Are you frustrated that you don’t know what your items will break down into with Reverse Engineering? Are you looking to learn more about SWTOR Reverse Engineering and how it all works? You are in luck because we found this super handy visual guide by Lone Stranger that is a must for any players doing Reverse Engineering. The visual guide is done in flow chart fashion and color coded which allows you to see what is trainable, what artifacts can break down into and differ tier levels as well.We are absolutely thrilled when other players just like us take the time to create charts, guides and visuals like this to help others succeed in the game. Have you created a visual guide for something in SWTOR? Have you stumbled across a really great one and you’re not sure if we’ve featured it on our site? Be sure to shoot us…
Live CSR Agent on Korriban
BioWare is upping the ante on their customer service department. In the early days of launch of SWTOR, there were complaints about the CSR team. Complaints and issues generally took awhile to get answered and many players did not feel satisfied with the level of response they were getting. However, I have to give BioWare props because when they see a problem, they attempt to correct it. Just the other day I had a ticket responded to in less than 3 hours and it was not even an urgent message. They sent me an email about it and when I replied with some additional info, I got a response in 5 minutes. But I’m not the only one experiencing better customer service. This Reddit user had an encounter with a live CSR agent on Korriban and he screencapped the conversation to share. He even got permission to post it on…
SWTOR Subs Stabilize at 1.7 Million
If you’re wondering how many people are actively still playing SWTOR, then recent numbers will interest you. While it’s a been a great month for BioWare with the launch of Mass Effect 3 and the continued success of SWTOR, the numbers show that SWTOR subscriptions have stabilized at 1.7 million. Massively reports: It’s also worth noting that, according to EA’s John Riccitello, the “vast majority” of these active subscribers have already used their 30-day trials, which means most of those 1.7 million subscribers are shelling out $15 per month to play the game. It’ll be interesting to see how these numbers change (or don’t) in the coming months, but for the time being The Old Republic seems to be doing BioWare proud. After the recently released news about patch 1.2 and Game Update 2 for SWTOR, I’m expecting we will see those numbers increase more. There is also the tell-a-friend…
How I Helped Destroy Star Wars Galaxies
Who here played Star Wars Galaxies before SWTOR? I know I am not the only one. We’ve brought you coverage here of SWG and its closing ceremonies but here’s story from a player who says he helped destroy Star Wars Galaxies. What does this mean? What is this all about? In just under 2,000 words, Patrick Desjardins shares his story. He explains: Spring 2002: The first sandbox alpha builds were being tested. Over the course of spring and summer, they got a little more advanced, and I could see the game starting to take shape. I got into the friends and family alpha tests from my involvement in the online community. I made copious suggestions, everything from combat to social aspects. I complained for a week about how the zabrak horns should look. I got involved, deep. One day, I inquired as to how the economy would be structured. The…
Memes of the week: March 5 – March 11
It’s Sunday and time for a new round of “memes of the week”. This time a few non memes (but really funny pictures) got our attention to. I apologize for not adding credits to all images, but its not always possible to find the creators they way we find these images. Everytime I hear C2-N2… By Eutow We need a Georg Zoeller meme. By breetai3 by decoy1686 Everytime I play my alts By Meeha How to react to inquisitor wardrobes Now I understand the Sith. TROLL PREMADE Stacking Surge for newbs Forever Alone level: SWTOR Kaliyo Got Back! Zeschuk is a buzz kill ( not sure I get this one) Love it when this happens by geevz Zoning into Ilum
Patch 1.2 and Guild Summit
If your eager to know what is coming up in swtor, you should check this out! Includes a massive summary of the guild summit. The complete list of the video: We will dive into the patch 1.2 and we will point out a list gathered. and then we move over to the guild summit! So, here is a list of things we’ll see in patch 1.2, this is taken from various Bioware releases through media. PvE New Operation- Explosive Conflict will be the first “Tier 2” raid instance. New Flashpoint – Lost Island Continues where Kaon Under Siege left off. Orange gear will become more viable as end-game gear in the 1.2 update. New Corellia Dailies PvP New Warzone – Novare Coast Ranked Warzones. Will use ELO ranking system for both solo and group play in ranked Warzones Medal Rewards will be capped to try and prevent medal farming. Entry…
SWTOR on Big Bang Theory
If you’re a fan of Big Bang Theory and SWTOR then yourultimate nerd fantasy has come to life as SWTOR makes a cameo in the verypopular show. In TheBig Bang Theory – The Weekend Vortex, the guys decide to have a good,old-fashioned weekend video game fest. Who here hasn’t done that a time or two?(Who here isn’t even reading this article yet because they’re in the middle ofone right now?) So anyway, this episode featuresSheldon having to choose between a prior engagement with his girlfriend, Amy,or a SWTOR gamer fest with his buds. Tough call, right? “48 hours of Stars Wars gaming.” “It’s on like Alderaan!” Thus began their gamer-fest. Evenif you’re not a regular Big Bang Theory watcher, you’ll get a kick out of thisepisode as a SWTOR player. Find out what Sheldon decides and join in for a lotof laughs when you watch this episode for yourself. The…
Jeff Woods Dev Rant
I know the below rant is old, and maby also fake, but reading through the official SWTOR forum, I can understand why developers get fed up, or just have a breakdown. Below rant is from 2004 and was all over the Star Wars galaxies forums back then. There is no evidence that a disillusioned coder working on SWG by the name of Jeff Woods actually existed, but I still laugh out loud when ever I read this jewel of a “Friday update” I think many of us can related to the tone of frustration in this article, that’s what makes it so damn good, hoax or not. Check it out below: Greetings and suck me. I’m Jeff Woods, maintenance programmer for Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided. As a maintenance programmer it is my responsibility to manage existing code, write bug fixes, integrate new code while analyzing its impact on existing functionality and be the brunt…
SWTOR vendors will sell ultra-rare most-wanted white Lightsaber crystals
Remember when players really wanted those ultra-rare white Lightsaber crystals? Lightsaber crystals are one of the most-wanted novelty items in SWTOR. Who doesn’t want to have their own lightsaber? Most Star Wars fans can agree with this one. Now what if you had the option to control what color your lightsaber beam was? Again, most will agree that this is a great feature. But in SWTOR, it’s not as easy as just wishing for a certain color (where is the Force when you really need it?) Instead, you will need to obtain crystals that change your existing lightsaber color to the color of your choice. BioWare has recently revealed the very popular white lightsaber crustal will be available in the game and you can buy it from computer-brained vendors. BioWare revealed this information in a blog post about future game changes. “”In related news, a very limited number of pure white…
Blizzard Lays Off 600- Is SWTOR to Blame?
There has been news just recently that ActiVision Blizzardhad to make some layoffs. They have cut 600 employees from their BlizzardEntertainment Unit, the department that runs the popular MMO, World ofWarcraft. While Blizzard justified that the staff reductions are insync with its current organizational needs, the layoffs have many in the gamingcommunities buzzing about the state of WoW and whether or not other games (suchas SWTOR) are contributing to its decline. You’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone talking about SWTORnot mention WoW. Players, guild leaders and even SWTOR’s own dev team findthemselves slipping up and using WoW terminology when discussing the game. So manyof us played WoW for such a long time (and many still do) that it’s hard not tomake comparisons between the two. However, do these statistics and layoffs mean that SWTOR iskilling WoW? Not directly, no. The game has been on a decline since thebeginning of 2011…
ChewUI Coming Soon!
If you’re as excited as us about the new UI changes andcustomization coming in 1.2 then you will be especially excited about this newsite coming to help you. ChewUI.com was founded by a one man/one womandesign/dev team that want to be able to offer players just like you and me aplace to go to find UI customization, post your own layout and more. The news of the new UI updates and customizable features wasjust released to us at SWTOR Guild Summit in Austin. This is where I met JodiHodges and Patrick Murray of the Black Bisectors (Twin Spears Server). Whenthey announcement was first made that we could customize our UIs and thendownload to an XML file, the wheels started turning for ideas. A website that would allow players to share/upload, downloadand rank other UI customizations is just what this game needs. Maybe you wantto find a good healer UI- go…
SWTOR Trooper Leveling Build – Awesome PVE Build For The Commando With Rotations!
In this post we have another build from Swtorsavior.com and this time we are focusing on the Trooper and the Commando advanced class that makes an excellent healer or ranged DPS. This build is a solid DPS build and if you feel that you are getting fryed too soon with the Trooper while leveling you might want to give this a go! Below you will find the full build and then the point allocation you need as well as rotations: SWTOR Trooper Commando Leveling Build: Point Allocation: Level 10 – Havoc Rounds (1/2) Level 11 – Havoc Rounds (2/2) Level 12 – Ironsights (1/3) Level 13 – Ironsights (2/3) Level 14 – Ironsights (3/3) Level 15 – Steadied Aim (1/3) Level 16 – Steadied Aim (2/3) Level 17 – Steadied Aim (3/3) Level 18 – Muzzle Fluting (1/1) Level 19 – Special Munitions (1/1) Level 20 – Grav Round (1/1)…
665 people worked on Star Wars: The Old Republic
Just how many people does it take to make a great MMORPG? BioWare has revealed the numbers on the team that helped make SWTOR a reality. Not counting the voice actors, 665 people worked on SWTOR. During a GDC panel, the company revealed the breakdown of the team members: 30 Production 75 Designers 80 Engineers 40 Platform 10 Localization 10 Audio 140 Artists (Both internal and outsourced) 280 QA (Both internal and outsourced) The game reportedly cost more than $200 million to make and BioWare says they are excited for what is on the horizon and still yet to come in the game. They have a dedicated team still hard at work making new content for the game. (I got to see this team in action myself at the tour of BioWare Austin this past Monday). It takes a full team of people, all working hard towards the same common…
TOR TV: SWTOR Episode II – The Internet Strikes Back
Khalirei the Creator of “SWTOR Episode I – A NEW MEME” has finally made a sequel to his first EPIC Machinima, But Warning: This time it’s rated M for Manneyus. I especially appreciated the Battlemaster bag and Minecraft scenes. Looking forward to part 3! Take your time, don’t give into pressure from commenters – great ideas sometimes take a while to come along. Interested in SWTOR Movies? We have new movies most weekdays here onswtorstrategies! Have suggestions for movie we ought to feature? Get in contact with us here
Combat Logs and Training Dummies in SWTOR 1.2
One of the biggest questions to come out of the SWTOR Guild Summit was in regards to combat logs and training dummies in 1.2. While they have confirmed they have combat logs in 1.2, there was not a lot of information being released about it yet and in the community, there seems to also be a lot of confusion about it. So here’s what was said at Guild Summit regarding combatlogs: Combat logs were intended to be in the game in some form(those in beta will remember it before it was removed and not added to launchdue to bugs in the system). However, they do not want players judging one another basedon combat logs and stats so their solution is that players will only see their owncombat logs. You will have the opportunity to write the combat log to disk andsave it on your computer. This gives guilds the freedom…
TOR TV: Stealth Run the False Emperor Hardmode
This takes around 4 mins per run for 2 chests! Very fast Credits and loot to sell to the galactic trade network or vendor or even gear up your companions. 1:33 first chest loot, 2:31 second chest loot (On the video) First chest has 5k to 9.9k credits, second chest has 2k to 6k creds. Can contain blues, oranges and epics aswell. At least 120k/hour purely from the credits. Once you have got both chest, just exit Area and then once outside the instance, Right click on your portrait(Left of your skill bar) and “Reset all active flashpoints” This is very effective. I get around 20 to 25k credits and from 2-5 items every 5-10mins. Got a purple epic helm wich is almost as good as the rakata gear today in the first chest. Definately a yes. Made 300k in under 2 hours by selling green item and from the credits….
Panels, Panels, Panels! SWTOR Guild Summit Day 2
Day 2 is by far the most eventful day of the SWTOR Guild Summit. In fact, it was so much so that many complained there was far too much crammed into one day. BioWare devs and staff agree. It seems they only had the livestream capability for one day so they put all the panels on Monday but when combined with the studio tour and lunch at BioWare as well, it made for a very, very long day. The good news is there were tons of things covered. Some ofyou were probably watching on the livestream and know some of this already butI know others have questions about certain things. So I’m going to break eachpanel down into a separate post and recap some of the most important informationto come from that post. I’ll then come back and edit this post to contain links toeach of the panels: Operations and…
TOR TV: How I Got Through SWTOR
TerminalMontage made this short animated video showing his experiences in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Of what I can see from the video, he quit playing. Who knows.. His lose, but the video is really funny for sure 🙂
Lunch with BioWare: SWTOR Guild Summit Day 2
David Bass Says “Go Nuts” on the Free Food. Woo! We headed over to BioWare Austin headquarters for lunch and studio tours. The building doesn’t look like much from the outside but inside it was rocking! They took us in about 15 at a time while everyone else had their pick of a few food trucks in the parking lot. This is one of the best parts of the design and scheduling of the Guild Summit. This is when we all have the chance to mingle and chat with one another. Since I was invited here as a guild leader and not as a member of the press, I’m trying to make the most of my time here by talking to other guild leaders and representatives, finding out what other guilds are doing right (and what some are doing wrong), discussing what they love about the game, what they dislike…
Intergalactic Intel: Operations
“Drop group,” Niggles whispered me. At this point in our relationship I learned that if Niggles requested something, it was usually for my benefit. An invite message promped from Niggles a few seconds later. “I’m not ready for this.” I whispered back. “Don’t worry Zexu. This is an easy operation.” Welcome back to another installment of Intergalactic Intel! My apologies for being so late on this article, but you get two today! I’m reporting from the wonderful San Francisco, as I attend GDC. Without further ado let’s get down to this week’s topic. Operations. Operations are what we call raids here in SWTOR. You can complete them with eight or sixteen people. In addition to this you have normal mode, hard mode and nightmare modes to attempt to complete. Each level providing a new challenge of difficulty and a new amount of loot. The team I ran with this week…
Former “Star Wars” child actor Jake Lloyd vows never to act again
Continuing my NON SWTOR news, I got a story on the Former “Star Wars” child actor Jake Lloyd. Recently he told how he quit acting after school bullies mocked his Hollywood career and made life a “living hell.” Lloyd decided on an early retirement from acting because he was struggling to fit in after playing Anakin Skywalker in “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” when he was just eight years old. He subsequently destroyed all his “Star Wars” memorabilia, and only ever stepped in front of the camera again to reprise his role as Anakin for five video games. He tells Blackbook Mag, “Other children were really mean to me. They would make the sound of the light saber every time they saw me. It was totally mad. “My entire school life was really a living hell – and I had to do up to 60 interviews a day.” Lloyd, who…
1.1.5 Patch Notes — 3/6/2012
BioWare took the servers down for scheduled Maintenance today. At the same time they launched patch 1.1.5. While this patch is nothing compared to the monster that patch 1.2 looks like it’s going to be, it still brings many new fixes to the game. Check it out below: General Players can now use the command /roll or /random to generate a random number between 1 and 100. This command will also accept a range (example: /roll 20-40) or a die value (example: 2d6). Classes and Combat General Moving while channeling an ability (such as Telekinetic Throw and Force Lightning) will no longer cancel the Global Cooldown, which would allow those abilities to deal more damage than intended. Sith Warrior The French version of the “Darth” title is now correct. Flashpoints and Operations Operations General Bosses in Operations now drop the correct amount of loot when the group is using the…
SWTOR Bounty Hunter Powertech PVE/Leveling Build With Point Allocation And Rotations!
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…
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: