Hey everyone, most of you are probably well informed of this event by now, but for those who are just doing it for a first time, this is a good starting place! The Rakghoul Pandemic a new dynamic event that started on April 15 on the planet of Tatooine. It involves a series of time limited quests about the Rakghoul plague! The rewards you obtain from this event are a title (Containment Officer prefix), 9 Codex entries, 2 Rakghoul vanity pets (Pale and Crimson) a full set of Containment Officer armor set (light armor), special Black Green color crystal, and infected Companion customizations!
This event is not restricted to 50s only. All of the quest mobs do scale to your level but beware that if you are too low to enter Tatooine, you might have a bit trouble with the local residents.
You might need to wait a day to pick up the new dailies if you did not do the dailies since day 1 of the event.
April 16 – New Daily – Passenger List, picked up the same place as the Stardream wreck.
April 17 – New Daily – Hybrid Strain, picked up when you killed Infected Sandpeople in the same area as [AREA DAILY] Outbreak and [DAILY] Blood Sample.
April 18 – New Daily – Pure Virus Sample, picked up in the same location as the Wreck of the Stardream in Dune Sea when you click on a Shipping Manifest.
April 19 – New Daily – Newly Infected, picked up in the same location as [AREA DAILY] Outbreak on a datapad.
- Dailies
- Scavenger Hunt – Tracking the Origin
- World Bosses
- Rakghoul DNA sample and their rewards
- Codex Entries
- Containment Officer Outfit
New Daily for Today – April 19
Newly Infected
[DAILY] Newly Infected – Picked up in the same location as [AREA DAILY] Outbreak on a datapad found on the ground. Will ask you to click on Infected Dewbacks in the area west of Outpost Largona. Rewards are 7175 credits, 2x Rakghoul DNA Sample, and a choice of 1x Rakghoul DNA Sample, Containment Officer Chestpiece, or Belt.
[DAILY AREA] – Wreck of the Stardream
[DAILY]- Passenger List – April 16
[DAILY] Pure Virus Sample – April 18
[DAILY] – Hybrid Strain – April 17
New – [DAILY] – Newly Infected – April 19
To start off all the dailies, you need to head to this location in Dune Sea (Outpost Zaroshe is the closest speeder/Quick travel point for Imperials and Outpost Thorazan for the Republic). Doing these dailies for the first time will reward you with Codex entry 1-4 for the Rakghoul Pandemic event.
Upon entering the area, you will be given a
- [DAILY AREA] Wreck of the Stardream– this is a multistep quest and fairly self-explanatory but if you need it, there is a full walkthrough available. Rewards are 7175 credits, 4x Rakghoul DNA Sample and 1x Rakghoul Vaccine. Codex entry 1-2 are obtained from doing this quest for the first time.
Killing any Rakghouls in the area will give you 3x Blood Samples, which starts up
- [DAILY] Blood Sample – this is a lead in to the next [DAILY AREA] quests and rewards you with 7175 cedits, 50 LS or DS points, 2x Rakghoul DNA Sample, and a choice of 1x Rakghoul DNA Sample or Containment Officer boots for your faction: http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42049/imperial-containment-officer-boots http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42057/republic-containment-officer-boots
As of April 16, there is a new daily that can be picked up also in the same location as the Wreck of the Stardream
- [DAILY] Passenger List – you can read a full walkthrough here. Rewards are 7175 credits, 2x Rakghoul DNA Sample, and a choice of 1x Rakghoul DNA Sample or Containment Officer gloves for your faction: http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42050/imperial-containment-officer-gloves http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42055/republic-containment-officer-gloves
As of April 18, there is a new daily that can be picked up in the same location as the Wreck of the Stardream
- [DAILY] Pure Virus Sample – picked up when you click on the Shipping Manifest in the same area as the [AREA DAILY] Wreck of the Stardream. You are then asked head to an outpost (Rennar for Imperials) and grab the samples off the wall inside the building. Rewards you with 2x Rakghoul DNA Sample, and a choice of 1x Rakghoul DNA Sample or Containment Officer Head for your faction: http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42046/imperial-containment-officer-helmet, http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42052/republic-containment-officer-helmet
Doing Blood Sample daily will lead you to the next area for the event in Jundland,
Where you can obtain
- [DAILY AREA] Outbreak – another multistep quest and fairly self-explanatory but you can read a full walkthrough here. Rewards are 7175 credits, 4x Rakghoul DNA Sample and 1x Rakghoul Vaccine. Codex entry 3-4 are obtained from doing this quest for the first time.
As of April 17, there is a new daily that can be picked up in the same area as Outbreak/Blood Sample
- [DAILY] Hybrid Strain – picked up when you killed Infected Sandpeople in the same area as Outbreak. You are then asked head to the designated area to scan and kill infected Jawa. Rewards you with 2x Rakghoul DNA Sample, and a choice of 1x Rakghoul DNA Sample or Containment Officer legs for your faction: http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42053/republic-containment-officer-legs http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42051/imperial-containment-officer-legs
As of April 19, there is a new daily that can be picked up also in the area of Outbreak/Blood Sample.
- NEW– [DAILY] – Newly Infected– obtained from a datapad lying on the ground. Quest asks you to click on Dewback corpses located west of Outpost Largona. Rewards you with 2x Rakghoul DNA Sample, and a choice of 1x Rakghoul DNA Sample, Containment Officer chest or belt
- http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42047/imperial-containment-officer-armor, http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42054/republic-containment-officer-armor
- http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42048/imperial-containment-officer-belt, http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42056/republic-containment-officer-belt
Lastly, if you get infected with the Rakghoul virus (via either killing Rakghouls/infected NPCs or standing next to someone that blew up) and blow up while infecting other people nearby, you can get this quest
- [DAILY] Plaguebringer – goal is to infect 10 other people when you blow up (takes about 20 minutesfrom first infection to blowing up). There is a write up of how the infections, blowing up etc works! Rewards is 4305 credits and 5x Rakghoul Vaccines.
Scavenger Hunt – Tracking the Origins
This is a quest/scavenger hunt that will grant you Codex entry 5 and a Crimson Rakghoul pet! You need to head to the Empire/Republic main city on Tatooine (Mos Ila for Empire, Anchorhead for Republic) to start off this quest.
Basically, you need to grab 3 items within the city, each item will give you a 10 minute buff. Once you have all 3 buffs, it will be converted to a 1 hr long buff that allow you to pick up the quest Tracking the Origins from the terminal near the speeder/Taxi. Note that you do not need the buff to do the quest, just for picking up the quest so don’t worry if you need to take more than an hr to collect all 12 fragments.
This quest is fairly long and requires traveling all over Jundland and Dune Sea to find 12 starship fragments. I wrote a fairly detailed walkthrough which you can read about here.
Rewards you with this!
Killing each of these three world bosses on Tatooine will grant you with 1 Codex entry each, giving you Codex entries 6-8 for the event. There is a writeup on the world bosses here.
- Urtagh: Level 50 bantha world boss located in Outlaw’s Den (-35, 449) on west Jundland section of Tatooine. He is a new world boss introduced with this event.
- Zama Brak – Level 50 world boss located in the NE of Sarlacc Pit in Dune Sea area in Tatooine (-1216, 419). Another new world boss introduced with this event
- Infect Trapjaw – Level 30 world boss found in the middle of Dune Sea (-1770, –867). Spawned by clicking on the skull in the middle of a circle of dead Jawas. Can be duo’ed fairly easily, soloing is also possible if you like a challenge.
Rakghoul DNA Sample and their rewards
Rakghoul DNA samples are obtained from doing the dailies (8 from the Area Dailies and 4-6 from the two dailies so far) and also via dying with the Rakghoul virus. Everytime you die due to the virus, you gain 5 Rakghoul DNA in your inventory. You do not take any durability loss on your armor when you die this way.
Dying with the Rakghoul virus is therefore the fastest and easiest way to get those Rakghoul DNA samples. You just have to find a spot on the fleet where everyone clump together in a pile to get infected. If you want to die faster, you can jump off or find some other ways to kill yourself when the Rakghoul virus is in the Feverish stage. This method can get you 5 DNA sample every 10 minutes.
There is a Jawa vendor (Jeelvic) located in the NE corner of Dune Sea that will exchange your Rakghoul DNA samples for rewards.
The stuff you can buy are mainly color crystals, infected Companion Customization and Pale Rakling.
Infected Companion Lockbox will contain one of the 8 Companion customizations. Which one you get is random and the customizations are Bind to Legacy. So if you say buy 4 boxes, you can get unlucky and get 4x Infected Andronikos customization even if you are not an inquisitor.
- Infected Andronikos Revel Customization
- Infected Corso Riggs Customization
- Infected Elara Dorne Customization
- Infected Kira Carsen Customization
- Infected Mako Customization
- Infected Malavin Quinn Customization
- Infected Tharan Cedrax Customization
- Infected Vector Customization
Infected Malavin Quinn, Andronikos, Corso Riggs, Kira Carsen
Infected Tharan Cedrax, Vector, Mako, Elara
The Black-Green color crystal looks like this, fluorescent green, which is kinda cool!
Pale Raking looks like this (image taken from Reddit)
There are 9 codex entries so far for the event
1. The Final Flight of the Stardream
- Obtained while doing the 2nd step of [AREA DAILY] Wreck of the Stardream
2. Captain Magnus
- Obtained after completing [AREA DAILY] Wreck of the Stardream
3. Outbreak on Tatooine
- Obtained after investigating the three murals as part of [AREA DAILY] Outbreak
4. The Sand People’s Cure
- Obtained after investigating the Shaman’s mural as part of [AREA DAILY] Outbreak
5. Origins of the Outbreak
- Obtained after finding all 12 starship fragments as part of Tracking the Origins quest
6. Defeated Urtagh
- Defeat Urtagh, level 50 World Boss in Outlaw’s Den area of Tatooine.
7. Defeated Zama Brak
- Defeat Zama Brak, level 50 World Boss in NE of Sarlacc Pit in Dune Sea
8. Defeated Infected Trapjaw
- Defeat Infected Trapjaw, level 30 World Boss in the middle of Dune Sea.
9. Earned Containment Officer Title
- This one is a bit buggy, some people reported that they obtained the title after defeating all 3 world bosses while others didn’t get the title. If you did not get the title after defeating all 3 world bosses and have obtained the 5 prior entries, you may need to re-kill the world bosses like Urtagh
The outfit are part of quest rewards associated with [DAILY] quests. These daily quests don’t disappear when a new one is coming out so there is no rush!
April 15- Boots – [DAILY] Blood Sample
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42049/imperial-containment-officer-boots
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42057/republic-containment-officer-boots
April 16- Gloves – [DAILY] Passenger List
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42050/imperial-containment-officer-gloves
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42055/republic-containment-officer-gloves
April 17 – Legs – [DAILY] Hybrid Strain
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42051/imperial-containment-officer-legs
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42053/republic-containment-officer-legs
April 18 – Head – [DAILY] Pure Virus Sample
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42046/imperial-containment-officer-helmet
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42052/republic-containment-officer-helmet
April 19 – Chest/Belt – [DAILY] Newly Infected
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42047/imperial-containment-officer-armor
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42054/republic-containment-officer-armor
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42048/imperial-containment-officer-belt
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42056/republic-containment-officer-belt
Here is the look of the Imperial set (sans belt), Republic set coming tomorrow!
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There is also a daily called “[Daily] Plaguebearer”
You will need to infect 10 other people with the plague and rewards:
4.305 credit & 5 Rakghoul Vaccine
Yup, it is up there, I forgot to bold it 🙁
Typo: it’s “Plaguebearer”, not bringer.
Looks like Passenger List Quest is L50 only (I’m 48 and can’t get it), didn’t bring out my 50 to check…
It’s not, you just need to do dailies day earlier. I did all the dailies being L36/37. You probably need to complete all dailies daily to get story progression.
I found a Shipping Manifest down amongst the wreckage. Not clickable yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was for some future mission. The screenshot here shows the location, it is the datapad with a green screen. Clicking on it says that I am not eligible for the conversation.
Are the new black green crystals the same color as the razor SE black green crystals?
Nope, you can see the difference someone posted here 🙂
http://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/comments/sbuhq/heres_the_difference_between_the_rakghoul_crystal/
lol they are both green with a black core. They are the same
Just so you know, the DNA vendor seems to occasionally take too many DNA samples from you when you buy from him. Particularly if you have more than one stack of DNA in your bags. This happened to me today and I lost 11 DNA. You can see another thread about it here.
http://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/comments/sdpzy/rakghoul_dna_vendor_taking_too_many_samples/
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Thanks a lot for this great guide. I’m gonna share this with my guild.
another tip for those of you farming the DNA samples…. once you get to the second stage of the infection, find a place to fall to your death instead of waiting to explode….. you still get the 5 dna samples and only have to wait half the time =D
Great guide. Thanks
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Can you use the customizations multiple times or is it a one time use only?
It is a permanent customization like the customizations you buy from the customization vendors 🙂
I can’t seem to kick off ‘Plaguebringer’ every day. It worked for me on Sunday, but yesterday, and so far today, I don’t seem to be doing what is required to ‘start’ my 10 for the day?
Same here, it might be bugged 🙁
Ah ok 🙁
Well this way if I’m crazy, I have company. 🙂
Yeah the plaguebringer daily is actually only 1 day says everyone. I’m kinda bummed that my shadow can’t start passenger yet and my sage can’t start the hybrid strain. Someone said that it may be a day behind from when u completed the original dailies. Anyone know if this is true?
I got 2 mako customs and tryed to trade over t my sentinel in the hopes it might convert over to kira but it dident happen 🙁
It seems that the Passenger List and Hybrid Strain quests require you to be on your second and third round of dailies. One of my characters had done the dailies on a previous day and got Passenger List. Another that had just completed their first set of dailies was unable to get it at all. Neither was able to get Hybrid Strain yet.
Yeah i’m confirming this now. Do you know though if you have to complete all the dailies each day to keep moving on? or just complete the ones that came out that day?
Just the one that came out that day I think, but its better to do them all to be safe 🙂
For those farming the DNA samples, there is a bug where if you have multiple stacks of samples (eg, if you have 100 or more samples), when you go buy something from the Jawa, it will actually destroy all your other stacks. You will need to leave your other stacks in the bank.
This is a known issue with Bioware, and if it happened to you, you’ll need to open a ticket to get those restored.
Oh, a /wave as well. Nice seeing you online yesterday!
Thank you Visalath for confirming, I knew there was something up when I found I had less DNA stacks.
*pouts* they’re giving away my black-green colour crystal what I got for buying the Razer SWTOR mouse. *pouts some more*
Nah, it’s actually good to see I can get an upgrade for my black-green crystals. 😉
is not the same color
Not sure why people say its “not the same color”. It is Green with a Black core, same as Razer’s.
Just because the hue is off by 0.000001 doesn’t make it a different color lol. You can only tell there is a “difference” if you take screenshots and use photoshop to anal-yze the color.
So yes, Bioware screwed Razer owners out of their unique crystal.
Like other replier said, it’s not the same crystal and you can get an upgrade for the Razer black/green crystal in either Couroscant or Dromund Kaas, since patch 1.2
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Are there any screenshots anywhere that show what the armor looks like?
Also, if the character I’m running around isn’t a light armor wearer, is there ‘any’ reason to bother getting the set, since we don’t really have appearance tabs in the classic sense? Is there any anticipation that they will someday come along and say “remember all those light social sets? well now they automatically ‘adjust’ to your base type when you put them on!” – which would be kinda evil.
Yes they said in the very near future all social armor will adjust to your armor type so save up!
Yes screenshot coming tomorrow when I get the full set 🙂
Ah, good answer, I’m going to save then, thx!
Can you link official info about this ? It’s not like I don’t believe you, but i can’t find that info anywhere. thanks 🙂
Hi Duffy,
Just a quick point. I found that the new Pure Virus Sample quest was got from a clickable data pad at the wreckage site. Not when you click on the Passenger List quest object. It is located slightly south of the crash site.
Yes I got it from a data pad (Shipping Manifest) as well, I don’t believe I said it is from clicking on the escape pod?
Helm appears to be suffering from a bug. Does not show on my Inquisitor.
When do the daily quests reset? At a certain time or 24hrs after you finish them?
8 AM EST
do you need to do all dailies to get access to the newest daily, im just not in the mood to do that origin quest over and over again?
The origins quest is not a daily. I am assuming for the new daily you just need to do the latest one from yesterday but to be safe I recommend doing all dailies for the credits and DNA 😛
i didn’t do pure virus sample yesterday (18 april) and was unable to pick up newly infected today (19 april). can’t interact with the datapad.
a guildmate who just started the series was also unable to get any of the click-to-start quests in the stardream wreckage area in the dune sea.
Brilliant guide!
Just wondering what are the chances of a level 16 Bounty Hunter being able to make it see Jeelvic to buy the Pale Rakling Pet?
Thanks
You should be able to skirt the mobs to get to him, quite a run though.
You shouldn’t need screenshots of the armor set – the Containment Officer at the fleet that is an NPC (doesn’t attack you) outside your ship on the fleet is wearing it. Just take a picture of that.
Additionally, I’d like to point out that 1.2.0b didn’t fix the title award issues for everyone. On my 30 trooper, I had all 8 codex entries prior to 1.2.0b. According to the notes, killing Urtagh again would award the title. It didn’t. A ticket in to Customer Support was immediately locked with no response. I’m frustrated, but thought I’d let everyone else know too.
Did you kill Urtagh without being infected? Someone told me that would help 🙂
Yep, we had all used our vaccines prior to the fight. According to the patch notes though, it looks like I may be granted the title today anyway. I’ll update if that’s the case.
Yep, just logged in and checked my Codex Entries and titles. I have both! Woo!
🙂
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same with me. Is your race sith or is it just sith inquitor doesnt show the head?
Hmm what you mean?
When equiping the headpiece it wont show up on me. Its pretty annoying.
maybe you got option for hidden helmets on. Or maybe this is another bug like that one which are not showing hair when wearing helmets. I got that bug and it is really annoying 😛
nope im showing hair and i’m also having the hidden helmet option off
Yeah, there is a bug that doesnt show the head piece if you are a Sith Pureblood race. Really sucks because I wanted a cool pair of sunglasses. =-(
ik the headpiece is the best part of the set 🙁
all species with “things” coming out of their heads cant show their helmets.evetually they will fix this but its not a priority for the devs..
ugh disappointed the new patch didn’t fix the problem.
does anyone know if the set can be reverse engineered by a crafter to add an augment slot?
No, but *eventually* crafters will be able to ADD augment slots to existing pieces.
It cannot, as no gear can be reverse engineered by a crafter to add an augment slot.
ugh wow i just noticed i didn’t hit reply to some1 else having the problem
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hmm killed all bosses today trapjaw was last i got all the 8 codex but not the 9 or the title thought they fixed this
same to me, was vaccinated while killing the bosses.
Imperial set looks pretty nice! Republic reminds me of Columi Commando gear unfortunately. Wish they would’ve done something similar to the empire one with the headpiece.
Wow. The Imperial set is way better. I really wish I could get it. I may have to rush to get my ship with my Mercenary and head to Tatooine to do the dailies. It’s going to be rough.
So, I started the event yesterday (the 19th) I was able to do Wreck of the Stardream, blood sample, and outbreak. And I did Passenger List. But, I can’t seem to do Pure Virus List, Hybrid Strain OR Newly Infected. Will I have to wait till Saturday? Or am I just out of luck?
any chance we can get an answer to this, i have same problem, i woudl have to guess that if u pick up a non-area daily, such as blood sample, then it automoatically forfits u for teh others for that day, perhaps if u dont turn in the blood sample to be analyzed and drop the quest, then u can pick these up, can anyone confirm ?
yeah.. It wont let me get any more of the quests. I finished Passenger list and it wont let me get pure virus sample when I logged in the next day.
Ah the guide isnt in order, I have to do hybrid strain first.
Also… I started hybrid strain from killing the sand people watchers and the people that dropped down dropped a yellow item that started the quest. (Where the daily area Outbreak starts.. and it wasnt the item that you are supposed to get for outbreak.)
Thanks again for an awesome site Dulfy… really lending a hand to us healers out there without too much time to focus on the game whilst still optimizing as much as possible 🙂
Does anyone know how the mechanics of the infection works? Is it time based per level or what? Have a friend whose cycle is clearly slower and I’m able to pick the disease up 3-4 times whilst he’s waiting for his outbreak to drop him to the floor…
Rgds
Mikkel
This is by far the best guide of the ones I have seen!
/clap very good guide, thank you so much, have not found nothing at torhead or darthhater db, =))
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I gotta say, the “random” Infected Lockboxes are NOT that random. It seems that what ever class or faction you are. You have at least a 50% chance of getting Kira. This is not just me, but some of my guildies have also ran into this when buying multiple boxes.
Its not unlocking all the quests for me, why is that?
when did you start the quest? if you just started, you won’t be able to pick up all the dailies. If you keep doing the dailies, each day a new daily will unlock. This also means that if you start the event late, you probably won’t be able to get the full containment set ;(
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Best Guide for the event I found, thanks!
outstanding guide ! great effort and mega useful. Thank you
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Thank you for providing this information, I used it constantly during the event.
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Probably a dumb question, (Dynamic Event) does that mean that they can only be done on those days and then if not you cant do said quest?
event is over, can’t do it anymore. Might come back another time though 🙂
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