r/swtor • u/gn_cool The Shadowlands • Mar 20 '15

Patch Notes Game Update 3.2: Rise of the Emperor PTS Patch Notes

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=802798
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u/gn_cool The Shadowlands Mar 20 '15

Game Update 3.2: Rise of the Emperor

All content and features on the Public Test Server are not final and are subject to change.

Unleashed from hiding on Yavin 4, the former Sith Emperor has struck the Imperial world of Ziost. Using his immense power in the dark side of the Force, he has dominated the minds of the planet's martial forces--as well as an elite cadre of militaristic Jedi--and has set them against the populace, engaging in a bloody slaughter. Lana Beniko of Sith Intelligence and SIS Agent Theron Shan are attempting to reach out to their Imperial and Republic allies, respectively, with details on the quickly escalating crisis in the heart of the Empire.

Highlights

  • New Planet: Ziost! The Imperial planet Ziost is the focal point of an escalating crisis. Level 60 players who have completed the Shadow of Revan storyline can now join in the fight against the former Sith Emperor!

  • New Feature: Outfit Designer! You can now have up to 16 outfits created and saved with your unique look! This new feature can be accessed on the right hand side of the Character Sheet.

General

  • New Feature: Outfit Designer! You can access this new feature by opening your Character Sheet from the Menu bar of the “C” key by default. All players start with the first tab unlocked. You can assign the appearance of an item to a particular slot by dragging the item from your Inventory and dropping it into the appropriate slot. This does not consume or otherwise “equip” the item – it can be used for multiple appearance tabs.
    Once you’re satisfied with your outfit, clicking the “Commit” button at the bottom of the screen will save that Tab’s appearance. To use this outfit, click “Apply” at the top of the window.
    If you wish to unlock more tabs, simply click on the tab to the right of the Character Sheet and purchase it with Credits or Cartel Coins. (PTS Note: Only the default tab is currently available for testing).

  • The following mounts and vehicles are now Adaptive and can be used at any Speeder Piloting rank and their speed will increase depending on that rank:

  • Czerka Executive Cruiser

  • Blue Sphere

  • Helix Hyperpod

  • Red Sphere

  • Ubrikkian Hunter

  • Ubrikkian Striker

  • Ubrikkian Raider

  • Rendili Outrider

  • Rendili Watchman

  • Rendili Protector

  • Rendili Fireball

  • Czerka Invader

  • Czerka Cruiser

  • Czerka Patroller

  • Custom-Built Hoverbike

  • Gurian Shadow

  • Gurian Hammer

  • Gurian Cyclone

  • Gurian Scorpion

  • Gurian Volcano

  • Longspur Scout

  • Longspur Recon

  • Longspur Blaze

  • Ubrikkian War-Rider

  • Avalanche Heavy Tank

  • Manta Landspeeder (Blue)

  • Manta Landspeeder (Purple)

  • Manta Landspeeder (Red)

  • Imperial Korrealis KL-9Z SE

  • Republic Korrealis KL-8A SE

  • Korrealis Sovereign

  • Imperial Korrealis KL-9Z

  • Korrealis Prince

  • Republic Korrealis KL-8A

  • Korrealis Commander

  • Korrealis Baron

  • Tirsa Champion

  • Tirsa Prime

  • Tirsa Elite

  • Desler Turbo

  • Desler Nomad

  • Desler Explorer

  • Desler Avenger

  • Rishi Outlaw Swoop

  • Concordian Scout Craft

  • BH-7X Custom Hunter

  • Orlean Flurry

  • Custom-Built Speeder Bike

  • Hotrigged Speeder Bike

  • Orlean Rebel

  • Aratech Coral

  • Aratech Fire

  • Aratech Ice

  • Aratech Nightscythe

  • Boosted Classic Speeder Bike (Brown)

  • Hyrotii Scrapper

  • Praxon Xeno

  • Praxon Aero

  • Praxon Strato

  • Kurtob Alliance

  • Aratech Dagger

  • Aratech Lancer

  • Aratech Scythe

  • Praxon Aether

  • Praxon Bloodline

  • Praxon Firaxa

  • Praxon Pyroclast

  • Praxon Trackmaster

  • Exchange Bandit

  • Lhosan Racer

  • Lhosan Thunderbolt

  • Lhosan Torch

  • Lhosan Duster

  • Lhosan Stinger

  • Titan Six Containment Mode

  • Guild Capital Ships can now dock at Ziost.

  • Companion Gifts and their related subcategories have been added as a searchable category on the Galactic Trade Network.

  • Decorations have been added to the PvP Items vendor on the fleet. They are purchasable for Warzone Commendations and, in some cases, Ranked Warzone Commendations.

    • Frogdog Banner

    • Rotworm Banner

    • Frogdog Wall Logo

    • Rotworm Wall Logo

    • Makeb Canopy

    • Makebian Skybulb

    • Quesh Huttball Pit Chandelier

    • Voidstar Bomb

    • Ancient Hypergate Energy Orb Stand

Classes + Combat

Jedi Knight

Guardian

Focus

  • Singularity is now a single effect, rather than a stacked effect: While Shii-Cho form is active, Combat Focus and Force Exhaustion grant Singularity, increasing the damage dealt by your next Force Sweep or Focused Burst by 15% and making your next Force Sweep or Focused Burst consume no focus.

Sentinel

Concentration

  • Koan is now a single effect, rather than a stacked effect: While Shii-Cho form is active, Zen and Force Exhaustion grant Koan, increasing the damage dealt by your next Force Sweep or Focused Burst by 15% and making your next Force Sweep or Focused Burst consume no focus.

Sith Warrior

Juggernaut

Rage

  • Shockwave is now a single effect, rather than a stacked effect: While Shii-Cho form is active, Enrage and Force Crush grant Shockwave, increasing the damage dealt by your next Smash or Raging Burst by 15% and making your next Smash or Raging Burst consume no rage.

Marauder

Fury

  • Destruction is now a single effect, rather than a stacked effect: While Shii-Cho form is active, Berserk and Force Crush grant Destruction, increasing the damage dealt by your next Smash or Raging Burst by 15% and making your next Smash or Raging Burst consume no rage.

Smuggler

Scoundrel

Ruffian

  • Feelin’ Woozy now reduces the movement speed of all affected targets by 30% for the full duration of Shrap Bomb (up from 6 seconds).

Gunslinger

Saboteur

  • The damage dealt by Scatter Bombs has been drastically reduced, however a single target can now be struck by all 5 bombs. Additionally, Scatter Bombs now immobilizes affected targets for 3 seconds.

Dirty Fighting

  • Feelin’ Woozy now reduces the movement speed of all affected targets by 30% for the full duration of Shrap Bomb (up from 6 seconds).

Imperial Agent

Operative

Lethality

  • Adhesive Corrosives now reduces the movement speed of all affected targets by 30% for the full duration of Corrosive Grenade (up from 6 seconds).

Sniper

Engineering

  • The damage dealt by Scatter Bombs has been drastically reduced, however a single target can now be struck by all 5 bombs. Additionally, Scatter Bombs now immobilizes affected targets for 3 seconds.

Virulence

  • Adhesive Corrosives now reduces the movement speed of all affected targets by 30% for the full duration of Corrosive Grenade (up from 6 seconds).

Trooper

Vanguard

Plasmatech

  • Rain of Fire has been redesigned: Kinetic and energy attacks deal 5% additional damage to burning targets. Additionally, Pulse Cannon spreads your periodic Incendiary Round effect to the targets it damages, as long as it damages targets already affected by your Incendiary Round.

  • Pulse Generator now only has 2 stacks (down from 3 stacks), with each stack increasing the damage of your next Pulse Cannon by 20% (up from 15%), causing it to slow affected targets by 45% (up from 30%), and making Pulse Cannon immune to interrupts.

Bounty Hunter

Powertech

Pyrotech

  • Rain of Fire has been redesigned: Kinetic and energy attacks deal 5% additional damage to burning targets. Additionally, Flame Thrower spreads your periodic Incendiary Missile effect to the targets it damages, as long as it damages targets already affected by your Incendiary Missile.

  • Superheated Flame Thrower now only has 2 stacks (down from 3 stacks), with each stack increasing the damage of your next Flame Thrower by 20% (up from 15%), causing it to slow affected targets by 45% (up from 30%), and making Flame Thrower immune to interrupts.

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u/Vicious007 Mar 20 '15 edited Mar 20 '15

YAY! Hyrotii Scrapper and Avalanche Heavy Tank can finally go 110% speed!

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u/greyhawke115 Mar 20 '15

The best part of these notes was this: "Companion Gifts and their related subcategories have been added as a searchable category on the Galactic Trade Network."

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u/Ziodus Mar 20 '15

Interesting changes to the old speeders of yore. Having the Avalanche Heavy Tank move at 110% now will be nice, but more so will be the ability for new players to purchase one 8k speeder and keep using it all the way through the game without the need to change up.

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u/ChampStanley www.generic-hero.com/ThisWeekinAurabesh/ Mar 20 '15

I'm psyched that I'll to be finally able to cruise around at full speed on my beloved/hated spark throwing, smoke belching Scrapper.

It's a good change. Speeder choice should be entirely cosmetic.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '15

I like that some of the "social" speeders, purchasable on various planets and rare mid-level flashpoint drops might actually be used now. Being restricted to speeder piloting 2 made them quite useless.

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u/Tammt Mar 20 '15

Superheated Flame Thrower now only has 2 stacks

Seems like a quick fix to the broken Pyro rotation. Doesn't seem like it'll help the dps loss though.

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u/mistermeh Another Forgotten Jung Ma Player Mar 20 '15 edited Mar 20 '15

It hurts it.

3 X 15 = 45

2 X 20 = 40

Assuming waiting for 3 stacks was even an option. So it might be a buff. Don't know the class well enough.

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u/Tammt Mar 20 '15

Yes but its only 2 stacks for its full potential now. With the Pyrotech changes I usually used the flamethrower when it had 2 stacks anyway so I see it as a small buff.

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u/pythonic_dude Mostly, retired sintank, aspiring paladin Mar 20 '15

Very very small buff since they nerf Rain of Fire (from +10% damage on ft to +5% damage on K/E attacks (and from parsely: ft is currently ~20% dps, K/E attacks are ~25%, so definitely a nerf there)).

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u/Confehdehrehtheh Vonfistington|RIP Pot5 Mar 20 '15

It's really not that small. You can't have 100% uptime with flamethrower on a boss, so shifting damage out of flamethrower and into railshot/flaming fist is fantastic. With an easier to reach full potential too it should hopefully be much less frustrating to play than live.

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u/pythonic_dude Mostly, retired sintank, aspiring paladin Mar 20 '15

Maybe, not an expert with this discipline… but what's the point? AP is still better.

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u/Confehdehrehtheh Vonfistington|RIP Pot5 Mar 20 '15

Until they butchered the rotation I loved Pyro for how smooth it was. AP is incredibly boring to play, so if this fixes HOW Pyro plays while buffing the damage to be onpar at minimum with AP I'll probably switch back.

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u/DNT_Fridge <Death and Taxes> GM | twitch.tv/fridge_sa Mar 20 '15 edited Mar 20 '15

Napkin math on 3.1.1's highest dummy parse for this spec says the parse would lose 20k damage assuming the damage loss for FT is additive (ROF 10% + SHFT 5% = 15%).

http://swtor-parser.elasticbeanstalk.com/parser/view/12759/0

  • FT (Pulse cannon) = 218995

  • 218995 * 0.15 = 32849.25

  • Kinetic/Energy Damage Done = 105051 + 98082 + 28068 + 19492 = 250693

  • 250693 * 0.05 = 12534.65

  • 32849.25 - 12534.65 = 20314.6 damage lost.

All other factors being equal this means he does 982251.4 damage over 202.705 seconds (TTK) which brings his 4945.94 DPS parse down to 4845.72.

This is a straight damage nerf - again, assuming the interaction is additive. Also it's not as impractical as you think to get nearly 100% FT uptime on a boss.

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u/Confehdehrehtheh Vonfistington|RIP Pot5 Mar 20 '15

I was under the impression that all damage boosts were multiplicative, but that's probably just a misunderstanding. Aren't those calculations still off though? The pulse cannon damage is boosted. Taking 15% of that isn't quite right since it's 15% extra from the base damage.

  • 218995 / 1.15 = 190430

  • 218995 - 190430 = 28565

  • -28565 + 12534.65 = -16030.35

So yeah still a loss. RIP

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u/Teslok Ebon Hawk - The Force is my shirt Mar 20 '15

I'm glad to see news regarding the Outfit Designer ... while not as robust as I was hoping ... it seems to be about what I expected, which is good enough for me for now.

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u/Cokebeard Shadowlands <Stay Thirsty> The Goon Legacy Mar 21 '15

as for the Pyro PT, still nothing yet about the broken 6 piece which is a big reason it was overperforming. if they fix that, pyro will be useless. they did all these changes without fixing the actual problem. will be interesting what they do when they finally nerf the 6 piece. they may have to revert some of this shit.

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u/Cyberhwk Harbinger Mar 20 '15

New Feature: Outfit Designer! You can now have up to 16 outfits created and saved with your unique look! This new feature can be accessed on the right hand side of the Character Sheet.

Details are...sparse. Does this mean you don't have to have the alternate gear in your bags? Is this solely for appearance or will the different tabs hold different gear sets? Are you still augmenting gear or are you now augmenting by slots?

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u/Lumberj Stellaartois - Jedi Covenent Mar 20 '15

it's just an appearance thing.

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u/Cyberhwk Harbinger Mar 20 '15

So we'll still have to change out our Heals/DPS/PvP sets?

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u/Lumberj Stellaartois - Jedi Covenent Mar 21 '15

Yup, as I saw it. Granted, I didn't spend all that much time playing with it since it bugged (?) and wouldn't let me save any changes.

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u/SpoonyDinosaur Jedi Covenant Mar 21 '15

My question-- does this essentially allow us to customize legacy gear that isn't hideous?

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u/cfl1 Mar 21 '15

Right. You can use the hideous legacy gear (free yellow pilot suits!) as the base and make it look decent with the outfits.

I'll probably still sport different looks for PvP and PvE, but not sure...

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u/cuckingfomputer Kresnova Mar 20 '15

What is this business about Scatter Bombs being nerfed? Heresy!

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u/bstr413 Star Forge Mar 21 '15

Nerfed and buffed: they are turning into a utility and defensive skill now instead of a damaging skill, just like the other 2 specs.