Join Jason, Mox and Ravanel as they discuss the latest news in SWTOR. This week is all about the bonus CXP! If you like the grind or not, everyone is enjoying the extra Command XP currently in the game. Being able to open a Command crate more frequently does seem a bit more rewarding. The team also talks about the Valentine’s Day Facebook stream from BioWare and much more.

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This week’s poll question:

Would you rather open more command crates or higher % gear drops on Op bosses?

 

Newsnet & Beyond

Before we go any further, we need to award to 30 day sub code to our Super winner!

Congrats to Rhinad!

 

New purple circle around characters on the mini map

* intended to make them more visible.

* Good idea, but not the best solution

 

Last minute change from 250% CXP & XP to 350% CXP for 2 weeks. (when does it end?)

 

https://twitter.com/Infinite0utcome/status/829688302722768898

Should we keep the 350% CXP bonus?

 

What will happen to cxp after 5.2 goes live? Eric explains in dev post

 

Facebook Livestream 14th February:

Story in SWTOR with Charles Boyd & Eric Musco. Players could suggest questions beforehand.

* On KOTET:

* Mother - daughter relationship is ill explored in popular media

* “Betrayed” trailer: both feel betrayed by each other in a way

* Boyd’s favourite LS/DS choice: trooper storyline, helping your friend or 300 soldiers you haven’t met (the one(s) you don’t help will die) - so hard to make

* How are you dealing with having a player have so much power (at the end of KOTET)? They realise it’s a challenge, but they wanted to go with it anyway, because it’s another unexplored perspective in MMOs

* Boyd confession time: “I’m kinda a softie when I’m playing my own characters through the story. My characters are all light side rulers; so far I haven’t been able to let myself become the evil dictator of the universe.”

* They have made a YouTube playlist for starting players.

 

Community Buzz

https://twitter.com/sotorpodcast/status/831353338683916288

Does SWTOR need an XP stopper? Some argue they don’t want to level up as fast.

* Rav has some feedback from LOTRO, which has an XP stopper

 

Ingame xp “stopper”

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9237767#edit9237767

 

Helpful tips and hints for Master mode & CXP

The SWTOR Escape Podcast #182: Max and Sema give some advice for Master mode chapters.

* Get your companions to full influence

* Each fight & boss encounter needs to be thought through. Plan a strat

* Use CC’s, Hard stuns, defensive & offensive cooldowns

* Try different utilities and even specs.