Imperial Tier 3 Preview!

During E3, Bioware showed some new gear set and probably, this is the 3rd tier for the Imperial classes.

Tier 3

Guide for Gearing up 1.2

This guide will provide the new gear that is introduced with patch 1.2

Lost Island Heroic Mode

LR-5 Sentinel Droid: Columi boots

Project Sav-Rak: Columi Legs

Transgenic Sample Eleven: Relic

Doctor Lorrick: Columi Mainhand, Rakata Chest

Explosive Conflict – Storymode

Toth and Zorn: Rakata Bracer, Rakata Implant, Rakata Chest

Stormcaller and Firebrand: Rakata Belt, Rakata Offhand, Rakata Boot

Colonel Vorgath: Rakata Legs, Rakata Gloves, Rakata Implant

Warload Kephess: Rakata Helmet, Rakata Mainhand, Random Black Hole MK2/MK3 gear  or Campaign Relic

Explosive Conflict – Hardmode

Toth and Zorn: Campaign Legs, Campaign Bracers, Random Black Hole gear or Campaign Relic

Stormcaller and Firebrand: Campaign Belt, Campaign Offhand, Random Black Hole gear or Campaign Relic

Colonel Vorgath: Campaign Chest, Campaign Gloves, Random Black Hole gear or Campaign Relic

Warload Kephess: Campaign Mainhand, Campaign Helm, Random Black Hole gear or Campaign Relic

1.2 Republic PvE & PvP Gear Preview!

1.2 bring new set of PvP and PvE gear. Here, I give you the looks of the sets as well as the prices for each piece. PvP gear sets have the same set bonuses as the previous tier. No bonus are yet implanted to PTR for the new PvE gear tier.

PvE Gear 

PvE gear can be obtained by either Black Hole Commendations or Unassembled Campaign Tokens, one for each piece. Now, in the PTR BOTH sets have the same rating. Black Hole Commendations can be earned from the new dailies in Corellia. Below are the prices for each piece

BELT	35 BLACK HOLE COMMENDATIONS
BOOTS	50 BLACK HOLE COMMENDATIONS
BRACERS	30 BLACK HOLE COMMENDATIONS
GLOVES	50 BLACK HOLE COMMENDATIONS
HEADGEAR	60 BLACK HOLE COMMENDATIONS
LEGGINGS	55 BLACK HOLE COMMENDATIONS
EARPIECE	35 BLACK HOLE COMMENDATIONS
IMPLANT	35 BLACK HOLE COMMENDATIONS
CHESTGEAR	60 BLACK HOLE COMMENDATIONS
OFF HAND	50 BLACK HOLE COMMENDATIONS

PvP Gear

There are two tiers of PvP gear, the War Hero and the new Rated Gear. They have the SAME stats and rating but rated gear requires a good rating in ranked matches so it's harder to be acquired. Below are the prices for the standard War Hero PvP gear:

BELT	1250 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
BOOTS	1800 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
BRACERS	1100 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
GLOVES	1800 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
HEADGEAR	2150 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
LEGGINGS	2000 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
EARPIECE	1250 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
IMPLANT	1250 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
CHEST	2150 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
OFF HAND	2275 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
MAIN HAND	3475 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
RELIC	1100 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS

Ranked gear is more of a prestige reward and requires a specific rating and the standard piece of gear before the ranked one is bought. Here are the prices for Ranked gear:

BELT	1200 RATING AND 250 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
BOOTS	1600 RATING AND 360 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
BRACERS	1200 RATING AND 250 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
GLOVES	1400 RATING AND 360 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
HEADGEAR	RATING AND 430 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS
LEGGINGS	1800 RATING AND 400 RANKED WARZONE COMMENDATIONS

That's all for now, when I have the time, I would do the same for the Empire side.

Republic Gear Sets Preview!

For the past two days I've spent my time playing a fresh Scoundrel. When I got to the Republic Fleet, I though to spent some time and take some pic of the republic gear sets. Hope you like it!

PVP JEDI KNIGHT GEAR

 PVP SMUGGLER GEAR

 PVP TROOPER GEAR

PVP JEDI CONSULAR GEAR

FINALLY, THE PVE RAKATA SETS

PvP Juggernaut Rage built!

PvP Juggernaut Rage

Yo, fellow SWTORians!


For the past few day I have focused my play time to Jugg PvP. I used to be specced up to Vengeance tree for PvE. After checking the two DPS tree I decided to go Rage.

SPEC

This is the spec that I use now: 0/10/31


Now, let's break it down. I didn't take Strangulate as the pushback for a channelling ability that stuns for a melee class is not a priority for me. I didn't take Unbreakable Rage as Ravage in general is not mandatory to your dps rotation. I would come to this later. I put to Interceptor just one point just for filler. My other option was Brutality but I rarely use Vicious Slash and I think of it as a waste of rage in most situations. Interceptor is not to mandatory to juggs as the class is very mobile.


For my final 2 points at Vengeance tree I was in a dilemma. Playing Rage you'll find yourselves with less rage than playing Vengeance (pun intended). Unyielding would be my original choice but as to right now, geared half centurion, half champion I don't have enough accuracy to reach 100%. For that reason I decided to put my last 2 points to Accurecy. If you have enough accuracy choose Unyielding.

ABILITIES

DPS ABILITIES




Retaliation. hit it as soon as it procs.


Assault. Builds 2 rage, weak but mandatory


Sundering Assault. Use it to build 2 rage and stack 4% armor reduction up to 5 times


Vicious Throw. Our finisher move. Only usable on target's at or below 20% max health. Deadly indeed.


Smash. Main AoE ability hits up to 5 enemies STRONGEST ABILITY for Rage Juggs 


Force Scream. Hitting like a truck and has 10m range.


Force Crush. Our point 31 talent, slows our enemies, puts a DoT that last  seconds and at the end, deals more damage.


Ravage. 3 secs channel ability. Interrupted when moving or pressing another attack.


Vicious Slash. Use it as filler when you got rage to dumb and all of your main abilities are on cd.


Obliterate. Small charge (only 10m) costs 3 rage. Mostly a dps ability, use it with a snare to catch up ranged opponents that try to get away.


Saber Throw. You generate 3 rage, use it before you charge.


Sweeping Slash. AoE damage in a front cone a la Chuck Norris roundhouse kick. Still, pretty weak.


Enrage. Generates 6 rage. Use it after your burst and when you are under 6 rage.




STUNS AND SLOWING ABILITIES




Chilling Scream. Slow AoE ability.


Disruption. Use it to interrupt your target and lock their interrupted ability for 4 secs. In comparison to WoW, SWTOR's interrupts don't lock school abilities. That means, only the ability that you interrupt is locked.


Unleash. Removes all of your incapacitating and movement-impairing effects.


Force Choke. 3 sec channel ability. To stun and generate rage.


Intimidating Roar. 6 secs AoE fear




MOBILITY ABILITIES




Force Push and then use charge.


Force Charge. No description.


Intercede. Use it on friendly player to jump to him.




FORMS AND DEFENSIVE ABILITIES




Shii-Cho Form Dps form,


Soresu Form Tanking form. Use it only when you know that a lot of damage is incoming and you can't be on target to dps. Also, soresu form is needed to use Guard. Switching forms resets your rage to zero!


Threatening Scream. Use it to reduce the damage all enemies around you do to every other except you.


Taunt. Don't use it on PvE! Only in PvP to reduce the targeted enemy damage on every other except you.


Saber Ward. Main defensive cooldown. Increase your defence by 50% for 12sec. The passive ability Blade Turning makes the 2 first secs a 100% defence


Endure Pain. Main defensive cooldown. Increase your healthpool by 30% for 10sec.


Guard. Only usable when Soresu Form is active. I only use it on pvp. 




SECONDARY ABILITIES




Channel Hatred. Your off battle recovery ability.


Sprint. Keep it always on.


Unnatural Might. BUFF UP!

PvP SET BONUSES

• Bonus for 2: Intercede heals you for 8% of your total health.
• Bonus for 4: Increases all damage dealt by 10% for 5 seconds after using Force Charge.

DPS ROTATION AND PRIORITY LIST

To begin with, Rage's dps is based on Smash crits. So, let's analyse Smash.

-Smash is a Force ability

-Smash with the Shockwave skill stacks up it's damage up to 100%

-Smash with the Decimate skill increase it's damage by 30% and decrease it's CD by 3secs

-Smash with the Dominate skill makes your next Smash used within 15 seconds an automatic critical hit.

-Smash with the Dark Resonance increase the critical multiplier for or Force abilities by 30%

-Smash has a 9sec CD if you're specced

That means that with no surge considered your smash will have 100% critical chance (after a charge), 130% stronger (if you have 4 stacks of Decimate) plus 30% increase to the critical multiplayer to the total of 80% (base critical multiplier is 50%). In my warrior, the tooltip says that Smash hits for 1410-1501 kinetic damage. Let's say that my attack is 1450, we will add the 130% of it. That's 3335. Plus we will calculate the critical multiplier of 80% and we have 6003 kinetic damage. Now, add more surge, a relic usage, an adrenal, the expertise buff. Smash can do up to 9k damage easily and it can hit up to 5 people in a 9sec CD. (For each opponent it strikes, different base damage is calculated).

Our rotation must be build around Smash to maximise it's huge crit hits. So our basic rotation goes like this,

Saber Throw ---> Charge ---> Force Crush  ---> Sunder ---> as soon as 4 stacks of shockwave are up Smash ---> Enrage ---> Force Scream ---> Sunder

To be more exact my priority list is:

1. Enrage on CD if you have less than 4 rage

2. Saber Throw

3. Charge

4. Smash if you have 4 stacks of shockwave

5. Vicious Throw

6. Force Crush

7. Sunder Assault

8. Force Choke

9. Force Scream

10. Obliterate

11. Vicious Slash

12. Assault

13. Ravage

So, to sum it up, you goal is build your Smash hit. Get 4 stacks of shockwave by either Force Choke or Force Crush and try to Smash as soon as possible after you Charge or Obliterate. I would suggest to use it after you Charge as Charge will make the next Smash used in the next 15sec a crit, plus your 4 set bonus from your PvP gear give you an extra 10% bonus to your damage. After that, keep your rage high enough to be able to burst.

STATS

You don't have to be a genius to know that Strength and Stamina is your main stats. After that you should check for your secondary stats. Expertise is the strongest stat for PvP. It will increase the damage you deal and decrease the damage you take. Expertise should always be on your gear. After that, go for Surge and Critcal ratings. That way your abilities and especially your Smash will hit harder. My experience tells me not to get more than 40% of either of those two stats as you'll need much more to achieve bigger percentages. After that, go for power. Power is a straight increase to your base damage of your attacks. That includes the base damage that your criticals are calculated.

TIPS

As we talk about PvP, your opponent will try to react to you. That's why you have to be use the correct abilities in the right moment. Here some tips for you:

-Apply your Chilling Scream to slow them for starters. Keep them slowed all the time.

-As you built up your Smash hit, they will hit you as hard as they can. I suggest you pop Saber Ward as soon as the opponent starts to fight back.

-Don't use Unleash (trinket for WoWers) if it's not a really need. More people will increase your Resolve with their knockbacks than their stuns. If your Resolve bar is filled you will be immune in every CC. Unleash will reset your Resolve bar so be careful!

-Have with you relics and adrenals with crit/surge and power. Use them in pairs, pop power relic and crit/surge adrenal and then pop crit/surge relic with power adrenal. That way you more burst damage.

-If your opponent pops his defensive or CDs from the beginning of your battle, try to sabotage his advantage as much as you can. Choke him, Push him, Charge him, Fear him. That way, his burst or his defences would have expired with no benefits for him. Remember, in most cases the one that uses his CDs first, is the one that loses.

-Your set 2 bonus from your PvP gear will make you heal after you use Intercede. To maximise the profit, first use Endure Pain and then Intercede. That way, you'll heal for more.

-Don't interrupt all the time. Your interrupt will lock for the interrupted ability only. For 4secs. Interrupts should only be used on spammed ability like Tracer Missiles and Force Strike or to interrupt the healer from healing himself.

-Beware of your surroundings. Most people will try to knock you back as soon as you charge them. Don't put yourself between your opponent and the edge of the ledge, or the acid pit or the fire.

That's all for now. I will update my guide with more informations and more tips in future. Stay tuned!

Gear Progression for each Imperial Class!

Here's the gear progression of each Imperial Class starting with the level 20 PvP gear then the level 40 PvP and at the level cap, level 50 PvP and PvE gear. Enjoy:

BOUNTY HUNTER

Left is Mercenary, Right is Powertech

IMPERIAL AGENT

Left is Operative, Right is Sniper

SITH INQUISITOR

Left is Sorcerer, Right is Assassin 

SITH WARRIOR

Left is Juggernaut, Right is Marauder

BONUS: SOCIAL ARMOR!

AND THE FINAL SPECIAL SUPER BONUS!

Loot list from Hard Mode Flashpoints

Hey people!


I've been level 50 for a couple of days now and I've started the slow progress of gearing up for Operations. I've done most of the level 50 FP (I did Kaon Under Siege today) and even though the God of RNG must hate me, I got some loots. Anyway, with the torhead not having lootlists for bosses, I decided to make a small synopsis of the Loot Table of Hard Mode Flashpoints from the Imperial Side.


First of all, there are three set of gear now on.


-Tier 1 named Tionese has set bonuses and are obtain from bosses of hard modes and by acquiring Badges and Crystals from the bosses at hard mode. Energized/Xenotech gear are equivalent to Tionese but without the set bonuses.


-Tier 1.5 named Columni are obtained by tokens. Columni tokens are provided after competing the Heroic Mode daily mission and after killing the last boss of a hard mode flashpoint. Exotech gear are equivalent to Columni but without the set bonuses.


-Tier 2 named Rakata is exclusive to hard mode and nightmare mode operations.


LIST OF FLASHPOINTS


Black Talon

Sergeant Boran/GXR-5 Sabotage Droid: Tionese Belts
Commander Ghulil: Energized Leggings
Bonus: GXR-7 Command Droid: Tionese Ears
Yadira Ban: Columi Bracers

Boarding Party

HXI-54 Juggernaut: Relic
Sakan Do’nair: Energized Boots
Bonus: Chief Engineer Kels: Tionese Implant
Commander Jorland & Goonies: Columi Gloves

The Foundry

Foundry Guardian: Tionese Boots
HK-47: Tionese Offhand
Bonus: Burrower Matriarch: Tionese Belt
Revan: Columi Boots


Directive 7

Interrogator: Tionese Bracers
Bulwark: Energized Chestguard
Bonus: Replicator: Relic
Mentor: Columi  Leggings 


The False Emperor

Jindo Krey: Tionese Gloves
HK-47: Tionese Mainhand Weapon
Bonus: Sith Entity: Tionese Implants
Darth Malgus: Columi Chestguard

Battle of Ilum

Velasu Graege & Drinda-Zel: Tionese Bracers
Krel Thak: Energized Headgear
Bonus: Guid Patriach: Tionese Earpiece
Darth Serevin: Columi Offhand


Kaon Under Siege

Defend vs Zombies encounter: Xenotech Gloves
Rakghoul Behemoth: Tionese Grade Mainhand with Q56 color crystal
Bonus: KR-82 Expulser: Columi Headgear
Commander Lk’Graagth: Columi Headgear

ATTENTION: To access the Bonus Bosses you have to complete all the updates of the bonus chain missions you get inside the Flashpoints.

FINALY

SET BONUSES!!

Thank god, it doesn't mater if you have different tiers of set pieces, you still get the set bonus, so:

BOUNTY HUNTER

-MERCENARY HEALER HEALER:

• 2 pieces: Increases the duration of Supercharged Gas and Supercharge Cells by 3 seconds.
• 4 pieces: Reduces the cooldown of Healing Scan or Advanced Medical Probe by 1.5 seconds and the cooldown of Emergency Scan or Bacta Infusion by 3 seconds.
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-MERCENARY DPS:

• 2 pieces: Increases the critical chance of Power Shot and Tracer Missile or Charged Bolts and Grav Round by 15%
• 4 pieces: Reduces the cost of Rail Shot by 8 or the cost of High Impact Bolt by 1.
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-POWERTECH TANK

• 2 pieces: Increases the duration of Oil Slick or Smoke Grenade by 2 seconds and the duration of Energy Shield or Reactive Shield by 3 seconds.
• 4 pieces: Increases Melee, Range, Tech and Force defense by 2%.
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-POWERTECH DPS:

• 2 pieces: Reduces the cooldown of Explosive Fuel or Battle Focus by 15 seconds.
• 4 pieces: Increases the damage of Rail Shot and High Impact Bolt by 8%.

IMPERIAL AGENT

Operative DPS:

• 2 pieces: Increases the critical chance of Backstab or Backblast by 15%.
• 4 pieces: Increases maximum energy by 5.

Operative HEALER:

• 2 pieces: Reduces the energy cost of Recuperative Nanotech and Kolto Cloud by 4.
• 4 pieces: Increases the critical chance of Kolto Infusion and Kolto Pack by 15%.

Sniper DPS:

• 2 pieces: Activating Target Acquired or Illegal Mods restores 10 energy.
• 4 pieces: Reduces the energy cost of Takedown and Quickdraw by 7.

SITH INQUISITOR

Sith Sorcerer DPS:

• 2 pieces: Reduces cost of Lightning Strike and Force Lightning or Disturbance and Telekinetic Throw by 2.
• 4 pieces: Affliction or Weaken Mind damage has a 10% chance to increase alacrity by 5% for 15 seconds. Cannot occur more than once every 20 seconds.

Sith Sorcerer HEALER:

• 2 pieces: Reduces cooldown of Innervate or Healing Trance by 1.5 seconds.
• 4 pieces: Increases total Force by 50.

Sith Assassin TANK:

• 2 pieces: Increases shield chance by an additional 5% during Dark Ward or Kinetic Ward.
• 4 pieces: Increases Elemental, Internal, Kinetic and Energy damage reduction by 2%.

Sith Assassin DPS:

• 2 pieces: Saber Strike hits restore 1 Force.
• 4 pieces: Increases the critical chance of Thrash and Voltaic Slash or Double Strike and Clairvoyant Strike by 15%.

SITH WARRIOR

Sith Juggernaut TANK:

• 2 pieces: Increases the duration of Blade Turning by 1 second, and the duration of Invincible or Warding Call by 2 seconds.
• 4 pieces: Increases the amount of damage absorbed by Sonic Barrier or Blade Barrier by 20%.

Sith Juggernaut DPS:

• 2 pieces: Lowers the cooldown of Enrage or Combat Focus by 5 seconds.
• 4 pieces: Reduces the minimum range of Saber Throw by 10 meters.

Sith Marauder DPS:

• 2 pieces: Reduces the rage cost of Vicious Throw or Dispatch by 1.
• 4 pieces: Reduces the cooldown of Frenzy or Valorous Call by 15 seconds.

See you around,

May the Force serve you well!