2.2.1 Patch Notes

Cartel Market

General

• Revan's Armor has been modified to consistently match the NPC in-game appearance.

New Items

• A new vehicle is available in the Cartel Market! The Aratech Rose is an adaptive speeder that requires level 10. A consumable granting Speeder Piloting I is included with purchase. Cost: 1,500 Cartel Coins
• A new weapon is available in the Cartel Market! The Cathar Warstaff, designed by Cathar bladesmiths, requires Electrostaff weapon proficiency. Cost: 400 Cartel Coins
• A new bundle is available in the Cartel Market! The Starter Bundle offers items to assist players who are just beginning to explore the universe. The bundle contains items for increased inventory space, increased XP gain, and quick travel. (Discounted by 60% for a limited time!) Cost: 250 Cartel Coins

New Discounts

Permanent Reductions

• The Turncoat Armor Set is now permanently discounted. Cost: 600 Cartel Coins
• The Huttsbane Garments are now permanently discounted. Cost: 600 Cartel Coins

Temporary Reductions

• Appearance Options: Chiss Customization 1 is now discounted by 50%. Cost: 120 Cartel Coins
• Appearance Options: Human Hair Styles 1 is now discounted by 20%. Cost: 192 Cartel Coins
• The Experimental Pilot Suit is now discounted by 50%. Cost: 400 Cartel Coins
• The Sand People Pillager Armor Set is now discounted by 50%. Cost: 720 Cartel Coins
• The Turncoat Armor Set is now discounted by 75% (off of the new permanently reduced price). Cost: 150 Cartel Coins

Bug Fixes

• The Life Day Tinsel Bomb will now preview with full animation for all Classes.
• The Primordial Blaster is no longer Main Hand only and can now be equipped as an Offhand weapon.

General

• Paid Character Transfers are now available! Players can visit their Account Page on swtor.com to transfer their characters to a new server. Cost: 1,800 Cartel Coins
• Made client-side optimizations to improve performance in areas containing large numbers of animated players or NPCs.

Companion Characters

General

• Dismounting a vehicle will summon Companion Characters as intended for players who are in a group.
• Players will now properly receive Companion affection when entering a conversation while riding a vehicle.

Companions

Khem Val

• Khem Is Watching: This mission will now provide proper affection gains.

Crew Skills

Crafting Skills

Artifice

• Crafted Underworld and Arkanian relics are no longer bind on pickup and are now bind on equip.

Cybertech

• Droid parts over level 400 no longer state that they require Advanced Armormech and can now be Reverse Engineered.

Synthweaving

• Augments now conform to a uniform crafting material cost.

Mission Skills

Treasure Hunting

• Lockboxes granted by level 401+ missions no longer have a player level requirement to be opened.

Flashpoints and Operations

Flashpoints

Kaon Under Siege

• Players are now appropriately granted the Organizations Codex entry for Modern Tion Hegemony during this Flashpoint.

Operations

Explosive Conflict

• Defeating Warlord Kephess now grants the appropriate Persons of Note Codex entry.

Karagga's Palace

• Defeating Karagga the Unyielding now grants the appropriate Lore Codex entry.
• Defeating Bonethrasher now grants the appropriate Lore Codex entry.

Terror From Beyond

• The enrage timer for The Dread Guard has been increased by 30 seconds in Hard and Nightmare Modes.
• The Terror from Beyond will no longer heal itself if it goes below 15% health when a tentacle is killed.
• Killing a Tentacle inside the Hypergate will now correctly remove 5% health from the Terror from Beyond.
• The Writhing Horror's Corrosive Slime can now be removed by Gunslinger's Dodge and Sniper's Evasion abilities in Hard and Nightmare Modes.
• Adjusted the Exhaustion Zone boundaries in The Sandstorm Juggernaut area to prevent players from exiting the intended game area.

Scum and Villainy

• Defeating Dread Master Styrak now grants the appropriate Persons of Note Codex entry.
• Made several art corrections throughout the Operation to fix issues such as map holes and incorrect textures.

Items and Economy

General

• Datacrons can now be retrieved if a player's Mission Log is full.
• The MCR-100 Droid is now visible for players who have acquired the pet.
• Warzone Training Dummies on personal starships once again scale to the player's level.

Vendors

• The Commendations Vendor has become less curt and now provides players with a reason when denying a transaction.

Legacy

• Achievements which require a task to be completed a certain number of times (such as "Kill 100 Flesh Raiders") will now transfer as intended when players switch servers.
• Titles that are earned by completing Achievements will now transfer as intended when players switch servers.
• The "Surviving Foreman Crusher (Nightmare Mode)" Achievement will now remain completed upon logout. Players who had previously earned this Achievement will need to complete it again to be given credit.
• The "Hasty Hutt (Nightmare Mode)" Achievement will now remain completed upon logout. Players who had previously earned this Achievement will need to complete it again to be given credit.

Missions and NPCs

Missions

Macrobinoculars and Seeker Droid Missions

• Players who have completed Uprooting the Last Seed (Republic)/The Alchemy of Evil (Imperial) can now dig up both the Star Forager and Dreadseed armor pieces from the treasure dig sites, regardless of the Light or Dark Side choice made during the mission.
• A Secret Revealed (Republic): Being defeated on the electrified floor trap in the Sewer Hideout on Quesh will no longer occasionally place players into a state that prevents them from moving or taking damage normally.
• The Shroud's Last Stand (Imperial)/The Shroud Revealed (Republic): The stun effect from The Shroud's Electrostatic Mine ability can no longer be dispelled by the player.

World Missions

Ilum

• Ilum Under Siege: Female players can now complete the final conversation with Supreme Commander Rans.

Makeb

• The Lurker (Imperial): Captain Hanthor now recognizes fellow Cathar when speaking to them for the first time.
• The Observer (Imperial): Players on the step "Travel to the Observer" are now able to take the shuttle and advance this mission.
• To Pierce the Heavens (Imperial): The Mission Log no longer lists the step "Defeat J'Russh's Regulators" twice.

Nar Shaddaa

• [HEROIC 2+] Terminal Injuries (Imperial): Players who are fighting against the wall can no longer be ejected from the instance with an incorrect error message.

Quesh

• Cartel Crushing (Republic): The mission step "Return to Major Treeg" will now provide Light or Dark Side points as intended.

Tatooine

• The Thing Czerka Found (Republic): Companions now give the proper amount of affection gain or loss during conversations.

NPCs

General

• Female Togruta characters have been cured of their plague and now have the proper skin color and texture.
• Some Droids on Corellia now have "CEC" correctly capitalized in their names.

PvP

Warzones

General

• Players who use /stuck in a Warzone while in combat will have a 20 second delay before they are able to release to a Medcenter.
• Assigning Skill Points into multiple Skill Trees now bolsters players as intended.
• Expertise again caps appropriately at 2018 instead of 2013. This correction to a rounding error will result in a slight reduction in PvP Damage Boost, PvP Damage Reduction, and PvP Healing Boost for expertise values below 2018.
• Crafted Prototype (blue) and Artifact (purple) quality items are now identified properly and are no longer bolstered more than intended.

Voidstar

• Players are no longer able to fire abilities under the shield doors in the final room, as the gap has been removed and the doors now reach the floor.

UI

General

• The quickbar lock button will now display the correct lock status and will no longer unlock without being toggled.
• Items can again be removed from the Trade Window by either right-clicking the item or dragging and dropping it into the Inventory Window or the world.
• Typing a name into the Ignore Tab of the Social Window and pressing "Enter" now adds players to the Ignore List appropriately.
• Global Cooldowns will now display properly for Force users who exit the game while in combat.

Codex

• The Selkath Codex entry now correctly displays an image of the Selkath species.
• The Bounty Hunter Codex entry "Akure, the Ghost in the Darkness" now displays the correct creature's image.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

• The Ziost Shadow Mission Deck has been cleaned and footsteps no longer sound as though players are moving through dirt.
• Sounds now properly follow players when riding a mounted vehicle.
• Made many art corrections on Makeb, fixing issues like floating rocks and trees, map holes, and incorrect textures.

[PvP] Charging the Pylon

Rewards: 1 Gree Data Core, 100 Warzone Commendations

This is the most PvP centric daily of all of them and subjected to griefing as you need to drop orbs at a highly contested location. This contested is a small group PvP area. Imperials and Republic players not in your group will be hostile.

You need collect orbs from Gree Energy Condensers. They are not located not far from the middle of the contested area, usually on top of a bridge.

Once you have an orb, you get a buff that lasts 5 minutes. You need to drop off the Orb in the middle of the Contested Area. Depositing the orb is a 3.5 second cast and can be interrupted by enemy players. Once an orb is deposited, the pylon can not be used again for another minute.

[Daily] External Variables/Unexpected Variables

Rewards: 1 Gree Memory Chip, 2 Daily Commendations

Rewards: 1 Gree Memory Chip, 2 Daily Commendations
Objectives: Defeat 20 Tonvarr forces, recover 5 Stolen Gree Tech, Recover 2 Hyperspace Coordinates
Everything you need is located on the camps marked on the map. The Stolen Gree Tech and Hyperspace Coordinates are looted off mobs or from clickable crates scattered around the camp.

Once you got everything, you will need to summon Captain Jaako by clicking on the pirate beacon

[Daily] Supplemental Research/Catalysis

Rewards: 1 Gree Memory Chip, 2 Daily Commendations
Objectives: Defeat 20 Tonvarr forces, recover 5 Stolen Gree Tech, Recover 2 Hyperspace Coordinates
Everything you need is located on the camps marked on the map. The Stolen Gree Tech and Hyperspace Coordinates are looted off mobs or from clickable crates scattered around the camp.

Once you got everything, you will need to summon Captain Jaako by clicking on the pirate beacon.

Crystals are looted from colored crystals you can find on the map.

Once you acquired everything, head to the location marked on the map to summon Iraida Burrower by clicking on the Gnawed Tauntaun.

[Daily] Confirmation Bias/Experimental Bounds

Rewards: 1 Gree Memory Chip, 2 Daily Commendations

Obtain Gree Comm Protocol: Head to the north of the zone and kill the droids there. We got ours from a Gree Comlink Droid (elite mob)

Slice Probe Relay: These are marked on your map. Clear the mobs around it and then loot the Gree Data by clicking on it.

[Heroic] Primary Testing/Primary Studies

Objectives: Defeat 3 Pylon Guardians, Complete 6 Program at a Gree Research Pylon. Go to any of the green quest icons to start the heroic quest.

  Note: This mission can be completed in one location since you can activate the console repeatedly and the heroic mobs spawn. You do not need a full group but a tank or a healer is recommended.
Locate any of the Gree Research Pylons, they are marked on your map. There is a console you can activate to spawn waves of 3 elite mobs. Each wave count as 1 Program towards completion

 Rewards: 1 Gray Helix Component, 1 Gree Data Core (Prototype), 5 Daily Commendations

Relics of the Gree event guide

SWTOR Relics of the Gree event guide

Categories:

Patch 1.7, SWTOR

by dulfy

A comprehensive guide to the Relics of the Gree event as part of the Return of the Gree patch 1.7. This event will run from March 12 to March 26 2013.

• How do I get there?
• Gaining Reputation
• Missions
• World Bosses
• Xenoanalyst II (separate page)
• Lore Objects/Codex entries
• Rewards

How do I get there?

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First, go to the news terminal on the fleet, it should be near Mission Departures. Watching the new broadcast will give you a new quest – The Gree Experiment/Gree Research Initiative, which asks you to head to Ilum western shelf and talk to the Gree Herald Droid.
Go to Ilum, take speeder to the western shelf.

Gaining Reputation

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Reputation are earned by doing these daily missions or killing world bosses. All of the daily missions reward you with items that you can use to gain Reputation. Note that Reputation ranks are not cumulative (i.e. to reach the Newcomer rank, you need 2500 rep for Outsider and 5000 rep for Newcomer for a total of 7500 rep).

• Gree Memory Chip (green) = 270 Reputation (180 for F2P players)
• Gree Data Core (blue) = 630 Reputation (420 for F2P players)
• Ancient Gree Artifact (purple) = 1440 Reputation (960 for F2P players)

Rank	Reputation required (per rank)	Reputation Required (cumulative)	Weeks to Reach*	Title
Outsider	2500	2500	0
Newcomer	5000	7500	0	Gree Research Assistant
Friend	7500	15000	1
Hero	10000	25000	3	Honored Silver Acute
Champion	15000	40000	5
Legend	30000	70000	6	Perfect Gold Bisector

*Assuming 12000/week.
Gearbox Method for extra weekly gains: Consume 19 blue trophies to reach 11970 rep, and then consume a purple trophy to reach 13410/week.
Use this chart to see other methods to reach 11970 rep (thanks Elebhra)

You can go over the 12k weekly cap as long you use the last item <12k. The reputation gain over 12k are not lost.
Here is a handy chart you can use to see how much reputation and Gray Helix components you can gain.

Here is the equivalent chart for F2P players, who earn 50% less reputation.

Missions

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Starter Missions
These missions are available to pick up at the western Ice shelf as soon as you arrive on Ilum.
Note that the Empire and Republic missions are identical except in names.