The Glade 4.0

Lots and lots and lots of changes...

You can read the patch notes here.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=600569

You can copy your existing characters on the live servers to the test server from your account page (bottom of the left menu). It may take a few hours.

I haven't tried it yet, but it's my understanding that there is an NPC on fleet that will buff your character to 55, with 55 starter gear and some commendations. The reason I mention this isn't because I want to be level 55, but it encourages me that they are actually being serious about letting people test their content before they push it. It also means that paid server transfers are probably not far behind (they have said this is effectively their test of that system).

Some of the highlights of whats on PTS now.

• Level cap raised to 55
• Crew Skills max increased to 450
• New Legacy Wide Achievement System (how many cool outfits do YOU have!?)
• Lots of class changes and some restructuring of the skill trees (see patch notes)
• Alacrity is no longer mostly useless for most classes, as it will actually affect global cooldown, and not just channeling time
• All individual planet commendations are being rolled into one pool of "Planetary Commendations", and there is a cap on how many you can receive per week (to prevent high level farming on low level planets)
• The end game commendation system has been optimized.. there are now only three tiers of commendations, with Black Hole gear being the baseline for starting the 51-55 effort
• Expertise no longer has diminishing returns, so farm away on your PvP gear
• The bolstering system for the 1-49 PvP warzones has been overhauled (although it's currently broken on PTS)
• New level 55 Hard Mode flashpoints (Athiss, Cademimu, Hammer Station (eep!), and Mandalorian Raiders
  
• The new planet (Makeb) is not currently available on test, but the new level 55 Operation called "Scum and Villiany!" is available to test.

Check out the patch notes for more juicy details...

Nice!



That stinks. I loved that move. It worked so well when taking out the trash.

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Raell Kromwell

A quick update.

I managed to get a couple of characters copied over to test (some failed.. It seems there are some issues with the copy service). The characters that did copy came with zero credits..apparently that is a known issue.

Otherwise the copy went fine.

There is a terminal in the "Supplies" section of fleet that will level you up to 55 and give you 300 Elite commendations and some tokens to turn in for "Elite" (Tier 3) gear. After you spend your tokens you can go back and click again and get more commendations to gear yourself (and your companions) up.

I ran my 30k HP level 55 Sabotuer Gunslinger though The Black Hole dailies, including soloing the Heroic 4. Between that and selling the gear I replaced to a merchant, i ended up with more than 100k (and unlocked the "Moderately Wealthy" title in the process. ).

I didn't have time to find a group for the new operation, but otherwise it was pretty cool.

Nice. While it was nice to have in a rotation, I've expressed my dislike of the move here before. "This end of my weapon? Yeah that's a solid and contained beam of pure plasma. But this end? The flat metal end? This is the end that REALLY freakin' hurts!"

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

It's more that they're removing the "must be stunned" skills than anything else.

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Grenade 3 Sports Drink. It's fire in the hole.. Your hole!

Dulfy has lots of info/analysis of the test server 2.0 patch.

http://dulfy.net/category/swtor/patch-2-0/

Screen shots of the new level 55 armor, the entirely redone commendation systems, etc...

Here is a summary of the achievements stuff...
http://dulfy.net/2013/02/21/swtor-legac ... nts-guide/

These things are going to kill me

So tempted to log in..i heard Shields are going to be effective against more damage types?

Yea, there are definitely a lot of changes to all of the defensives. My current main being a shield spec Vanguard tank, I'm very interested to see how it all plays out. Unfortunately, the copy process is bugged, and she is the one character I can't get copied on test.

I have been too busy at work to follow the details, but there are a lot of threads over on the PTS forums discussing these things.

http://www.swtor.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=308

Some interesting posts here too.
http://reddit.com/r/swtor

Oh, and another nice change for healers, they made buff/debuff icons independently re-sizable (better late than never).

Edit: Here is a preliminary theorycrafting thread some of the new stat changes
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=601726

And here is a cool screenshot someone posted from the new "Scum and Villiany!" operation. It posted on reddit under the title 'This is going to be an interesting pull'.

So far i fail on finishing to download the game client. No playing for me.

Test or Live?

Live. Stops 0.06mb before the end and everytime I try to continue it shows a network error and stops downloading. Trying an uninstall and re try.

Hrm... you might check the CS forums to see if anyone else has experienced (and solved) that one...

Got it. I'm in...