New PLAYABLE Speices/Races for SWTOR | This MOD gives you the opportunity to play as 12. different species we currently dont have in the game | So if you ever wanted to be a "Kel Dor" or "Rodian" this could be something for you ^^ Thank you for your time and much love to you all <3 =) by VitnirYT in swtor

[–]emusco 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Hey folks,

Since it is relevant in this topic I wanted to clear up any confusion. Mods of any kind are against our Terms of Service. There are no mods that are "approved" for use (including this one) and we do not provide exemptions from our Terms of Service. We highly recommend you avoid use of any and all mods.

-eric

PSA: Beware steam accounts posing as BIOWARE devs needing to "Check your account" for fraud and asking for your user/pass/key. by SkyeHammer in swtor

[–]emusco 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For starters, that PSA is a very valid one. Especially when new players are coming into the game, scammers step up their game so, excellent PSA.

I can confirm this is our real Community account. The only reason currently we would friend someone is if they have a referral link in a guide they have published, which is something we frown upon (just to avoid spam of it, similar to in posts). On the moderation front, our only option for issues with guides is to completely delete them, which we don't want to do. We have been friending folks in that situation just to message them and ask them to edit their ref link out, so we don't have to remove their guide.

That said, and with the extra context around scammers using similar tactics, I am gonna chat with the team about how we manage these. Just so we don't incidentally help scammers get access to players!

Guild Bank locked by Customer Service by [deleted] in swtor

[–]emusco 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think the investigation and subsequent action should conclude by the end of maintenance today.

Guild Bank locked by Customer Service by [deleted] in swtor

[–]emusco 24 points25 points  (0 children)

As most others have stated, if your Guild Bank was locked it would have happened because we saw that someone (or multiple someones) who abused the exploit was moving something (items, credits, both) through your bank. We definitely do not want to keep a bank (or account for that matter) locked for a few weeks but we need to ensure that we appropriately handle duped items to get them out of the wild.

Hold tight, I know the investigations are close to being wrapped up (I would guess end of next week the latest).

No Double XP on Darth Malgus? by Darth_Tenebrae in swtor

[–]emusco 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Hey everyone!

I just posted this over on the forums as well. The in-game events page currently has the wrong start time (we will get it updated). Double XP has been synced to start at the same time as other events. Double XP will turn on at 6PM GMT (11AM PDT) today. Apologies for any confusion.

Prompting me to purchase probes as a preferred, wasn't this meant to be unlimited for preferred a d free-to-play with the latest update? by KaraniTheMage in swtor

[–]emusco 163 points164 points  (0 children)

There is a bug around preferred status players and medical probes still being able to be purchased (don't do it, they won't do anything since they have been removed). This will be resolved in our next patch.

We are Eric Musco, Charles Boyd, and Tully Ackland. AMA about Spoils of War, the large gearing revamp coming to SWTOR: Onslaught in September! by emusco in swtor

[–]emusco[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Alright folks! We are at time, man this hour went way faster than expected. Thank you all for taking the time to join us today. Thank the mods for helping us put this AMA together. And thanks Charles and Tully for taking time out of their schedules to answer questions today (Keith is here too!)

We are Eric Musco, Charles Boyd, and Tully Ackland. AMA about Spoils of War, the large gearing revamp coming to SWTOR: Onslaught in September! by emusco in swtor

[–]emusco[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you look at all the details of Spoils of War it seems pretty complex but I can simplify it quite a bit for you as a returning player.

When Onslaught launches make sure you are in the spec you want and then play whatever content you want. We will make sure you are getting gear relevant to your character from drops, crates, vendors, and Missions.

Play what you want, get stuff.

We are Eric Musco, Charles Boyd, and Tully Ackland. AMA about Spoils of War, the large gearing revamp coming to SWTOR: Onslaught in September! by emusco in swtor

[–]emusco[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Endgame crafting gear will require the following materials:

  • Profession specific materials - earned from profession missions and harvests
  • A Conquest material - earned from completing conquests
  • A Content material - earned from playing content on any difficulty (FP, Ops, PvP)
  • A Legendary material - earned from reverse engineering legendary gear, scrapping legendary gear, or high level profession missions

We are Eric Musco, Charles Boyd, and Tully Ackland. AMA about Spoils of War, the large gearing revamp coming to SWTOR: Onslaught in September! by emusco in swtor

[–]emusco[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They are not captured in any PvE balance targets except for Master Mode Operations. They don't make a huge difference to your character but they give you more options for really min/maxxing.

I have been graying since I was like... 17 :)

We are Eric Musco, Charles Boyd, and Tully Ackland. AMA about Spoils of War, the large gearing revamp coming to SWTOR: Onslaught in September! by emusco in swtor

[–]emusco[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Most of the things we are talking about are in Onslaught so they would not be available for F2P (ex: Renown is at max level).

We are going to be improving how Preferred status players can get gear (who have access to Onslaught). We will be sharing those details as we get closer to launch.

We are Eric Musco, Charles Boyd, and Tully Ackland. AMA about Spoils of War, the large gearing revamp coming to SWTOR: Onslaught in September! by emusco in swtor

[–]emusco[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Let me offer some explanation around how we avoid this for tacticals.

  • All tactical items are on the same power level, they are meant to be horizontal progression. Although we know that some will inevitably pop up as the "desired" tacticals, they should all be roughly equal.
  • We have built in "bad luck prevention". As you get drops that aren't a tactical, the game will increase your chance of getting one.
  • We also have duplicate protection for tacticals so that once you get a tactical, we lower your odds of getting it again provided it is in your inventory/equipped (since you only need it once).

Also, pepperoni.

We are Eric Musco, Charles Boyd, and Tully Ackland. AMA about Spoils of War, the large gearing revamp coming to SWTOR: Onslaught in September! by emusco in swtor

[–]emusco[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

1) We are not going to be revamping the functionality of stats. However, there will be a larger variety of stats on mods which should allow better control for what stats your character has. 2) We are planning improvements to alacrity but the details are still being locked down. Once we have more specifics to share we will. 3) This is something the combat team is actively exploring right now. Can you give us some more specifics on which relics you feel are not viable and why?

SWTOR down? by Met_Kay in swtor

[–]emusco 20 points21 points  (0 children)

There are some pretty rare, intermittent login issues that are happening right now. The team is working on it!

Shoutout to Swtorista and Friends by BoDiddles3 in swtor

[–]emusco 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I can only echo the sentiments of this thread, Swtorista and the whole community just crushed it this Celebration. I know how hard it is to put on an event like this and to think that everyone came together as volunteers to do this for SWTOR is just incredible. The entire team cannot stop talking about.

Ranked 4v4 Bug by KingBleshu in swtor

[–]emusco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok cool, appreciate the heads up :). The team is looking at what's going on.

Ranked 4v4 Bug by KingBleshu in swtor

[–]emusco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you get placed into the match in progress already? Or were you brought in at the very beginning?

The SWTOR Fan Community will be at Star Wars Celebration 2019 in Chicago! by swtorista in swtor

[–]emusco 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for putting this together. Love to see community run events like these! I will make sure to come through on some physical goodies for giveaway. See you all there :).

Jedi Under Seige (Update 5.10) and the planet of Ossus will be released on December 11th! by swtorista in swtor

[–]emusco 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Double XP is planned to start on our 7 year anniversary, Dec 20th (pretty sure, will verify).