Era
13,000,000,000 BBY: The Big Bang, the galaxy is formed. According to most sources, the galaxy was 120,000 light years across, and had a supermassive black hole at its core. The galaxy was orbited by 7 satellite galaxies (Aurek, Besh, Cresh, Dorn, Esk, Forn, and Grek), most being described as having ancient, metal-rich remnants of stars but little life. A hyperspace disturbance on the perimeter of the galaxy prevented hyperspace travel into extra-galatic space. 5,000,000,000 – 2,000,000 BBY: Life emerges In this period of time, over 180 billion stars had formed planets that could support life. 10% eventually developed life, while intelligent life formed on 1/1,000 of these worlds. It was estimated that only 1 billion systems were eventually populated. These populations consisted of a wide array of creatures such as the Gorothites, Chevin, pre-arboreal Wookiees and many many others. 2,000,000 BBY: The Oracle is built on the world of Pelgrin…
George Lucas Wanted Boba Fett to Lead Star Wars 1313
I Think most people agree with me that Star Wars 1313 could have been an awesome game. Everything about it just looked so cool. But unfortunately we all know the game will never happened. Mainly due to poor management by Lucasarts. Today we learned some more about what happened behind the scenes. Just a few weeks before Star Wars 1313 was official announced, George Lucas himself told the developers he wanted the game to be about Boba Fett and not the protagonist we saw at E3. This of course created some what of a dilemma, as there were no Boba Fess assets ready before the public got a first glimpse of the game. Check out this great write-up over at Game Informer the downfall of “Star Wars 1313″ and LucasArts, headlined “Fall Of The Empire: How Inner Turmoil Brought Down LucasArts.” Here’s an excerpt about Boba Fett in particular being…
Class Changes Coming in Game Update 2.7
BioWare is putting massive amount of energy in balancing out the classes in the next patch. The forums are actively discussing and most people are happy. Smash will get nerfed, snipers get a boost to shield probe and and evasion will resists everything for three seconds and the list goes on. Below you can find all the yellow posts that have been made on the subject on the forums today. What do you think? Is this good or bad news? Let us know in the comments below. Hey folks! As you may have seen me mention yesterday, our goal today was to post some of the class changes that are coming in Game Update 2.7. Below you will find links to individual threads for each class that is currently receiving changes in 2.7. I want to stress that this is not a comprehensive list of all of the class changes…
Get your own Lucky-77 Swoop Speeder for being a Subscriber!
BioWare is in a good mood, and is giving away bonus stuff for it’s subscribers! If you are a subscriber on on March 18, 2014, you will be gifted a new mount. That’s right! BioWare is giving away the new Lucky-77 Swoop speeder with a unique gold and green color combination and a chance to pop a new animation that tosses holographic coins everywhere – if you are a subscriber that is. Check out the announcement below: Here is the announcement: Get your own Lucky-77 Swoop Speeder for being a Subscriber! 02.12.2014 We’re giving away the new Lucky-77 Swoop speeder to all of our Subscribers on March 18, 2014! With a unique gold and green color combination, the exclusive Lucky-77 has a chance to hit the jackpot when summoned, kicking off a fun animation that tosses holographic coins everywhere. Speed into the galaxy and be a Subscriber by March 17,…
TOR TV: Opening 24x Galactic Ace’s Starfighter Packs
Remember that video with the guy opening 24x Dogfighter’s Starfighter Packs? Well, the guy have done it again. This time he opens 24x Galactic Ace’s Starfighter Packs. What goodies will Kranitoko find inside the Galactic Ace’s packs? Check it out in the video below: If you are interested in the new emotes and items found in this new Cartel Pack. Dulfy got your covered. Check out her latest videos showing All emotes and moods from Galactic Ace’s Starfighter Pack <i
PSA: Shipment 1 Cartel Packs Hypercrate leaving the Cartel Market today
Cory Butler posted a tweet confirming that the Hypercrate of Shipment 1 Cartel Packs will be removed from the Cartel Market today. The Hypercrate contains 6 Crime Lord’s, 6 Blockade Runner’s, 6 Skip Tracer’s, and 6 Space Pirate’s packs and has the hefty price of 7680 Cartel Coins. Below is the tweet from Cory: Shipment 1 Hypercrate going away tomorrow. @SWTOR #CartelMarket — Cory Butler (@BlazeofCory) February 10, 2014 Later he confirmed it will be back some other time: @Jakkeez @SWTOR it’ll be back… one day. No time soon though. — Cory Butler (@BlazeofCory) February 11, 2014 For older players this should mean the respective crates will become more valuable on the market for a while.
SWTOR 2.6a Patch Notes
Servers are back up after today’s maintenance and here are the patch notes. Personally I was hoping they would fix the warzone scoreboard bug with this patch. It’s not a big deal but it’s annoying to try to figure out who on your team or theirs did what. General Performed systems maintenance to assure service reliability. Corrected a texture issue that caused skin to be colored incorrectly when wearing the Relaxed Vestments Chestwraps. Cartel Market The Interstellar Regulator’s Blaster Besh from the Galactic Ace’s Starfighter Pack will now correctly match in-game and in Collections. The Interstellar Regulator’s Blaster Cresh from the Galactic Ace’s Starfighter Pack will now correctly match in-game and in Collections.
SWTOR Podcasts week 6 2014
Even before the Star Wars: The old Republic was live, DarthHater was on the air talking about the game. In time, other early podcasts started up like TorWars, TOROCast, and Corellian Run Radio. Some of these early podcasts are still updating, some have changed subject matter, and others have podfaded. Today, SWTOR has over ten active podcasts produced mostly in English but also French, Russian, Swedish, etc. We have never had our own podcast here on SWTORStrategies, but going forward, we will be posting a weekly update linking you to podcasts with new showes. Below is a list of all active podcast, and below the list you can find shows from this week. What is your favorit podcast? SWTOR-specific podcasts/vodcasts Title Twitter Subscribe Corellian Run Radio @CorellianRun iTunes, RSS Enmity Podcasting @42GamingPodcast iTunes, RSS, YouTube OotiniCast @OotiniCast iTunes, RSS The Republic @gamebreakertv iTunes SWTOR Escape Pod Cast @MaxTheGrey iTunes, RSS SWTOR Reforged @SWTORReforged iTunes, RSS TOROCast…
Community Cantina Tour – Atlanta, GA – 2/28
The date for the next Star Wars: The old Republic Community Cantina is up. BioWare will be visiting Atlanta, GA on February 28. Hopefully this event will give us the first hints on what to expect in game update 2.7. Check out the announcement below. The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina Tour Arrives in Atlanta, GA! 02.07.2014 We’re happy to announce that the next stop in the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Community Cantina Tour will be happening on Friday, February 28th, 2014 in Atlanta! This is your chance to join the Star Wars: The Old Republic community for a development team Q&A as well as complimentary drinks*, food, and giveaways. Every attendee will be receiving a highly coveted Tauntaun Fawn code. Space is limited so be sure to come early. If you’re in the area, make sure to stop by and hang out with us! Venue: The Tabernacle Date:…
Scheduled Maintenance – 2/10/14 – Patch 2.6.0a
BioWare will be taking down the servers tomorrow Monday 2/10/14 to perform some Scheduled Maintenance. Patch 2.6a will be implemented during this downtime. Details are as follows: Date: Monday February 10th, 2014 Duration: 2 hours Time: 3AM PST (11AM GMT) – 5AM PST (1PM GMT) Time Zone Start Time Scheduled End Time UTC Offset HST Mon Feb 10, 2014 01:00 AM Mon Feb 10, 2014 03:00 AM -10 hours AKST Mon Feb 10, 2014 02:00 AM Mon Feb 10, 2014 04:00 AM -9 hours PST Mon Feb 10, 2014 03:00 AM Mon Feb 10, 2014 05:00 AM -8 hours MST Mon Feb 10, 2014 04:00 AM Mon Feb 10, 2014 06:00 AM -7 hours CST Mon Feb 10, 2014 05:00 AM Mon Feb 10, 2014 07:00 AM -6 hours EST Mon Feb 10, 2014 06:00 AM Mon Feb 10, 2014 08:00 AM -5 hours UTC Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:00 AM Mon Feb 10, 2014…
MMORPG – Interview w/ Jeff Hickman & Bruce Maclean
MMORPG.Com had the chance to interview Jeff Hickman & Bruce Maclean from BioWare, about Star Wars: The old republic. The article contains lots of new great info, and here is the most imortant information from the article put together by Thrives: *Both warzones and GSF will see updates, GSF in the form of new maps, new ship roles, and new ships, new Huttball arena (Quesh), will be a more vertical/three dimensional space to maneuver through. *Class combat team is very busy. *They offered the interview because of her previous article, the slightly negative F2P review posted here a few weeks ago. They disagreed, responses from player with no prior SWTOR experience were characterized as ‘generally super positive’, they have metrics to support this statement. Subscribers are their priority but they’re always looking for opportunities to improve the F2P experience. *Interviewer thought the tour stops weren’t a huge opportunity to ‘drop some…
Phoenix Community Cantina Flash-drive Contents
We know we are late with this story, due to a misunderstanding we are posting it a few days late. But here goes. BioWare had one of there infamous SWTOR Community Cantina’s this last weekend. At the event new info was released as well as alot of hints of what might be comming. Housing stevebelt asked about player housing, and while the verbal answer was of the “that’s a good idea” variety, judging by his not-so-wry smile and general body language, I’d say it’s almost a certainty they are working on player housing. In his question he made a note of how ripe for CM player housing content was, and the smiling/nodding only got bigger. Based on this, I would be completely stunned if we don’t see player housing in 2014. New Story At the Cantina they said that a new story arc would begin with the 2.7 update, and would…
Game Update 2.6: Galactic Starfighter
Today’s patchnotes are up, and this is a big one. The higlights this time are as following: Galactic Starfighter Now Available For All Players! – Galactic Starfighter is now available for Free-To-Play, Preferred, and Subscription players! Choose your ship role and help your fellow pilots in 12 vs.12 Battles. Click the Hangar icon next to your minimap to jump into the cockpit now! New Galactic Starfighter Ship Role: Bomber – The Bomber ship role has been added to Galactic Starfighter, with six new ships available for unlock/purchase! Bombers are tough support ships that drop mines and drones throughout the battlefield. Mines detonate when enemies get into proximity, inflicting damage or crippling debuffs to all nearby foes. Drones attack nearby enemies with a variety of weapons, while Repair Drones restore the hull of nearby allies. Bombers can also place Hyperspace Beacons which function as mobile respawn points for their allies. New Galactic Starfighter…
Scheduled Maintenance: February 4th – Patch 2.6
BioWare will be taking down the servers this Tuesday February 4th to preform Scheduled Maintenance, and add patch 2.6. My Merc healer can’t wait, but my Sniper can… and my Assassin is in the corner waving his glowstick going “Hey guys, what about me!?” Grieve with me, fellow Smugglers and Agents, for on that fateful date, we shall find our premiere AoE damage ability neutered into uselessness. Here is the server droid announcement: ServerDroid Scheduled Maintenance: February 4th | 01.31.2014, 04:57 PM On February 4th, all game servers, SWTOR.com, and the launcher will be unavailable while we perform scheduled maintenance. Game Update 2.6 will be implemented during this downtime. Details are as follows: Date: Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 Duration: 5 hours Time: 2AM PST (9AM GMT) – 7AM PST (2PM GMT) During maintenance, all updates and additional information will be posted on our Twitter account. Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The…
SWTOR Sith Warrior Juggernaut Leveling Build For 2.5
CJ from from swtorsavior.com send over a new leveling build. This time it’s for the Sith Warrior Juggernaut. For players who prefer to jump into a fight head first and with reckless abandon, then perhaps the Sith Warrior is the class for them. Quick, powerful and ruthless, the Sith Warrior is a flurry of lightsaber slashes and stabs, leaving a trail of bodies behind him. The Juggernaut advanced class can withstand any attack unleashed upon him. In this article, we will look into the Juggernaut advanced class and explore his various skill trees, abilities and everything in between. Here are some rotations you can use: Single Target: Sundering Assault > Obliterate > Smash > Force Crush > Force Choke > Vicious Throw > Force Scream > Ravage > Saber Throw Try and use Saber Throw or Assault if you fall below 7 rage. You can use Obliterate to activate Dominate. You can use Force…
Limited Early Access To Star Wars Assault Team Mobile Device Game
Disney Interactive posted an update regarding Star Wars Assault Team – A new Mobile Device Game. The game will have a limited early release in select international on iOs and Android devices. They also revealed that the game is a “turn-based combat game for mobile devices with strategy and card-battle elements. Disney Interactive, in partnership with LucasArts, has announced limited early access to Star Wars™: Assault Team, a new turn-based combat game for mobile devices with strategy and card-battle elements. Collect classic characters from the Rebel Alliance and more to defeat enemies and players across the galaxy. Strategically deploy the team’s special tactics to battle through new graphically enhanced missions set throughout Star Wars™planets and locations from the original trilogy. Star Wars: Assault Team’s limited early access is being offered in select international markets on iOS and Android with the game rolling out globally this spring for iOS, Android and…
Cartel Market sales: week 05 2014
Here are this weeks bargains and good deals on the cartel market: Sales Ashfall Tauntaun (3,600 CC 2,400 CC 20% off) TZ-24 Enforcer (1,800 CC 1,440 CC 20% off) TZ-24 Gladiator (1,800 CC 1,440 CC 20% off) MA-25 Forward Ops Chestplate (150 CC 50 CC 66% off) Vintage Republic Military Armor Set (1,200 CC 600 CC 50% off) Stalward Protector Armor Set 1,440 CC 576 CC 60% off) 5-Pack: Major Starfigher Experience Boost (240 CC 180 CC 25% off) Hypercrates Wont be on this list unless they have more than a 10% discount. Apparently bundles also don’t change sale prices so they wont be on the list. If I there is a sale that’s not on this list please let me know and I will add it. New Items VX-9 Mailoc (1,800 CC) – Gunship for the Imperials VX-9 Redeemer (1,800 CC) – Gunship for the Republic Dogfighter’s Starfighter Pack…
SWTOR Podcasts week 5
Even before the Star Wars: The old Republic was live, DarthHater was on the air talking about the game. In time, other early podcasts started up like TorWars, TOROCast, and Corellian Run Radio. Some of these early podcasts are still updating, some have changed subject matter, and others have podfaded. Today, SWTOR has over ten active podcasts produced mostly in English but also French, Russian, Swedish, etc. We have never had our own podcast here on SWTORStrategies, but going forward, we will be posting a weekly update linking you to podcasts with new showes. Below is a list of all active podcast, and below the list you can find shows from this week. What is your favorit podcast? SWTOR-specific podcasts/vodcasts Title Twitter Subscribe Corellian Run Radio @CorellianRun iTunes, RSS Enmity Podcasting @42GamingPodcast iTunes, RSS, YouTube OotiniCast @OotiniCast iTunes, RSS The Republic @gamebreakertv iTunes SWTOR Escape Pod Cast @MaxTheGrey iTunes, RSS SWTOR Reforged @SWTORReforged iTunes, RSS TOROCast…
New Star Wars Assault Team Mobile Device Game announced
Lucasfilm just announced via the official Star Wars Twitter account, a new Star Wars video game coming to iOS, Android, and Windows 8 devices. The game will be titled ‘Star Wars: Assault team, and is due for a release sometime this spring. Prepare your mobile devices! Star Wars: Assault Team is rolling out for #iOS, @Android & #Win8 devices this spring. pic.twitter.com/UoW9yHYH5P — Star Wars (@starwars) January 28, 2014 It’s unknown who the developer of this game is, but this is the second game Lucasfilm and Disney announced since Lucasarts was shut down. The fist game was Star Wars: Attack Squadrons that was announced back in December. While EA have the rights to all Star Wars video games for console and computers Disney can develop own Star Wars games or licencing them out on other platform.
Charles Boyd tweets about new voice recording for SWTOR!
2014 looks like it’s going to be a good year for SWTOR! One piece of good news after the next. This time Charles Boyd tweets about new voice recording for the game. If you don’t know who Charles is, he is the lead writer at Bioware Austin for the Trooper class in Star Wars: The Old Republic. The tweet comes with the image above. The guy with the beard is Charles. The other guy looks like Brian Bloom voicing the male Trooper in Star Wars The Old Republic In LA again, recording awesome talent for upcoming #SWTOR updates 🙂 — Charles Boyd (@Charles_Boyd) January 27, 2014 I’d be really thrilled to hear that any of these names were in the studio with him: Brian Bloom, Nolan North, Natasha Little, Maury Sterling, Euan Morton… and 11 other names – That could mean new class story content. On the other hand, could also…
New Article – Flashpoint: Kuat Drive Yards
Senior Designer, on Star Wars: The old Republic, Jesse Sky posted a news article on Kuar Drive Yards, last night. The article describe the new flashpoint for level 15+ players that comes with game update 2.6. This will be a new type of instance that the team is calling a Tactical Flashpoint. The main thing that distinguishes Tactical Flashpoints is that they are role-neutral – in other words, they are balanced for a combination of any four classes. This means Group Finder will match the first four players it finds, which translates into drastically shorter queue times, especially for DPS classes. I’m not sure how I feel about this yet, as I fear there will be no incentives for healing and tanking and you will only perpetuate the issue of a lack ofsupport roles in the long run. Time will tell though. Check out the full article over at the…
Sony to Shut Down Free Realm, Vanguard and Clone Wars
Sony Online Entertainment announced that they be closing down four ongoing MMORPGs: Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Free Realms, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, and Wizardry Online. Free Realms and Clone Wars Adventures servers will shut down on March 31, while Vanguard and Wizardry servers will stop on July 31 Lack of interest is the reason for the Free Realms, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes closures. A Sony representative told Kotaku that all three no longer have the pull they once did. The player population has been decreasing over the years, and it’s just a case of these things happening. However, Sony did not offer a reason for the shutting down of Wizardry Online, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it was for similar reasons. Wizardry isn’t exactly the most popular series around. Michele Cagle wrote in a statement: At Sony Online Entertainment, we are always evaluating our portfolio to ensure…