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Things I learned while leveling my alts
This might not be rocket science, but here is a few tips and tricks I learned while leveling my alts. When you make an alt, you will probably look for ways to level without doing entire planets that you already did on your main. One of the biggest complaints about this game that I see is travel time. Companion quests, space missions, warzone daily quests, and flashpoint daily quests are attractive since you can get tons of EXP for basically doing little to anything at all and with 0 travel time. In fact, you can do all 4 of those things while being docked at the fleet. Mail to an alt on the same faction is instant, even if you’re sending items. Edit: you can send mail with items/credits to your cross faction alts. In normal mode flashpoints, the game seems to have a bias to drop items for the basic…
How to Level Fast in the Double XP Weekend
Double XP weekend is here again and this is a great time to level up any alts or get your main toon to max level, or bring in friends and family over the holidays and help them get leveled up to max as well. If you take advantage of all the potential experience boosts, you could be looking at: So you’re looking at… 100% for base xp gain +20% for being a subscriber +10% for being in a guild +25% with a boost multiplied by 2 for the XP weekend You also get double the legacy xp perks for pvp and class missions. I believe the number was 310% for that and even higher with guild bonus. Sub bonus was already accounted for so you’re looking at: 100 + 25 (xp boost) + 30 (legacy perk) + 10 (guild bonus) * 2 = 330% With a potential for 330%, you…
‘Star Wars’ Coming To Disneyland?
How cool would it be if you could walk through a re-creation of the Millennium Falcon? There are new reports coming out that guests to California’s Disneyland just might get one of the coolest dreams ever for a Star Wars fan- the chance to walk through a life-sized replica of the Millennium Falcon! MTV reports on these upcoming changes at the popular theme park: Two of the main additions to the park would be a spaceport that could host a very famous ship and a dining and entertainment area made to look like the cantina on Tattooine from the original “Star Wars” movie. MiceAge gave a short description for what parkgoers can expect from the spaceport area: “What’s a landing pad without a spaceship, right? The craft that will have landed there won’t be any old spaceship however, but will be the famous Millennium Falcon that…
Public Test Server Unavailable: 2.4 Testing Concluded
Amber took the Forums yesterday informing the community that the test servers will be taking down. It looks like we are close to Game update 2.4 Ladies and gentlemen. The announced date for game update 2.4? Is also October 1st I believe. Below are the announcement: Greetings Testers! This morning marks the conclusion of Game Update 2.4 PTS testing. The server will soon become unavailable until further notice. Thank you all for your participation, bug reports, and feedback!
World’s Greatest Star Wars Collection Certified by Guinness
Do you think you’re one of the biggest Star Wars fans in the world? You might rethink that when you see Rancho Obi-Wan, in Petaluma, California, which has over 300,000 Star Wars themed artifacts. This is officially the largest Star Wars collection known to exist on the planet. And it’s no surprise really that something this big and amazing would exist- the Star Wars franchise has inspired a lot of fans who spend most of their lives collecting memorabilia and more. Cnet.com tells us about it: Guinness granted official world-record status to Rancho Obi-Wan, longtime Lucasfilm employee Steve Sansweet’s Petaluma, Calif., collection of “Star Wars” memorabilia: The super fan who is currently able to lay claim to that title is Steve Sansweet, a journalist and author, and president of Rancho Obi-Wan, a non-profit museum in Petaluma, northern California that houses his collection of an estimated 300,000 unique “Star Wars” items….
Win a Darth Malgus Premium Format™ Figure from YN and SSC
Here’s a really cool fall giveaway that we just have to tell you about! If you’re a Star Wars fan, you want to get in on this right now for your chance to win. Yodasnews.com and Sideshow Collectibles have this great giveaway with a grand prize of a Darth Malgus Premium Format™ Figure by Sideshow Collectibles! The giveaway starts today (9/16/2013) and runs for two weeks, ending on 9/29/13 at 11:59pm EST. If you want to get in yourself, there are three different ways you can enter. You are welcome to enter for each of the three (for a maximum of 3 total entries) but only once for each. Multiple entries will void all entries. Please read carefully below on how to enter. This from Yodasnews about the ways to enter: Gain 1 Entry – First, Like our page, then LIKE and SHARE this Face Book image Note: All 3 Tasks (Like our Face…
Star Wars The Old Republic “The Return” – Behind The Scenes – Motion Capture
Here is a pretty cool video we stumbled upon. While it’s not new, it’s new to us and this is some really awesome stunt skills at work. It’s really cool to see how this all comes together in motion capture. We can only hope that the new Star Wars films will have some really awesome fight scenes like this. Credits: Stunt /Fight Coordinated By Philip Silvera Rigger Joe Ross Equipment Sponsored By Action Factory Stunt/Motion Capture Performers Melissa Barker Roberto Gutierrez Eric Linden Steven Oyoung Derron Ross Joe Ross Philip Silvera Jade Quon
Maintenance: September 19th, 2013 – Patch 2.3.3a
EDIT: Maintenance: September 19th, 2013 [CANCELLED] BioWare will be taking down the servers tomorrow and push a small patch. Below you can read Ambers forum post and the new patch notes. Today , 01:47 PM | #1 This is the last staff post in this thread. QUOTE On September 19th, all game servers will be unavailable while we perform maintenance. Patch 2.3.3a will be implemented during this downtime. Details are as follows: >Date: Thursday September 19th, 2013 Duration: 2 hours Time: 3AM PDT (10AM UTC) – 5AM PDT (12PM UTC) Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™. 2.3.3a Patch Notes General Corrected an issue that caused poor performance on CZ-198. Space Combat Taspan Ambush (Imperial)/ Syvris Evacuation (Rep): Player starships will no longer be smashed by an asteroid preventing the completion of these missions.
Electronic Arts names Andrew Wilson new CEO
Electronic Arts named sports and digital games division head Andrew Wilson its new chief executive on Tuesday, filling the top job after a six-month search to replace John Riccitiello. Wilson took over EA Sports in August 2011 and has been with the company for 11 years. “I envision EA as the World’s Greatest Games Company,” Wilson said. “This is not about what we are aiming for or what we will become. Rather, it is about an unfaltering commitment to what we will be every day. This is an attitude that must drive our culture as one team.” “I also believe EA’s strategy is sound. Our focus on our talent, our brands and our platform together with our investment in next-generation consoles, mobile and PC free-to-play, as part of our ongoing transition to digital, is right. But we have plenty of work ahead to ensure our collective success.”” Wilson, 39, will…
Class Representatives Update!
Eric Musco Has taken on the forums, to update the community regarding the future of the Class Representatives. Since BioWare have not yet made any actual class changes since the initiative began, the dev team have chosen to put the class Rep initiative on hiatus after the Assassin/Merc answers. This will go on until their next set of class changes that apparently comes with game update 2.5. Does this mean that Game update 2.5 will be a mini update? Who knows. The Forums are going mad about how this is the end of the game and all – You know how it always goes. Personally don’t care one bit about this. Always thought the Class Reps system wasn’t much more than a way to placate the uber-whiners on the forums with a “yes, we’re listening to you!” bone tossed to them. Eric and the rest of the CM team always will…
Dark and Light Side Guide to SWTOR Farming
If you’ve played SWTOR for even a little bit of time, you know that you will at times be presented with storyline choices that ask you to chose Dark Side or Light Side options in the cutscenes. The game will reward you based on the choices you make. You will earn Dark and Light Side points that you can then use later in the game for rewards, gear and more. Your alignment tree will show in the game and you can see how many points you need to grow in whichever side you choose. The most important thing to remember from the start is that if you don’t pick a side at all, you may end up neutral and therefore, will be unable to wear certain gear and items. I noticed on the very first character I made that when I answered questions naturally, based on the answer I would…
Game Update 2.3.3 Patch Notes 9/17/2013
Servers are down for maintenance, and a new patch will be available when the servers come back up. Patch is about 330 MB. And will include tons of fixes. Some of them has a funny description: Treek and Blizz will no longer attempt to be even shorter by sinking into the floor while on the mission step to “Access the Isotope-5 Storage Tanks”. Below are the complete patchnotes: General Players can now use mounts and vehicles inside all Republic and Imperial bases on Hoth. Varactyl voices no longer carry such that their volume is the same regardless of their distance. Cartel Market New Items The new Bounty Pack, the Pursuer’s Bounty Pack items can now be previewed in Collections. The Pursuer’s Bounty Pack will be available in the Cartel Market on September 26th. Cost: 320 Cartel Coins Players can purchase Hypercrates containing 24 Pursuer’s Bounty Packs on September 26th. (Discounted by 10%…
2.3.3 Maintenance tomorrow
BioWare are taking down the servers tomorrow, Tuesday September 17, to preform maintenance. After that we all need to download Patch 2.3.3. The patch notes are not up yet, but we will ad them as soon as they become available. Below is the original forum update by Amber: On September 17th, all game servers, SWTOR.com, and the launcher will be unavailable while we perform maintenance. Patch 2.3.3 will be implemented during this downtime. Details are as follows: Date: Tuesday September 17th, 2013 Duration: 5 hours Time: 3AM PDT (10AM UTC) – 8AM PDT (3PM UTC) Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.
Gentle Giant Star Wars Darth Malak Statue
YodasNews.com have a new Un-boxing video. This time they take a first look at the Gentle Giant Darth Malak Statue, from the Knights of the old Republic video game. The Statue comes with a removable jaw piece and other cool features. You can check it all out in the movie below:
More ‘Star Wars Pinball’ Later This Fall
If you’re a fan of Star Wars Pinball? Zen Studio has something exciting for you up their sleeve, as they are planning a new installment of Star Wars Pinball. It has been revealed that it will have three new tables that are grouped together under the Balance of the Force banner. It’s a representation of Episodes 1-3. Star Wars Pinball: Balance of the Force arrives later this year on virtually every platform so you can enjoy it for yourself on Xbox Live, PS Network, Steam, Apple, Google Play, the Wii U, Mac App Store, Win 8 and even the Kindle Fire. You can experience the power of the dark side like never before with the Darth Vader table. There’s also a Return of the Jedi themed table to enjoy. And you can choose to support the Rebel Alliance Fleet or the Galactic Empire’s Armada. While we don’t know what the…
Game Update 2.4: The Dread War and A Record of the Dread Masters
With game update 2.4 we finally get to see the conclusion on the epic Dread War and what will happen to the Dread Masters. BioWare posted a new Developer Blog about what we can expect plus a new Journal entry by Master Gnost Dural, were he accounts of the Dread Masters. Unfortunately this is not a recorded video like the old Galactic Timeline Records we saw before the game was launched. It’s still a great read though. Check out the Developer Blog here and the Journal entry by Master Gnost Dural here. CONFRONT THE DREAD MASTERS AND COMPETE IN THE WARZONE ARENAS OF DEATH! Get ready to team up with allies to confront the powerful and terrifying Dread Masters, and prepare to compete in new arenas of death coming in Game Update 2.4: The Dread War! – Withstand the fires of Oricon, a new story mission area where the Dread Masters plot to…
TOR TV: Patch 2.4 Video Coverage – GTN Improvements
Gaddock Teeg takes a look at the quality of life improvements made to the Galactic Trade Network, now available on the Patch 2.4 PTS. Game really does keep getting better. Players can now use Shift + Left Click with the cursor in the search box of the GTN to add the name of the item. BioWare also added a sortable “Unit Price” column to the GTN Window, which will display the listed item’s price-per-unit. The GTN now auto completes with the price and duration of a player’s last posted auction. In addition, the last price will be remembered on a per-unit basis. i.e. If a player puts 1 med pack up for 10 credits, and their next auction is a stack of 20 med packs (the same type as before) it will auto complete 200 credits (10 credits for 1 x 20 = 200). The remembered price and duration are…
Join the Battle – Official Live Action Video!
I guess most people already seen this video before, but it’ still so god damn cool. Good work BioWare. Everytime I see a real person and hear a lightsaber ignite, I just want to believe it’s real. This video was original one of their “hidden” promotional videos at E3 2012, and was shown again at Gamescom 2012 were we covered it. For some reason though, BioWare just re released it, and it is now available on the official swtor youtube site. Check it out:
Star Wars Episode VII Rumor Roundup
It’s been awhile since we gave you a good Star Wars Episode VII Rumor Roundup and we have a couple of good ones for you this week. Rumor: Construction Of The Millennium Falcon Is Underway For Episode VII – Star Wars Underworld brings us this interesting rumor of Star Wars VII. We know that production for this film is under way but a lot of info about it is still being kept secret, as is expected from a franchise as popular as Star Wars. But a recent rumor says it might be farther along in the process than we think: In an article primarily about J.J Abrams’ presumed Star Wars upgrades to the Bad Robot facilities in California, the Latino Review’s Kellvin Chavez mentions that everyone’s favorite ‘hunk of junk’, the Millennium Falcon, is currently being constructed at Pinewood studios in London. Here’s what Chavez had to say: “…I’ve been told that the…
Patch 2.4 coming October 1? Summer of SWTOR Update
New info is out today about the Summer of SWTOR Update, Patch 2.4. We also have reason to believe that this means the new PvP Warzone Arenas are coming soon. The devs said it would come with the Summer of SWTOR Update on October first, which means we are only a couple of weeks away now. It’s always great to see Bioware (or any MMO developer, actually) creating new content and finding new ways to get and keep the players interested in the game. But will this be enough to hold the interest of players who are getting bored with SWTOR? Are you excited to see the new content and PvP arenas? SWTOR is also implementing BitRaider streaming so new players can check out the game for a trial without having to do a really big, long download. Bruce Maclean, Senior Producer posted this to the official SWTOR forums: Hello everyone!…
Appearance Designer Sale! – 50% off your plastic surgery
Eric posted the news that there will be a big sale on Appearance Design for the next 10 days. This means you get 50% off your plastic surgery! Now we all want to know what happens when you change your species before finishing Chapter 3? Do you unlock the former species you had when you originally created your character or the one you are currently appear as? Hey folks, Over the next ten days, starting tomorrow, we are going to be offering a 50% off sale within the Appearance Designer! Here are the details: Start: 11 AM CDT Friday, September 13th End: 11 AM CDT Monday, September 23rd The Sale: All Appearance Designer changes and Appearance options will be 50% off. Note that subscribers will get this discount in addition to their normal subscriber discount! -eric
Activate a Retail Copy on a Preferred Account for a 30-Day Sub
Back when the Microsoft Store was having it’s deal on copies of SWTOR, many players decided to take advantage of this offer to get a second account or even buy an account for a friend or family member. Some people were asking questions about going from preferred to subscriber status by using a retail box code. The question has been tossed around about whether or not this is possible. Comments were split on whether or not this is possible, with some people saying it was and others saying it was not. So some users tested it. If you have not subscribed before, and you buy the retail box and activate it, you can get the 30-day sub for free. After the 30-day period, the game will then place you as a Preferred player. But the magic question is will it work if you have already subbed before? It doesn’t seem…
SWTOR-Mined: Latest 2.4 PTS Build from 9/11/13 (spoilers within)
We now have more info from swtor_miner on the latest 2.4PTS data mined info. As always, there are some spoilers within so don’t read if you don’t want anything potentially leaked. And as always, keep in mind that there is no guarantee any of this is accurate. It’s not official SWTOR/Bioware news. We don’t know what will change between now and when it goes live. Here is the info as shared on Reddit: Well, I finally got time to do a teardown of the latest PTS Patch Raw GOM Additions/Removals New Item Names & Descriptions Note: I think the Varactyl Descriptions are from an old template, as they are currently in the Cartel Market category. So, don’t assume you’ll be able to tame them! Full Item properties – Same note as above. New Abilities All the changes to current abilities were to icons, the new operations, and changing the Seeker Droid Boosts to…