{"id":46255,"date":"2026-03-18T10:40:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=46255"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:40:54","slug":"swtor-update-7-8-1a-downtime-2-hours-at-7am-ct-march-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/swtor-update-7-8-1a-downtime-2-hours-at-7am-ct-march-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"SWTOR Update 7.8.1a &#8211; Downtime 2 Hours at 7am CT March 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The servers will be down for an estimated two hours tomorrow to address a few bugs that came along with update 7.8.1. This downtime will happen 7am in our Central Time Zone, or 12pm UTC. The full explanation from Jackie is below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel panel-info forums\"><div class=\"panel-body\">\n<p>Good morning everyone!<\/p>\n<p>We will be taking servers down tomorrow, March 19, to deploy Game Update 7.8.1a.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Time: 7am CT \/ 12pm UTC<\/li>\n<li>Estimated downtime: 2 hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This patch will address the following bugs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>General<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>[Master\u2019s Enigma] Players who did not earn the esteemed title of &#8220;Hand of Jadus&#8221; are no longer addressed as such.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Master\u2019s Enigma Missions<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>[Defend Darth Nul\u2019s Holocron] Fixed some issues where the holo-droid encounter could get stuck in an infinite loop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cinematics<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>[Master\u2019s Enigma] When removing the Empire\/Republic Trooper disguise during the cinematic, the Trooper helmet is now removed as intended.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Galactic Season 10<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The DvL bosses now spawn as intended.<\/li>\n<li>Companion gifts from seasons 1 and 3 are now only available in Ki\u2019at Thavo\u2019s inventory at a discounted price while the season is active.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Check out the original Patch Notes for 7.8.1 <a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/swtor-patch-notes-update-7-8-1-masters-enigma\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The servers will be down for an estimated two hours tomorrow to address a few bugs that came along with update 7.8.1. This downtime will happen 7am in our Central&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46255","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=46255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46257,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46255\/revisions\/46257"}],"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=46255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}