Posts Tagged ‘Warzones’
Force Junkies – Writers Needed
Do you enjoy writing SWTOR guides for your fellow guildmates or on the official forums? Are you always maximizing your GTN profits and coming up with new, awesome ideas for DPS rotations? If so, we want to hear from you! Force Junkies is looking to add a few more enthusiastic, talented volunteer writers to our [...]
Let’s get naked for PvP
A common sight in PvP warzones since patch 2.0 has been naked players. An oversight in the bolster system has meant that a lot of players have been better off not having any item equipped. This is about to be fixed, with changes being made to War hero and Elite War hero gear. What will [...]
Making the most of Double XP
The first weekend of Double XP was definitely a success for most players. I personally got 2 of my level 40-odd characters through to level 50, giving me a total of 6 completed level 50s. One of the characters I leveled from 43 to 50 in about 7 or 8 hours. I did this by: [...]
PvP – Rope a Dope
I tweeted last week about playing Warzones in SWTOR. The comment was “If you can’t tell who the rookie is, it’s you.” With that mind set, I held my head high and carried the rookie tag with pride. Needless to say I took many blaster bolts to the cranium. There is hope though, fellow rookie [...]
Gree reputation requirement guide
Gree gear is highly sort after, so I thought I’d put all of the information I’ve found into one post so that you can figure out how many missions you need to do to get the gear you want.Two of the armor sets, the black with red highlights and black with blue highlights, only require [...]
Rob Hinkle Delivers Hopeful News for PvPers
As part of BioWare’s regular Meet the Developers feature, players were able to ask Rob Hinkle, Sr. Systems Designer for Star Wars: The Old Republic, a few questions. A few of the questions that were asked was regarding future PvP updates. Rob’s answers revealed nothing definite per say, but they did hint at a few [...]
Those Healers Need Protecting!
I spend most of my time in SWTOR PvPing these days and my main character is a Jedi Knight Guardian. He’s got a balanced tank heavy spec that is able to do some DPS as well but he’s more than capable of holding a base or protecting a healer. The problem is, at least on my [...]
Scheduled Maintenance for Game Update 1.6: December 11th, 2012
Hello everyone, we wanted to let you know that we will be performing scheduled maintenance for six hours on Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 from 2AM CST (12AM PST/3AM EST/8AM GMT/9AM CET/7PM AEDT) until 8AM CST (6AM PST/9AM EST/2PM GMT/3PM CET/1AM AEDT). All game servers will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to [...]
Ancient Hypergate Video Preview
With Game Update 1.6 fresh on the PTS, players are now able to preview the new Warzone, Ancient Hypergate, which will be available on live servers when 1.6 launches. Just in case you haven’t had a chance to check out the Warzone for yourself, here’s a video preview of some basic Ancient Hypergate action: Special [...]
Game Update 1.6: Ancient Hypergate is on Public Test Server!
SWTOR Game Update 1.6: Ancient Hypergate is on Public Test Server! Game Update 1.6: Ancient Hypergate is now on the Public Test Server (PTS) allowing players to experience brand new in-game content, including a new PvP Warzone and Heroic Space Missions. Travel to a remote Warzone to discover a brand new PvP battle mechanic. The [...]
New PvP content "before year’s end"
From Allison Berryman Hi everyone! I asked Damion Schubert for any news or information we can share. There are many questions about the topic, but he did have a bit to say about new Warzone content: Fear not! New Warzone content is in heavy testing and should be in the next major patch after 1.5. We [...]
Game Update 1.4′s Hidden Change to the Queue System
During Wednesday’s launch of Game Update 1.4, one very interesting change made its way to SWTOR’s live servers without being documented in the original Patch Notes. With this change, players who are queued up for both a Flashpoint in the Group Finder and a Warzone will find themselves taken out of the Group Finder queue [...]
Patch 1.4 Changes: MK-2 PvP gear
Patch 1.4 will be making it easy for new players to jump right into PvP with the new Recruit MK-2. Just before the servers went down I managed to get a couple of screenshots of the MK-2 gear and in these screenshots I have compared it to both Battlemaster gear and the old Champion gear (which [...]
How Resolve will change after Patch 1.4
The above graph (which I found on Reddit, with no credits as to who made it) shows the changes to Resolve that will occur with Patch 1.4. These changes hope to improve the PvP experience for players. The different shapes represent different types of stuns. The graph line itself shows the path to a full [...]
Huttball Tips for all Classes
Massively posted a two-part specific class guide to Huttball that offers tips and discuses strategies individual classes often use to succeed while playing a match in the Warzone. Players might think their particular class isn’t very useful in Huttball, but in reality, every class has a niche of sorts. Here is what the author says: [...]
Offering Answers to the PvP Community
Yesterday, Allison Berryman took the time to seek out Rob Hinkle, Senior PvP Designer, and get a few questions from the PvP community answered that were originally asked in this forum thread. Some of the information revealed pertains to Ancient Hypergates, Ranked Warzones, Season 1, and 8-man team queues in non-ranked Warzones. Originally posted by [...]
New SWTOR Content Coming
Alongside the announcement of SWTOR going Free to Play in the fall, five new bits of content are coming up. Dates have not been announced yet. New operation: Terror from Beyond A raid raid takes us to planet Asation to fight a variety of new bosses and to stop the rise of the “Dread Masters”. [...]
SWTOR Free to Play This Fall!
With this surprising announcement this morning from EA, the biggest questions are, how will it effect the current subscribers, and why is SWTOR going free to play? Obviously many people will come to the conclusion that the game must have failed. As an active subscriber, with multiple toons, I can tell you that the population [...]
Community News: More on Ranked Warzones
Yesterday, BioWare posted a community blog article detailing some of the behind-the-scenes plans and goals for Team Ranked Warzones, which will hopefully reach live servers when Game Update 1.3 hits. You can check out the article here. Here’s one of the most important bits of the article: Before Season One begins with official rankings, we [...]
Gabe Talks Ranked Warzones in New Community Blog
We got an update late yesterday from Gab Amatangelo, Lead PVP Designer, on the upcoming ranked warzones in a new blog post. Also introduced in this build is Warzone group persistence. In other words, when you queue up as a group of up to four for normal Warzones or as a full team group of [...]
E3 EA Presentation: Level Cap Increase, New Planet, New Companions
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s presentation just concluded at EA’s E3 show and Dr. Ray Muzyka had some pretty exciting things to say. With a video everyone will likely be able to see soon, the good Doctor gave us a ton of new things coming down the pipe for all SWTOR fans. Ranked Warzones and [...]
Exclusive Interview: Austin Peckenpaugh and Rob Hinkle on PVP
Last week we got a chance to ask a few questions of Austin Peckenpaugh and Rob Hinkle and talk about a few PVP topics including warzones, balance, Outlaw’s Den and a few others. To find out what these two SWTOR devs had to say, please continue reading to read the whole interview! How do we [...]
New 1.3 Details: Information on Ranked Warzones
At the London MCM Expo held on May 26th, there was a SWTOR panel with Emmanuel Lusinchi that focused on some highlights of Game Update 1.3. Some interesting points were revealed. The entire panel can be seen on Gamespot’s Twitch TV. A very awesome transcribe of the panel can also be found over at Dulfy’s [...]
Legacy Perks. Get ready to get ripped off in patch 1.3
Bioware have just released a promo video for patch 1.3. The video tells us nothing really new but does provide some extra details about the new features. The video has received many dislikes and as I go over the details, you mind understand why. The changes are: Legacy perks Group Finder Character transfer Scaling social [...]
5 Tips for Leveling in Warzones
Bioware is encouraging all players to PvP at least a little and it’s best to have some practice under your belt before you hit 50. I’ve gotten a lot of questions about what to do with all those warzone commendations that alts rack up so I thought I’d give everyone the lowdown on pre-50 PvP. [...]
Dev Tracker: Ranked Warzones Canceled for 1.2
Originally posted in Community News (Source) Hey everybody, It is with great reluctance that I have to announce Ranked Warzones are not going live with Game Update 1.2: Legacy. We had a fantastic run of testing on the Public Test Server and I can’t begin to thank the community enough for their tireless advocacy for [...]
Patch 1.1.5 PvP Commendation Infographic by Dulfy
Dulfy says: Hey everyone, I was recently asked to make a guide for new 50s or those who havn’t pvp’ed a while about the current PvP currency system. As many of you may be aware – as of patch 1.1.5 they streamlined the route to obtain battlemaster and champion commendations – it is no longer [...]
Game Update 1.2 "Legacy" Video in HD
Star Wars Game Update 1.2 “Legacy” Video in HDThis Video looks at:WarZone: Novare CoastOperation: Explosive conflictFlashpoint: The Lost IslandExpanded Legacy SystemLegacy Family TreeLegacy Read More…
Some Useful PVP/Warzone Stats/Info
Do you love PvP in SWTOR? Are you into warzones or just wanting to learn more about them? Whether you’ve reached the level cap yet or not, PvP can be fun in SWTOR. Warzones can break the monotony of leveling or give you something to do at level 50. It’s also a way to build [...]
SWTOR Developer Q&A Highlights
In the community news this week the developers published a Q&A which took place in the forums. Although a lot of the news had already been covered via the dev tracker, there were a couple of little highlights that you may find interesting. First of all, Daniel Erickson talked about game update 1.2 and the legacy [...]
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