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Hey everyone, while leveling up via the various planets, you will encounter many heroic quests and bonus series. You might be wondering from time to time if it is worth your while to stay on the current planet and do them or hop to the next planet and start a new quest chain.

This guide will hopefully answer some of that question for you. It will list all the heroic quests, bonus series and their associated rewards. Keep in mind that this list does not include any of the normal quests or any of the heroic dailies on Ilum or Belsavis that rewards Daily Commendations (exception: the Heroic 4+ on Black Hole is included as it drops orange armor as well). This list should hopefully help some of you fashion fanatics that are looking for matching armor of a set.

Contributors

Amarynth/Rynthos of Krayt Dragon for the Tython Heroics and Nar Shadda Bonus Series

Navigation

• Tython
• Ord Mantell
• Coruscant
• Taris (bonus – Level 20)
• Nar Shaddaa (bonus – Level 31)
• Tatooine (bonus – Level 28)
• Alderaan (bonus – Level 40)
• Balmorra (bonus – level 35)
• Hoth (bonus – Level 47)
• Belsavis
• Voss (bonus – Level 47)
• Corellia

Tython

The Chamber of Speech (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Do
• Location: Elarian Trail (-235, –58)
• Title: The Keeper of Truth

Ord Mantell

Cutting off the Head (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Fort Garnik Spaceport (276, 274)

Buying Loyalty (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Gizmel
• Location: Oradam Peninsula (-319, –469)

Destroy the Beacons (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Travi
• Location: Savrip Shore(-493, -519)

Coruscant

The Face Merchants (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Stansun
• Location: Black Sun Market (-3367, –295)

Trouble in Deed (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Luran
• Location: Justicar Territory – Veshok Terrace Apartments (1232, 4146)

Enemies of the Republic (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Belkan
• Location: The Works – Upper Power Distribution (980, 4563)

Republic’s Most Wanted (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location Old Galactic Market – Taxi Station (2390, 602)

Taris – Republic

Fallen Stars (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Waypoint Station Aurek (-726, 286)

Fall of the Locust (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: G-5KN
• Location: Republic Settlement Zone (1289, 397)

Total Elimination (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Reldar
• Location: Western Shore- Brell Sediment (-587, 558)

Rakghoul Release (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Selro
• Location: Waypoint Station Morne (287, 495)

Bonus series

Knight Fall (Heroic 2+, need to progress bonus series to activate)

• NPC: Kord
• Location: Tularan Marsh- Derelict Swoop Tracks (1212, 508)

Mutations (Heroic 2+, need to progress bonus series to activate)

• NPC: Larris
• Location: Tularan Marsh- Derelict Swoop Tracks (1236, 325)

Taris: Bonus Series

• NPC: Strom
• Location Taris Spaceport (-2068, 610)
• Required Quests: Missing Link, Where Darkness Abides, Future Threat, Suicide Mission

Missing Link (Part of bonus)

• NPC: Mola
• Location: Tularan Mash – Derelict Swoop Tracks (881, 592)

Where Darkness Abides (Part of Bonus)

• NPC: Mola
• Location: Tularan Mash – Derelict Swoop Tracks (881, 592)

Future Threat (Part of Bonus)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Brejik’s Run Outpost (1215, 510)

Suicide Mission (Part of Bonus)

• NPC: Mack
• Location: Kanner Outpost (411, –207)

Nar Shaddaa – Republic

Blood Money (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Jatta
• Location: Nikto Sector – Alien Arms Bazaar (-3580, –3426)

Nar Shaddaa Blood Sport (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Red Light Sector – Concourse (3344, –3494)

Breaking down Shadow Town (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Red Light Sector – Concourse (3344, –3494)

Mandalorian Rage(Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Lower Industrial Sector – Damrasch the Hutt’s Factory (-2185, 2874)

Bonus Series 

Lab Animals (Bonus Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Greggo
• Location: Lower Industrial Sector – Worker’s Quarters (-1651, 2848)

Hired Guns (Bonus Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Harrum
• Location: Lower Industrial Sector – Worker’s Quarters (-1610, 2873)

Shadow Extraction (Bonus Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Jax
• Location: Lower Industrial Sector – High Security Lockdown (2015, 3353)

The Morgukai (Bonus Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Tythan
• Location: Lower Industrial Sector – High Security Lockdown – Alien Outreach Center (2028, 3151)

 Nar Shaddaa: Bonus Series

• NPC: Deera
• Location: Deucalon Spaceport  (-2173, 1809)
• Quests: Art of Interrogation, One Piece at a Time, Diversion, Memory Flush

Art of Interrogation (Part of Bonus Series)

• NPC: Uli
• Location: Worker’s Quarters – Imperial Intelligence Gadget Warehouse (-1639, 2876)

One Piece at a Time (Part of Bonus Series)

• NPC: Ciqala
• Location: Worker’s Quarters – Imperial Intelligence Gadget Warehouse (-1621, 2858)

Diversion (Part of Bonus Series)

• NPC: Jaysa
• Location: High Security Lockdown – Alien Outreach Center (2043, 3120)

Memory Flush (Part of Bonus Series)

• NPC: Carina
• Location: High Security Lockdown – Alien Outreach Center (2049, 3144)

Tatooine- Republic

Down the Hole (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Ledo
• Location: Anchorhead Cantina (2241, –3692)

Pirate Bullies (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Jundland – Outpost Largona (1712, –1033)

A Jawa’s Concern (Heroic 4+, unlocked by doing Pirate Bullies)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Jundland – Outpost Largona (1712, –1033)

Reap the Whirlwind (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Martik
• Location: Jundland – Outpost Salara (34, –1785)

Search and Rescue (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Danbar
• Location: Jundland – Dreviad Wastes (341, –1452)

Breaking the Code (Heroic 2+, may need to unlock via doing quests for nearby Jawa Krikit)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Jundland – Camp Karnori (1687, -2166)

The Long Goodbye (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Lapad
• Location: The Dune Sea – Outpost Thorazan

Bonus series

Tatooine: Bonus series 

• NPC: Junter
• Quests: Militia Training, Militia’s Trial, Water Pirates, Show of Force
• Location: Jundland – Camp Karnori (1701, –2155)

Militia Training (Part of Bonus)

• NPC: Junter
• Location: Jundland – Camp Karnori (1701, –2155)

Militia’s Trial (Part of Bonus)

• NPC: Junter
• Location: Jundland – Camp Karnori (1701, –2155)

Water Pirates (Part of Bonus)

• NPC: Dester
• Location: Jundland – Outpost Largona (1756, -1063)

Show of Force (Part of Bonus)

• NPC: Larcoh
• Location: Jundland – Outpost Largona (1682, –1063)

Alderaan – Republic

Proof of Treason (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Apalis Coast – Foothill Paths (-1039, 1184)

Special Delivery (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Obatt
• Location: Alsakan Lowlands – Wardpost Duvaal (483, 1724)

Red Handed (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Samara
• Location: Glarus Vallery – Panteer Refuge  (-1433, -731)

Bonus series

Turning the Tide  (Heroic 2+, unlock via progressing the bonus series)

• NPC: Dolin
• Location: King’s Pass Wardpost Luurdes (1367, 1781)

Into the Killik Warrens (Heroic 2+, unlock via progressing the bonus series)

• NPC: Essor
• Location: King’s Pass Wardpost Luurdes (1334, 1805)

Survivors (Heroic 2+, unlock via progressing the bonus series)

• NPC: Elz
• Location: King’s Pass – Syrush Estate (2026, 2223)

Looted Secrets (Heroic 4+, unlock via progressing the bonus series)

• NPC: Surik
• Location: King’s Pass – House Trader’s Circle (3026, 519)

Alderaan: Bonus Series 

• NPC: Brom
• Location: Organa Castle – Republic Dispatch Center (-712, 1041)

Observatory (part of bonus series)

• NPC: Linel
• Location: King’s Pass Wardpost Luurdes (1341, 1790)

Shipment of weapons (part of bonus series)

• NPC: Kamen
• Location: King’s Pass Ulgo Foothills (2006, 1381)

A spy in House Organa (part of bonus series)

• NPC: Tyuth
• Location: King’s Pass – House Trader’s Circle (3072, 473)

Balmorra – Republic

Shifting Priorities  (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Feero
• Location: Upper Markaran Outpost (-1124, 1009)

Target of Opportunity  (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Protarius
• Location: Sobrikarill Vallery (117, 1486)

Industrial Sabotage (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Nic’ala
• Location: Sundari Flatlands (839, 1487)

Acquired Taste  (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Larindaz
• Location: Sundari Flatlands (809, 1559)

Local Predators  (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Tenn
• Location: Sundari Flatlands (869, 1523)

Hit’em where they live (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Chedd
• Location: Gorinth Canyon (-519, 1794)

Justice for the Lost  (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Galway
• Location: Moraine Outpost (-505, 1666)

Mandalorian Terror  (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Alya
• Location: Gorinth Outpost (-17, 1684)
• Title: Hero of Gorinth Canyon

Colicoid Massacre: The Evidence  (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Holoterminal
• Location: Research Grounds (1248, 1911)

Bonus series

Bonus series 1

• NPC: Wixx
• Location: Moraine Outpost (-505, 1666)
• Required Quests: Hunting the Mandalorians, Endangered Passengers

Hunting the Mandalorians (part of bonus series 1)

• NPC: Rond
• Location: Moraine Outpost (-505, 1666)

Endangered Passengers (part of bonus series 1)

• NPC: Daven
• Location: Moraine Outpost ( –514, 1771)

Bonus series 2

• NPC: Gabe
• Location: Next to the planetary shuttle
• Required Quests: Nowhere to run, The Neutralizer

Nowhere to Run (part of bonus series 2)

• NPC: Jojames
• Location: Upper Sundari Outpost (1466, 1233)

The Neutralizer (part of bonus series 2)

• NPC: Garik
• Location: Upper Sundari Outpost (1466, 1233)

Hoth- Republic

Prisoner Extraction (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Keloh
• Location: Aurek Base (-3430, –1305)

Gamorrean Menace (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Leebo
• Location: Outpost Cresh (-2025, –1043)

The Terror Brigade (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Calia
• Location: Outpost Senth (-768, –770)

Taking Inventory (Area 4+)

• NPC: AREA
• Location: Vehement Sword Wreckage (1952, 473)

Invisible Foes (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Gorellix
• Location: Outpost Zerek (1262, –88)

Bonus series

Better Droids (Bonus Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Kerkarr
• Location: Drift Hills Republic Depot (-3103, –290)

Tech Diagrams (Bonus Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Fabel
• Location: Drift Hills Republic Depot (-3109, –317)

Signal Jam (Bonus Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Jaro
• Location: Drift Hills Republic Depot (-3109, –317)

Humanitarian Aid (Bonus Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Maya
• Location: Jagged Plains Republic Outpost (-2707. 374)

Frostclaw (Bonus Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Neelo
• Location: Jagged Plains Republic Outpost (-2707. 374)

Hoth Bonus Series

• NPC: Llic
• Location: Aurek Base (-3455, –1281)
• Quests: Lost Patrol, Cutting Our Losses, The Beast Lord

Lost Patrol (Part of Bonus )

• NPC: Captain Armarak
• Location: Drift Hills Republic Depot (-3092, –278)

Cutting Our Loses (Part of Bonus)

• NPC: Farren
• Location: Jagged Plains Republic Outpost (-2771, 394)

The Beast Lord (Part of bonus)

• NPC: Elsor
• Location: Jagged Plains Republic Outpost (-2771, 394)

Belsavis – Republic

Jungle Flight (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Firehawk
• Location: Veractyl Vale (445, 814)

The Engineer’s Tale (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Valyn
• Location: Maximum Security Ops Center (-1527, –371)

The Tyrant (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Console
• Location: Caves of Primeval Warden (-331, –1681)

Prison Scars (AREA 1+, not repeatable)

• NPC: AREA
• Location: The Scar

Voss – Republic

Savage Connections (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Voss Outlook (63, 1548)

Not Afraid Enough (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Shad-Ka Outpost (1144, 726)

Trial of the First (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Shrine of Healing (-1940, –1853)

Cyber Mercenaries (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Kri-Ta Outpost (665, –1317)

Bonus series

Voss Bonus Series 1

• NPC: Halykus
• Location: Kri-Ta Outpost (602, –1317)

Voss Bonus Series 2

• NPC: Halykus
• Location: Kri-Ta Outpost (602, –1317)

Corellia – Republic

Under New Management (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Herron
• Location: Blastfield Shipyards – Gilded Descent Casino (482, 1326)

Concierge (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Tott
• Location: Axial Park – Republic Safe House (843, -3337)

Starfighters of Corellia (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Bathens
• Location: Govrment District – Port Pevaria

Biological Warfare (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Kirin
• Location: Labor Valley (-2566, –2688)

Chasing the Shadow (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Horizon Outpost in Black Hole

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Hey everyone, while leveling up via the various planets, you will encounter many heroic quests and bonus series. You might be wondering from time to time if it is worth your while to stay on the current planet and do them or hop to the next planet and start a new quest chain.

This guide will hopefully answer some of that question for you. It will list all the heroic quests, bonus series and their associated rewards. Keep in mind that this list does not include any of the normal quests or any of the heroic dailies on Ilum or Belsavis that rewards Daily Commendations (exception: the Heroic 4+ on Black Hole is included as it drops orange armor as well). This list should hopefully help some of you fashion fanatics that are looking for matching armor of a set.

How to Use

Most of this is fairly self-explanatory. This page will have a list of most if not all of heroic missions and bonus series you will encounter while leveling from 1 to 50. It make an extensive use of Torhead and AMR tooltips for easy viewing. For every mission, there will be 

1) Torhead Tooltip for the mission if you need more details

2) Name of the NPC to start the mission

3) Location and Coordinates of the starter NPC.

4) Rewards.

For the rewards, some are class specific while others are not. For example, when turning in a heroic mission, you might get a choice between a prototype box, 3 planetary commendations and a piece of orange gear specific for your class/advanced class. The prototype box and commendations will be listed at the top of the table under All Classes and the class specific gear will be listed below under the appropriate class.

If a reward is not listed for your class, it just means that I don’t have the reward data for that particular quest for you class and I need your help to locate if possible. I have personally verified the reward data for sorcerers on the Empire side and Commando on the Republic side. Rest of the data came from Torhead comments for each particular mission or from the data gathered by AMR (Ask Mr Robot). Regardless, the reward for all classes follow a pattern. If a particular mission offer an orange chest for the classes listed and your class isn’t, you can bet accurately that you will get an orange chest as well. There are some exceptions like dual wielding classes may get orange custom offhand weapons while rest of the classes get blue quality non-moddable offhands.

Anyways, this page will be continually updated with more reward data as time passes. If you feel like helping, you can drop a comment below with the quest name and rewards if you like!

What is missing

• Hutta Heroics
• Nar Shaddaa Bonus series
• Tatooine Bonus series
• Taris Bonus series

Navigation

• Korriban
• Dromund Kaas
• Balmorra (bonus – level 21)
• Nar Shaddaa (bonus – level 31)
• Tatooine (bonus – level 28)
• Alderaan (bonus- level 40)
• Taris (bonus – level 36)
• Hoth (bonus – level 47)
• Belsavis
• Voss (bonus – level 47)
• Corellia

Korriban

Armed and Dangerous (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Departure Shuttle (156, 124)

The Hate Machine (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Ephran
• Location: Tomb of Tulak Hord (-21, 101)

Dromund Kaas

Personal Challenge (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Vort
• Location: Outpost Tempest (265, 768)

Saving Face (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Vol
• Location: The Unfinished Colossus (372, 1072)

Shadow Spawn (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Shalath
• Location: The Wall (-350,1118)

Friends of Old (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Shellaster
• Location: Kaas City Expansion District (-1068, 217)

Hadra’s Defeat (AREA 4+)

• NPC: AREA
• Location: Initiate’s Path (-387, 551)

Balmorra- Empire

Settling Debts (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Larbec
• Location: Sorbik (-37, 1203)

Firestar (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Neddis
• Location: Gorinth Imperial Outpost (-28, 1701)

Comrades in Arms: Repair (Heroic 4+, also known as Comrade in Arms: Reprogram)

• NPC: B-6NX
• Location: Gorinth Canyon – The Narrows (553, 1504)

Resistance Sympathizers (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Sundari Flatlands – Imperial Outpost (862, 1558)

Toxic Bombs (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Markaran Plains – Remote Outpost (-1137, 957)

The Republic’s Last Gasp (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Markaran Plains – Stillwater Bend (-1588, 1334)

A Question of Motivation (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Piloc
• Location: Bugtown – Farnell Research Facility (269, –92)

Project Hexapod (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Revis
• Location: Bugtown – Farnell Research Facility (273, –105)

Bonus Series

Balmorra: Bonus Series 

• NPC: Laverse
• Quests: Flight Plan, The Guns of Traken-4, Downed Pilots, Colicoid Feast
• Location: Sorbik Spaceport (-161, 879)

Flight Plan (Part of Bonus)

• NPC: Moriden 
• Location: Markaran Plains – Remote Outpost (-1131, 964)

The Guns of Traken-4 (Part of Bonus)

• NPC: Teeg
• Location: Markaran Plains – Remote Outpost (-1131, 964)

Downed Pilots  (Part of Bonus)

• NPC: Heln
• Location: Markaran Plains – Stillwater Bend (-1646, –1319)

Colicoid Feast (Part of Bonus)

• NPC: Renzfeil
• Location: Markaran Plains – Stillwater Bend (-1550, –1333)

Nar Shaddaa- Empire

Terminal Injuries (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Heedley
• Location: Mezenti Spaceport (-2174, –1837)

Crushing the Jedi Freedom Fighters (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Duro Sector – Intelligence Post Drazaal

A Pound of Flesh (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Skav
• Location: Upper Industrial Sector –Main production Boulevard (-2192, 2740)

Hunger of the Vrblthers (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Network Access – Network Infrastructure District (1990, 2658)

Bonus Series

Botched Interrogation (Bonus Heroic 2+, requires doing the bonus series to unlock)

• NPC: Gorn
• Location: Network Access – Network Infrastructure District (1990, 2658)

Recruitment (Bonus Heroic 2+, requires doing the bonus series to unlock, bugged and non-repeatable)

• NPC: Gorn
• Location: Network Access – Network Infrastructure District (1990, 2658)

Building a Better Beast (Bonus Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Glort
• Location: Network Security District – Transit Bridge (1645, 2812)

Glitch (Bonus Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Ryleah
• Location: Network Security District – Transit Bridge (1718, 2853)

Tatooine- Empire

Jawa Trade (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Lana
• Location: Mos Ila (713, 2999)

Supply Lines (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Cibinel
• Location: Outpost Varath (831, 524)

Black Box (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Marcus
• Location: Mos Anek (130, 306)

Blood and Sand (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Gezda
• Location: Outpost Rennar (1256, 1)

Bonus series

Call down the Thunder (Heroic 4+, need to complete Trespassing from Lieutenant Berrig)

• NPC: Vuk
• Location: Ridgeside Sentry Post (1613, –598)

War on Spice (Heroic 4+, need to complete Trespassing from Lieutenant Berrig)

• NPC: Reskin
• Location: Ridgeside Sentry Post (1593, –577)

Prison Labor (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Vengo
• Location: Outpost Zaroshe (-642, –619)

Alderaan- Empire

The Lanar Question (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Keldas
• Location: Borderpost Augis (-573, -1810)

Insufficient Staff (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Tegan
• Location: Outpost Talarn (1929, 825)

Shock Doctrine (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Malichose
• Location: Outpost Ghrent (-692, 65)

Assault on Fort Aide (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: AREA
• Location: Fort Aide (1773, 471)

Bonus Series

Droid Repossession (Bonus area Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Rehmar
• Location: Thul Research Camp (1639, -1884)

Sabotage (Bonus area Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Gevin
• Location: Lerantha Footpath (1950, –1973)

Reinforcement (Bonus area Heroic 2+, need do bonus series to unlock)

• NPC: Fannatex
• Location: Kaamos Territory – North Fornaak River

Spring Thaw (Bonus area Heroic 2+, need do bonus series to unlock)

• NPC: Lanoyo
• Location: Kaamos Territory – Outpost Eudan (592, –2644)

Alderaan: Bonus Series

• NPC: Serjay
• Quests: Lethal Attraction, The Lessons of History
• Location: Thul Palace – Lord Serjey Thul’s Stateroom

Lethal Attraction (Part of bonus)

• NPC: Namada
• Location: Kaamos Territory – Outpost Eudor (607, –2660)

The Lessons of History (Part of bonus)

• NPC: Yudin
• Location: Thul Research Camp (1626, –1875)

Taris – Empire

Spilling Chemicals (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Lya
• Location: The Brell Sediment – Bomber Command Post (-796, 753)

Highway to Destruction (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Tularan Marsh – 75th Legion Forward Camp (753, 283)

Last of the Tarisian Pirates (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Praetor
• Location: Tularan Marsh – 75th Legion Forward Camp (720, 278)

The Fathers of Taris (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Tularan Marsh – Border Assault Post (328, 523)

Enclave Raid (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Bourom
• Location: The Sinking City – Forward Outpost Alpha (372, –263)

Blackout (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Komo
• Location: Crater Command Base (-1141, 573)

Hoth- Empire

Joint Training (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Graich
• Location: Dorn Base (-2601, 837)

Deconstruction Efforts (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Xeleste
• Location: Leth Outpost, Command Center (-812, 961)

The Brig Stompers (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Kavsun
• Location: Thesh Outpost, Command Center (-571, 277)

Medical Advancement  (Area 4+)

• NPC: AREA
• Location: Starship Graveyard, White Maw Encampment (2252, -445)

The Big Find (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Vujaar
• Location: Frostwake Outpost, Command Center (1247, 524)

Bonus series

Sensitive Material (Bonus Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Zerdran
• Location: Drift Hills Imperial Outpost (-3406, 912)

Static (Bonus area Heroic 4+, may need to do bonus series to unlock)

• NPC: Jerrod
• Location: Drift Hills Imperial Outpost (-3397, 932)

Pirated Lockbox (Bonus Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Switts
• Location: Drift Hills Imperial Outpost (-3446, 881)

Taking the Heat  (Bonus Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Viatar
• Location: Jagged Plains Imperial Garrison (-2224, –50)

A Traitor’s Punishment (Bonus Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Varos
• Location: Jagged Hills Imperial Garrison (-2243, -39)

Hoth Bonus Series

• NPC: Graich
• Location: Don Base (-2592, 738)
• Quests: First In Flight, A Mysterious Enemy, Open Season

First in Flight (Part of Bonus )

• NPC: Sarria
• Location: Drift Hills Imperial Outpost  (-3438, 951)

A Mysterious Enemy (Part of Bonus)

• NPC: G0-S5
• Location: Drift Hills Imperial Outpost

Open Season (Part of bonus)

• NPC: Kinto
• Location: Jagged Plains Imperial Garrison

Belsavis – Empire

Republic Secrets (Heroic 2+, bugged, not repeatable)

• NPC: Ferrid
• Location: Minimum Security – Imperial Lodgements (1604, 1468)

A Rock and A Hard Place (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Ava
• Location: High Security Section – Imperial Command Post (-108, 1570)

Breakthrough (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: TA-350
• Location: The Tomb – Imperial Remote Outpost (-1212, –1821)

Voss – Empire

Ancient Guardians (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: The Old Paths – Fort Kodentha (-1349, 483)

The First Commando’s Call (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Shrine of Healing (-1966, –1851)

Rock Eaters (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Pelath-Ri Marches – Pelath Point (-420, –1966)

Cleanse the Corrupted (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Terminal
• Location: Nightmare Lands – Ghen’s Outlook (1168, –794)

Bonus Series

Voss Bonus Series 1

• NPC: Lesi
• Location: Voss-Ka – Imperial District (next to the shuttle)

Voss Bonus Series 2

• NPC:
• Location:

Corellia – Empire

Explosive Assault (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Junia
• Location: Incorporation islands – Coronet Spaceport (-1549, 1954)

CorSec Crackdown (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Raddus
• Location: Incorporation Islands – Tram Station (-1629, 2146)

Wookiee Revolt (Heroic 2+)

• NPC: Helricks
• Location: Labor Vallery – Imperial War Camp (-3082, –1603)

Prison Busting (Heroic 4+)

• NPC: Tarandon
• Location: Government District – Imperial Central Command

 The End of Torvix (Heroic 4+)

• NPC:
• Location: Black Hole

Continue reading »]]> Hey everyone, color crystals in SWTOR are popular vanity items ever since the game’s launch. With the arrival of patch 1.2, we saw the introduction of several new crystal colors (Black-Orange, Black-Purple) as well as upgrades for several existing colors to their endgame stats (+41 crit/power/endurance/expertise).

Unfortunately, the method to obtain these sometime rare color crystals are poorly documented and there are quite a lot of rumors and speculations. The goal of this guide is to organize all the information that is out there and hopefully bring awareness on the search for some of the more elusive crystals.

There are 4 variants of endgame color crystals, each one with a suffix

• Eviscerating: +41 crit
• Hawkeye: +41 power
• Indestructible: +41 endurance
• War Hero: +41 expertise

Together, the Eviscerating, Hawkeye, and Indestructible crystals are called PvE crystals.

Some oddities

• Cyan (Light-Blue) color crystal with +41 PvE stats can be obtained from Republic Columi level weapons but the Purple color crystal with +41 PvE stats cannot be obtained from the Empire Columi level weapons (you get crystals with +31 stats instead). Exception is one single weapon called http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/29171/punisher on the empire side that have the +41 crit purple crystal.
• Half of the War Hero weapons (Knight/Warrior & Inquisitor/Consular) have Red (Empire)/Green (Republic) +41 expertise crystals while the other half (Bounty Hunter/Trooper, Smuggler/Agent) have orange +41 expertise crystals. 

Anyways, lets start with an image with all the color crystals for easy viewing/drooling!

Basic Colors

These crystals with basic colors have a white core inside them.

Red

Advanced Red War Hero’s Crystal	Crystal (BoP) can be purchased directly off the PvP vendor for 500 Warzone Commendations or ripped from Empire War Hero PvP weapons (Warrior and Inquisitor weapons).
Advanced Red Hawkeye Crystal Advanced Red Eviscerating Crystal Advanced Red Indestructible Crystal	Schematic (artifice BoP, BoE end-product) can be purchased from the Daily Commendation vendor for 20 Daily Commendation

Blue

Advanced Blue War Hero’s Crystal	Schematic rumored to be a random drop obtained from the Grade 6 PvP crafting box sold at the PvP Vendor for 1k Warzone Commendations. The BoE version of the crystal was obtainable pre 1.2 from a vendor on the fleet that no longer exists.
Advanced Blue Hawkeye Crystal Advanced Blue Eviscerating Crystal Advanced Blue Indestructible Crystal	Schematic (artifice BoP, BoE end-product) can be purchased from the Daily Commendation vendor for 20 Daily Commendation or the PvP vendor for 450 Warzone Commendations

Yellow

Advanced Yellow War Hero’s Crystal	Schematic rumored to be a random drop obtained from the Grade 6 PvP crafting box sold at the PvP Vendor for 1k Warzone Commendations. The BoE version of the crystal was obtainable pre 1.2 from a vendor on the fleet that no longer exists.
Advanced Yellow Hawkeye Crystal Advanced Yellow Eviscerating Crystal Advanced Yellow Indestructible Crystal	Schematic (artifice BoP, BoE end-product) can be purchased from the PvP vendor for 450 Warzone Commendations

Green

Orange

Advanced Orange War Hero Crystal	The devs have said that schematics for this particular crystal is currently not in-game at this time (source). However, the War Hero mainhands and offhands for agents/smugglers and bounty hunters/troopers have these orange War Hero crystals in them so if you want it badly, you know where to get them!
Advanced Orange Hawkeye Crystal Advanced Orange Eviscerating Crystal Advanced Orange Indestructible Crystal:	Schematics for artifice can be obtained from the Primal Destroyer in Belsavis (source). Crystals can also be ripped from Campaign weapons obtained from Hardmode Explosive Conflict.

Cyan (also known as Light – Blue)

Purple

Magenta (also known as Light- Red)

White

Black Core Colors

Black Red

Black Blue

Black Yellow

Black Green (Rakghoul)

SE Black Green (Razer Hardware)

Black Orange

Black Purple

Image credits: White and Black-Purple screenshots taken from Torhead’s user submitted screenshots. Rest of the screenshots were my own (Cyan and Black-Orange screenshots are that of Yuki and Dukhat of <Sedition> respectively. Black-Purple screenshot is that of Pinn of <YES>).

Article is co-owned and first published at

Continue reading »]]> Hey everyone, the first beta weekend for Guild Wars 2 had just concluded and I had an awesome experience playing as a mesmer (got her to level 27)! While playing, I noticed that a lot of the things were not immediately obvious to a new player (especially one that never played GW1) so I decided to check out some features and compile a list of tips & tricks you might find useful for the next beta or when the game launches (no ETA yet)!

1. Your biography at character creation determines how your personal story plays out
2. Learn to Kite/dodge attacks
3. Downed state and death
4. Auto-attacking
5. Show cooldown timers on your ability bar
6. Fast-Cast Ground Targeting
7. Auto-loot
8. Easy way to tell if an ability is within range
9. Waypoints, PoIs, skill ups, and tasks
10. Scouts & Tasks
11. Check your mail for rewards from tasks!
12. Dynamic events and Karma
13. Effective Level
14. Joining your friends that play other races
15. Weapon abilities and their unlocking
16. How to check if you are in the overflow
17. Three layers of maps
18. Aquatic weapons
19. High Res Screenshots & 3D screenshots
20. Gathering & its benfits
21. Upgrade slots & salvage kits
22. Armoring dyes – change your dyes anytime, anywhere
23. Deposit Collectible for crafting materials!
24. One bag and auto bag sorting
25. Bank is shared accountwide
26. PvP: Structured vs WvW
27. No trading with other players, mail it to them!
28. Auction house, accessible and no need to wait for buyers/sellers
29. Boons and Conditions
30. Offline mode & friend list

1. Your biography at character creation determines how your personal story plays out

In the character creation window, you are given a number of choices to personalize your character’s biography. As expected, your race has a major impact on the personal story but other choices you make like your background, your personality, your goals, and even the choices you make later on in your personal story will change your personal story and make it different than others.

Do take your time and pick your choices carefully at character creation, it will impact your personal story experience drastically. For example, as a human with a noble background seeking my lost parents, my personal story involved a lot of mingling with the nobility and quests to search my lost parents.

2. Learn to Kite/dodge attacks

This one is very general but if you are not familiar with these two techniques, you might find the Guild Wars 2 PvE content a bit harder (I died about 65 times in the beta weekend).

Kiting is used primarily by ranged classes against melee monsters, especially when the monsters you are trying to fight hits particularly hard. It is the art of running in wide circles around the mob, casting spells while doing so. This technique is especially viable in GW2 for two particular reasons

• Mobs hit hard – they can 2-3 shot you if you don’t avoid their attacks
• You don’t need to stop and cast in GW2 for most of your abilities

Dodging in GW2 can be achieved via double tapping a movement key (WSAD). Be aware that it uses up your energy, which is represented in a bar form. Luckily, the energy bar refills pretty quick, allowing you to dodge often.

Dodging is super useful when you see a mob charge up their massive attack or quickly getting out of a red circle in the ground. If you do it successfully, you see an “Evaded!” text on the screen and avoid the damage completely. A single dodge will use up about 40% of your energy bar, allowing to dodge twice in rapid succession if needed.

While all of this is viable against melee monsters, getting out of line of sight (LoS) is a good strategy against ranged mobs. This involves running behind something in the terrain so that the mob can’t “see” you for their ranged abilities. If you are quick, you can sometimes dodge the ranged attacks as well, especially if they are throwing things at you.

3. Downed state and death

In GW2, when you are defeated by a monster, you do not die right away. Instead, you enter a downed state and are given 4 abilities depending on your class (the 4th ability, Bandage, is shared between all classes). In this state you can continue fighting but your skills are less powerful. Unless the monster you are fighting is close to death or you get revived by another player, downed state is followed shortly by the defeated state (if you know another player is killing the mob that has put you in a downed state, it is best to press 4 so you regen some health and don’t get killed by the mobs’s AoE attacks for example).

In the defeated state, you are essentially dead.  The only way to return to the world is either respawn at a waypoint nearby (more on waypoints below) or get revived by another player. You will take armor damage when you enter the defeated state and your will also incur a death penalty, which is a temporary debuff that makes your enter your next downed state with less health.

In some circumstances, if the mob your are fighting against in the downed state is killed, you will rally back into life and exit the downed state.

Reviving other players is very important. You will get experience for reviving other players in addition to their gratitude (hey you just saved them a repair cost, they should be thankful!).

4. Auto-attacking

One thing that is super neat is that you can set a specific weapon ability to auto-attack by simply ctrl + right click on that skill. Doing so will allow that ability to be used on the enemy continuously without any input from your end until the enemy is dead. This obviously work extremely well for abilities with no cooldowns (typically the first ability in your weapon).

By default, the auto-attacking is turned off when you switch targets but you can turn that on if you like in the options.

Keep in mind that you can only set one ability for auto-attacking at a time.

5. Show cooldown timers on your ability bar

Knowing exactly how many seconds remain before a particular ability is useable  again is an extremely important information. Luckily, you can enable this option easily by hitting ESC key and go into options and choose Show Skill Recharge

6. Fast-Cast Ground Targeting

While we are on the options skill, one option you may or may not find useful is the option – Fast Cast Ground Targeting.

Usually, when you use a spell that requires you to target the ground, you are given a targeting reticle to place on the ground so there is a small delay there as you try to position the reticle. With this option enabled, the reticle no longer appears, and the location of your mouse cursor becomes the location where that particular spell is dropped.

This is useful for some people as it enables faster casting of these abilities but it is not for everyone as some spells have a range (i.e. Blink for the Mesmer class) and you can’t really see the reticle to determine if the location you are trying to hop to is out of range or not (reticle turns red if out of range).

7. Auto-loot

Auto-loot is another option you can turn in in the options window. Auto loot is a bit misleading as it doesn’t actually loot items automatically for you. You still need to go near a sparkling corpse and press F to loot the corpse. With auto-loot turned on, you won’t get a pop up box or anything, items just go into your inventory. You will still be able to see the items you loot via the sliding thingie at the bottom right of your UI.

8. Easy way to tell if an ability is within range

When you look down at your ability bar, you will see numbers responding to their hotkey position. These numbers appear red when something you are have targeted is out of range and appears white if the target is within range of the ability.

Caveat: As Vexacion on Reddit pointed out, if you re-map your abilities to other hotkeys, this the new hotkey won’t display at the bottom of skill and therefore you can’t tell if the ability is within range or not!

9. Waypoints, PoIs, skill ups, and tasks

Tasks: There are no “quests” in GW2 like in in traditional MMOs; instead, you have tasks all over the map (represented by the heart symbol).

Each tasks can be completed via a number of methods specified on your task log.

Each task have a recommend level, if you are more than 2-3 levels below the recommended level, you might have a hard time with the task unless you are grouped up with friends.

Keep in mind that each task have a specific location, if you are too far away from the area, your actions will not give you credit towards the task. So make sure to always check the right top side of the UI to ensure that the task is there (if you see the task there, then you are in the right area).

Waypoints are the little squares you see on your map, to unlock them, you simply need to be close to them and you will unlock them right away. Waypoint unlocking is extremely important as when you die, the only way to get back to the living world is to respawn near a waypoint (or get revived by nearby players). If you havn’t unlocked the waypoints near the location where you died, it is a long run back!

Skill ups are points used for your Slot skills (accessed by pressing the H button and going to the 2nd tab). After level 10, every level you gain will award you with a skill point but there are also skill up points scattered throughout the map that allow you to get access to additional skill ups so you can get your slot skills quicker. Each of these skill ups are guarded by mobs of the level appropriate for that area but you can definitely team up with friends and get them as a lower level character. Unclaimed skill points appear as an empty blue up arrow while claimed skill points appear as a filled arrow.

Last but not least, PoI (Points of Interest) are also scattered around on the map, they appear as a tiny square. While they do not provide any obvious benefits, discovering them can grant you experience and getting all the waypoints, tasks, skill ups and POIs on a map will grant you some items in the mail!

10. Scouts & Tasks

While running around questing on the map, you will see these telescope symbols on unexplored areas. Running to these icons will reveal a scout, which can show you nearby tasks. You can of course totally ignore them and discover tasks on your own!

11. Check your mail for rewards from tasks!

This was one of the things that I didn’t discover until much later in the beta. I was running around in coppers, struggling to find the money to even use waypoints until someone told me about this! Everytime you finish a task for a NPC, you will receive a message in the mail. While most of it is just the NPC thanking you for helping them, you should check the bottom left corner of the mail as it often contains coins that you can simply press Take All to receive them!

12. Dynamic events and Karma

In addition to the tasks you can complete, there are also dynamic events around the zone (usually close to the tasks themselves) that you can complete. They are marked on the map with a big orange circle and also appear on the top right side of your screen. Doing these events will grant you experience, coins and karma. These events scale according to the number of players nearby.

Your contribution in the event is ranked by Gold, Silver and Bronze levels (depends on your participation). Higher ranked contribution will give you more Karma, experience and coins.

Karma is a purple currency that will allow you to to exchange for items from the Karma mechant. These merchants are basically the Hearts symbol on your map, the same NPC that you were doing tasks for. To unlock their merchant mode, you must first complete tasks for them. The level of the item they sell is same as the level of the task itself.

This way, you have to do dynamic events to get the Karma to spend on items but you also need to do the tasks to unlock the merchant.

13. Effective Level

GW2 has a scaling system in place that automatically scale high level players to the level appropriate for that area. This is a method to prevent high level players from slaughtering low level areas and also a way for high level players to participate in low level event they might have missed and still get rewarded.

If you see your health decrease for some reason while roaming around the map, don’t panic! Effective level is in place. You can check what level you have scaled to by opening your character’s window (pressing H) and the effective level should be displayed in green text.

An easier way to check your alternative level as pointed out by Wolfhammer on the Gw2guru forums is that if you look at the left side of your XP bar, the effective level would be in green text with brackets like

(12) 18 where 12 is your effective and 18 is your actual level.

14. Joining your friends that play other races

One feature I really liked about GW2 is that every race has their own starting area (during the beta every race had a different 1-17 zone and a different 15-25 zone). If your friends don’t play the same races as you or if you are bored of your own race’s questing area, you can easily hop to the questing area for other races. This is also a good way to get some levels if you are running out of events and tasks to do in your own race staring area. GW2 rewards a lot of XP for exploration so definitely explore as much as possible, especially if your next task/personal story/etc is a couple levels above you and you have nothing to do!

To do this, you need to press H and click on the last tab (marked by crossed swords). This will bring you to the PvP tab. Once you are there, press the button called Be in the Mists and you will be instantly teleported to the starter PvP lobby. Once you are in the PvP lobby, you need to run across to the other side to the next area called Hall of Memories. Once you are in there, go left and you will see a purple Asura gate. Going through the gate will bring you to Lion’s Arch (do not go into the blue gate, that is for WvW PvP).

Once you are in Lion’s Arch (it’s a huge city!) Head to Grand Piazza and that should bring you to the Asura gates for the main cities for all the other races.

15. Weapon abilities and their unlocking

One unique feature of GW2 is that every weapon has abilities associated with them. If you press H key and go to the 2nd tab to select weapon skills, you can see a list of all the weapon abilities available to your class.  There might be a specific weapon that you really like but it might take awhile if you just waiting for drops from monsters. Luckily you can purchase a weapon fairly cheap from the weaponsmith you find in towns.

In terms of unlocking abilities associated with various weapons, I find it best to find a place filled with non-aggro mobs and then just go practice on them. At early stages of unlocking, you will be abit weaker so it is best to practice without getting aggro from nearby mobs. You can also swap to the other weapon set during combat, as long you get the killshot on the mob with the weapon you want to unlock.

16. How to check if you are in the overflow

If a particular map on your home world/server is full, you will be placed in the overflow server. This can be problematic if you are trying to play with friends who are in the home world. Sometimes you may not even notice that you are in the overflow server and get stumbled when trying to meet up.

Luckily you can check to see if you are playing in your homeworld or in the overflow server by pressing N, if it bring up a whole bunch of WvWs stats then you are not in the overflow server!

17. Three layers of maps

When you open up your map by pressing the M button, you may notice that there are 3 layers of maps you can toggle. The underground layer is particularly useful if you are trying to find a PoI you might have missed while exploring or trying to figure out how to get to a particular place that is underground. An example is one of the PoIs in Kessex Hills, it is actually located in an underground cave that you need to access via an underwater tunnel. It wasn’t immediately obvious to me until I hit the underground layer on the maps.

18. Aquatic weapons

There are some weapons that are not useable while on land and are only useable underwater! I spent the longest time trying to figure out how to equip a harpoon & spear on my mesmer until I figured out that these are aquatic weapons!

You can equip aquatic weapons and mask in a separate slot in your character window. The best place to get really good underwater weapons/masks is looking for tasks that are underwater. The karma vendor there will usually have some nice underwater items.

19. High Res Screenshots & 3D screenshots

Have you ever wanted take screenshots without all the UI elements and in very high quality? You are in luck! GW2 have some specific keybindings that you can setup to take high res screenshots or 3D screenshots.

You need to hit Esc and go to options, from there you can setup the keybinds for these (not active by default).

The high res screenshots are in .jpg format and saved in C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Guild Wars 2\Screens (replace USERNAME with your computer’s account name). They are anywhere from 4-12 mb in size and come in 7680 x 4320 resolution.

You can see an example of the high res screenshot here: http://i.imgur.com/maQAu.jpg (a picture of my mesmer, had to use imgur to host it as it is so large!)

I have not tried the 3D screenshot option as I do not have a 3D monitor.

Note: You can also the high res screenshots to the bmp format (avoiding the lossy jpeg format) by putting -bmp on the gw2.exe command line (thanks to lazjen on Reddit for the tip!)

20. Gathering & its benfits

One thing that I really liked about GW2 is that resource nodes are specific to the player – if you have gathered from a node, that node will disappear for you but still available for others to gather from. This totally eliminates the competition you might face while gathering crafting components in other MMOs.

There are 3 gathering tools available and you can equip all 3 of them at once. These are the harvesting sickles, logging axes and mining picks. They come in stacks of 100 (axe and pick) or 50 (sickle) and gets used up overtime as you gather things.

Gathering tools come in various tiers, you will need to upgrade to the next tier while gathering items in a high level area or you will get nothing but junk. Merchants near the armor repair NPCs usually sell them. The official GW2 wiki has a good list of merchants that sells them in starting cities as well.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gathering_tool

One thing that is neat about gathering is that sometimes you can score upgrades that can be used in the upgrade slot of your armor/weapons while gathering. This means that gathering is useful for non-crafters  as well. For example, while mining, I scored some Lapis Nugget! You don’t need the appropriate level gathering tool either as you can see I got a bunch of ruined ores as my mining pick wasn’t high enough.

21. Upgrade slots & salvage kits

If you look at your armor, weapons, and jewelry, you will notice that many of them have unused upgrade slots.

These slots can be outfitted with upgrade components like the nuggets from mining, or rune and other items crafted, found or obtained as rewards.

Salvage kits can be used to break down old armor into crafting components. They come in different grades, with higher grades having a higher chance of obtaining rarer materials and keeping the upgrade components on the item. The crude and basic kits can be purchased from city merchants. The basic kit has a 10% chance to obtain rare materials and 20% chance to recover upgrades.

22. Armoring dyes – change your dyes anytime, anywhere

The dye on your character creation window isn’t permanent! All of your armor can be dyed to different colors anywhere and anytime. You are given a starter set of dyes which can be accessed by pressing H and clicking on the dye icon. Some items feature up to 3 areas where different dye colors can be applied.

Each race get their own starter set of dyes. More dyes can be unlocked as you progress through the game (i.e. pure black dye). Unfortunately weapons can not be dyed

Here is a picture of my mesmer with 3 different dye setups to show you how the dyes look in game!

23. Deposit Collectible for crafting materials!

Before I learned this, I had to destroy a ton of my crafting materials as I was running out of space to in my inventory to storage all the crafting materials I picked up/gathered. Luckily, you can send the crafting materials to your bank by right clicking them and select the option Deposit Collectible.

The bank can be accessed at major cities, just look for the yellow icon with a bag inside it. There are separate tabs for crafting materils and regular items so you don’t have to worry about crafting mats clogging up your bank either! The bank is also shared account wide, giving easy access for all your characters.

Unfortunately, you do have to retrieve the materials from the bank and put them in your inventory for crafting purposes. This can be a big hassle as banks are often not located near the crafting stations.

24. One bag and auto bag sorting

One thing that always irks me abit in other MMOs is the fact that they have multiple bag slots so if you want to find something, you have to first find the right bag. Luckily, in GW2 you can have everything under one giant bag for viewing purposes.

There is a place where you can check the multi-bags view or one single bag view. Beside that is the auto-sort feature, which I find it very useful as I inventory tends to get messy and I am too lazy to organize it myself!

Also, the bag can be dragged and expanded at the lower right corner so you can see everything at once without scrolling if you like (thanks to dothemath on Reddit)

25. Bank is shared accountwide

I have stated this earlier but I will re-emphasize it here. You cannot mail items to yourself for your others characters etc but your bank slot is shared accountwide. If you need to give something to another character on your account, simply deposit it in the bank.

26. PvP: Structured vs WvW

There are two kinds of PvP in GW2, one is structured PvP which is similar to those instant join warzones/battlegrounds etc from other MMOs. You are automatically leveled up to 80, given all your abilities and given full sets of PvP gear etc to play around. You are given glory as rewards, which are used to purchase for better looking gear from the glory vendors (stats are the same, just a vanity thing) located in Hall of Memories in the Heart of the Mists. You can join these kind of structured PvP by simply hitting up your H button, look for the PvP tab and hit the Play Now button above Be in the Mists. (images taken from this video by Moldran)

For structured PvP, as Vexacion kindly pointed out on Reddit, there are is a vendor near the PvP banks in the Hall of Memories that give you free PvP weapons and Sigils to swap (The vendor is to just to the right of you when you enter Hall of Memories). Additionally, there is another vendor nearby that give free PvP armor and runes. Sigils are used in the upgrade slot of your weapon while runes are used in the upgrade slot of your armor. Lastly, there is a 3rd vendor that give you PvP items (amulets, jewelry etc). While you are given full sets of PVP stuff with runes/sigils etc by default, these merchants allow you to swap to different weapons and customize your gear the way you like.

One thing that might bug you is that since everyone starts out with a full set of PvP gear, you may look identical to someone else on the battlefield. Luckily, you can spend the glory you earned from PvPing to purchase new looks. Merchants should be somewhere in the Hall of Memories.  (Thanks to Corklike on Reddit for the tip!)

These glory merchants will sell you rank 1 vanity PvP armor at 1500 glory and items costs around 500-1000 glory each (thanks to Fiction8 from Reddit)

The other kind of PvP is WvW (World vs World) which is a kind of PvP where three worlds (matched to have similar ranking) battle each other. Like structured PvP, you are automatically leveled to 80 with adjusted health and attributes but you will not receive any new abilities or gear. This would make higher level players more powerful than lower ones.

To access WvW you need to hit up Be in the Mist button on your Hero window (H key) and then head to Hall of Memories north of the starter lobby. You The gate to the WvW map Eternal Battleground (center map) is to the left of the entrance, right next to the gates to Lion’s Arch.  It is the blue gate (purple gate leads to Lion’s Arch).

Alternatively, you can also access the other maps of WvW  (Blue, Green, Red Borderlands) via the Lion’s Arch if the Eternal Battlegrounds its full. Simply head through to the purple gate to Lion’s Arch and once you zone in, the portals to the WvW borderlands are right next to you (pokeaduck on Reddit)

Every 5 minutes, the points for each world is tallied and a war score is generated. Based on each world’s war score, Power of the Mists, a special buff that is applied to everyone on that world in PvE and WvW environments is applied.  This means that if your world perform really well in WvW, everyone can reap the benefits!

You can see your world’s war score, buffs unlocked and other WvW info by pressing the N key.

27. No trading with other players, mail it to them!

Direct player to player trading does not exist in GW2. Instead, you can simply mail the item to them! You can access your mailbox from anywhere and anytime.

28. Auction house, accessible and no need to wait for buyers/sellers

Much like the mailbox, you can access the auction house from anywhere, anytime by simply pressing O and open up the Trading Post menu. What is really neat about the trading post/auction house is that if you want to sell quick, you don’t need to wait for a buyer. Players looking to purchase items can set a price they like to purchase and when sellers attempt to list their items, they can see the current offers and choose to take that offer instead of listing it up.

For example, if you look at my trading post window, it shows that for Bolt of Jute, there is 1 buyer offering it for 15 copper per piece.

29. Boons and Conditions

Having never played GW1, the idea of boons and conditions really puzzled me. Boons are essentially buffs and conditions are essentially debuffs & DoTs. Some of those conditions can stack to do more damage (intensity) or last longer in duration.

Examples of conditions (taken from the wiki)

• Bleeding – inflicts X damage per second, stack in intensity
• Blind – cause target’s next hit to miss
• Burning – inflicts X damage per second, stack in duration
• Chilled – movement reduction (66%) and skill recharge reduction (66%)
• Confused – inflicts x damage each time a foe uses skill, stack in intensity.
• Cripped – target move slower (50%), stack in duration
• Fear – cause the  target to run away
• Immobilized – rooted and prevents dodge – stack in duration
• Poison – inflict x damage per second, reduces outgoing heals by 33%, stack in duration
• Vulnerability – X amount of armor reduction, stack in intensity.
• Weakness – 50% of attacks have their damage reduced, endurance regeneration reduced by 50%, stacks in duration.

Examples of Boons (taken from the wiki)

• Aegis – block the next attack
• Fury – 20% critical chance increase, stack in duration
• Might – X damage per attack increase, stack in intensity
• Protection – 33% damage reduction, stack in duration
• Regeneration – Regenerate X health per second, stack in duration
• Retaliation  – does X damage to an opponent everytime they hit you, stack in duration
• Swiftness – movement speed increased by 33%, stack in duration
• Vigor – faster endurance regeneration, stack in duration.

30. Offline mode & friend list

Sometimes you just want to be left alone to enjoy the game. Luckily there is an option at the login screen and the friend list (hit the Y button) to be in the invisible mode. This will  make you appear offline to everyone else but you.

You friends can still physically run into you in the game world, just a FYI.

You can add friends from other home worlds, simply enter their name and their entire account will be added. This allow you to see if they are online on any of their characters. You can also form parties with friends from other worlds but you won’t be able to play with them unless you either transfer to their world or use the guest mode (not available in beta).

31: Mesmer specific tips

For mesmers using the staff skillset, there are a couple tricks that are pretty neat!

• If you drop Chaos Storm (the 5th ability on your staff) on where you stand and back out of it using Feigned Escape (the 2nd ability on your staff), you get a Combo message on the screen and get Chaos Armor (the 4th staff ability) on yourself for free!
• Jhonz0r on Reddit pointed out that there is a keybind to turn your character around. You can bind something like C to that skill and then use Feigned Escape as a 2nd blink ability (press C, press 2  and then press C again).

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Continue reading »]]> Hey everyone, this is my second installment of a series of three guides covering Republic exclusive flashpoint, this one touching on Maelstrom Prison. Maelstrom Prison is the Republic equivalent of The Foundry and is a continuation of Taral V. It is an indoors area much like False Emperor and therefore you cannot skip as much trash as you did in Taral V. The bosses in Maelstrom Prison are also a bit harder than the bosses in Taral V, or at least I have found.

You will need to be on the quest Jedi Prisoner to be able to enter Maelstrom Prison (you do not need to have completed it).

X-37 Oppressor Droid

X-37 is a big robot guarding the door, he has only two abilities you have to be aware of, one only affecting the tank

• Power Punch: This one only affecting tank (or highest threat target), it will knock the tank up in the air so face him to a corner if possible so that you get knocked up against the wall and not land on the other side of the room.

• Punishment: This is the only ability you have to worry about, he will pull 2 party members to him and start channeling Punishment, a 4 second cast. You need to run far away from the boss as possible.  At end of the cast, if you are not far enough, you get hit for massive AoE damage (hit me for 9k without any damage reduction). You might be able to Line of Sight to avoid this ability if your healer is struggling top the group up in between Punishments.
• Based on the kills I have done on this boss, it appears he will pull the two closest person to him that are not tank for Punishment, so squishies should stay at max range if possible.

The basic pattern is Power Punch –> Punishment –> Power Punch – > Punishment, etc.

Colonel Daksh

This is a fun boss, he isn’t hard as long you know the strat for defeating him but unwary groups might have their members get one-shotted. This boss isn’t too melee DPS friendly due to one of his mechanics but it is certainly doable.

He comes with two normal adds (Daksh Overseer Droid, 5 k HP each) that can be pulled from behind him and killed separately if you are super cautious about this fight.

He has a couple abilities you should be aware of

• Grapple + Carbonize: Nothing major, he pulls you in and stun you for a few seconds. More of an annoyance than anything. You can avoid it by running into the boss when you get pulled in.

• Wrist Laser Burst: One of his standard attacks and it is interruptible. You can interrupt it if you want but it doesn’t do a lot of damage.
• Smash: Performed right before Daksh goes into his laser optical phase, knocks everyone around him back and deals around 4.4 k damage. The range on this knockback is quite far so you need to stand pretty far away to avoid it.

Laser Optical phase is a special phase during the fight where you have to be super careful about your positioning and aggro or you will risk getting one or two shotted by Daksh. It lasts about 30 seconds (You can see when the buff wears off and there is also an onscreen red text when this happens).

There does not seem to be a fixed % on when this phase occurs but in the couple runs where I have killed Daksh, he enters this phase twice in the fight, first time around high 50s and second time around mid 20s in terms of health percentage.

You get a couple warnings when Daksh enters this phase

• Smash, mentioned previously, is performed right before this phase.
• On screen red text: Colon Daksh is Charging his optical implants!
• 5 second cast  of a spell called Laser Eye Charge that cannot be interrupted. Once this spell finishes casting, he will enter his laser optical phase. During this cast he is immobilized and this gives sufficient time for tanks to generate aggro and DPS to run away to hide behind boxes.

During this phase, tank need make sure they have aggro and start running around the boxes in the on either side of the room. You must put the box between you and Daksh so that Daksh is out of line of sight for his laser zap. Failure to do so will cause you to get zapped for about 70-80% of your health and then he will then switch to DPS and healers in the group and proceed to zap & kill them if they in line of sight. Tanks can use their AoE taunts while avoiding line of sight with Daksh.

DPS can certainly do damage to Daksh during this phase but they must be careful to not pull aggro off the tank and hide behind the boxes immediately if they see the tank gets zapped. This phase is particularly hard for melee DPS as they may not have the time to run and get out of line of sight if they pull aggro or tank gets zapped. Ranged DPS have the luxury of peaking their heads out to DPS and pop back to cover right away if things goes awry.

Something to keep in mind is that the barrels near the boxes will not provide protection from Daksh’s laser zap (they are not tall enough).

Lord Kancras

Very easy miniboss, he releases a bunch of normal adds during the fight (around 5k HP). Just focus on burning down Kancras.

Ancient Maelstrom Flayer

This is the bonus boss that can be unlocked if you complete the multi-stage bonus mission – Painful Employment. He is pretty much a tank and spank kind of fight except he has a very nasty knockback called Smash that deals around 7k damage to all group members and knock them quite a distance away.

For this reason, tank should position him to a wall so that they don’t get knocked too far off. The knockbacks don’t come that frequent so healers should have plenty of time to top everyone up before the next knockback.

Lord Vanithrast

This is another miniboss, he comes with a champion level add called Mutant Maelstrom Shriek that cannot be CC’ed (Crowd Controlled)

DPS should burn down the Shriek add first and then focus on Vanithrast as some of Vanithrast’s abilities doesn’t seem to activate until he gets down to a certain % in health.

Vanithrast has an ability called Spinning Strikes that deals around 2.5k damage per tick to players near him in a 360 degree. Melee DPS should move away from the boss when he performs this ability (it is a 6 second channel). This ability does not seem to be interruptible even though Vanithrast does not get the interrupt immunity buff when he performs this ability. 

The other ability that Vanithrast does is Spike, an a high damage (~8k) ability he use when he goes into stealth mode and pops out. Vanithrast will go to stealth immediately after he finishes channeling Spinning Strikes if his health is low (hence why you should kill the Shriek add first)

He will force speed to someone after popping out of stealth and then proceed to stab them for 8k damage. This is followed by a 3 second stun/force choke for the next 3 seconds.  Tank will need to taunt Vanithrast back when this occurs.

Vanithrast is buggy sometimes and will not go stealth if the target for his next Spike is near him. He will instead turn away and directly stab the person, killing them if they are low on health.

Maelstrom Elite Guard

This is not a boss fight but rather 3 elite trash mobs near the final boss room that cannot be crowd controlled. They hit the tank extremely hard when all three are alive so DPS should focus on burning them down one by one to lessen the load on the healer.

Grand Moff Kilran

Kilran is the last boss of the flashpoint. This fight isn’t really hard as long you stay out of line of sight of Kilran’s abilities.

There are 3 phases associated with this fight.

Phase 1: Kilran is guarded by 2 strong adds called Fifth Fleet Bodyguard, DPS should burn down the two adds first and then attack Kilran. Kilran won’t take much damage before he transitions to phase 2.

Phase 2: Kilran will station himself at the end of the long walkway immediately before the ramp, all party members will have their movement speed slowed by a debuff that cannot be removed (only last for a bit). During this phase, Kilran will cast Snipe (3 second cast, hits for 9.6 k) and Series of Shots (3 second channeled cast, hits for about 2k per tick), neither of which can be interrupted. Everyone should move up by using the pillars to stay out of line of sight of Kilran and avoid his abilities (mostly Snipe). In addition, Kilran will summon a bunch of normal adds, DPS should make a quick work of them since they don’t have much health.

While moving up, ranged DPS can damage Kilran from behind the pillars. Melee DPS can kill off the adds and move up  close enough to use their gap closers to close the distance to Kilran.

Once you damage Kilran to 50%, he will do a knockback and start Phase 3.

Phase 3: Phase 3 is not too different from phase 2. Kilran will at the end of the walkway after you get on the ramp. There is a box conveniently placed for you to dodge Kilran’s attacks after you get off the ramp.  Kill off the adds and then finish off Kilran. Watch out for snipe and try LOS that ability if possible!

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Continue reading »]]> This is the information I gathered from the first beta weekend for Guld Wars 2 (BWE – April 27 to 29). Queensdale is the human starting area.

One of the skill ups is bugged atm, the NPC is fallen on the ground and do not respond I can’t find 21 waypoints on the map either (only found 20) even though it says I have 21 waypoints. If you find the 21th waypoint, please let me know and I will add it!

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1. Tasks

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NW – Points 1-7

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NE- Points 8-12

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SE Points 15-20

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Continue reading »]]> Hey everyone! I recently got my commando healer to 50 and after running some dailies, I finally had enough gear to tackle some Republic hardmode flashpoints to finish my coverage of hardmode flashpoints. Here is the first of a series of 3 guides for Republic specific hardmode flashpoints: Taral V, Maelstrom Prison, and The Esseles.

With 1.2, hardmode flashpoints no longer have a daily lockout and people running them are most likely going for the Columi drops at the last boss. Therefore, I will show you what bosses can be skipped and cover the strategies for the bosses that can’t be skipped.

Taral V is the Republic Equivalent of Boarding Party. It is much easier than Boarding Party and a ton of bosses/trashes can be skipped along the way, making this flashpoint a fairly quick one.

Skipping Bosses & Trashes

Boss Skipping: The bosses that can be skipped in this flashpoint are

• Handler Gattan – 1st mini boss of the instance, drops Tionese crystals only
• Doctor Zharan – mini boss before Lord Hasper (bonus boss)
• Lord Hasper (bonus boss)
• PD-44 – this one is tricky to skip but can be done if everyone is careful. You can skip him if you follow the wall to the right side of PD-44 very carefully. Nonethless, I will be covering him just in case someone in your group aggros him.

Trash skipping

Taral V (T5) is designed in a way that allows one to skip quite a lot of trash in the beginning if you hug the left wall of of the little road that leads from the shuttle.

Once you arrived at the lake, you will need to go across following the burning pipe and keep hugging the left wall. You may need to kill a few beasts that pop from the ground but the majority of the trash, including the first mini boss Handler Gattan, can be skipped this way.

Before reaching the compound, you will need to switch to hugging the right wall and go up the hill, this will lead you to the first actual boss you have to kill – Captain Shivanek.

Handler Gattan (can be skipped)

Miniboss that can be easily skipped. Handler Gattan comes with two vinecat adds, which can’t be really taunted and have really good damage reduction (both boss and the adds have about 150k health).

The group should spread out and burn Gattan down first as he have a mortar volley attack that deals about 6k AoE damage to players with aggro that are not in the melee range (for this reason, ranged DPS should wait for tank to gain threat before unloading).

The two vinecats do not hurt much – deals around on average 100-200 damage per melee attack, around 1k when they leap to you. They do have quite thick hides so it takes longer to burn them down than Gattan.

Captain Shivanek

This is the first actual boss you have to kill in this flashpoint. He drops a relic (usually tanking relic). He is a very easy boss that comes with a champion add but has no additional mechanics.

Immediately when you engage Shivanek, Ripper, a champion add (Ripper) will pop from the left.

The overall idea of this fight is to kill both the boss and at the add at the same time as killing one before the other will cause the remaining one to “enrage” for the next 20 seconds. However, the enrage (extra 300% damage) doesn’t really hurt that much and you can easily tank the enraged mob without much difficulty.

The recommend route is to DPS one mob down to a low %, then DPS the other mob to the same low % and finally finish both off at around the same time.

However, you can easily kill Ripper off first (has low defense) and then finish Shivanek off.  Shivanek does have a small AoE he launches to random party members and a conal so don’t stand in front of him and don’t stack too close to each other or you will risk splash damage.

Essentially a tank and spank fight with an add, couldn’t get any easier!

Lord Hasper

This is a bonus boss that can be unlocked if you do the multi-stage bonus within the flashpoint (Jungle Infiltration).

Despite being a bonus boss, Hasper is quite tough and can quickly decimate unprepared groups.

Hasper has the following 3 abilities: Force Lighting, Shock and Force Storm

• Force Lighting is a channel spell directed at the tank that can be interrupted easily.
• Shock is an instant cast directed at random group members that hits them for 5.8k
• Force Storm is an AoE where Hasper pulls everyone that is within line of sight to him. This is accompanied by a slow and DoTs that tick for 3.6k per tick if you don’t get out of it fast enough.

If you group is geared enough, you can simply allow yourselves to be pulled in by Force Storm and then just run out. However, if you are undergeared, the following Line of Sight (LOS) trick might work.

The pattern of Hasper’s cast is 3x Force Lighting followed by Force Storm with random Shock thrown in. Knowing this, you can predict when Force Storm is coming and get out of LOS.

Ranged DPS and heals should position themselves near the door, with melee DPS and tank engage Hasper where he stands. For the first two Force Lighting, everyone can do their normal thing and interrupt them. After the 2nd Force Lightning is interrupted/casted, melee DPS should head to the door and everyone other than the tank should use the doorway to get out of LOS. The tank should interrupt the 3rd Force Lighting as Force storm is casted almost immediately after the 3rd Force Lighting and those not out LOS will be pulled in.

Doing it this way, you can essentially avoid damage from Force Storm on everyone but the tank. You will still need to heal through the random Shock Hasper throws out but it won’t be as difficult.

PD-44

PD-44 is a droid that stands in front of a gate guarding your path to the final boss. He can be skipped if you hug the right wall very closely but someone tend to always aggro him so you may need to fight him if that happens (he drops Energized Boots).

PD-44 has the following abilities:

• Focus Fire – Can be interrupted, does quite a bit of damage on the tank if not interrupted.
• Missile Blast – Hits everyone in the group but the tank  with missiles for around 3k damage, unavoidable and has splash damage so everyone needs to be spread out. His missile blast phase is triggered by the message in your chat box – Target appears to be non-sentient.
• Powerful Blast – Needs to be interrupted, deals a moderate AoE if not interrupted. His cannons glow red when he is preparing to cast this ability and he also put out this message in chatbox – Secondary weapons charged, Deploying..

• Bombardment – This is a red circle that is placed on the ground during the fight, you cannot avoid the first hit (hits for around 5.6k ) but you can avoid the rest of hits by moving away from the red circle. This attack seem to occur around 75%, 50% and 25%.

At around 21%, PD-44 will gain a buff called Very Damaged. I did not notice anything different during this phase but it is best to kill him ASAP!

Compared to Captain Shivanek, PD-44 is a bit more heal intensive due to the Bombardment and Missile blast but nothing too difficult to handle.

General Edikar

General Edikar is the last boss and the toughest boss in the flashpoint. However, there is a simple LOS trick that will make this fight much easier.

He comes with 4 Experimental Defense Turrets, 2 on each side. If you did the bonus boss, you can disable 2 of the turrets. With the strategy used here, you wont have to worry about the turrets!

The trick with this fight is to have everyone stand behind this pillar thingie near the entrance of the room and then have the tank pull Edikar. This will LoS Edikar and cause him to run to you; this way, the turrets won’t be bothering you.

However, doing it this way in such an enclosed space carries its risks – tank must turn him away from the group and DPS must try not to pull aggro or risk the entire group to eat his nasty conal.

Edikar has the following abilities

• Full Auto: Hurts – interrupt it. Directed at the tank/highest threat.
• Hail of Bolts: Conal channeled AoE, hits for 1.5k per tick (5 ticks) to everyone in front of him. Interrupt it and make sure he never faces the rest of the group when he does this ability.
• Thermal Grenade: Directly randomly at one group member, has no splash damage but this one hurts! Ticks for 1.9k per tick for about 4 ticks.
• Summon droid adds: At around 75% and 25%, Edikar will summon 4 Outpost Experimental Droids – they are strongs with 12k health and does about 300-400 damage. DPS should burn them down with AoEs.  These adds are ranged but if you stay behind the pillar they will run to you.

Hail of Bolts + Thermal Grenade can quickly kill someone unless the healer react fast enough. Just make sure that the tank turns him and the DPS don’t pull aggro – this will make this fight go much easier!

After you kill the boss, you can then go and finish off the 4 turrets!

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Continue reading »]]> Hey everyone, with patch 1.2, you can finally gain affection with your annoying ship droid and make him get better at certain crafting skills. I thought this would be a good time to update all the previous companion gift information and add in all the crafting bonuses in one page. All of the data here directly came from the client files and therefore should be fairly accurate unless I made a typo.

• Companion gifts
• Companion conversion triggers
• Companion crafting bonuses

Companion Gifts & Affection

Why gain affection? Max affection with a companion will grant you a 5% crit chance to all crafting done by that companion and 15% efficiency (faster crafting). After 1.2, max affection will also unlock stat bonuses for the first companion of each type (i.e. melee tank, ranged dps) to be unlocked and a small presence boost (+10 presence, stacks with other companions, even if they are the same type)

The stats bonus are permanent and works even when your companion isn’t out and in operations.

Crafting crit chance and affection: Maxing out a companion will grant 5% crit chance to crafting, this is in addition (and additive) to the baseline crit chance that is received when crafting items of different difficulties and also whatever crafting bonus that companion might already possess.

• Orange difficulty: 10% crit chance
• Yellow, Green, and Gray difficulty: 15% crit chance

For example, if you are using companion X with maxed out affection and with a baseline 2% crit chance to Underworld Trading to do an orange Underworld Trading Mission, the chance for this mission to crit would be 10% + 2% + 5% = 17%.  (source, thanks to Johnston Cheng for point it out!)

One thing to note is that romance with a companion change their responsiveness to certain types of gifts. For most companions, this will make that particular companion more responsive to courting/luxury gifts. However, certain companions like Ashara will change their responsive to a wide range of gifts when you romance her. For “simple” companions, their response to courting/luxury gifts during romance are in the romance column. For more “complex” companions, they have a separate row to reflect all the changes.

Each class have 2 companions (one male, one female) for romance options (opposite sex humanoids only). Smugglers/Agents have 3 companions (one male, two female) available for romance because they are awesome! Sith warriors also have companions available for romance although one of the companions does not seem to change their “likeness” to gifts even when romanced.

Knowing the above info and the type & rank of the gift you have, you can figure out exactly how much affection you companion will gain from a certain gift, I will show you how to calculate it below but here is a handy chart if you don’t want to do the math yourself!

There are 5 companion affection rating ranks

• Rank 1: –1000-1999 (yes, that is a negative sign)
• Rank 2: 2000-3999
• Rank 3: 4000-5999
• Rank 4: 6000-7999
• Rank 5: 8000-10000

There are also 5 ranks of Companion gifts, depending on the rank difference (Companion affection rating rank – Companion gift rank), here are the modifiers. (i.e. A companion at rank 1 affection getting a rank 2 gift would have a modifier of 1.1)

Each companion have 4 affection ratings towards various gifts, each with a modifier

• Indifferent: 0
• Like: 4
• Favourite: 9
• Love: 16

Finally, there are 3 tiers of Companion gifts, each with another modifier.

• Premium (green item): 6
• Prototype (blue item): 10
• Artifact (purple item): 24

Knowing all these information, you can quickly calculate how much a certain gift will give your companion.

For example, your ship droid 2RV8, if you have him at affection rating rank 1, and gave him a green rank 1 Technology gift the resulting affection would be 6 x 1 x 9 = 54.

• Gift rank – companion affection rank = 0, modifier = 1
• Green gift (premium), modifier = 6
• Technology (favourite), modifier = 9

A rank 2 Technology gift given to the same companion at the same affection rating rank would give 59 affection. (6 x 1.1 x 9 = 59.4)

Conversation triggers & Unlocks

Conversations for your companions are unlocked at specific affection ratings. Here is a list of all the conversations available to each companion and when you can unlock them.

Companion names marked with * may have additional romance conversation triggers

Crafting bonuses

Max Companion Affection (10.000) will give you 5% chance to Crit and 15% Efficiency.

Companions have two bonuses, one is efficiency (reduce the amount of time it takes to make the item/gather) and the other is critical (chance to get augment slots on crafted gear or yield more items etc). Each companion has an efficiency bonus to one crew skill and a critical bonus to another crew skill.

Lets talk about the Ship Droid (2V-R8/C2-N2)first because he is special!

Your ship droid has a sensor unit, which can be equipped with parts brought from the Repair Droid (Legacy Perk unlocked for 1 million credits). Something good to know is that if you know a friend that also brought the Repair Droid for their ship, you can simply access their ship to buy the parts without spending the 1 million!

Repair Droid sells the following 6 parts, each costing 100k. You can equip 1 sensor on your droid at a time.

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Continue reading »]]> 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.

Dailies

[DAILY AREA] – Wreck of the Stardream

[DAILY]- Blood Sample

[DAILY]- Passenger List – April 16

[DAILY] Pure Virus Sample – April 18

[DAILY AREA ] – Outbreak

[DAILY] – Hybrid Strain – April 17

New – [DAILY] – Newly Infected – April 19

[DAILY] – Plaguebringer

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.