The Star Forge SWTOR Podcast

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 9 - RELAX

⭐ SPECIAL REPORT Topic: Expansion / 7.0 Gearing News round 2 / gear discussion

Renown / Social / Dark vs Light

https://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9976838#edit9976838

7.0 Conquest Changes

https://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9977770#edit9977770

Itemization in 7.0 Big post came out after the podcast

https://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9979133#edit9979133 (Part 1)

https://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9979401#edit9979401 (Part 2)

Expansion Launch Guessing Game:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NgixP-id6yJBgmr4hBVoU1VBZ7ii9ouulj962ucKwzM/edit?usp=sharing

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• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 6 - omg NEWS

• ⭐ SPECIAL REPORT Topic: Expansion / 7.0 Gearing News

Special Report

Tons of 7.0 news!

TOPIC: NEW HAIR

https://swtorista.com/articles/new-hairstyles-seen-on-the-swtor-test-server/

TOPIC: New UI

https://swtorista.com/articles/new-ui-seen-on-the-swtor-test-server/

TOPIC: Manaan Sneaky Peaky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTNAS4RRL1s

TOPIC: Daily and Weekly Mission Reset

https://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9975594#edit9975594

TOPIC: Shared Tagging

https://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9975594#edit9975594

TOPIC: Vanish / Stealth Res / Revive

https://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9975594#edit9975594

TOPIC: LEGENDARY GEAR

https://www.swtor.com/info/news/article/20211027

TOPIC: Weapons in the Outfit Designer

https://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9975594#edit9975594

TOPIC: NEW GEAR

https://www.swtor.com/info/news/article/20211102

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⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 7 - Whatever Happened to Baby Trapjaw?

• ⭐ Group Topic: World Bosses
• ⭐ Can't Make This Sith Up: Everyone Lived
• ⭐ Flying Solo: 999 Renown

Banter

Pacifism character!
Blog: https://swtorcommando.blogspot.com/search/label/pacifist%20levelling 

Disappointing Other People

World Bosses

• Are they fun? 
• Which ones are favorite? 
• Are they worth doing?
• How do you get into a group? 
• Monolith stories
• Nightmare pilgrim stories
• Pirate stories
• Feast of Prosperity

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SITH UP

This week in You Can’t Make This Sith Up - Toborro’s Courtyard. For all of you who spend more than 30 seconds on the fleet in a day, you might have noticed that 75% of all group content seems to revolve around Toborro’s Courtyard. You see, this fight has become very popular due to the large amount of rewards one can receive for being bored to death for 5-6 minutes. In a recent trip to Toborro’s Courtyard a healer, whose name has been redacted to protect the integrity of her guild, was told that she could not, in fact, solo heal Toborro’s Courtyard in story mode because it was “too hard”. When the healer woke up after blacking out from anger, she found that after 10 minutes of waiting the group leader still had not found another healer. Another 5 minutes passed and just as she was about to unplug her internet, lo and behold a healer appeared in the group. Then began the dance of queuing, un-queuing, re-queuing, and repeating this process until Toborro finally showed up in the box. After 30 minutes of waiting, the fight had finally begun, but as soon as the tank pulled the boss the 2nd “healer” said “im spec’d dps just FYI”. The fight continued and by the end, miraculously, some way, somehow, surprisingly, in an M Night Shymalahn style twist, everyone had fucking lived. 

FLYING SOLO

Renown

• #1 Get at least some stronghold bonus, mine is 150%. Also buy the legacy bonus to reknown levels 1-5. 
• #2 Do it on the character I play the most
• #3 Jump in those TC and Hive Queen runs
• #4 Do Fractured MM, it can be done with 2 good people 
• #5 Heroics and Dailies - Czerka in 10 mins, Ziost in 15, Black Hole in 15
• #6 Eternal Championship\

more info: https://starforgepodcast.com/episode-7-whatever-happened-to-baby-trapjaw/ 

YOU HEARD IT HERE LAST - NEWS

• FEAST AND DOUBLE XP ARE ‘CURRENTLY RUNNING’! so is bounty event
• Feast of Prosperity October 12 – November 2
• Double XP October 12 – November 2

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• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 6 - Credits Lies and Exploitation

• ⭐ SPECIAL REPORT Topic: Economy & Inflation

Special Report

The inflation in the Star Wars economy has been steadily getting worse and worse and it all seems to have come to a head today. On the forums today there was a post titled “BioWare, GTN Prices are insane, it’s time to do something”

• Hot Topic - Hypercrates are now so expensive, they are selling for over a billion credits and so players are trading them in general chat instead of GTN.
• How did it get that way
  • Exploits
    • Over the years various ways that allowed to to duplicate credits or items
    • During the worst one billions of credits were generated by taking advantage of the in-game vendors
    • The duplicators then went and bought all the rare items on the GTN, so the billions of credits were distributed even to normal people
    • And when the accounts were banned the legitimate items were also deleted, making the supply low and the credits in the non-banned economy high
    • The credits from the multiple exploits over the years were also laundered in various ways - send them to a friend, send them through the guild bank, stash them in the legacy bay, etc. and not all credits still in the hands of exploiters were even banned or removed
    • THE BIG ONE companion gifts cleared out the economy 
    • Plug to learn more
  • Quests and vendors give too much credits
    • Quests reward a ton of credits
      • This makes credit selling worse
    • Can sell items to vendors for tons of credits (ex level 75 gear)
  • How is inflation fixed?

YOU HEARD IT HERE LAST - NEWS

CALENDAR IS AVAILABLE! https://www.swtor.com/info/news/article/20211001

• FEAST AND DOUBLE XP ARE ‘CURRENTLY RUNNING’! so is bounty event
• Feast of Prosperity October 12 – November 2, 
• Double XP October 12 – November 2,
• Bounty October 19 – 26, 2021

PTS: The Jedi Knight, Imperial Agent, Sith Inquisitor, Bounty Hunter and Sith Warrior are all up for testing!

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• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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SCYA AND MAL'S HOT TAKES

Scya and Mal cover Star Wars media in a way that just didn't fit in the regular podcast episodes. Listen at your own risk.

🔥 Star Wars Visions (Part 1)

Scya and Mal discuss episodes 1-6 of Star Wars Visions on Disney+.

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• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 5 - AFK, IRL Aggro

• ⭐ Group Topic: dedicated raid group vs your real life
• ⭐ Can't Make This Sith Up: Popups
• ⭐ Flying Solo: Conquest

Disappointing Other People

The following post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/lctalx/aita_for_leaving_my_wife_outside_without_keys/ 

A husband doesn't let his wife in when she forgets his keys while he's raiding...

Who's at fault? Scya and Mal share stories about real life vs game night.

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SITH UP

This week in You Can’t Make This Sith Up - gigantic pop up notifications about who controls the galaxy. In a recent Operation a dps, whose name has been omitted to protect the other 15 people that were in the group with her, encountered a typical ‘feature’ in SWTOR. You see, sometime ago it was decreed that players could decide to fight for either the light side or dark side of the galaxy. Nevermind that this feature makes very little sense for say, non-force using classes and neutral parties, but I digress. This system was implemented and as a result everytime the galaxy leans towards the one side or the other a giant rectangular box, as big as 3/4s your screen pops up in the middle of the screen. This reporter acknowledges the size of the box might be a salty exaggeration from eyewitnesses, This annoyance stays in the players’ way for about 5 seconds, although to players trying to do 3-4 different things in a raid it feels like hours. Again, this might be a slight hyperbole due to extreme salt. 

This reporter will provide you a direct quote from the dps in the Operation, “Get this goddamn ****ing shit off my fucking screen I don’t care about the state of the ****ing galaxy when I’m in a raid.” 

FLYING SOLO

Conquest

• What is Conquest?
• Is it worth doing?
• What does it give you? Solo/Guild
• What should you do with the rewards?
• What are some of the conquest objectives you can do solo?

YOU HEARD IT HERE LAST - NEWS

CALENDAR IS AVAILABLE! https://www.swtor.com/info/news/article/20211001

PTS: The Jedi Knight, Imperial Agent, Sith Inquisitor, Bounty Hunter and Sith Warrior are all up for testing!

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Social

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• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 4 - Pay For What You Get

• ⭐ Group Topic: Operation Sales Runs
• ⭐ Can't Make This Sith Up: Sap
• ⭐ Flying Solo: Achievements

Banter

Oga's Disneyland Cantina from the intro: 

https://starforgepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ogas-cantina.jpg

Disappointing Other People

Sales Runs

• What is a sales run?
• Sale runs - has Scya or Mal ever been on one? 
• Is that cheating? 
• Is it healthy for the game? 
• How about items like nightmare crystals? 
• Is SWTOR "pay to win"? 

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SITH UP

This week on You Can’t Make This Sith Up people on stealth classes who never sap. In a recent trip to the Red Reaper, a healer, whose name has been redacted to protect her cat, encountered a startling and disturbing phenomenon. You see, the flashpoint group included a scoundrel dps, a class celebrated both for making others “catch these hands” as well as their stealthing ability. Upon arriving at the first set of enemies that could be sapped and thus successfully passed by, the group waited eagerly as the scoundrel dropped into stealth, snuck up behind the enemy, and Back Blasted it....

FLYING SOLO

Achievements Points

• How many points do you have Scya? 

Mal: 54,015

Scya: 39,320, mostly from just trying to play different parts of the game

• What are some of your favorite or most fun achievements that you have? 

Mal: I really enjoyed doing the MM Uprisings. 

Scya: My first-time hard mode ops achievements and the few nightmare ones I have

• What are some of the most impressive achievements that you have?

Mal: All my nim Ops achievements and timer runs for sure. 

Scya: Nothing as impressive as Mal has. But I’m really proud of my run through Master Mode Knights of the Fallen Empire and Eternal Throne.

• When achievements were first launched how did that go? 
• What do you really want to complete that you haven’t yet? 

Mal: 16m nightmare Ops (last 2 of DF, all of DP), DP timer, and nim Dxun. Also the MM Chapters

Scya: I want more of the nightmare mode achievements just so I look less like a scrub. 
I’d love more of the “Possessions” achievements

YOU HEARD IT HERE LAST - NEWS

CALENDAR IS AVAILABLE! https://www.swtor.com/info/news/article/20211001

PTS: The Jedi Knight, Imperial Agent and Sith Inquisitor are all up for testing, hoping to get the final class for testing soon.

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• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 3 - You Get What You Pay For

• ⭐ Group Topic:F2P/Preferred Grouping Up
• ⭐ Can't Make This Sith Up: Kolto Stations
• ⭐ Flying Solo:Fashion

Banter

Tv from the intro:

https://starforgepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/only-jesus-TV-225x300.jpg

Disappointing Other People

F2P/Preferred Grouping Up

What options does f2p have for grouping up?
Is this fair?
Is it healthy for the game?
Do you think we will one day see raid pasess or subscription tokens return?

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SITH UP

This week in You Can’t Make This Sith Up, pressing kolto stations in a group with a fully geared healer. Kolto stations - wonderful additions to veteran mode flashpoints or an annoyance? In recent flashpoint excursions a fully geared, experienced healer whose name has been redacted to protect her family and friends, found that despite all group members never dropping below 90% health, players would continuously stop what they were doing in order to press the kolto stations. If a player’s health suddenly dropped from 100 to 95%, rest assured that person would immediately interrupt their current action to slow-walk to the h hiealing station. Curiously, upon arrival at the station, even if their health had been fully restored by the healer, they would press the panel anyway and then begin their leisurely walk back to the boss. An even more peculiar phenomenon in this story is that these kolto stations seem to make people stand in all AOE, conal, cleave and ground circle damage at all times, turning a simple veteran mode flash point into a bloodbath that not even a healer and several kolto stations could salvage. Perhaps these players were unaware that they had a healer in their group. Perhaps they believed that these magic healing stations could save them from mechanics. This reporter will leave you tonight with a direct quote from the beleaguered healer “If you’re going to stand in all that shit, fuck it, heal yourselves.”

FLYING SOLO

Fashion
Mal, Scya, do you care about how your characters look?
Touch on F2P / Expensive fashion, status symbol
ex White/White Black/Black is considered “rich” so much its all over Zakuul
Touch on earned fashion - adaptive gear, reputation, crafted, etc
If you could have any fashion/armor added to the game, what would you add?

VIEW some of the fashion items mentioned: starforgepodcast.com

YOU HEARD IT HERE LAST - NEWS

NEW CALENDAR IS AVAILABLE! https://www.swtor.com/info/news/article/20211001

News: None.

Galactic Seasons: over! Next season will start with the next expansion, “holidays 2021”

PTS: The Jedi Knight, Imperial Agent and Sith Inquisitor are all up for testing, hoping to get the final class for testing soon.

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• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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EPISODE 2 - SPACE BAR PLZ

• ⭐ Group Topic: Flashpoints in the Groupfinder
• ⭐ Can't Make This Sith Up: Cleanse Me
• ⭐ Flying Solo: Gearing Solo

Disappointing Other People

Flashpoints, doing them, queing them, etiquette and the great space bar debate

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SITH UP

This week in you can’t make this sith up, calling for a cleanse when literally everyone in the group needs a cleanse. On a recent trip to veteran mode Dxun a tight-knit group was forced to pick up a rando, from the fleet of all places, in order to raid. After spending the entire operation talking constantly despite having no experience whatsoever in the zone, as the group approached Apex and began discussing Contagion cleanses the guest vanguard dps declared in all caps I WILL CALL WHEN I NEED A CLEANSE. A healer in the group whose name has been redacted but who might now be on a podcast responded by telling him that at that point in the fight everyone, in fact, needed a cleanse and that he would be told when he would receive one. Her message was ignored by the rando who continued to type CLEANSE ME in all caps after every Contagion, but refused to stand in the correct spot to be cleansed resulting in multiple wipes. Perhaps that vanguard was confused about mechanics. Perhaps he does not know how to behave as a guest in a raid. Or maybe, in this reporters opinion, he was a fucking troll. 

FLYING SOLO

Gearing! Is it worth it solo? What types of content are worth it? What are some good ways to gear solo? Gearing at low level? 

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Connect

You have been listening to The Star Forge Podcast with Scya and Mal, we know you have your choice of podcasts and you chose the right one. For show notes and other information visit starforgepodcast.com and hit us up on Twitter @starforgecast we’d love to hear from you. Listen in with Google or Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or on Swtorista’s youtube channel. New episodes drop every Friday so mark your calendar and come join the party. Thanks for tuning in, we’ll see you next week.

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• Listen at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher
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• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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EPISODE 1 - THE PODCAST AWAKENS

• ⭐ Group Topic: Ops Exclusive Drops
• ⭐ Can't Make This Sith Up: AOE on a Single Target
• ⭐ Flying Solo: Datacron Hunting

Disappointing Other People

Ops Exclusive Drops - unique ops-only loot like rare mounts…

• Which ones do mal and scya have?
• Is it fair only one drops for the group for such hard content like nim mounts, and not even for the whole account who wins it? 
• Is it fair that solo players can not get this? 
• (End with, there were recently changes to master looter which we’ll talk about in the news segment later in the show)

What drops only in ops?

• Mounts are the big one
• Decos, but most can be on GTN or bought/sold via trading
• Corruptor Blade weapon from Dread Fortress, that stupid hat from Karagga’s Palace, the mask that drops from Dreadtooth
• Pets
• Technically crest of the dread masters, that sparkly doodad that is also from Hateful Entity

VIEW OPERATION MOUNTS HERE: https://swtorista.com/mounts/operation

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SITH UP

This week in “You can’t make this sith up!”: using AOE on a single target. In a recent flashpoint, a gunslinger whose name has been redacted to protect their loved ones, only used one of their 45 gunslinger abilities: Sweeping Blasters throughout the entire veteran mode flashpoint. They used this ability until they ran out of energy, at which point they stood there until it regenerated and they could once again resume use of Sweeping Blasters. Perhaps the player in question was deep into some kind of RP. Perhaps they were unaware of the many other abilities SWTOR has to offer. There are many unanswered questions in regards to this deeply puzzling situation, but this reporter will ask just one: What the actual ****.

FLYING SOLO

Lets talk about Datacron hunting because you just put out a great new guide about it!

• Do scya and mal have them all
• Do they enjoy looking for them
• How do they feel about it being legacy-wide now vs per-character
• Which ones were hardest for them
• Is it worth getting all the datacrons?

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Connect

You have been listening to The Star Forge Podcast with Scya and Mal, we know you have your choice of podcasts and you chose the right one. For show notes and other information visit starforgepodcast.com and hit us up on Twitter @starforgecast we’d love to hear from you. Listen in with Google or Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or on Swtorista’s youtube channel. New episodes drop every Friday so mark your calendar and come join the party. Thanks for tuning in, we’ll see you next week.

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• New Episode Every Friday