How to Gear Up at Level 75

Where do you get endgame gear in SWTOR?

While you are leveling and playing through the story, gear comes fairly naturally at the end of almost every quest. Once you reach level 75, high-end gear comes from completing various types of content in the game. These activities include:

• Renown system, from all solo and group activities
• Flashpoints, solo or group content
• Operations, difficult group content
• Warzones, player vs player content
• Crafting, or buying crafted gear from other players
• Chapters, from the Knights of the Fallen Empire and Knights of the Eternal Order expansions
• Spoils of War Random Unidentified Gear Vendor

What is the easiest way to gear up for endgame level 75 in SWTOR?

1. Complete the Onslaught expansion to receive a full set of item-rating 268 gear
2. Whenever you get a piece of gear with a higher item-rating, equip it even if it is not your ideal piece of gear to increase your item-rating, working towards a 306 item rating
3. Do content including Flashpoints, Operations, PvP, Story Chapters, Onderon and Mek-Sha Dailies and Conquest to get randomized gear based on your item-rating
4. Get additional gear from Renown Crates which you earn over time by doing any type of content that earns xp
5. Buy all five tiers of the Improved Renown Experience character unlock to gain renown crates faster
6. Deconstruct gear from drops or renown crates you don’t need for Tech Fragments from your inventory
7. Buy your set bonus shells or tactical items with Tech Fragments

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What’s the fastest way to earn gear?

Here’s my quick list, I’ve got a really up-to-date guide about how gear up fast below called Gearing Up Solo at Level 75!

• Treasure Hunting Boxes
• Conquest
• Spoils of War Vendor
• Mek-Sha & Onderon Daily Quests
• Solo’ing Flashpoints
• Master Mode Chapters
• Renown
• Crafting

Gearing Up Solo at Level 75

Do I even need gear?

If gaining gear feels like a chore rather than a journey, the good news is that most players do not need the best gear in the game, and can get by on some basic level 65-75 gear in most activities.

Most solo story quests = No

You do not need great gear to play most story content. Most planets, quests, enemies and solo/story flashpoints are tuned so that regular players can defeat them with whatever gear they have on hand. This includes Heroics, planetary quests, and story chapters.

Bolstered Story/Veteran Group Content = No

You do not need great gear for bolstered group content. Veteran Mode Flashpoints, Story mode Operations, and regular PvP Warzones all offer a mechanic called “bolster”, which will boost your gear temporarily to the correct level – all you need is a piece of gear in every slot to get bolstered.

Difficult Group Content = Yes

You should strive for great gear if you plan on playing these types of activities:

• Group content in general. Although Veteran Mode Flashpoints, Story mode Operations, and regular PvP Warzones have bolster, having better gear can help make up some of the “numbers” if you are less skilled, or if you are a veteran player, can help cover gaps if you are sponsoring less skilled players in your group. For example, if you are fighting a boss that must receive a certain amount of damage in a short amount of time, having extra Mastery, Power and Crit might help make up for the low damage your newest raid member is doing. If you enjoy running group content fast, extra damage can help you fly through enemies quicker.
• Master mode Flashpoints and Veteran/Master mode Operations. Veteran and Master mode operation do not have bolster. Master mode Flashpoints do have bolster, but some are extremely difficult, and each one has a different “minimum suggest gear” rating. Most players suggest you should have item rating 270 gear or higher before jumping in to Master Mode Flashpoints, hought skilled players should be able to squeek by a bit lower.
• Competitive PvP. The current gear bolster for 6.0 and beyond is to item rating 306 (the highest maximum). Here’s some more advice about PvP bolster.
• Veteran Mode and Master Mode Story Chapters. The Eternal Expansions offered an interesting new challenge to solo players – they can be played in a higher difficulty, and these higher difficulties will require you gear up a bit before heading in. The suggest item rating for Veteran Mode is somewhere around 220-230, and suggestions for Master Mode Chapters is somewhere around item rating 236 gear.

How to Modify Gear

There are two types of gear in the game – moddable, and unmoddable. Moddable gear is gear you can change the stats of, while unmoddable gear is static gear with the stats attached directly to the piece of armor. For endgame gearing, you will want to have 9 pieces of moddable armor:

At level 75, a large majority of pieces you pick up will be moddable. Your other pieces of gear, including your earpiece, implant, relics, and tactical item can never be modded.

The stats of moddable pieces of gear are made up by the modifications in the gear. Modifications are individual parts that make up each piece of armor – most pieces of armor have an Armoring, a Mod, and an Enhancement, except for belts and bracers which only have and Armoring and Mod (no Enhancement). You can mix and match these modifications to either upgrade your stats, or to create a different combination of stats.

To see the stats of the individual modifications in a piece of gear when you roll over it with your mouse, you can activate this setting: press the ESC key > Preferences > User Interface > Show Detailed Item Tooltips. When you hover your mouse over a piece of armor, it will show the individual stats of the Armoring, Mod and Enhancement.

This is very useful, because you might get a piece of gear that appears as an upgrade in your inventory with a green arrow, but maybe only some of the modifications inside it are useful to you.

THE UP ARROWS ARE OFTEN WRONG. Make sure to scroll over a piece of gear to see its item rating and stats. Do not trust the up arrow. In some cases, it incorrectly reports that the item is not better than your current piece – even if it has a higher item rating.

To modify a gear piece, CTRL+ RIGHT CLICK on it. This will open the Modification window. You can do this from your inventory or from your equipment panel.

• To add a mod to a piece of armor, right click on it from your inventory while the modification window is up.
• To remove a mod in a piece of armor, right click on it in the modification window. You can accept or reject the removal in case you clicked something by accident.

You can also use this same window to add cosmetic items to your gear including non-reusable dyes, weapon tunings, and color crystals.

Mix and Match Armorings, Mods and Enhancements

Being able to move modifications to other pieces becomes helpful as you build up your set of gear. If you receive a second pair of gloves, it might not be as good as the pair you have on… but the individual modifications and enhancements in the second pair of gloves still might be better than the mods you have in your helm or boots.

• While working on increasing your gear score, you will want to upgrade lower item-rating modifications as you go. This is because gear drops and gear lockboxes contain gear determined by your currently equipped gear’s item-rating.
• Once you have the higher gear-score (306), you will exchange modifications to crate the perfect blend of stats

Comparing two pieces of armor. The piece I have equipped is on the left. The new piece I got is on the right. The green Stat Changes on the left show that this will be an upgrade to my stats, and the higher item rating on each of the modifications shows it will be better for my item rating.

When switching mods, make sure not to accidentally delete any modifications you want to keep when putting new ones in – first remove the ones you want to keep, then add the new ones.

Tech Fragments

Tech Fragments are a new type of level 75 currency that you can use to buy endgame gear. Tech Fragments are a legacy-bound currency, which means you can collect them on any of your characters and spend them on any of your characters. You can see how many you have in the currency tab of your inventory. You can only hold up to 5,000 Tech Fragments at a time.

How to Get Tech Fragments

Tech Fragments can be earned many different ways.

I have a guide dedicated to just earning tech fragments:

How to Get Tech Fragments in SWTOR

Quest Type	Quest Name	Requirements	Tech Fragments	Additional Rewards
Level Up Renown	(no quest)	160,000 Renown Points	100	Gear Lockbox
Deconstructing Gear	(no quest)	Deconstructing endgame gear from in	2+	Crafting Materials
Daily Veteran Flashpoint Groupfinder	(no quest, groupfinder panel)	1 Random Veteran Groupfinder Flashpoint	100	Gear Crate, Legacy-bound Renown Points consumable***, 8 Processed Isotope Stabilizers
Repeatable Veteran Flashpoint Groupfinder	(no quest, groupfinder panel after doing daily)	1 Random Veteran Groupfinder Flashpoint	15	Gear Crate, Legacy-bound Renown Points consumable***, 2 Processed Isotope Stabilizers
Repeatable Veteran Flashpoint Groupfinder Role-In-Need	(no quest, groupfinder panel)	1 Random Veteran Groupfinder Flashpoint as Role-In-Need	20	2 Processed Isotope Stabilizers
Weekly Veteran Flashpoints	[WEEKLY] Veteran Flashpoints	5 Veteran Flashpoints via Groupfinder	150	Gear Lockbox x2
Daily Master Flashpoint Groupfinder	(no quest, groupfinder panel)	1 Random Master Groupfinder Flashpoint	125	Gear Crate x2, Legacy-bound Renown Points consumable***, 11 Processed Isotope Stabilizers
Repeatable Master Flashpoint Groupfinder	(no quest, groupfinder panel after doing daily)	1 Random Master Groupfinder Flashpoint	?	?
Repeatable Master Flashpoint Groupfinder Role-In-Need	(no quest, groupfinder panel)	1 Random Master Groupfinder Flashpoint as Role-In-Need	20	2 Processed Isotope Stabilizers
Weekly Master Flashpoints	[WEEKLY] Galactic Conflicts	3 Master Flashpoints via Groupfinder	300	Gear Lockbox x3
Daily Story Uprising Groupfinder	(no quest, groupfinder panel)	1 Random Story Groupfinder Uprising	75	Legacy-bound Renown Points consumable***, 7 Processed Isotope Stabilizers
Repeatable Story Uprising Groupfinder	(no quest, groupfinder panel after doing daily)	1 Random Story Groupfinder Uprising	?	?
Weekly Story Uprisings	[WEEKLY] Story Uprisings	5 Story Uprisings via Groupfinder	60
Daily Veteran Uprising Groupfinder	(no quest, groupfinder panel)	1 Random Veteran Groupfinder Uprising	75	Legacy-bound Renown Points consumable***, 9 Processed Isotope Stabilizers
Repeatable Veteran Uprising Groupfinder	(no quest, groupfinder panel after doing daily)	1 Random Veteran Groupfinder Uprising	?	?
Repeatable Veteran Uprising Groupfinder Role-In-Need	(no quest, groupfinder panel)	1 Random Veteran Groupfinder Uprising as Role-In-Need	20	2 Processed Isotope Stabilizers
Weekly Veteran Uprisings	[WEEKLY] Veteran Uprisings	5 Veteran Uprisings via Groupfinder	80
Weekly Master Uprisings	[WEEKLY] Master Uprisings	1 Master Uprisings via Groupfinder	100
Daily Story Operation	(no quest, groupfinder panel)	1 Story Operation via Groupfinder	150	Gear Lockbox, Legacy-bound Renown Points consumable***, 15 Processed Isotope Stabilizers
Daily Story Operation Role-In-Need	(no quest, groupfinder panel as Role-In-Need)	1 Story Operation via Groupfinder	20	2 Processed Isotope Stabilizers
Repeatable Story Operation	(no quest, groupfinder pane after doing dailyl)	1 Master Uprisings via Groupfinder	?	?
Story Operation Boss	(no quest)	Defeat Story Operation Boss	11-13
Veteran Operation Boss	(no quest)	Defeat Veteran Operation Boss	?
Master Operation Boss	(no quest)	Defeat Master Operation Boss	?
Warzone Daily	[DAILY] No Quarter	4 Matches (wins count double)	25	Gear Lockbox
Warzone Weekly	[WEEKLY] Conspicuous Valor	20 Matches  (wins count double)	135	Gear Lockbox
Solo Ranked Daily	[DAILY] My Kind of Scum	10 Solo Ranked Arena Points (Win = 5 points, Loss = 1 point)	40	Gear Lockbox, 150 Ranked PvP Rewards Tokens and an  Ossus Reputation Item
Solo Ranked Weekly	[WEEKLY] Time for Pain!	50 Solo Ranked Arena Points (Win = 5 points, Loss = 1 point)	250	Gear Lockbox, 1000 Ranked PvP Rewards Tokens
Group Ranked Daily	[DAILY] Arena of Death!	10 Group Ranked Arena Points (Win = 5 points, Loss = 1 point)	100	Gear Lockbox, 300 Ranked PvP Rewards Tokens
Group Ranked Weekly	[WEEKLY] Go Berserk!	50 Group Ranked Arena Points (Win = 5 points, Loss = 1 point)	500	Gear Lockbox, 2000 Ranked PvP Rewards Tokens
GSF Daily	[DAILY] Galactic Starfighter	2 (wins count double)	100	1200 Ship Requisition, 40 Fleet Commendations, 10 Processed Isotope Stabilizers (crafting item)
GSF Weekly	[WEEKLY] Galactic Starfighter	7 (wins count double)	700	4000 ship requisition, 800 fleet requisition, 90 Fleet Commendations, 50 Processed Isotope Stabilizers (crafting item)
GSF Match	none	1 match	?	(Aamun_Sarastus on reddit says you get a gear box per match!)
Personal Conquest	(no quest)	Reaching personal conquest goal	100	Equipment Crate, 25k Credit Certificate, Solid Resource Matrix x2
Small Yield Guild Conquest	(no quest)	Guild reaching target goal	300	Equipment Crate, 50k Credit Certificate, Guild Reinforcement Component, Solid Resource Matrix x2
Medium Yield Guild Conquest	(no quest)	Guild reaching target goal	400	Equipment Crate, 50k Credit Certificate x2, Guild Reinforcement Component, Solid Resource Matrix x3
Large Yield Guild Conquest	(no quest)	Guild reaching target goal	500	Equipment Crate, 50k Credit Certificate x3, Guild Reinforcement Component, Solid Resource Matrix x4

Renown Bonus Days Tech Fragments

Every day there is a new “bonus” activity on the activities panel for level 75 players. This bonus shows up on a gold bar, and when clicked, will bring you to the activity that gives bonus renown points for the day. That activity sometimes also offers extra rewards.

What to buy with Tech Fragments?

Most players will save up their Tech Fragments to buy their preferred set bonus gear shells and their preferred tactical item if they were not lucky enough to get them through the other random-chance gearing methods. These tech fragment vendors sell set bonuses that work for all classes, and set bonuses that work only for specific classes.

Tech Fragment Vendors

The Tech Fragments vendors are located in the corner of the supplies section of the fleet. There is one for each class n your faction, and they sell set bonus gear shells and tactical items.

Here are the costs of what you can purchase from the Tech Fragment vendors:

These pieces are very expensive, but set bonus gear shells are the best gear shells you can get in the game.

Spoils of War Vendor

Located in the supplies section of the fleet, the Spoils of War vendor sells unidentified versions of all pieces of armor and modifications except tacticals, amplifiers and augments. These items will be tailored to your current discipline / combat proficiency, and their maximum potential stats scale with your current item rating. Because they have a wide variety of potential outcomes, it’s recommend that most players instead save their tech fragments to buy the identified set bonus items or tacticals.

IMPORTANT: If you choose to buy from this vendor, make sure to have that piece of gear equipped, and make sure you have a combat proficiency chosen. If you do not, the vendor will take your tech fragments and give you nothing. The box will not appear in your inventory. It’s a bug.

Item	Cost
Unidentified Armoring	175 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Barrel	225 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Belt	325 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Boots	350 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Bracer	325 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Chestpiece	350 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Ear	325 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Enhancement	175 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Equipment	250 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Gloves	350 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Helmet	350 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Hilt	225 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Implant	325 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Legs	350 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Mainhand Weapon	450 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Mod	175 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Offhand Weapon	450 Tech Fragments
Unidentified Relic	325 Tech Fragments

Kai Zykken

Kai Zykken is a vendor that can only be accessed on the weekend. He has a random selection of set bonus items and schematics. These items can be purchased for tech fragments plus credits – they seem to be half the tech fragment cost of the set bonus items sold by the fleet vendors with the same one million price tag, so if you see a piece you would have bought anyway, it’s a great deal. He also sells an item called an “Unidentified Unique Item” which “contains a random Tactical or Set Bonus gear” according to the tooltip.

Deconstructing

If you receive gear you don’t need, you can deconstruct it from your inventory to receive Tech Fragments, which can be saved up and used to buy set bonus shells or tacticals.

To deconstruct an item, have it in your inventory, and click the deconstruct icon on the left of your inventory – it looks like a lightsaber separated in to its parts.

• If you scroll over an item and the cursor is shaped like a triangle, you can not deconstruct that item.
• If you scroll over an item and the cursor is shaped like the deconstruct symbol, you can deconstruct it to receive materials and/or tech fragments.
• If a piece of moddable gear has no modifications in it (if it has no stats), you will not be able to deconstruct it

If it’s a moddable item, make sure to check your other pieces of gear and see if they could use the modifications. For example, if I was wearing a 276 pair of pants, and got a 270 pair of pants from a renown cache, instead of deconstructing it, I could pull the modifications out and put them in my pair of gloves to upgrade them, which will increase my item rating.

Renown

The Renown System is an alternative way of gaining gear that’s accessible to all level 75 players. For every piece of content you complete, whether in a group or as a solo player, you’ll gain renown points. As you earn renown points, you’ll increase your Renown Level. For every Renown Level you earn, you’ll receive a Renown Cache that will have armor inside it, and 100 Tech Fragments which you can save up to buy armor with. Players who are not subscribed only earn 25% of the renown points that subscribers do.

Solo Renown Activites

• Story Chapters (Guides)
• Heroics
• Dailies (CZ-197, Oricon, Section X, Black Hole, Yavin IV, Ziost, Iokath, Ossus, Onderon, Mek-sha – Daily Guides)
• Solo or Story Flashpoints
• Star Fortress
• Space Missions
• Conquest
• Defeating any enemies or bosses
• Completing almost any quest

Group Renown Activities

• Uprisings
• Flashpoints
• Operations
• Warzones
• Galactic Starfighter

Renown Caches / Renown Crates

Renown Caches, the crates you receive when you level up your Renown level, contain a random piece of gear. When you open a Renown Cache, it will contain gear that is tailored around your current gear’s item-rating – this does not mean you’ll always get a better piece of gear, but the higher your item rating, the better chances you’ll have to receive an item with higher rating from your renown cache.

Disintegrate

In the previous expansion, players would often use the disintegrate option to turn unwanted gear in to additional points so they would level up faster.

In the current expansion however, disintegration items from your Renown Caches is not recommended. Instead, claim all items, and deconstruct the ones you don’t want from your inventory. This will give you tech fragments instead of renown points. Although the tech fragments may be a low quantity, the renown points value is also very low when you weight it against the amount of renown points you need to gain a level and get a random piece of gear, vs saving up tech fragments to buy a guaranteed set bonus or tactical item.

• A 270 relic could be disintegrated from the Renown window for 2,000 renown points, or deconstructed from your inventory for 4 tech fragments.
• A 270 pair of legs could be disintegrated from the Renown window for 2,000 renown points, or deconstructed from your inventory for 3 tech fragments.

If it’s a moddable item, make sure to check your other pieces of gear and see if they could use the modifications. For example, if I was wearing a 276 pair of pants, and got a 270 pair of pants from a renown cache, instead of deconstructing it, I could pull the modifications out and put them in my pair of gloves to upgrade them, which will increase my item rating.

Renown Bonus Days

Every day the activities window will have a different activity highlighted that gives you bonus renown points and sometimes bonus rewards. The bonus appears as a gold bar at the bottom of the Activities panel at level 75 (it does not appear before then).

Renown Points Boosts

You can use a renown boost to increase the amount of renown points you earn when completing quests and activities. Renown Boosts can be bought with Tech Fragments from a vendor in the Supplies section named “Renown Vendor”, purchased on the Cartel Market or obtained on the GTN from other players. You can only use one of these boosts at a time, and each one will increase the % of CXP you earn for 2 hours for every activity except disintegration.

Once you get to Renown Rank level 180 or higher, be careful about buying boosts from the GTN. There are two items called the exact same name, “Superior Renown Boost”, but one of them only works for level 179 and lower. It’s a relic of the old system.

Item Name	Source	Cost	Boost	Duration
Renown Boost	Fleet Vendor	44 Tech Fragments + 10,000 Credits	25% Boost	2 Hours
Superior Renown Boost	Fleet Vendor	190 Command Tokens + 50,000 Credits	100% Boost	3 Hours
Superior Renown Boost	Renown Caches	Luck	100% Boost	2 Hours
Superior Renown Boost	Cartel Market	300 Cartel Coins each or 5 for 1,050 Cartel Coins	100% Boost	3 Hours
Superior Renown Boost	GTN	Credits	100% Boost for Renown Ranks 1-179 ONLY (this item may work before level 75, the other GTN versions were “greyed out” for me)	3 Hours
Superior Renown Boost	GTN	Credits	100% Boost	3 Hours