{"id":44361,"date":"2025-12-04T15:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=44361"},"modified":"2026-01-02T21:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:24:06","slug":"swtor-7-8-update-pursuit-of-ruin-launches-december-9-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/swtor-7-8-update-pursuit-of-ruin-launches-december-9-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"SWTOR 7.8 Update &#8220;Pursuit of Ruin&#8221; Launches December 9, 2025!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were betting on the more common &#8220;two weeks after PTS goes down&#8221; date of Dec. 16th, you&#8217;d be surprisingly wrong this time! Good news over on the SWTOR official forums came through today, announcing the release day of 7.8 is sooner than (we personally) expected! Get ready to check out Dantooine on <strong>December 9th, 2025<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel panel-info forums\"><div class=\"panel-body\">\n<p><span data-i-color=\"yellow\">Hello everyone!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-i-color=\"yellow\">We will be bringing down the servers on December 9th to deploy Game Update 7.8 &#8220;Pursuit of Ruin&#8221;!<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-i-color=\"yellow\">Time: 7:00am CT \/ 1:00pm UTC<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-i-color=\"yellow\">Estimated downtime: 4 hours<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-i-color=\"yellow\">Patch notes will be available\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swtor.com\/patchnotes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\"><span data-i-color=\"yellow\">here<\/span><\/a><span data-i-color=\"yellow\">\u00a0on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-i-color=\"yellow\">Also as a heads up, the Subscriber Login Event will be ending at 7.8 launch. Once 7.8 is live, players will no longer be able to get more tokens, however, the event vendor and already redeemed tokens will remain until a scheduled patch in January. Stay tuned for an exact date!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Keep an eye on that link above in the post for the patch notes of the finalized update!<\/p>\n<p>Not sure what&#8217;s even coming in 7.8? We have you covered!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"O2YDzvcxed\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/what-to-expect-in-update-7-8-in-swtor-pursuit-of-ruin-galactic-threads\/\">What to expect in Update 7.8 in SWTOR! Pursuit of Ruin \/ Galactic Threads<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;What to expect in Update 7.8 in SWTOR! Pursuit of Ruin \/ Galactic Threads&#8221; &#8212; Swtorista\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/what-to-expect-in-update-7-8-in-swtor-pursuit-of-ruin-galactic-threads\/embed\/#?secret=lWJNgs8z24#?secret=O2YDzvcxed\" data-secret=\"O2YDzvcxed\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were betting on the more common &#8220;two weeks after PTS goes down&#8221; date of Dec. 16th, you&#8217;d be surprisingly wrong this time! Good news over on the SWTOR&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":30437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-swtor","category-update-7-8-galactic-threads"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44364,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44361\/revisions\/44364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}