SWTOR 6.3 Update Guide! “The Dark Descent”

News Date: April 27, 2021 Patch: 6.3

The newest update is coming out for Star Wars: The Old Republic on April 27, 2021 at around 9 AM PDT! It will be called “The Dark Descent”, and it will feature a new Flashpoint story set on Dantooine and a brand new system called Galactic Seasons. There will also be a bunch of smaller changes including the end of the referral program, free Unify Colors and Show Character titles unlocks for free-to-play and preferred players, a free 360 guild commendations to all guilds, new strongholds, and a lot more.

MORE INFORMATION INCOMING ONCE UPDATE GOES LIVE!

Full Update Details

Patch notes will be available Monday, April 26th!


New Flashpoint: Secrets of the Enclave

How to start: Probably check your mission log if you are all caught up past Spirit of Vengeance, otherwise check your ship. More info when it comes out live.

When to Start in the Story: Complete all expansions, including the Onslaught expansion, and the follow up stories of Echoes of Oblivion and Spirit of Vengeance.

Modes available: Story Solo, Story (1+ player), Veteran (4 players in groupfinder or 1+ players to walk in) and Master mode (4 players). The solo/story version is probably for level 75, but the Veteran mode will likely be a spoiler-free version for level 15+, and the Master Mode will likely be a spoiler-free version for level 75.

Difficulty: Seems like it won’t be too hard in Story / Veteran mode! It was a lot easier than Spirit of Vengeance on the test server.

Secrets & Achievements: Lots available! Have fun exploring!

Do you need to be subscribed? Prooobbabbbly not. You would likely need to be level 75 though if you are preferred.

Small Update After Spirit of Vengeance – Spoilers

Here’s some cool decorations we saw on the test server related to Dantooine.

New Dantooine Flashpoint Decorations!

Here’s a funny video us testing the Flashpoint before it came out. Lots of silly bugs and laughing.


New System: Galactic Seasons

Galactic Seasons is a new system being added to Star Wars: The Old Republic, similar to a ‘battle pass’ in other games. This new system will be available to both free-to-play and subscribers at no additional cost, with subscribers having an additional reward track to gain cosmetic rewards from. In addition, you will gain tokens which you can spend at a vendor to buy previously-retired items.

Galactic Seasons is a pretty complex system and we’re still waiting for a lot of info to be finalized once it goes out live on the 27th. The above guide is what I gathered from the first two of three rounds of testing. I have posted many of the rewards on this page too from the test server.

SWTOR Galactic Seasons Guide and Rewards

If you wind up having Priority Objectives involving Defeat Enemies, we are gathering a list of easy places to find those enemies.

SWTOR Rampage Guide

 

I know many of you may be interested in this though – the new strongholds! This is from the test server. Important note, they cost tokens, not credits, so you probably won’t be able to get them right away.


New Cartel Market Items

It’s unclear exactly what will be released on April 27th, but plyers are guessing these and possibly some “Bad Batch” related armors may show up on live, first seen on PTS.

New Cartel Market items on the PTS! Mythosaur Hunter’s Armor, Dark Marauder’s Armor Set, Mythosaur Hunter’s Glaive


Referral Program Ends

The Referral program has concluded on April 27th. tons of info and why it’s being ended in this info guide.

SWTOR Referral Links are going away April 27, 2021! Click one of these referral links to get free stuff and support a SWTOR fan content creator

more info


Free Guild Commendations

Due to a bug, some guilds were not being reward guild commendations. All guilds are getting a handful in 6.3 to make up for it.

Official developer post:

We wanted to address a bug that has been reported regarding the Guild Commendations not being rewarded as intended for Conquest Invasions. This bug is targeted to be fixed with 6.3. We understand that this has not been the best experience for Guilds and their members, so we will be granting 360 Guild Commendations to ALL Guilds with this next update. Essentially, we are granting a month’s worth of Large Yield Commendations to Guilds.

As there is a cap for these, we wanted to message this grant ahead of time, so all players are able to spend their Commendations as necessary and they are able to take advantage of it.

A couple of notes to consider:

  • They will be granted as soon as the first member logs in after 6.3 is implemented
  • These will only be granted to Guilds that own a Guild Bank

We appreciate everyone who reported the issue to us and thank you for your patience.

 


Refund Timer Change

If you purchase an item off of a vendor, and that item has a refund timer on it, the timer will count down whether that character is logged in or not. No more hoarding Tech Fragments, so make sure to spend them!

Hi folks,

We wanted to give you an early heads up about a change we’re making in the upcoming game update 6.3.

Previously, the refund timer for items purchased off of a vendor only counted down while that character was in-game. As of the 6.3 update, this will change to real time. What this means is if you purchase an item off of a vendor, and that item has a refund timer on it, the timer will count down whether that character is logged in or not.

This is in-line with how the current timer for Cartel Market items works. The ability to exchange items looted between party members in Flashpoints and Operations, which also uses a timer, will not change and count down via in-game time only.

The reason behind this change is we observed some unintended behavior where the mechanics of the refund timer were being used to store more resources than intended by limits intentionally set in order to balance the game economy’s inflows and outflows.

-Chris

Hi all,

I just wanted to clarify one point that’s come up in this thread: the timer would not start when the patch is released. The timer will start when the item is purchased from the vendor, so I would not anticipate any ability to sell back any items currently being held in this way on alt characters once the patch goes live.

Part of the reason for this post was to give y’all ample time to sell back any items being stored in this manner before the patch goes live.

-Chris

 


New Rishi Reputation Weekly Quest

There seems to be a new Rishi weekly quest for the dailies that already exist.

If you grab the quest “A Crew of Your Own” from the Daily terminal on Rishi, it has you go speak to Harlow Ricks in the Blaster’s Path Cantina, however when you click on him to start the cutscene, it doesn’t actually play the cutscene. A work around for this seems to be going to the cantina instead of grabbing the quest from the daily terminal. Doing it the workaround way still counts toward completing the weekly. – Player LtGeneralGezlin
This is something on our radar. As a heads up, a fix for it won’t be coming in 6.3, but we are aiming to fix it in an upcoming patch in the future. – Jackie

 

 


More

There’s probably a ton we won’t know till all patch notes are out!