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In the growing shadow of war, swoop fans across the galaxy descend on Dantooine, Tatooine, and even Onderon for the sport’s biggest spectacle—The All Worlds Ultimate Swoop Rally! They’re packing the stands, eager to take their minds off their troubles and cheer their favorite swoop gangs. The bikers are here to take on dangerous challenge […]

The All Worlds Ultimate Swoop Rally, better known as the “Swoop Event”, is a limited-time event running in Star Wars: The Old Republic based on swoop racing, a mini-game that was first introduced in the Knights of the Old Republic game. Players have been asking for swoop racing to be in the Old Republic for […]

Operations are teamwork-based missions available for high level characters in Star Wars: The Old Republic. In this video I’m going to be going through everything you need to know about joining your first operation, from how to prepare and gear up to how to actually find a group to join. Watch Video What are Operations? […]

The Nar Shaddaa Nightlife is back for its yearly casino event! Nar Shaddaa Nightlife Date:June 29 – August 10, 2021 (BEGINS AND ENDS AT 5:00AM PST/12:00PM GMT) Requirement: None! Test your luck at the exotic Star Cluster and Club Vertica Casinos with the return of the Nar Shaddaa Nightlife event! Rare and extravagant rewards await high-rollers […]

Double XP is coming up in SWTOR! June 29 – July 13, 2021! Double XP, Valor, and Renown. This is a video from last event – here was my plans for levelling during this event! MTFBWY! I think I might take advantage of the Double Valor this time! Watch Video And here’s my guides! Guide […]

The Nar Shaddaa Nightlife event is a limited time event in Star Wars: The Old republic where you can head to Nar Shaddaa and gamble your credits away for a chance to win some unique prizes during this once-yearly event set in the summer. LIMITED TIME EVENT: This year’s event is scheduled for June 29 […]

The Bounty Hunters Association has returned! Catch bounties and turn them in for rewards. SWTOR Bounty Contract Event Guide Watch Video Watch Video The upcoming event schedule looks something like this (not guaranteed): 2021-06-01: Death Mark Conquest (BOUNTY EVENT) (Confirmed!) 2021-06-08: Emergency Operations Conquest 2021-06-15: Swoop Gang Mayhem (SWOOP EVENT) (Confirmed!) 2021-06-22: Total Galactic War […]

The Bounty Contract week event is a special event that happens roughly once a month in star wars the old republic. During the event, you can help your faction by taking down key targets in crime syndicates and violent gangs and bring them to justice. The best part of this event is that you can […]

Discord has become the de-facto way for Star Wars: The Old Republic players to communicate out-of-game for both text chat and voice chat, and players who are interested in playing any type of group content or want to meet other SWTOR players will want to take advantage of a free Discord account. Players can use […]

Eternity Vault is the first Operation that was available in Star Wars: The Old Republic, and one of the two shorter introductory Operations that are great first choices for players new to playing Operations. While this Operation is considered quite easy, and you’ll probably be fine to jump right in without a guide, this video […]

Galactic Seasons is a new system being added to Star Wars: The Old Republic, similar to a ‘battle pass’ in other games, where you can complete daily objectives to earn rewards over the course of five months. This new system will be available to both free-to-play and subscribers at no additional cost, with subscribers having […]

Augments are a way of adding additional stats to your armor in Star Wars: The Old Republic. They are available to low level players, but aren’t really worth it, and are more recommended for level 75 players who are working on the hardest content in the game including Ranked PvP and Master Mode operations. Players […]

Underworld Exchange Reputation is a strange and mostly deprecated type of Reputation in Star Wars: The Old Republic. This Reputation track was originally multiple different tracks that were combined into one, and the reputation items to progress the track came from different types of Cartel Packs that are no longer sold, and the current types […]

The Pirate Incursion Event, better known as the “Dantooine Event”, is a limited-time event in Star Wars: The Old Republic. The event happens sporadically, and lasts for about a week on the normally peaceful planet of Dantooine. The event focuses on the Nova Blade Pirates hostile takeover of the area, as they are spurred on […]

It’s time to head back to Dantooine! Guide: SWTOR Dantooine Pirate Incursion Event Guide Video: Watch Video  

There’s over 200 dyes in SWTOR! I’ve got a list and screenshots of how to get every single one and what they look like. swtorista.com/dyes

“Force empathy. I’ve experienced it for as long as I can remember. I’ve always been… almost overwhelmed by other people’s feelings and emotions. Little things like time and distance don’t do much to stop it, either.” The new music for Aryn Leneer, a character from the Deceived novel who is tightly tied with Darth Malgus’s […]

After completing the Secret of the Dantooine story line, players will receive mails from the characters involved in their in-game mailbox. Mail – From: Shae Vizla – Subject: Heta Kol Update Mail – From: Rass Ordo – Subject: Checking in Mail (Republic) – From: Aryn Leneer – Subject: The path that lies ahead. Mail (Republic) […]

To help introduce the new planet of Umbara to Star Wars: The Old Republic, a short story called Trading Scars was posted on the game’s website. This short story was written by Samantha Wallschlaeger, who was a member of the Bioware writing team at the time. I have recorded an audio version of this short […]

The Jedi Council requested a daunting task of Jedi Master Gnost-Dural, keeper of the Jedi archives: to revise the order’s historical records about the formation of the Sith Empire. These detailed holorecords are his trouble findings about the Fallen Jedi during the Great Hyperspace War to the more recent Jedi Civil War. His holorecordings have […]

A series of timeline videos were created by the SWTOR Development team before its launch, to explain the events that took place befor the story in the game starts. These holorecords were originally available on SWTOR.com‘s holonet before the launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic, but we have taken the higher-resolution versions (720p) from […]

Korriban is the ancient homeworld of the Sith, and the starter planet for the Sith Warrior and Sith Inquisitor. Read about all of the story and quests available on Korriban in the summaries below written by Locke!

The Secrets of the Enclave Story was released as part of the Dark Descent which was update 6.3 in Star Wars: The Old Republic. The war between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire still rages throughout the galaxy. The formidable enemies grapple for an advantage. Meanwhile, Darth Malgus, the powerful Sith Lord who could […]

The Gree Event snuck up on us! Along with Double XP currently running, the Gree event will be as well! The last day of the Gree event will likely be Monday the 10th. I’ll be doing some Xenoanalyst, and maybe working on some of the missing PvP achievements I have! But double XP is very […]

Let’s see what we can make of you, shall we? May the Fourth be with us! Many of the members of the SWTOR Content Creators fan team are teaming up to take on Dread Fortress in Master Mode on May 4, at 5 PM PDT! Join us live for chaos, giveaways, and raiding! Multiple members […]