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Gesendet: 06.03.12, 19:52
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Panels announce sweeping changes
The SWTOR Guild Summit is still in full motion! This summit, being held until March 8th, is a meeting between BioWare developers and select guilds from across the world.
Yesterday, BioWare held a series of developer panels at the summit. These panels discussed many of the changes we will see in 1.2, as well as what is being planned in the future, We were taking notes, and tried to boil it down to the most relevant information. There are a lot of changes to cover, so let's delve in!
PvP
Patch 1.2
- Zones
- New Warzone, "Novare Coast"
- Ilum will be redesigned
- Outlaw's Den will see some changes
- New Warzone dailies
- Items
- A new tier of PvP gear, called "War Hero"
- PvP crafting
- New lightsaber colors
- 18 new medals
- Warzone Mechanics
- A vote-kick system will be introduced to remove inactive players from a Warzone
- Measures to prevent abuse of the vote-kick system
- Same-faction queueing will be added to existing Warzones to prevent repeated Huttball queues
- Class balance will be addressed
- There will be continued efforts to crack down on exploiters
Legacy
Patch 1.2
- Legacy spells at max level
- Legacy "Family Trees"
- Legacy global unlocks
- Specialized item drops
Guilds
Patch 1.2
- Guild Banks will be implemented
- Guild Calendar will be implemented
- Guild Capital Ships will be implemented
- Guild Emblems will be implemented
- Guild Advertisement will be implemented
- Guild Progression will be implemented
Flashpoints and Operations
Patch 1.2
- New Operation, "Explosive Conflict"
- Will provide a higher level of difficulty than currently implemented operations.
- New Flashpoint, "Lost Island"
Patch 1.3
- Group finder will be implemented
User Interface
Patch 1.2
- Chat bubbles will be implemented
- New role-play emotes will be implemented
- The mission tracker will include a button to use mission items, eliminating the need for searching inventory
- High res textures will be implemented
- "Unify to Chest" will return
Items
Patch 1.2
- Craftable augments will be implemented
- Orange gear will be "more viable in end-game"
- To accomplish this, the Destined Loot system will be removed from Normal Mode Operations
Missions and Events
Patch 1.2
- New daily missions
- Server-wide limited time events will be implemented
- Less "static" worlds have been announced
Live Facebook Q&A
Also announced, BioWare will be conducting a Facebook Q&A session with Lead Combat Designer Damion Schubert today. To participate, players should post on the Star Wars Official Facebook page. Later today, BioWare will compile the questions, and select questions will be answered on the wall.
We will re-post this Q&A once it goes live.
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