Comprehensive guide to the SWTOR GSI dailies introduced with the Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion involving macrobinoculars and seeker droids.
Once you have started the Seeker Droid and Macrobinocular quests, you can immediately start the GSI dailies available from terminals (usually just outside the spaceport) in Alderaan, Hoth, Makeb, and Tatooine.
GSI Weekly – GSI Valued Partner Initiative
Complete 10 GSI missions and one heroic GSI mission (heroic will count as 1 mission towards the 10)
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- 20 Basic Commendation
- GSI Share Certificate
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Here is a list of all GSI dallies and their rewards.
GSI Daily – Alderaan
[HEROIC 2+] Trade Secrets
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- 4 Basic Commendations
- Energy Field Monitor
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Probably the easiest and quickest heroic daily. All you need to do is go to the building marked near the spaceport/GSI terminal in Alderaan and then use your Macrobinoculars on the satellite structure on the roof. After that, enter the building, kill the two mercenary body guards the Industrial Spy (Champion mob but not hard to kill).
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[Daily] Antiquity Analysis
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- 1 Basic Commendation
- 1 Repair Toolkit
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- Dig up Killik Weapons near Killik Memorials: 0/3
Four locations to do this daily but each location can yield more than one so you can complete your daily by just visiting one location sometimes.
As usual, place your Seeker on top of the Killik Memorial for guaranteed results.
 
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[Daily] Big Red
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Locate and Scan the Giant Red Thranta. Note that the Giant Red Thranta change his location every 24 hrs so you have to look for a new location every day.
 
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[Daily] Retrieve, Restore, Recycle
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- Dig Up Chemical Barrels near Irradiated Plants: 0/3
There are two location to do this daily, both locations will work. The best way to get this done is to put your seeker droid on top of Irradiated Plants as they have a very high chance to yield the barrels
  
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[Daily] Weather Forecast
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- 1 Basic Commendation
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Scan the Weather Towers: 0/4
Location #1
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Location #3
Location #4
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GSI Daily –Hoth
[Heroic 2+] Warped To The Core
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- Energy Field Monitor
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- Investigate the Ambria’s Fury
- Dig Up samples from Irradiated Durasteel: 0/3
This heroic is a bit more challenging than the other GSI daily heroics. Upon entering the ship, grab a radiation suit from the container which will give you 15 minutes of protection. That is your time limit as you cannot get another suit while inside the instance.
 
You will need to pop the explosive barrel at the door and then go in.
You will encounter 3 separate group of mob. First group is four Mutated Skel. They hit hard and fast so be sure to CC them if you can.
Second group is two elite Mutated Whitefang, which are not too difficult if you can CC one of them.
The third group has one elite Mutated Whitefang and four Mutated Skel. The Whitefang can be pulled separately and killed away from the skels. This allow you to face the skels alone and CC one as needed.
Once you get past the 3 groups, there is a champion Wampa guarding the door but he is a huge over compared to the previous trash backs. Defeating him will allow you to access the console to open the final door.
Once inside, you will find 3 groups of Irradiated Durasteel, put the seeker droid on top of them to grab them.
 
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[Daily] Beneath the Spires
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- 1 Basic Commendation
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- Dig up Ship Components near Ship Debris: 0/3
Look for these black ship debris parts on the ground, they are quite visible against the snow.
 
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[Daily] Crash Courses
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- Scan Crashed Ships and Escape Pods: 0/4
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Location #4
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[Daily] Forged In Fire
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- Dig up Embersteel ores near Volcanoes: 0/3.
Any volcano in the chasm will work, not just the ones under the quest objectives.To get down to the chasm, use this passage marked here.
Not all of the volcano will contain the Embersteel ore so you may need to scan quite a few. The ore is usually located near the top of the volcano vent so you may need to place the seeker droid quite high.
 
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[Daily] Picking Up The Pieces
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- Scan for and Recover the Crashed Ship Part
Scan these five locations. Where you will find the crashed ship part is random and change every 24 hrs.
 
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GSI Daily –Makeb
[Heroic 2+] Guarded Research
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- 4 Basic Commendations
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- Scan Communications Satellites: 0/3
By standing at this location on the map, you can scan all 3 satellites at once.
 
Once you are inside, you will find a security panel to click, which will spawn two strong turrets and an elite mob,
There is another panel up ahead that will spawn two elite droids. Everything can be crowd controlled here so there isn’t much issue.
Once you get to the final schematic room, you will need to fight a champion mob. Try interrupt his Artillery attack as it can hurt both you and your companion.
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[Daily] Origins of the Makrin – Frinn Mesa
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- Dig up Proto-Barks near Proto-Bark Casings: 0/3
To get to the area for the mission, there are three separate entrances marked in the map below (narrow passages). Once you are there, look for Proto-Bark Casings on the ground and deploy your seeker droid right on top of them.
 
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[Daily] Quake Engines – Westwater Settlements
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- Dig up Vibration Emitters near Emitter Data Relays: 0/3
Look for these thingies on the ground and deploy the seeker droid over them. Remember that there are two locations on Westwater Settlements to search for.
 
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[Daily] The Unbreakable Code – The Sanctuary
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- Scan the Transmission Towers: 0/4
You can knock out both towers 3 and 4 by standing near tower 3.
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[Daily] Volcanic Metals
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- Dig up Metals near Volcanic Metal Outcroppings: 0/4
They look like these little rocks with a pink bottom. There are four locations that you must visit to dig.
 
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GSI Daily – Tatooine
[Heroic 2+] A droid Defiant
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- Dig up Scramblers below Overhead Scambler Transmitters: 0/3
These scamblers are really hard to find but they look like this.
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These are the locations where I found my scamblers but they might not be identical locations for you (left Empire, right Republic)
 
Once you find them, dig below them using the Seeker Droids.
After you have got all 3 scamblers, you will be pointed to an instance to defeat the GSI Battledroid. He is soloable with a companion but make sure to interrupt his Heat Beam as it hurts.
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Above the Fray
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- Scan the Moisture Vaporators: 0/3 (all of them are in Jundland)
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Buried in Time
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- Dig up Fossilized Eggs near Larva Clusters: 0/3
Look for these yellow larva clusters. They are fairly small and can be hard to spot. Once you find one, put your seeker droid on top of it.
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Looking for the Droids
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Scan Sandcrawlers with your macrobinocular for droids. It is random which sandcrawler contain the droids.
 
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Scanning the Depths
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Scan the Meteorite Fragments: 0/4
Location #1 (might be random or change location every 24 hrs)
 
Location #2 (might be random or change location every 24 hrs)
 
Location #3
Note that Location #3 is not where the in-game map indicates, it is actually located here.
  
Location #4 (might be random or change location every 24 hrs)
  
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94 replies on “SWTOR GSI Mission Dailies guide”
Wow four new daily areas, that’s amazing :O
Can you pls make list of dailies in game? The old one and the new????
Ya I can do that shortly before launch
Oh Nice! I hope i get a better overview of all daily quests, because i whink there will be so many to do and i wont know which is the best or which is more profitable. Thank you!
2.0 is going to be dallies overload literally. There are going to be so many dallies in the game it isn’t even funny hah
When can i reckon with this overview? 😀
those new dailies they will give same daily comms as others that we do today or other specific daily comms?
Basic commendations. Daily commendations is no more in patch 2.0
What about the old daily missions? Are they gonna gone or scaled to level 55?
Section X scaled to 55 I think, rest are all 50
This is awesome – thanks Dulfy!!!
BTW – looks like you have Hoth listed twice (missing Tatooine) in the spreadsheet.
Thanks for the catch. I just forgot to rename Hoth to Tatooine. Will be fixed shortly.
Hey Dulfy thanks for the info. One question though, I went to the GSI rep vendor earlier and i noticed the survey probes have been removed, do you know if this was intentional?
I took the pics of the GSI vendor before they did the revamp to the whole system in beta so the screenshot/listing was outdated. Survey probes were part of the old system of using seeker droids and has no use anymore.
Origins of the Makrin: it is possible to get into that area from the north (good for imperials, won’t bring you past republic outpost). Where you have the first red arrow, you just go south at the forking path through the marshy area instead.
There’s also a path on the west side of the ridge, as a pub toon managed to leave thru there- the south path after the pub outpost has a small group of imperial champs.
For pubs there is a way in to the east side near the medical droid, the path has some tall grass has some Vrake mobs near the opening
Location #3 on Scanning the Depths is not there, I’m staring at the spot… and every other in this frigging chasm for 3 hours now and I can’t find this damn rock…
Location #3 is very buggy and can be pretty much anywhere in that whole area, sometimes even away on the other side. They do change their locations every 24 hrs though it seems
tatooine missions are bugged if u can’t find the target switch instance. worked for me.
Dulfy: Do you know how to obtain the items needed to purchase the Mount?
Components are dug up in rare excavation sites on various planets. I will have a guide up soon for that 😀
For those of us too reliant on google, I just wanted to say
Dense Volcanic Metal
Coarse Volcanic Metal
Malleable Volcanic Metal
Burnished Volcanic Metal
Since I came here, did a control-F and did not find my item.
As always, you are amazing! TYVM!
It seems that after doing Trace Secrets one time, i had the daily available to me again so i said…okay. For some reason it became more difficult and the champ couldnt be soloed. Im wondering if this is intended so you cant farm it too quickly?
Im sorry, i meant Trade Secrets.
Okay, upon further investigation…..it seems the location of the spy depends on how he or she fights. There are different attacks that must be interrupted….something i wasnt doing the 2nd time. The spy thats right at the rhu starport is the easiest. There was another thats lower in the map that was beating the crap out of me…..so the spys are different depending on their location.
[Daily] Origins of the Makrin – Frinn Mesa
There are entrances to the location at 1332;2143, 1042;2307, 1218;2110 and im not sure thats all.
I did Trade Secrets two days in a row. I got 2 Energy Field Monitors and 8 Basic Comms each time. I don’t know if this is because I solo’ed it or what. Also, the location does not have anything to do with the class of the spy. Both times I did this, the spy was in House Alde. Today, he was a healer and much harder for me (another healer) to kill.
Pretty sure Trade Secrets always gives 2 blue rep trophies, since you might have to search all over the damn planet to find the right base.
for location #2 🙂
For the metorite fragments of course
Note that : [Heroic 2+] Warped To The Core
Can be entirely made solo by an operative or an assassin sith, using stealth / CC to progress.
Once you explode the first barrel and enter the room filled with radiation, nothing will break your stealth and you can progress with sap / concealment cooldown until you reach the second barrel with two whiteclaws. Sap the left one and fire on the barrel close to him, out of aggro range from the right one.
Continue throught the few rooms, allways use sleeping dart on mobs you want to litteraly walk on.
You can CC the Wampa, use the computer and then, go to the last room to claim your durasteel.
Mission complete !
Here’s another 2 locations for Tatooine’s [Heroic 2+] A Droid Defiant
For [HEROIC 2+] Trade Secrets on Alderaan, if the transmitter isn’t on the noble house in the spaceport, there’s several others throughout Alderaan you’ll have to scan, so not quite so easy as your description says.
The spot that I stood in for Guarded Research was 19, -115.
Scanning the Depths is totally bugged, or is the most random quest in all mmos.
I just arrived on Makeb impside for the 1st time and have to locate the gsi missions terminal. I follow the markers and get to an elevator which should take me to Gravity Hook Loading Ring. I can click the blue button, the floor where i have to go has a little yellow triangle to show thats where i have to go, but the button is greyed out and i can’t click it.
HELP! …pls!
As empire, you need to progress the makeb storyline a short ways to capture and secure your base of operations (which as you already figured out, is the loading ring).
Just noticed that daily [HEROIC 2+] Trade Secrets gives 8 Basic Comms for the Republic but only 4 for the Empire. Bioware really likes the Republic over the Empire.
FYI: on the heroic2 droid quest on Tatooine, i did have to switch worlds to get it to work, as soon as i did i was able to find the last one i needed
Thanks for the help here
If you want to add another set of coordinates to your map, I found my third scrambler at x=1847, y=433.
For Tatooine’s [HEROIC 2+] A Droid Defiant, I mean.
Anyone have issues with the transmitter on tatooine at 880,480, i usually have to drop my seeker 10 times or so, but ive dropped it far more today and its just not killing the transmitter.
This is a great guide. Thanks !!
I can’t find the mission terminal on Alderaan? Could someone help? Please
It is right outside the spaceport
Thanks !! don’t know why I didn’t see it before???
how do u get to the last bit of moisture vaporator its inside an imp base ….
Just stand outside the base and scan it from there. you can still see it just fine and not get killed
The heroic on Tatooine is solable to a point. Yeah, when you’re seeking out the transmitters. The droid you need two people. A tank and a healer at the very least. Solable, my ass.
I’ve solo’d it a fair few times with a tank OR a healer. It’s tough but doable.
How? What did you do to get past the droid? What rotation? Class of toon? When I did it on my Consular Sage, it was not solable. So, exactly what did you do to get past him?
Bounty hunter healer (badly geared and very difficult) Just kept up the healing on myself and taking aggro only stopping to interrupt or do damage when i was over half health and let my companion DPS him down mostly.
Jugg tank decently geared just blitzed it, lots easier but I was mostly 69 geared.
Alderaan heroic 2+ was also soloable.
Solo’d as a marauder no problem. Just used malavai quin to heal me.
Maurader = dps = dmg…Kind of a no brainer…
I was able to do it with my seer, but you will definitely need your healer alt out, not your HK. Plan on the fight taking awhile. Time your bubbles and interrupt his Heat Laser. When he harpoons you, Force Stun him and back up. When I back up(ed) I dotted him while hitting myself with a heal.
Just plan on a long fight and keep your cool. You will get it.
I’m going to try again tonight using your advice. I upgraded my own armor but maybe I should upgrade my healers armor too. I haven’t been keeping him upgraded because I normally use one of my dps or tanking companions. I’ve noticed that HK is kind of weak in some fights but outstanding in others…Hopefully, I won’t end up screaming at the computer again…haha
I noticed his heat beam is timed the same as my interrupt. I sick my tank on him and run up ready to int his attack as soon as I do I go to healing until my int cools down. Then hit him with it and go back to healing. If I get my tank close to full health I do one damage attack and its back to healing. This has worked for me.
I did what you did, but didn’t make it through the mission without help from another player. I’m decently geared Jedi Sage using the seer tree. I have blues and purple geared items and mods, no green and working on switching out the blues for the purple lvl 55 mods. It’s slow replacing these things because things are so expensive on my server. The droid harpoons you, sets you on fire. I didn’t last long.
I also tried soloing the Alderaan heroic the other day based on the advice I saw here and died fast. Didn’t matter what I did. The boss hit me with the one shot and killed me instantly. My companion, HK-51 went down, then I went down. I healed him, but it didn’t work. I did manage to get him down to about 10% before my companion went down. By that time, my own HP was a little dot.
i did it on my healer but it took forever
How many times did you go down?
Umm, I took it down on my middle tree Scoundrel, never dropped below 80% health. Heroic moment sure has it’s perks.
I do it on my [55] Sage every single day, solo, easy as can be. But I do need to help my friend who is [55] Guardian. But only my companion does the fighting. I just heal it. And when doing it with my friend, only both our companions do the fighting, again, I just heal them.
It is soloable. Me = scoundrel healer, with Corso Riggs. Tank + healer 😀
Course, I did almost die, but next time I’ll probably do better.
I can solo all the GSI Dailies, including the heroics, as a Veng Jugg… Hoth is really the worst, but it mostly comes down to good cooldown usage & standard stuff like not standing in the bad stuff xD
and that’s without Heroic Moment, but I am using a healing companion.
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Also, is there a way to submit things to this site? I found another location for the scramblers (Republic side) that isn’t shown on the above screenshot.
Unbreakable Code on Makeb, Impside, can actually be done very quickly — 3 out of 4 of the towers can be scanned from atop a large, round rock near the Imperial Speeder, adjacent to tower #1. The #2 tower can be just barely detected through the gap in the rocks, even if it seems like you shouldn’t be able to. From here, head northwest to behind the large beast pen and you can scan the last one.
I don’t know if anyone has said this, but I just want to confirm that the locations for Tatooine Heroic +2 (Empire side) A Droid Defiant, the transmitter locations are random.
Pub side they respawn in a new location once someone finds it. There are three zones and each of those three transmitters will be at one of several places within that zone. The spawn locations are the same. Once you’ve done it sever times you’ll know just where to look.
Do I have to keep the Seeker droid and Macro binocular quests to access the GSI terminals, or is it level dependent? I was able to access the Tatooine terminal, but the others say I’m not eligible.
Found this for location 1 not that far apart from the other #1 locations
Found this for location 1
For the Heroic 2 on Alderaan: It is not always the transmitter just outside the spaceport. Most of the time I found the spy in house Alde, and rarely in houses Thul and Organa but never in house Rist
for anyone who doesn’t know what to do next after you got the 3 weapons from the alderaan daily called Antiquity Analysis. go to this location shown in photo.
for anyone who doesn’t know what to do next after you got the 3 weapons from the alderaan daily called Antiquity Analysis. go to apalis coast. right next to palista space port.there you will find the GSI weapons droids
Having serious problems doing [HEROIC 2+] Trade Secrets. Scanning all the houses does nothing to advance the mission.
The description for Trade Secrets is not correct. You scan 3 houses, I’m assuming you’re supposed to scan a 4th, but after the 3rd all quest markers disappear. No way to complete it.
Found that last night the marker shows up when you view in world view, it is House Rist. But the mission is still bugged because even after you scan it you still can’t find the spy. Reported as a bug today when I was online.
I am having the same problem with the Alderaan Heroic s Trade Secrets Mission. I scan all 4 of the Great House Transmitters and do not locate the spy. I have reset the mission and redone it, and still nothing. I have had this same problem before, but sometimes it works fine.
The Scramblers in Tatooine for Droid Defiant aren’t always working. Searching underneath won’t always get you the part. I’m doing right now where the part is stuck inside a building I cn’t get into.
After a few tries, I found out that you have to position the droid so that the centre of the search circle has to be right where the pillar (where is the scrambler is on) meets the ground, just like in the picture above. Moving just a few centimetres won’t work, weird.
the scramblers on tatooine are still glitched the seeker droid dont always detect something in the area even though theres a scrambler on the buildings… and sometimes the one right outside spaceport glitches to where seeker droid will say theres something in the area till you get within range to use seeker droid at the antenna
Can’t seem to find the middle scrambler, i’m running all over the place where it shows the spawn point, but just.. there’s nothing there.
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It seems half of these missions have been removed.
lol
seriously? but i hope they have bumped the rewards for other missions
Big Red does not exist. Three days in a row I hit all the scan points and nothing.
Did Big Red last month. I considered it a glitch.
There is a problem with ‘A droid Defiant”. Can’t use the seeker droid near most of the scramblers I find. Even when standing in the area pointed on the map, the droid doesn’t go active.
I did the Alderaan Weather Forecast mission and cannot see for the life of me where to upload the data. Does anyone know where the data transmitter is? Thanks.
Also, I looked for the red thranta in all locations and corroborate that he’s just not there.
I recently started the GSI missions and I haven’t had any problems. It took me awhile to find Big Red and the above guide really helped. Make sure to note when it says to click on something or at the base of something. Also, big point: remember that you can use your seeker droid at a pretty fair distance – this really helps when there are a lot of mobs around. Of course, I’m doing this on a stealthy, so that helps the most.
The only mission I’ve quit so far is the Tat one where you have to scan for the minerals or whatever…I got tired of looking and went to Makeb and did an easier one to complete my weekly.
Warped to the Core was torture, but with Z00ms help it finally worked out