How to Start the the 7.8.1 “Master’s Engima” Storyline – What’s Required and Where to Go – BUG: Defend Darth Nul’s Holocron

The next story content for SWTOR is here, and it’s the penultimate story update for the current expansion! If you’re looking to get started on the new Master’s Engima update and are having some trouble, this quick guide will take you through the steps.

Step #1 – Check Your Mission Log!

If you’re eligible for Master’s Engima, you’ll have it immediately. Characters that have completed up to current content should get the Master’s Enigma Mission breadcrumb in your mission log, plain as day. Maybe you checked out this guide looking for where to go without realizing you already have it! Click it and you should start some cutscenes and get teleported right to the story. If that’s NOT the case and you definitely don’t have this lingering in your log, you can try re-logging. But if that doesn’t work…

Step #2 – Catch Up on the Story!

If it’s not being awarded to you, the chances are you aren’t far enough in the current story to get started on Master’s Enigma. But where are you so far? That can be easily answered by checking the “Eras” page quite recently added to the in-game UI:

There’s a few ways to open it. The first is above: hit the mission button on your menu tray, and find Eras up the list. In addition, if you just hit your mission log hotkey, Eras is a new Tab inside of there, between Guild Invasions and Codices.

The Eras menu is kind of purpose built to find out exactly where each of your characters are at in the story, with a button to pick up your most recent Story Mission and get started. You should see a checkmark over and expansion or update that you’ve completed, and only a “Missions” button over ones you can still go and do. Master’s Enigma is a part of Legacy of the Sith, so check for a button over Legacy of the Sith to get started!

Step #3 – Checking More In-depth

If you know you’re SOMEWHERE in Legacy of the Sith and aren’t seeing a way to start from Eras, we should still have you covered! Here’s a list of locations and questlines from each recent planet and story in order, so you can click through and see what seems familiar:

• Ossus
• Dantooine
• EXPANSION: Onslaught (Onderon & Mek-Sha)
• FLASHPOINT: Objective Meridian
• Echoes of Oblivion
• Spirit of Vengeance
• FLASHPOINT: Secrets of the Enclave (Dantooine Flashpoint)
• EXPANSION: Legacy of the Sith (Manaan)
• FLASHPOINT: Ruins of Nul
• Digging Deeper
• Manaan
• Ruhnuk
• Interpreter’s Retreat on Voss
• FLASHPOINT: Shrine of Silence (Optional)
• Kessan’s Landing on Ord Mantell
• Minboosa District on Hutta
• Galactic Threads
• (The Dantooine Biomes are optional, and not required)
• Master’s Enigma!

Good luck getting caught up! If nothing here gets you started on a purple mission, chances are something is seriously bugged!

If you aren’t sure where you’re at in the story, or want to see how much there is coming up, visit swtorista.com/story to see the solo story main path.

BUGS/ISSUES

Missions

On the “Defend Darth Nul’s Holocron Step” of Master’s Enigma, players Mission Step can get stuck or progress very slowly. There are a variety of workarounds:

• Defeat the droids a bit more slowly and let them come all the way to the platform.
• If you are already stuck you can…
  • Go into the tunnel where the droids are spawning from, reset the encounter and refer to the first tip.
  • Go to the stairs and perform a relog
  • Travel to the fleet, back to the encounter, and then perform a reset of the encounter.

Note – You can see the screen on the console to see your progress. If you notice that has stopped moving for a while than you may be stuck, note this entire encounter should not take more than a few minutes.

Otherwise, if you get stuck, try this generic solutions…

• Log in and log out.
• Workaround: Use the Eras window to be granted this mission
• If you are stuck with the story loop, make sure to summon a companion before talking to the NPC. might have to log out and in beforehand
• Try switching the instance because the companion way is not working always – It might not be the best way but it’s one way that works