{"id":5555,"date":"2020-02-25T12:33:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=5555"},"modified":"2022-09-26T18:56:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T01:56:01","slug":"everything-that-happened-last-year-in-swtor-in-2019-and-everything-we-are-expecting-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/everything-that-happened-last-year-in-swtor-in-2019-and-everything-we-are-expecting-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything that happened last year in SWTOR in 2019, and everything we are expecting in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"style-scope ytd-expander\">\n<div id=\"description\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Swtorista &amp; Kid Lee go over everything that happened last year in 2019, what we think is coming in 2020, and our hopes for the next year&#8217;s updates to the game! This is a recording of a special livestream we hosted at the beginning of the year.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"always-shown\" class=\"style-scope ytd-metadata-row-container-renderer\">\n<div id=\"contents\" class=\"style-scope ytd-rich-metadata-row-renderer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed youtube-video-size-small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nXRZLNb_PA4\" class=\"video-thumbnail\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/nXRZLNb_PA4\/mqdefault.jpg'><i><\/i><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nXRZLNb_PA4\" class=\"youtube-below-video\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Video<\/a><\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5.10 ~ December 2018 &#8211; Jedi Under Siege<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New storyline on Ossus<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Return to seperate Imperial &amp; Republic storylines<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two world bosses &amp; dailies<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Master Mode Gods from the Machine Operation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tier 5 Crafted Gear<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crisper, higher quality armor &#8211; started around 5.9.2 around same time as Rishi stronghold &#8211; Callous Conqeurer and Resilient Warden &amp; ancient Sith Warblade<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guild Updates:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guild Progression System<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PvP Challenge System<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guild Logs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guild Mail<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guild Legacy Ban<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increased number of ranks<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conquest Improvements<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5.10.1 ~ February 2019 &#8211; The Wretched Hive<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geonosian Queen Lair Operation Boss<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5.10.2 ~ February 2019 &#8211; Heralds of Victory<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guild Heraldry<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>April 2019<\/b><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Wars celebration convention!<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photos: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.google.com\/share\/AF1QipNCVx9gkw6aXVnLZs-2HUJIAsj9WfnVuedz4k0n28CVgBGxV3RpV_QzLmb-uSTRMg?key=bmpoeEM1OWdlVGR0Szcybzl6WjVpV1pPY3VHRV9R\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/photos.google.com\/share\/AF1QipNCVx9gkw6aXVnLZs-2HUJIAsj9WfnVuedz4k0n28CVgBGxV3RpV_QzLmb-uSTRMg?key=bmpoeEM1OWdlVGR0Szcybzl6WjVpV1pPY3VHRV9R<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SWTOR Fan Exhibitor Booth<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cantina &amp; reveal of the onslaught expansion, had over 1,000 watchers during the event fan stream<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Launch of the SWTOR Guild Finder\u00a0 fan-made tool <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swtorfancommunity.com\/guilds\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">swtorfancommunity.com\/guilds\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5.10.3 ~ June 2019 &#8211; The Dantooine Incursion<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New planet: Dantooine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New In-game Event: The Pirate Incursion<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Planetary Transitions &#8211; Alderaan, Corellia, Hoth, Korriban, Tython<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nar Shaddaa Nightlife \u2013 The Nightlife event returns<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5.10.4 ~ July 2019 &#8211; Free-to-play love<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free-to-play and Preferred Status changes \u2013 More hotbars, increased credit caps to 1 million credits unlimited medical probes, and unlimited quick travel for all F2P and Preferred status players!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">????? \u2013 There are reports of mysterious observers being spotted around the Odessen base\u2026<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6.0 ~ October 2019 &#8211; Onslaught<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Expansion: &#8220;Onslaught&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New storylines, separate stories Republic and Imperial side<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Max cap now level 75 up from 70<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Planets: Onderon and Meksha &amp; Onderon Dailies including history treasure hunt<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Flashpoint: Objective Meridian on Corellia<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Operation: Nature of Progress on Dxun<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new &#8220;Spoils of War&#8221; horizontal gear progression system<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current item-rating max is 306 &#8211; get free 268 set from ossus<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New types of gearing items: tacticals and amplifiers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many new Set Bonus options added for all classes!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New gearing: all lvl 75 armor legacy-bound<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All players have been set to Renown Rank 0 &#8211; All Renown Ranks are now equal in value, they have the same Renown XP requirements to level and all Crates award gear relevant to your character\u2019s currently selected Discipline and average item rating.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heavy player testing on the PTS for the new gearing system, unsung heroes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Telekinetic Sages were bugged, but will will now receive Class, Advanced Class, and Role drops from all sources.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kai Zykeen as a vendor<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discipline Utilities are now in 3 tiers of 8 utilities (previously 4 tiers of 6 utilities).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lockout for Story Mode Operations is now 24 hours (previously a weekly reset on Tuesdays).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Species: Nautolan<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HK-55 % Shroud of Memory quest now available to purchase for all players<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Changes to conquest (changes to personal goals and to amount of points gained, and level 75 players now receive a box of armor for completing conquest including potential set bonuses)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Change to crafting: legacy-wide materials bay\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Change to crafting: new max is 700, costs 500,000 to unlock<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Changeto crafting: reverse engineer everything all the way to 306!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">visual updates to the icons for vendors, mailboxes, storage, taxis, crew skill trainers, missions, and quick travel terminals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graphics update on fleet &#8211; lighting<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All types of storage (Cargo Hold, Legacy Storage, Guild Bank) have been added to various sections of the fleet.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free to play players now have access to Rise of the Hutt Cartel and Shadow of Revan. This means the new F2P level cap is 60 (up from 50).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free to play players can now play 10 Warzones per week (up from 5).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free to play players can now receive rewards from 10 Flashpoints per week (up from 3).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free to play players can now play 10 space PvE Missions per week (up from 5).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Negative: groupfinder got worse for fps for new players (opinion)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6.0.2 ~ December 2019 &#8211; little updates<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Huge boost to players from: the new expansion, Fallen Order video game,\u00a0 The Mandalorian tv show and The Rise of Skywalker movie<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Missions Mek-Sha \u2013 The Mek-Sha Tradehouse is looking for assistance acquiring goods from across the galaxy in a new series of daily quests available after completing the Onslaught Mek-Sha storyline.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ranked PvP Season 12 \u2013 Today marks the beginning of Ranked PvP Season 12. All players who participated in Season 11 will find their rewards waiting in their mailboxes.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Players who decline a queue pop or who leave a match early for a Ranked Warzone will now be unable to queue again for 15 minutes.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increased the Rating penalty received for declining a Ranked PvP queue or leaving a match early to 25 rating (up from 15 rating).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Report: During season 11 we took action against a total of 163 accounts for cheating, hacking, win trading, or exploiting in PvP, including 18 permanent account bans<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remove players: Starting with this season, we will also have the ability to remove cheating players from the Ranked PvP environment altogether. So in addition to all our previous actions, if an account is caught win trading, cheating, or exploiting in PvP, they will be removed from and unable to queue, join, or play ranked PvP for the rest of the season. If an account continues to be disruptive and problematic in other areas of the game, we absolutely reserve the right to permanently ban those accounts and we will do so if we feel it is warranted.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life day- hug a wookiee<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8th year anniversary &amp; free gifts<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eight Year Anniversary Date: December 17, 2019 &#8211; January 7, 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8th anniversary developers <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swtor.com\/info\/news\/article\/20191220\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shared memories<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MAJOR updates to crafting including reduced material costs and better reverse engineer chances<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s coming up?<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the Dev stream, they promised a roadmap coming in early 2020 as they get back from the holidays, possibly a livestream in January<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alderaan stronghold coming!! Started off revealed as a teaser with a terminal in the strongholds section of the fleet, then they previewed it in the developer stream &#8211; No timeline given but was previewed on the PTS in December 2019 &#8211; insurance is available for anything that might happen in thousands of years from now,\u00a0 from the creative director of the game, only 2 million credits per month (joke)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Companion Spoilers) As for companions, all companions are back except:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tharan Cedrax made a cameo in Onslaught for Consulars, Bioware said, \u201cHis Alliance Alert recruitment will come in an upcoming patch\u201d &#8211; (edit: Tharan Cedrax does have an Alliance recruitment mission now)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zenith still missing, but the devs want to have him return eventually.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tanno Vik, the trooper companion you meet early on in Asylum in KOTFE, will likely not be returning. His original voice actor, David Anthony Pizzuto passed away in 2012, and his later lines were voiced by Fred Tatasciore. In his honor, the creative director is not in a big hurry to bring him back, might if it makes sense in the story.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s also a potential companion missing from the Inquisitor storyline &#8211; spoiler free- , depending on what choices you made along the way. (Spoiler, highlight to view: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zash in Khem Val\u2019s body<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are the chances of some new old companion dialogue? \u201cI don\u2019t have a timeframe for you, but the chances are very good\u201d &#8211; something that the creative director is taking as a priority in the coming couple years, to get new opportunities to chat with your old companions you haven\u2019t seen in a while<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Update 6.1 &#8211; includes a little bit of story, like hearts and minds, brief story update, check in with how your alliance is doing currently and some of the characters involved in that before we dive in to the bigger or crazier stuff that was foreshadowed at the end of onslaught (Major spoiler, highlight to see: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kira and Scourge stuff about the Emperor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) &#8211; eta the main part of 6.1 will be on the PTS in January, so probably won\u2019t be released January &#8211; going to continue putting things on the PTS and then launching when it is ready instead of promising release dates<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Master Mode Dxun &#8211; coming? Yes! Not in 6.1 though &#8211; more details coming<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loadouts in 2020? (the ability to easily switch specs and armor sets) Based on a developer comment but forgot where<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jan 3 they released the ingame event schedule,<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life DayDate: December 17, 2019 &#8211; January 7, 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bounty Contract WeekDate: December 31, 2019 \u2013 January 7, 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pirate Incursionon Dantooine Date: January 14 &#8211; 21, 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gree Event Date: January 28 \u2013 February 4, 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No baby yoda ingame lol, maybe soup sipping emote haha<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The developers are already thinking and planning about SWTOR\u2019s 10-year anniversary coming up<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swtorista &amp; Kid Lee go over everything that happened last year in 2019, what we think is coming in 2020, and our hopes for the next year&#8217;s updates to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-combat-gear-guides"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}