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SWTOR Adds Group Finder, Legacy Perks, And Ranked Warzones In 1.3 Patch

Posted on Tuesday, June 26 @ 16:04:51 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

Star Wars: The Old Republic received it's third major update today, and it is a huge step in the right direction.

After months of talking about it, BioWare has launched the 1.3 update for Star Wars: The Old Republic. It includes a variety of game-changers, so let's go through them one at at time, shall we?
  • Group Finder: No more spamming General Chat to find groups like you're living in the 20th century. Now you can queue up for Flashpoints and Operations.
  • Legacy Perks: The Legacy system was quite bare when it came out last patch, but these new perks reward you significantly for leveling up alternate characters. Things such as experience bonuses can now be attained by achieving higher Legacy levels. Each perk only ties to an individual character so there's some customization involved in the new system.
  • Ranked Warzones: If you're all about serious competition then this patch is right up your alley. It's similar to World of Warcraft's Ranked Battlegrounds and rewards both personal and team rating to effectively match you against similarly-skilled—and geared—opponents.
  • Adaptive Gear: Social armor can now feature the same stats as your best set. In other words, you can look how you want while staying competitive.
  • Augment Tables: Augment slots can now be added to items without requiring a critical crafting success. It's going to make several crafting professions much more desirable by offering some of the highest itemization in the game. You should expect to pay a pretty penny, though.
Each of these is significant and all players, casual or hardcore, have something new to enjoy. Even if you don't currently susbcribe, Star Wars: The Old Republic is very like to go free-to-play in the future, so at some point you'll look back and wonder how people played the game without features such as the Group Finder or Legacy system.

If you're interested in seeing the pages of patch notes, they can be found on the official site.
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  • StringerBell86
    StringerBell86
    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2012 at 5:38 pm
    Too little, too late. My subscription expired from boredom months ago
    0 0
  • Guernica
    Guernica
    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
    I'm excited for the group finder. Ranked Warzones should be cool too.
    0 0
  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander
    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2012 at 8:09 pm
    I might start playing again if/when it goes free to play. I'm not spending fifteen bucks a month on a game that I'm only going to play a couple times a month.
    0 0
  • Lien
    Lien
    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 12:50 am
    What he said. If this game goes free to play, they might get a huge boost in subscribers. Till then, I'll wait patiently.
    0 1
  • warmaster670
    warmaster670
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 2:19 am
    Going free to play is going to increase subscribers? you know what a subscriber is right? I doubt going free to play is going to increase the amount of people paying monthly subs for it.
    2 0
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 2:57 am
    Semantics. You and we all knew what he meant.
    0 1
  • xDUMPWEEDx
    xDUMPWEEDx
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 2:02 am
    I'm also in the "wait until its free to play" camp.
    0 0
  • Rinnon
    Rinnon
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 2:50 am
    I'm paying and playing actively right now. At the very strong risk of being mocked incessantly, let me just say that no other game I have come across to this day is quite as conducive to RP as SWTOR. Get 3 or 4 people together, start doing those quests and man... the game is just GIVING you RP material. It's doubly good (bad?) when half the player base knows the SW universe inside out.

    Though, I get that's probably not a very high priority for most people when they think about playing a game, is it?
    0 0
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 2:54 am
    Don't care until F2P.
    0 1
  • Doc_Holliday
    Doc_Holliday
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 8:29 am
    It will never be F2P. Why would they even make it in the first place?

    FFXI is the highest grossing FF game with 200k subscribers. SWTOR will keep its die-hard player-base and make far more money doing so than going F2P.
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  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
    F2P I shall give this game a go, I would enjoy the conversation option of just electrocuting people to death and I miss the days of playing a bounty hunter, RIP Jango.
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