{"id":9979,"date":"2022-07-11T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=9979"},"modified":"2024-11-07T20:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T04:31:30","slug":"swtor-dantooine-pirate-incursion-event-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/swtor-dantooine-pirate-incursion-event-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"SWTOR Dantooine Pirate Incursion Event Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pirate Incursion Event, better known as the “Dantooine Event”, is a limited-time event in Star Wars: The Old Republic. The event happens sporadically, and lasts for about a week on the normally peaceful planet of Dantooine. The event focuses on the Nova Blade Pirates hostile takeover of the area, as they are spurred on by Imperial forces looking to disrupt the bastion created there by the Republic. In return for helping either side, you can earn some unique rewards including an Ugnaught companion and farm-themed stronghold decorations. You can participate in the event as early as level 20. While this event lacks the style and cool factor of some of the other events, it has some challenging heroics, there’s a lot of fun exploration achievements to earn, and the Imperial side of the event has the cutest quest that exists in the entire game.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2024:<\/strong> I’ve been hearing that the planet of Dantooine doesn’t currently scale you up to the correct level since way back in 2022, and it never got fixed lol. So if you are a low level character, you may have a very difficult time with combat on Dantooine. There will also be a new Dantooine event coming later in the year in 2024, which is different than the Dantooine Incursion event.<\/p>\n

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How to Start the Dantooine Event<\/h2>\n

To start the Pirate Incursion Event, look for the large floating terminal. If you use your Fleet Pass ability to get to the fleet, it will be located just down the stairs from where you load in. If you’re on a low-level character, it will be a very very short cutscene with a news anchor announcement. If you’re on a high-level character who has completed the Ossus storyline, the news broadcast will change with a brief story update that’s different on each faction.<\/p>\n

Quests<\/h2>\n

The Dantooine missions are quite straight forward. You get a weekly mission automatically if you do the very short introductory quest on the Fleet, or you can pick up the weekly on the Mission Board on Dantooine.<\/p>\n

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There’s also a daily quest completion mission to pick up on the missions board, a series of normal daily quests, and three heroic quests from nearby questgivers on Dantooine. The weekly wants you to complete 10 daily missions and 5 heroic quests which is two days worth of quests, and the daily quests wants you to complete 6 daily missions, which is exactly how many daily missions are offered. There are different daily quests offered Republic and Imperial side, so if you’re looking to experience all the content the event has to offer, you’ll want to play it on both factions. The daily quests are pretty easy, just folow the quests instructions and the markers on the map, and keep an eye on your quest log on the top right to see if there’s any mission items you need to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Mission<\/th>Faction<\/th>Reward<\/th>Reputation<\/th>How to Get<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
[WEEKLY] Event: Pirate Incursion<\/td>Both<\/td>2 Dantooine Surveyor's Notes<\/td>Purple Reputation Item<\/td>Complete 10 Daily Missions and 5 Heroic Missions, Mission Board on Dantooine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[DAILY] Patrol: Dantooine<\/td>Both<\/td>1 Dantooine Surveyor's Note<\/td>Blue Reputation Item<\/td>Complete 6 Daily Missions, Mission Board on Dantooine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[HEROIC 4] Reactor Ransom<\/td>Both<\/td>2 Dantooine Surveyor's Notes<\/td>Blue Reputation Item<\/td>Blue Terminal near Mission Board<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[HEROIC 2+] Shiny New Toy<\/td>Both<\/td>2 Dantooine Surveyor's Notes<\/td>Blue Reputation Item<\/td>NPC near Mission Board<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[HEROIC 4] Beware Of Hugo<\/td>Both<\/td>2 Dantooine Surveyor's Notes<\/td>Blue Reputation Item<\/td>NPC near Mission Board<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[DAILY] Broadside Barrage<\/td>Republic<\/td>No<\/td>Green Reputation Item<\/td>Mission Board on Dantooine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[DAILY] Dantooinian Restabilization<\/td>Republic<\/td>No<\/td>Green Reputation Item<\/td>Mission Board on Dantooine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[DAILY] Spy Game<\/td>Republic<\/td>No<\/td>Green Reputation Item<\/td>Mission Board on Dantooine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[DAILY] Pirates. Again.<\/td>Republic<\/td>No<\/td>Green Reputation Item<\/td>Mission Board on Dantooine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[DAILY] Wreckage Inspection<\/td>Republic<\/td>No<\/td>Green Reputation Item<\/td>Mission Board on Dantooine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[DAILY] An Enemy Among Friends<\/td>Republic<\/td>No<\/td>Green Reputation Item<\/td>Mission Board on Dantooine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[DAILY] Opening the Skies<\/td>Imperial<\/td>No<\/td>Green Reputation Item<\/td>Mission Board on Dantooine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[DAILY] Marauder Maneuvers<\/td>Imperial<\/td>No<\/td>Green Reputation Item<\/td>Mission Board on Dantooine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[DAILY] Operation Starvation<\/td>Imperial<\/td>No<\/td>Green Reputation Item<\/td>Mission Board on Dantooine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[DAILY] Dantooinian Destabilization<\/td>Imperial<\/td>No<\/td>Green Reputation Item<\/td>Mission Board on Dantooine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[DAILY] Beneath Suspicion<\/td>Imperial<\/td>No<\/td>Green Reputation Item<\/td>Mission Board on Dantooine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[DAILY] Explosive Assurances<\/td>Imperial<\/td>No<\/td>Green Reputation Item<\/td>Mission Board on Dantooine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Heroics<\/h3>\n

The Heroic missions for Dantooine are quite difficult, and are even harder than the normal Heroic quests available in the game, and it’s highly recommended to bring a friend. From my testing, you should be able to do all the heroics without too much trouble with at least two high-level characters, and a skilled well-geared player could solo all of them with some practice. There are some mechanics for each of the three fights which are fun to figure out by yourself or with a group, but if you need help, check the description of this video for a link to a full guide for the heroics. Each of the heroics has a quick-travel button available near your quests list.<\/p>\n

If you decide to solo them, make sure to gear up, use a high-influence companion, use Heroic Moment, Unity, a high level medpac, and a Critical adrenal, and the medpacs scattered around the room if you’re having trouble.<\/p>\n

[HEROIC 2+] Shiny New Toy<\/h4>\n

In the Heroic where you fight the walker, there’s a few things you need to know. The first is that the walker will start off with an orange shield around it, and this shield will come back occasionally during the fight. When the shield is up, you’ll need to have one member of your team run over to the blue-glowing EMP missiles and blast the walker with the EMP temporary ability which will bring the shield down. I haven’t tried it yet, but you may also be able to interrupt the walker’s shield cast ability.<\/p>\n

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The other thing to know is that the red circle the walker puts frequently down on the ground really really hurts. Avoid standing in it at all costs. If you have a companion, you will need to babysit them a lot to make sure they are not standing in the red circle, which as far as I can tell only drops on real players. I recommend choosing a ranged companion, so you can leave the area around the walker open for any melee fighters you have. If you are a melee character, occasionally your ranged companion will teleport itself right beside you, so you will need to put them on Passive, run away with them, then turn passive off, and go back to attacking the walker.<\/p>\n

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If you are fighting the walker solo, the biggest challenge will be keeping your companion from getting killed. What I ended up doing was letting my MELEE companion choose their own fate by running up to the walker and then turning the walker away from my companion. I then stayed just outside of melee range so when the red circles dropped on me, they would not hit my companion. After a red circle dropped, I swooped in close for me melee attacks for a few seconds when I knew the red circles would not drop. The only other thing I had to do was watch for the Aegis shield ability cast, interrupt it or go grab the EMP blue glowing crate. Heroic moment was very useful as it has extra ranged abilities depending on what classes you have unlocked. Try really hard not to travel too far from your companion for too long or they are more likely to teleport \/ run to you, for example when you go get the EMP. When I tried with a range healing companion most of the time they just died in the first few seconds. If your companion has decided to stand somewhere awkward like on top of the EMP or directly under the boss, you can run away from the walker and eventually they will follow you.<\/p>\n

[HEROIC 4] Reactor Ransom<\/h4>\n

If you have a lot of spare credits, you can complete this heroic by buying an item inside the instance worth 15 million credits then using it. There’s an achievement for doing this ten times. There’s also an achievement for doing it the normal way.<\/p>\n

When fighting Yarvok, make sure to turn him away from your group or companion, as he has an attack that does a spray of cone damage very often.<\/p>\n

When Yarvok has his red shields up, all damage made outside of melee range is absorbed by 50%, so make sure you are up close even if you are a ranged character.<\/p>\n

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The boss will drop a giant orange circle on a character. This will knock your character back to one of the generators around the room, so be prepared to run back after it explodes. As far as I can tell it actually does little to no damage to your companions when it explodes so you do not need to run away with it like most other nasty circles.<\/p>\n

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If this orange beam with arrows in it hits the pillar in the center of the room it will overload the generators in the room. I have seen other players advise not to do this. I have not done a lot of testing, but I actually recommend to blow it up early on purpose. Once I had blown it up, I was no longer knocked back by the grenades as there were no more generators left. Once you aim the orange beam and the center pillar explodes, make sure to look around the room for the safe spot where there is no orange on the ground, where you can stand until it is safe. This might happen anyway if you are slow at damage.<\/p>\n

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[HEROIC 4] Beware Of Hugo<\/h4>\n

If you don’t want to fight the enemies in the cave, run past them all the way to the blue door, die, then revive and right click the door while revive-stealthed.<\/p>\n

Hugo is a bit of a tough boss fight. Whenever possible, step out to the left or right of his pink cone of death called Hugo’s Halitosis. If the boss is on you, you can help your team or companion by turning Hugo away from them.<\/p>\n

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Hugo will lose attention on you fairly often, so if you are a tank or a class with a taunt make sure to keep it handy to keep Hugo off your healer or companion.<\/p>\n

Reputation<\/span><\/h2>\n

Reputation is a way of gaining favor with different groups by completing quests for them. As you level up your reputation rank, more rewards for that reputation track become available.<\/p>\n

By using multiple characters, you won\u2019t be limited to how many Dantooine quests you run, or to how many Dantooine Surveyor’s Notes you earn, but you will still be gated by how many reputation points you can earn \u2013 you can only earn a hard limit of about 17,500 in Dantooine reputation in a week. This time-gating mechanism means you\u2019ll only be able to earn up to the Friend rank the first week you run the event. You’ll reach that cap by completing the weekly on 2 characters if you\u2019re a subscriber over the course of two days, or double that if you\u2019re preferred or free-to-play. If you earn over 17,500 reputation points in a week, which you will if you do the weekly on 2 characters, then keep doing reputation quests and completing Dantooin dailies, instead of getting more reputation points, you\u2019ll get reputation items which can be consumed from your inventory in future weeks, so if you get any of these, just hold on to them until the weekly timer resets. The Dantooine event reward vendor seems to stick around even after the event, so you’ll be able to spend your Dantooine Surveyor’s Notes currency even after the event ends.<\/p>\n

You can see your reputation by pressing \u201cY\u201d on your keyboard or hover over the symbol of a person on the menu. You can hover over the Dantooine Preservation Force (Republic) \/ The Dantooine Initiative (Imperial) name in the list to see how close you are to the next rank, and how many reputation points you have left remaining that you can earn during this week.<\/p>\n