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[Skiggity]

Highlights
A new Event, Relics of the Gree, has been added to the Western Ice Shelf on Ilum. An ancient Gree starship called "Gray Secant" has transformed the battlefield into a crucible for research, with PvE and PvP missions available for the duration of the Event. Earning Reputation with the Gree Enclave will unlock permission to board Gray Secant itself, which includes access to a new Operation boss - Xenoanalyst II. The "Relics of the Gree" Event will last for two weeks and will return in the future!
Galactic Reputation is a new system for advancing your Legacy. You can unlock Reputation ranks by completing missions for various organizations and earning Reputation Trophies, which can be consumed to earn Reputation points. Higher Reputation ranks will unlock rewards such as mini-pets, cosmetic gear, and Legacy Titles.
The final Cartel Pack of our initial set of packs (known as Shipment One) has arrived. The Space Pirate Pack features a wider variety of exclusive items than any previous pack!
Legacy Titles can now be unlocked in your character sheet. Legacy Titles occupy the slot below your name in your nameplate, and once unlocked, they are available to all characters in your Legacy. Your Legacy surname and Legacy Title surname are independent and can be toggled separately. Character and Cartel Market menus have been updated to reflect this.
Cartel Market
General
Updated the Cartel Market storefront to differentiate between Character Titles and Legacy Titles.
New Items
A new cartel pack, the Space Pirate's Cartel Pack, is now available on the Market. Cost: 360 Cartel Coins
"It's a Surprise!" and "I Love You" Jawagrams are now available for a limited time! Cost: 20 Cartel Coins
Players can now purchase a Hypercrate containing 24 Space Pirate's Cartel Packs. (Discounted by 15% for a limited time!) Cost: 7344
New Discounts
The Blockade Runner Cartel Pack is now discounted by 5%. Cost: 342 Cartel Coins
Authorization: Artifact Equipment (Account) is now discounted by 10%. Cost: 2430 Cartel Coins
Authorization: Artifact Equipment (Character) is now discounted by 25%. Cost: 900 Cartel Coins
Major Experience Boost (x5) are now discounted by 25%. Cost: 360 Cartel Coins
The Carbonite Chamber is now discounted by 25%. Cost: 540 Cartel Coins
The Experimental Flight Suit is now Discounted by 50%. Cost: 600 Cartel Coins
Expiring Discounts
Access Authorization: Section X (Character) is no longer 10% off. Cost: 540 Cartel Coins
Access Authorization: Section X (Account) is no longer 10% off. Cost: 1,215 Cartel Coinsl
Unlock: Cargo Hold Access (Character) is no longer 20% off. Cost: 380 Cartel Coinsl
Unlock: Cargo Hold Access (Account) is no longer 20% off. Cost: 840 Cartel Coins
Unlock: Additional Cargo Bay (Character) is no longer 20% off. Cost: 380 Cartel Coins
Unlock: Additional Cargo Bay (Account) is no longer 20% off. Cost: 840 Cartel Coins
Medical Probes are no longer 50% off. Cost: 250 Cartel Coins
Bug Fixes
Players are now able to use more than one Category-specific Experience Boost simultaneously. Ex: A player may have both a Warzone and Space Experience Boost active at the same time. However, General Experience Boosts may not be combined with Category-specific Experience Boosts.
Several Cartel Market tooltips have been corrected to indicate that they unlock for characters rather than full accounts.
Players who had previously obtained a piece of the Spymaster, Conservator's, Phantom, Despot's, Perceptor's, or Trailblazer's equipment set will receive a matching piece of the "Classic" version of the item. You will find the "Classic" version of the item delivered via in-game mail or inside of the equipment lockbox where you originally obtained the item.
The tooltip for Social Boost items now indicate that the cooldown is 1 hour.
Updated the art for the Skip Tracker's Cartel Pack to accurately depict the Stylish Dancer's items.
General
The number of abilities players can learn has been significantly increased, allowing anyone who had been unable to summon a new pet or vehicle to now do so.
Added a Cargo Bay, Guild Bank, mail box and Galactic Trade Network Terminal to VIP area on the Republic and Imperial Fleets.
All players located on Ilum prior to Game Update 1.7 will now find their positions to be updated. Imperial characters will be at the Imperial planetary shuttle and Republic characters will be located at the Republic planetary shuttle.
Flashpoints and Operations
Operations
Terror From Beyond
Reduced the damage dealt by Hypergate Irregularities during the encounter with Terror From Beyond in 16-player Story Mode.
Items and Economy
General
Item sell values and item repair costs now reflect the value of the items and any enhancements attached to them. Previously, items were incorrectly being valued without their enhancements.
Vendors
The Bartenders on the Republic and Imperial Fleets now sell "Flower Delivery" Jawagrams for 1,000 Credits.
Legacy
General
Galactic Reputation is a new system for advancing your Legacy. You can unlock Reputation ranks by completing missions for various organizations and earning Reputation Trophies, which can be consumed to earn Reputation points. Higher Reputation ranks will unlock rewards such as mini-pets, cosmetic gear, and Legacy Titles. There are four Reputations are currently available:
The Voss
The Gree Enclave
Republic Hyperspace Armada / Imperial First Mobile Fleet
Republic 5th Assault Battalion / Imperial Guard on Belsavis
Legacy Titles can now be unlocked in your character sheet. Legacy Titles occupy the slot below your name in your nameplate, and once unlocked, they are available to all characters in your Legacy. Your Legacy surname and Legacy Title surname are independent and can be toggled separately.
Priority Transport: Personal Starship is now available as a Legacy unlock. This ability requires Legacy level 15 and character level 20 and does not share a cooldown with any other Priority Transport unlock.
Bug Fixes
The tooltips for "Improved Rocket Boost" Legacy unlocks now properly indicate that will have no effect on player speed without first unlocking the "Rocket Boost" first.
The Legacy Character unlock for the Imperial version of HK-51 is now properly restricted to Imperial characters.
Missions and NPCs
General
A new Event has been added to the Western Ice Shelf on Ilum. An ancient Gree starship called "Gray Secant" has transformed the battlefield into a crucible for research, with PvE and PvP missions available for the duration of the Event. Earning Reputation with the Gree Enclave will unlock permission to board Gray Secant itself, which includes access to a new Operation boss - Xenoanalyst II. The "Relics of the Gree" Event will last for two weeks and will return in the future!
Missions
World Missions
Belsavis
A new Reputation Vendor is present in both the Imperial and Republic camps of Section X.
Reputation Trophies are now awarded for completing daily and weekly missions in Section X.
Section X: Data Raid: The respawn timer has been decreased for the Energy Tubes in this Imperial Mission.
Section X: March of the Dread Guard: Players who exit the mission phase before completing all objectives will no longer be prevented from re-entering the phase.
Section X: [AREA 2+] Lost Reconnaissance: All enemies, including the Voracious Tuk'ata, now count toward mission credit when defeated.
Section X: Targeted Misfire: Both Jedi Special Operatives and Jedi Protectors now drop targeting beacons.
Voss
A new weekly mission is available in the Voss-Ka Cantina: "The Defense of Voss-Ka." This mission rewards Reputation Trophies with The Voss.
Reputation Trophies are now awarded for completing many Heroic missions on Voss.
A new Reputation Vendor is present in the Voss-Ka Cantina.
Class Missions
Jedi Knight
The Jedi Envoy: The arrivals console will now properly advise players that "You must have T-7 with you to do this" when they attempt to use the console without this companion summoned.
Jedi Consular
The Arrival: The arrivals console on Coruscant will now properly advise players that "You must have Qyzen Fess with you to do this" when they attempt to use the console without this companion summoned.
Smuggler
The Gambler: The arrivals console on Coruscant will now properly advise players that "You must have Corso Riggs with you to do this" when they attempt to use the console without this companion summoned.
Imperial Agent
The Path Leads to Dromund Kaas: The arrivals console on Dromund Kaas will now properly advise players that "You must have Kaliyo Djannis with you to do this" when they attempt to use the console without this companion summoned.
The New Truth: The Holoarchives on Hutta will now properly display the "You must have Kaliyo Djannis with you" error message if you attempt to download the holorecordings without this companion summoned.
Trooper
Coruscant Assignment: The arrivals console on Coruscant will now properly advise players that "You must have Aric Jorgan with you to do this" when they attempt to use the console without this companion summoned.
Bounty Hunter
The Hunt on Dromund Kaas: The arrivals console on Dromund Kaas will now properly advise players that "You must have Mako with you to do this" when they attempt to use the console without this companion summoned.
PvP
World PvP
Ilum
The "Battle for Ilum" [AREA] PvP missions are no longer active in the Western Ice Shelf.
The Western Ice Shelf is now divided into a Small Group Free-For-All PvP region in the south and a standard open world area in the north. Missions in these areas will activate during the "Relics of the Gree" Event.
"Small Group Free-For-All" is a new ruleset for world PvP regions where groups of up to four players compete against all other groups in the area. Operations groups are disallowed in these regions.
Space Combat
Reputation Trophies are now awarded for completing the daily Heroic Space Missions from the Fleet Command console on your ship.
A new Reputation Vendor is present on the Imperial and Republic Fleets, in the area near the Space Combat vendors.
UI
Your character's Galactic Reputation can now be viewed in the Legacy window.
The Character and Cartel Market windows have been updated to include Legacy Title information.
Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
Corrected minor spelling and grammar errors on the Character Selection screen.
The /stuck command will now kill players who are stuck on their personal starships.

[Skiggity]

Finally! Legacy Saber!

[Staris]

General
Item sell values and item repair costs now reflect the value of the items and any enhancements attached to them. Previously, items were incorrectly being valued without their enhancements.
Vendors

Hopefully that doesn't mean increased repair costs.

Finally! Legacy Saber!

Finally!

[Blackferne]

"It's a Surprise!" and "I Love You" Jawagrams are now available for a limited time! Cost: 20 Cartel Coins

The Bartenders on the Republic and Imperial Fleets now sell "Flower Delivery" Jawagrams for 1,000 Credits.

Ok.

[Furiel]

General
Item sell values and item repair costs now reflect the value of the items and any enhancements attached to them. Previously, items were incorrectly being valued without their enhancements.
Vendors

Hopefully that doesn't mean increased repair costs.

Finally! Legacy Saber!

Finally!

I'm sure it will mean increased repair costs...

I'm going to reserve judgement on my excitement on the Gree legacy weapons considering the potential griefing factor for this area...

[Staris]

"It's a Surprise!" and "I Love You" Jawagrams are now available for a limited time! Cost: 20 Cartel Coins

The Bartenders on the Republic and Imperial Fleets now sell "Flower Delivery" Jawagrams for 1,000 Credits.

Ok.

Should you really be surprised there there is a valentines theme going on this month.

General
Item sell values and item repair costs now reflect the value of the items and any enhancements attached to them. Previously, items were incorrectly being valued without their enhancements.
Vendors

Hopefully that doesn't mean increased repair costs.

Finally! Legacy Saber!

Finally!

I'm sure it will mean increased repair costs...

I'm going to reserve judgement on my excitement on the Gree legacy weapons considering the potential griefing factor for this area...

I imagine it will be a pain to get but the fact that it is available in some fashion means the ability to transfer hilts and barrels to alts which will hopefully mean additional ways to do that down the road.

[TimmySchneeks]

FWIW a dev just posted that the vendor is sticking around after the event, so farm those rep tokens!

[Furiel]

Still sadly mum on the repair costs. It's starting to look like an ostrich issue. BW sticks their head in the sand until the firestorm dies down and ultimately does nothing.

[Skiggity]

Yay vendor persistance. Boo repair bills. I mean, really boo.

Best argument I've seen is that it's gonna hurt the noobs the most, since nobody will want to risk unnecessary wipes helping others get up to speed. Efficient way to kill new subscribers at the root....

[TimmySchneeks]

And now nobody's going to group with Johnnymaddog...but that's OK since he will now be muted by the community...
Along with \/\/ot boy too, hopefully.

But yeah, I'm not queueing for FP's anytime soon, unless it's an Alvis affair. While I didn't mind teaching a tank what taunts and target-of-target are for before...

On the plus side, this now encourages naked raiding. Don't have to repair what you aren't wearing!

[Furiel]

Now the bigger question for me at least is how to acquire enough helix components to get both a gun and a saber.

[Skiggity]

Skig's gettin a Saber, Butter's getting a Gun. just do the ship boss, Xeno, on SM and HM, that's the payoff.

[Furiel]

Skig's gettin a Saber, Butter's getting a Gun. just do the ship boss, Xeno, on SM and HM, that's the payoff.

How hard is he on HM?

[Furiel]

BW has said not officially Gray Helix tokens are BoP by design and will stay that way..

So if you want 2 items, pick 2 chars to farm with pretty much every day to get enough.

[Furiel]

More maintenance tomorrow...we'll see if they address the repair issues then....

[Fynn]

More maintenance tomorrow...we'll see if they address the repair issues then....

God, I hope so. They haven't made mention of it, despite the forum outrage, so I think it's unlikely. But God I hope so.

[Skiggity]

Skig's gettin a Saber, Butter's getting a Gun. just do the ship boss, Xeno, on SM and HM, that's the payoff.

How hard is he on HM?

Not too bad with a well-geared (BH+) group that pays attention.

There's a few more tricks I picked up on today's HM run: you can break line of sight on the Thermal Testing cast if you have a fast tank (shadow sprint or guardian leap), and if everyone but the tank hides behind columns for the button pulse as tank hits the last button the healers are happier.

Main issue is DPS on the cores. If you can't burn the core down in time, someone dies and you probably won't beat the enrage, so all 4 DPSers need to be solid.

[Fynn]

Anyone have any interest in running this tomorrow? I'm around after 7:30 Eastern. I desperately want to grab that lightsaber, if only to shuttle some hilts, and I go back to work on Saturday. With another impending storm, I could miss 4 more days of this event!

[Furiel]

Anyone have any interest in running this tomorrow? I'm around after 7:30 Eastern. I desperately want to grab that lightsaber, if only to shuttle some hilts, and I go back to work on Saturday. With another impending storm, I could miss 4 more days of this event!

I'll do it if I'm on as tank, DPS or both! Although I may be going to a movie so I'll keep you updated as things develop.

[Fynn]

Anyone have any interest in running this tomorrow? I'm around after 7:30 Eastern. I desperately want to grab that lightsaber, if only to shuttle some hilts, and I go back to work on Saturday. With another impending storm, I could miss 4 more days of this event!

I'll do it if I'm on as tank, DPS or both! Although I may be going to a movie so I'll keep you updated as things develop.

Nice! I'm in for heals! I could also Tank SM. I wouldn't subject you guys to HM Tanking. Wipe city

[Furiel]

More maintenance tomorrow...we'll see if they address the repair issues then....

God, I hope so. They haven't made mention of it, despite the forum outrage, so I think it's unlikely. But God I hope so.

I predict tomorrows patch notes will be something like this...

Added new Cartel Market items:
Improved Item Repair I: Reduces repair costs by 10% - cost 2000 Cartel Coins
Improved Item Repair II: Reduces repair costs by 10% - cost 2000 Cartel Coins
Improved Item Repair III: Reduces repair costs by 10% - cost 2000 Cartel Coins
Improved Item Repair IV: Reduces repair costs by 10% - cost 2000 Cartel Coins
Improved Item Repair V: Reduces repair costs by 10% - cost 2000 Cartel Coins

Fixed issue with Priority Transport: Personal Starship

[TimmySchneeks]

Patch notes for today: "Whoops JK"

[Furiel]

Won't be on til late tonight so don't count on me for any gree boss kills

[Skiggity]

Light at the end of the tunnel:

"Hi everyone,

Thank you all for your feedback on the changes to repair costs introduced with Game Update 1.7. Upon review, we agree with you that repair costs did become too high with this latest Game Update. To that end, we will be making a change to how these repair costs are calculated, starting with our next scheduled maintenance. Repair costs will now be calculated based on the combined value of all the mods installed in the shell, excluding the value of the shell itself. Players will see a noticeable reduction immediately after the change goes in.

Additionally, we’d like to apologize for the inconvenience that we introduced.

As a thank you for your patience during this time, we will also be reducing ALL repair costs by 50% once the aforementioned change goes in with the next scheduled maintenance. This will last all the way through until early access to Rise of the Hutt Cartel launches.

Your feedback is important to us, and we hope that this resolution alleviates the repair costs concerns. Thanks again for your patience."

Of course, if they don't advertise this widely enough, folks will be happy for half-off and then freak out again when it goes to "normal"

Frankly, I wish they'd just leave it cheap, but that's me.

[Furiel]

leaving repair costs higher is fine as long as the content is rewards are equal to or slighly exceed the cost of doing it. That's been my biggest problem through all of this is the sudden necessity of spending almost as much time farming cash to pay repair bills as I would spend doing the actual content. I mean with the new bills when we did TFB HM on Sat we wiped 10 times or so. I walked in with just under 1 mil credits. Walked away with 950k. So I still lost 30-40k credits in repair costs even though TFB drops a crap ton of credits. I think my total repair bill was about 125k total for the night. That I can accept. I can deal with having to spend 30 minutes or so running dailies for money to raid with. But up til now TFB was the exception as far as cash made raiding goes. If ROTHC drops money like that then it's a non-issue. If they go back to the EC model of getting maybe 5k credits on a pull total, then there may be issues again.

Also if you read between the lines there, it was probably not working as intended. Or if it was it was not well thought out. They were factoring in shell costs for repairs. Which meant that people wearing low level social gear for example, were paying less to repair equal gear than people wearing higher level gear. So someone who was wearing a full DG set including the DG shells would pay more to repair their gear than someone like me on Montae, who if he had full 63s, was still using the consular orange shells that are around level 20ish. Even though our gear is equal, because I pulled it into a low level orange shell I paid less. Does that seem right to you? It doesn't to me.