1. Introduction

Chong has used the Appearance Designer Kiosk to alter his PvP Sniper into a most fierce feline:

2. Trivia Question

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Voyak!

3. Holofeed

• Game Update 2.1: Customization was deployed on Tuesday. Cory Butler provided an introduction in a developer blog, and there is the usual trailer (also on YouTube).
• There were a couple of glitches: a very long load time for some players, quickly resolved, and a crash to desktop for Windows XP users, fixed in the client-side only Patch 2.1.0a deployed on Wednesday.
• All subscribers will receive one complimentary Character Rename per account sometime soon.
• The somewhat odd price for species change (792 Cartel Coins) was explained by Eric Musco.
• To get an item to appear in your Collections interface, you’ll have to have equipped it at least once (so it’s bound to a character). You may also have to log into the character with the item.
• While the Dye Modules sold by the CE (Collector’s Edition) vendor are currently not bind-on-pickup, the ones sold in future will be.

4. Community

Thanks to @TheTurg (Terg) for his most generous donation!

Kuze is still working on his instructional video on platforming. You can find his existing guides in Kuze’s Korner.

Dulfy’s SWTOR Dye Modules guide is well worth perusing!

For those interested in joining Ootini Fight Club for some endgame PvP, please contact Chong by email (empiredivider@gmail.com).

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @madmar_sith (be sure to follow him back to join the #swtorfamily!), @Jayconnell, @TheTurg (Terg), @EmpireDivider (Chong), @JediKrackr, @KairiahMedens (David), @ForceChuckle, @roguish98 (Matt Roberts), @ChazLobo, @rclemons77 (Brian Clemons), @grimrok (Grim), @joseph_foran, @HamSammich509, @IzaakTheMad, @mmartong (Markos Martong), @rocketman003 (Ki’el), @weihanthekidsun (Weihan Sun), @masterbearjedi (Raz), @therealHausman (Jacob), @GrahamMSellars, @RoughneckRoy, and an email from Green Armadillo, the author of the most excellent Player vs Developer blog.

6. Sarlacc Digest

Chong gives some expert advice on how best to utilise one’s Seeker Droid.

We also mention the known issue (and its workaround) for the final mission in the Macrobinocular chain.

7. Outro

Thanks to Moff Chong (@EmpireDivider), Redna (@RystoJ) and Hyp (@Hypknotoad) for joining us this week.

Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio Paragon.

Attention fellow guildies, would you like to win credits, and some sweet, sweet, prizes? If so, sign up for “Ham’s Back-alley Brawl”, to be held on Sunday, May 26, 6:00pm PST (time and/or date are subject to change).

This will be a tournament based guild event to test your skills and aptitude for combat without relying on gear. You will be pitted against each other to duke it out for dominance. There will be two different tournaments, but you can enter both. By the end of the day there will be 3 winners.

Your only requirement is to bring with you EMPTY moddable (Orange) Gear; especially an off-hand but crystals are exempted. All participants will be rewarded with a (one) Cartel Market pack weapon while supplies last.

If you plan to partake in this event, please email Moff Chong (empiredivider@gmail.com), and let me know what character you plan to bring so that I can prepare your complimentary weapon before the event. Further details are below, and if you have questions please also add that in the email.

This is a one day event on May 26, 6:00pm PST (date and time subject to change); So get your datacrons and character to 55 beforehand.

First event prizes (2v2)

2v2 winners’ prize will be two of the newest Cartel Market packs, 2 Gurain Lightning mounts, and 200,000 credits.

Second event prizes (1v1)

1v1 winner’s prize will be two of the newest Cartel Market packs, 1 Gurian Lightning mount, and 200,000 credits.

Just for playing, you will be given a Cartel Market weapon usable by the character you bring.

Rules and Restrictions

Tournaments will be bracketed. The placement in the brackets will be randomly assigned for both 2v2 teams and 1v1 combatants. Note that your teammate for 2v2 will be randomly selected.

For fairness, only characters at level 55 will be allowed to participate.

Fighters will not use or equip Relics, Implants, Earpieces or Head armor.

Consumables and Adrenals will be banned and if found, you and/or your team will be disqualified, forfeiting that round to the other player or team.

Fighters will be required to bring any type of orange (customizable) gear with no modifications for their own use during the matches. This means armor, mod, augment and enhancement slots must be empty.

NOTE: You will be responsible for your own offhand (shield, lightsaber, pistol, vibroknife, etc.). All offhands must have all modifications slots empty, aside for color crystals, which are permitted.

You will also be supplied with 1 health pack and 1 fortitude stim before each fight.

NOTE: Only these given items may be used during the fight.

1v1 matches will be played in a safe area with the use of duel mechanics. No companions are allowed.

2v2 matches will be battled in PvP areas (probably Outlaw’s Den). You will invite your teammate and battle the other team to the death. The last man standing wins for their team. Again, no companions are allowed.

Each match will be the best of three scenarios, first to win two matches moves ahead in the tourney.

Due to the nature of open world PvP, if the battle is interrupted by an NPC or another player, the fight will be stopped and reset. If the match was interrupted by a participant of the event itself the match will be reset and the person who interrupted the fight will be banned from both tournaments (1v1 and 2v2).

Fights will be watched by judges, and players will be inspected to make sure gear is on the up and up. This is also a guild event, so please be respectful to your guildies, and try to play in the spirit of the event.

I do plan to record and edit the fights for posterity and bragging rights. If this is successful more events will be planned in the future.

1. Introduction

Hyp provides a few choice screenshots from Baldy’s adventures. First we have Baldy showing a little tough love:

This is Baldy’s frowny face:

A nice bit of scenery from the prison world of Belsavis:

Redna’s in-progress UI update, with his action bars arranged to mimic the layout on his new Razer Naga:

2. Trivia Question

(We are continuing the question from last week.)

Our question is all about New Hollywood. New Hollywood is a period of moviemaking from the mid-60s to the very early 80s. It is usually marked as beginning with “Bonnie and Clyde”, a surprising hit of a movie where the main characters die, and ends with the overpriced flops “Heaven’s Gate” and “One from the Heart”.

New Hollywood was marked by a period of time where filmmakers were still part of the studio process, but allowed greater freedom. So they were a mix of the two things we have today—generally big-budget movies with tight studio control and smaller indie films with low budgets but tons of creative freedom. The occasional big-budget movie with filmmaker control, like Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” movies, can be seen as a product of this time.

New Hollywood proved that movies could be big successes without being cookie-cutter films, like the musicals, war movies, and horse operas of the 50s and early 60s. They also legitimized the sequel with the critical and successful “Godfather Part II,” brought us the summer blockbuster with “Jaws,” and showed that fantasy and sci-fi could have wide audience appeal with “Star Wars.”

Of course, their successes sowed the seeds of the movement’s failure; more money was thrown their way, which both increased the risk if a movie was a flop, and caused the studios to demand more control over their big bets.

But what made New Hollywood really successful was that this was the first generation of moviemakers who had grown up watching movies. They loved movies and they knew movies. They put references to great earlier movies in their movies, both as a nod to films they loved and also quite frankly to uplift their own films.

Now, we’ve used the Trivia Question to explore Lucas’s influences before. So let’s set aside the movies of Kurosawa. But let’s find as many other examples as we can of famous movie scenes being referenced, either in dialogue, shot selection etc. in the six “Star Wars” movies.

I’ll get you started. (This example won’t count.) The famous Greedo cantina scene is a reference to the wonderful western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, where Tuco is caught by an armed man who has been hunting him. He is in the bath, apparently unarmed, and his hunter waves his pistol in his face and gloats over how happy he is to have caught him. But then Tuco, or Han, fires a hidden pistol and kills his opponent. While Han’s scene has become known as “Han Shot First”, Tuco’s line at the end of his scene is appropriate to both: “When you have to shoot, shoot! Don’t talk”.

Please send your answer to ootinicast@gmail.com. Whoever gets the most references to earlier movies by next Wednesday will be put in a drawing to win a Taun Fawn code courtesy of BioWare and one of the latest full-size Cartel Packs (or if you’re on The Harbinger, a very special mount!).

3. Holofeed

• Disney and EA announced a multi-year agreement for EA to produce Star Wars games. This includes BioWare’s ongoing production and support of SWTOR!
• EA had its Q4 FY13 conference call for investors, during which the EA leadership said some positive, encouraging and supporting things about SWTOR. Polygon summarises what was said.
• The rest of Game Update 2.1: Customization was unveiled, and our overview has been updated with the new features: character/legacy/guild renames, escrow deductions for Free and Preferred players, and Collections.
• Eric Musco, Community Manager, allays concerns that there is no actual content in Game Update 2.1 by firstly announcing it’s going to arrive this coming Tuesday (14 May), and secondly revealing that Game Update 2.2 (which presumably will contain content!) is coming on Tuesday 11 June, 8 weeks after the launch of the expansion.
• Not only that, but he tells us the Gree will be back sometime before Game Update 2.2!
• The known exploits in the bolster mechanic will be fixed in Game Update 2.1.
• Amber Green lets us know that most known crew skill issues will be addressed in Game Update 2.1, though some will have to wait until the following patch 2.1.1.
• Rob Hinkle, Senior Designer responsible for PvP, explains the rationale behind 2.0′s upgraded bolster, and why it’s worth sticking it out as they iron out the issues.
• There is a known bug with healing companions, which causes them to stop healing players if a cosmetic pet you have out takes damage!

4. Community

We recommend hawtpantsrepublic.com, which includes a most excellent guide for Sentinels updated for Game Update 2.0. You can follow the site’s author via @HawtRepublic on Twitter.

Our guide on 2- and 4-piece set bonuses for all PvE and PvP gear has been updated with the new set bonuses made available in Game Update 2.0.

A very useful summary of endgame (or “elder game”) content from BioWare can be found at www.swtor.com/info/eldergame.

If you live in the US and don’t mind paying for shipping, you can enter a competition to win a 1/6 scale replica of Darth Malgus!

In Kuze’s Korner this week, Kuze provides some extremely useful tips on platforming. These and more will feature in his platforming video, which is coming soon.

For those interested in joining Ootini Fight Club for some endgame PvP, please contact Chong by email (empiredivider@gmail.com). Chong and HamSammich are also planning a PvP tournament on The Harbinger; Moff Chong will be on episode 80 to tell us all about it! You can preview the rules here.

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @madmar_sith (be sure to follow him back to join the #swtorfamily!), @ForceChuckle, @Weihanthekidsun (Weihan Sun), @hadrian9 (Mikhael Lombard), @TheTurg (Terg), @bytorsnowdog (Snowy), @copythat22 (Lance of the Coffee Talk with Lance and Niq podcast), @terencemyers (Terence Myers), @KairiahMedens (David), @JediKrackr and @IzaakTheMad (Izaak), and emails from Oxi-jin, Middle’guard, Rendrin, Graham Sellars, Dri, Hansgruber, Madmar, Socordia, Matt Roberts and Jacob Hausman (Deltia).

Middle’guard provided a YouTube video that he did that shows his UI with the action bars configured to mimic the location of the buttons on a Logitech G600 or Razer Naga mouse.

Matt Roberts (@Roguish98) referred to a couple of forum threads regarding how installing DirectX 9 drivers may improve your performance (fix, CS confirmation). He also recommends this forum thread that discusses general performance improvements.

Oxi-jin’s post-+10-endurance-datacron party on Makeb!

6. Sarlacc Digest

We cover the other two of the level 55 hard mode Flashpoints, Mandalorian Raiders and Hammer Station. Athiss and Cademimu were discussed last week.

Hammer Station (Dulfy’s guide)

• trash—some nasty packs, mostly easy
• DN-314 Tunneler (droid with the laser):
  • cleanse stacks during tunneling laser (when it reaches 4 or so)
  • avoid exploding droids, no need to DPS them
• Vorgan the Volcano (three guys)
  • tank Vorgan and 2R-CH (torch)
  • kill Sawbones (on the right) first
  • we kill Vorgan then finally the Torch (torch, frontal conal damage, can be interrupted)
• Asteroid Beast (bonus boss)
  • tank with back to orange force screen
  • healer and DPS stack immediately behind boss for AoE healing
  • periodic rampage which stuns everyone
• Battlelord Kreshan (guy with the adds):
  • sweeping gunfire (tank steps out of way)
  • knockback is nasty (tank has back to console)
  • blue circles which stick around
  • adds need to be killed, can be knocked off

Mandalorian Raiders (Dulfy’s guide)

• trash—those dogs hurt!
• Braxx the Bloodhound (guy with the two dogs)
  • tank Braxx away from the two dogs, who’ll switch between the DPS and healer
  • imperative dogs don’t get into Braxx’s periodic red circle (it buffs them)
  • kill dogs first, then Braxx
• Boarding party
  • kill order: scoundrel/operative, sentinel/marauder, sage/sorcerer, commando/mercenary
  • Sentinel/Marauder can’t be tanked, will constantly switch between party members
• Gil (bonus boss)
  • periodic circle around him, make sure to stay out of it
  • knockback, so stay away from the opening into space!
• Mavrik Varad (guy with the turrets)
  • follow him into three corners of the room
  • in each corner, destroy the turrets that come up (tank will need to hold aggro on them)
  • stay out of the red circles

7. Outro

Thanks to Redna (@RystoJ) and Hyp (@Hypknotoad) for joining us this week.

Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio Paragon.

It seems every time I look for one of these online I end up with a dead link or a random reference that doesn’t help. So here they are.

Note that they use the same general name for both PvE and PvP gear; for instance, the Vindicator gear name is used for Sith Warriors and Jedi Knights for both PvP and for PvE sets. But the sets do not mix and match; 3 pieces of PvE Vindicator and 1 of PvP Vindicator will not give the 4-piece bonus from either set.

The name (example: Vindicator) will appear in the name of every item of the set. This includes items (like belts) which don’t count towards the set bonus; they share the name because they generally are itemized for the same use. Only head, chest, leg, feet, and hand pieces will count towards 2- and 4-piece bonuses.

The 2-piece and 4-piece information below is from information found in-game, and is copyright BioWare.

Sith Warrior (Marauder and Juggernaut) and Jedi Knight (Sentinel and Guardian)

Sith Inquisitor (Assassin and Sorcerer) and Jedi Consular (Shadow and Sage)

Bounty Hunter (Mercenary and Powertech) and Trooper (Commando and Vanguard)

Imperial Agent (Operative and Sniper) and Smuggler (Scoundrel and Gunslinger)

1. Introduction

Hyp’s Marauder certainly hasn’t been getting much beauty sleep.

Speaking of beauty, Hyp’s Scoundrel, Pearlneck, has a new look.

2. Trivia Question

This week’s question is all about New Hollywood. New Hollywood is a period of moviemaking from the mid-60s to the very early 80s. It is usually marked as beginning with “Bonnie and Clyde”, a surprising hit of a movie where the main characters die, and ends with the overpriced flops “Heaven’s Gate” and “One from the Heart”.

New Hollywood was marked by a period of time where filmmakers were still part of the studio process, but allowed greater freedom. So they were a mix of the two things we have today—generally big-budget movies with tight studio control and smaller indie films with low budgets but tons of creative freedom. The occasional big-budget movie with filmmaker control, like Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” movies, can be seen as a product of this time.

New Hollywood proved that movies could be big successes without being cookie-cutter films, like the musicals, war movies, and horse operas of the 50s and early 60s. They also legitimized the sequel with the critical and successful “Godfather Part II,” brought us the summer blockbuster with “Jaws,” and showed that fantasy and sci-fi could have wide audience appeal with “Star Wars.”

Of course, their successes sowed the seeds of the movement’s failure; more money was thrown their way, which both increased the risk if a movie was a flop, and caused the studios to demand more control over their big bets.

But what made New Hollywood really successful was that this was the first generation of moviemakers who had grown up watching movies. They loved movies and they knew movies. They put references to great earlier movies in their movies, both as a nod to films they loved and also quite frankly to uplift their own films.

Now, we’ve used the Trivia Question to explore Lucas’s influences before. So let’s set aside the movies of Kurosawa. But let’s find as many other examples as we can of famous movie scenes being referenced, either in dialogue, shot selection etc. in the six “Star Wars” movies.

I’ll get you started. (This example won’t count.) The famous Greedo cantina scene is a reference to the wonderful western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, where Tuco is caught by an armed man who has been hunting him. He is in the bath, apparently unarmed, and his hunter waves his pistol in his face and gloats over how happy he is to have caught him. But then Tuco, or Han, fires a hidden pistol and kills his opponent. While Han’s scene has become known as “Han Shot First”, Tuco’s line at the end of his scene is appropriate to both: “When you have to shoot, shoot! Don’t talk”.

Please send your answer to ootinicast@gmail.com. Whoever gets the most references to earlier movies by next Wednesday will be put in a drawing to win a Taun Fawn code courtesy of BioWare and one of the latest full-size Cartel Packs (or if you’re on The Harbinger, a very special mount!).

3. Holofeed

• Bolster in warzones still has issues, with another known bug that allows players to increase their stats by 15% above what it should be. They are hoping to get it fixed for the next patch.
• Game Update 2.1: Customization was announced, and some of its features have been unveiled. You can read our overview, and an extended feature on Dye Modules which includes answers from Cory Butler.
• There is a known problem with purchasing Cartel Coins digitally from BestBuy.

4. Community

We recommend hawtpantsrepublic.com, which includes a most excellent guide for Sentinels updated for Game Update 2.0. You can follow the site’s author via @HawtRepublic on Twitter.

Our guildmate Krad highly recommends Geldarion’s various posts about Gunslingers. Probably best to start with his Gunslinger/Sniper Advanced Class Guide.

Kuze is working on his instructional video on platforming, you can find his existing guides in Kuze’s Korner.

For those interested in joining Ootini Fight Club for some endgame PvP, please contact Chong by email (empiredivider@gmail.com).

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @madmar_sith (be sure to follow him back to join the #swtorfamily!), @heymason12, @Rrubb, @HamSammich509, @TheTurg (Terg), @roguish98 (Matt Roberts), @EmpireDivider (Moff Chong), @YojeVawree, @weihanthekidsun (Weihan Sun), @MrSteveVoss, @KairiahMedens (David), @ChazLobo, @terencemyers, @JediKrackr, @Lawilc01 (Laurie M), @rocketman003 (Ki’el), @ForceChuckle, @Watchman_Marek, @voyak, @tshapedvisor, @Geldarion (co-host of Corellian Run Radio), @rclemons1977 (Brian Clemons), and emails from Jacob Hausman, @1BigBore (Bill), Graham S and Neiro.

The Pearlneck lookalike spotted by Terg:

And the one I spotted:

Graham S recommends the Mad Katz S.T.R.I.K.E. 7:

6. Sarlacc Digest

We cover two of the level 55 hard mode Flashpoints, Athiss and Cademimu, leaving Mandalorian Raiders and Hammer Station for next week.

Athiss (Dulfy’s guide)

• you can slice the elevator at the beginning to avoid fall damage
• grab the explosives from the room to the left of where you come in if no one in the group has Archaeology
• Professor Ley’arsha (woman with adds)
  • tank face away from group
  • tank moves away with purple circle to drop corruption away from melee
  • DPS kill adds (normals) when they periodically turn up
• The Beast of Vodal Kressh (big dog)
  • adds appear at 75%/50%/25% of boss health; tank needs to pick them up
  • huge knockback/stun, so tank with back to wall
  • DPS needs to kill the adds ASAP
  • can avoid extra adds by fighting boss near pond on the way to the boss
• Ancient Abomination (bonus boss)
  • tank in alcove behind boss
  • DPS and healer sit on boss’s behind, AoE heal periodic damage from knockback
  • interruptible ability after each knockback
• Prophet of Vodal (guy with the fires)
  • move out of small purple circles (note that they stick around for some time)
  • healer needs to cleanse the corruption DoT as soon as possible (hits really hard)
  • when boss stealths, a random party member will get a flaming effect on them, and four fire adds will spawn and chase that player; they need to kite the flames until they disappear
• click on the altar to complete the Flashpoint

Cademimu (Dulfy’s guide)

• crew skill shortcuts: gate (Scavenging) and shuttle (Slicing)
• Officer Xander (guy with the EN-4C droid)
  • when activated, droid will slowly move towards randomly selected player; will switch players over time
  • need to kite droid into trap (circle on ground), without any player themselves getting trapped
  • when the droid is trapped, kill it (droid won’t take damage otherwise)
  • player targeted with large blue circle needs to move away from the group until it explodes (to avoid damaging anyone else)
• Captain Grimyk (Wookie captain)
  • tank faces him away from group because of his flamethrower
  • adds (Ugnaughts) must be brought into the flamethrower before they can be damaged
• Sith Separatist (bonus boss)
  • periodically pulls everyone in and does massive AoE; need to run out as soon as it happens
  • random player will take big hit (healers needs to keep everyone’s health topped off)
  • healer and ranged can usually find something to stand behind so they don’t get pulled in while still maintaining line of site
• General Ortol (rocket guy with the shackles)
  • initially two and then three quarters of the room will be uninhabitable as the rocket engines above fire; group needs to move to the safe area
  • each time it changes, the soon-to-be-dangerous quarters fill with steam
  • a random player will be periodically shackled, along with anyone close to them; someone else needs to run through them to break the shackle
  • boss does a knockback, so tank/fight in a corner of the safe quarter of the room
  • 2.0.1 bug: additional players shackled by being too close to the shackle’s targeted player cannot be freed; so melee and tank need to stay a bit spread out (can still be in melee range)

7. Outro

Thanks to Redna (@RystoJ) and Hyp (@Hypknotoad) for joining us this week.

Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio Paragon.

Dye Modules can be inserted into items with a Dye Module slot using the item’s modification window, the same way as mods and augments are added now.

Will all adaptive armor, wearable from level 1, have Dye Module slots?

Cory: All Cartel Market outfits (with the exception of Lore gear) will be dyeable, regardless of item level.

Dye Modules are consumable, in that they can be used once. Removing a Dye Module from an item, or replacing it, will destroy the original Module.

Some Dye Modules will be sold on the Cartel Market, both directly and in future packs.

Others will be craftable, with some Reputation Vendors selling Dye Module schematics. Yet more Dye Modules will be available on the CE (Collector’s Edition) vendor and the security key vendor.

Which crew skill(s) can make the Modules?

Cory: Artifice is the only skill that will produce Dye Modules.

While it was initially indicated that Dye Modules could be reverse engineered, Cory confirmed that this will not be the case.

Cory: There is no overlap between the sources. Each source (Cartel Market, Crafting, and Vendors) has its own selection of color schemes available.

Items that have a Dye Module slot have a primary color and a secondary color. The example given was the Havoc Squad armor, such as that worn by Aric Jorgan:

The default primary color is white, and the secondary color is orange. These can be changed using the Dye Modules, which come in three categories:

• primary color only
• secondary color only
• primary and secondary colors

Continuing the Havoc Squad armor example, a Dye Module for primary black would leave the orange markings, whereas a Dye Module for secondary red would leave the armor as white, but change its markings to red. But a Dye Module that defines green as primary and black as secondary would completely change its appearance to green with black markings.

Will it be possible to combine a primary Dye Module and a secondary Dye Module into a single primary/secondary Dye Module?

Cory: You cannot combine a primary and a secondary Dye Module to create a Primary/Secondary Dye Module.

Thus the only primary/secondary color combinations available will be those provided.

You can preview how a given Dye Module will look, presumably on the items you are wearing. This is especially important as how the Dye Module affects an item may vary (e.g., different shades of blue). The preview feature allows you to check that it will look the way you want before applying it (or even purchasing it).

You can use the existing unify color to chest system to make all your gear share a single Dye Module’s effect, by adding a Dye Module to your chestpiece, and then unifying the rest of your gear. You can then add Dye Modules to the rest of your items as you desire, if you want a different color for them on an item-by-item basis.

While there will be a large number of Dye Modules available in Game Update 2.1, BioWare encourages the community to suggest new colors so that they can added in the future.

UPDATE: In a Q&A between Dulfy and BioWare, it was clarified that the undyeable lore outfits include Bastila Shan, The Last Handmaiden, Carth Onasi, Darth Malak, Jolee Bindo, Triumvirate Armor, the Revan armor set and the Mask of Nihilus. The initial number of dye modules and their sources was also revealed:

There will be 48 different Dye Modules at release. 25 will be available through the Cartel Market, 3 will be available from the Security Key and Collector’s Edition vendors, and 20 more will be available through the crafting system (schematics for some of which will be found on Reputation vendors).

Cory Butler features in the latest Old Republic Insider for April 2013, which touches on some of what’s coming in Game Update 2.1.

Collections

The Collections window will show you all of the items available in the game that are considered collectible. This includes armor sets, weapons, pets, speeders and toys from the Cartel Market, including the random items that are obtained through the packs.

Once you have bound such an item to one of your characters, that item is considered to be in your collection. Your collection is account-wide, not limited to a character or legacy.

You can then pay a one-time fee (in Cartel Coins) for an item to unlock it, which means that you can freely create new copies of that item on any character on your account.

For example, if you obtained the Mask of Nihilus, you could pay the Cartel Coin fee to unlock it, and then create copies on all your characters regardless of server. You could even provide them to all your characters’ companions!

Probably more useful is that you could unlock a favourite speeder, and then never have to buy a speeder again for any alt you create… ever.

Once an item is in your collection, it stays there; you can destroy all copies of the item, and as long as you have unlocked it, you can always create more.

A given copy is (of course!) bound to the character that uses the Collection interface to create that copy.

The Pink Lightsabers blog did a Q&A with Cory Butler on this feature, in which he revealed the cost of a given item’s Collection unlock:

For pack items, the Cartel Coin cost is based on item rarity, and ranges from 60 to 600 CC. For direct-sale items, the unlock fee is a fraction of the item’s base price.

Player Convenience Services

Escrow Deductions

Non-subscribers have a credit cap (200,000 credits for Free and 350,000 credits for Preferred). When this cap is reached, any additional credits are stored in an escrow account. Prior to Game Update 2.1, the credits in the escrow account could only be accessed if the player subscribed.

In Game Update 2.1, new Escrow Deduction items can be purchased from the Cartel Market, that allow a fixed amount of credits to be made available to the player from their escrow account. There are three types available:

• 50,000 credit transfer for 40 Cartel Coins
• 150,000 credit transfer for 80 Cartel Coins
• 600,000 credit transfer for 240 Cartel Coins

The applicable credit cap does not affect credits transferred using these items. The items can be resold on the GTN.

Character, legacy and guild renaming

Items will be sold on the Cartel Market which allow a character, a player’s legacy or a guild to be renamed. There is a 30 day cooldown applied to a given change in name.

• Character Rename for 1000 Cartel Coins
• Legacy Rename for 1000 Cartel Coins
• Guild Rename for 3000 Cartel Coins

These items can be sold on the GTN.

There will be a single (one per account), one-off complimentary Character Rename item provided to subscribers at or soon after the launch of Game Update 2.1.

Appearance Vendor Kiosk

The Appearance Vendor Kiosk can be used to alter a character’s body type, hair style, eye colour, scars, tattoos—effectively everything that is available in the character creator. A character’s species can also be changed, but not their class (or Advanced Class) or gender.

Courtesy of SWTOR-RP

In addition, the existing options have been expanded (e.g., new hair colours and styles), and new options will be coming in future updates at a regular cadence. Their intention is that players can customize their characters to achieve their personal Star Wars fantasy.

Cory emphasised the role-playing potential of the Kiosk. His young, clean-cut Padawan would eventually grow into a war-grizzled veteran, adding a scar after a big battle, and slowly greying his hair as he ages.

The Kiosks are located in convenient locations on the Fleet and each faction’s capital world. More Kiosks may be added in the future.

All changes made using the Kiosk are paid for with Cartel Coins; there is no option to pay with credits. However, subscribers will enjoy a substantial discount of up to 50% off the cost of Kiosk changes. When activated, the Kiosk offers a full portrait view, equivalent to the character creator. The changes made are charged on a “per-slider” basis, so a single change (e.g., a character’s skin color) would be cheaper than changing their hair colour and style.

If you choose to change a character’s species, there will be a single cost that includes all customization options.

Update: SWTOR-RP has had some questions answered by BioWare, including the revelation that character name changes are also coming in Game Update 2.1, and will be found in Cartel Market’s unlock section.

New species: Cathar

The Cathar are a new species that can be unlocked for Cartel Coins via the Cartel Market or directly in the Appearance Vendor Kiosk. Based on this post, the cost of the Cathar would appear to be 600 Cartel Coins. This is an account-wide unlock, rather than being legacy-specific like the existing racial unlocks.

The Cathar will then be available to male and female characters of all eight classes (i.e., both factions). You can create new Cathar characters, or use the Appearance Vendor Kiosk to change the species of an existing character to Cathar.

Damion Schubert told us that the Cathar you encounter on Makeb were designed using the updated, far more detailed appearance options that have been provided. This includes new fur patterns and hairstyles. Aric Jorgan, a Cathar who features prominently in the Trooper’s class story, has also had his appearance updated.

There is also a social emote, referred to as “Cathar pride”. We would guess this involves your Cathar roaring like a lion.

BioWare have released the Cathar Preview Video, viewable below.

Dye Modules

Cory Butler was kind enough to answer some of our questions about Dye Modules, which you can read about here.

1. Introduction

Hyp is quite taken with our guildmate Ry’s space cowboy hat:

Teo was a guest on The Oceanic Gamer‘s Flash Point podcast (episode 55). Thanks to David and Simon for the opportunity!

2. Trivia Question

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Joey Weaver!

3. The Holofeed

• Game Update 2.0.1 was deployed during maintenance on Wednesday morning. It had been delayed due to a bug that had to be addressed before it could go live.
• The second pack on Shipment 2, the Vice Commandant’s Contraband Pack, is now available.
• BioWare clarified that Covered Escape does not release a Sniper from roots/snares, as these are not considered “movement-impairing effects”.
• While there are a few updates to crew skills in 2.0.1, Amber Green summarises the remaining known issues.
• The level 55 hard mode version of Cademimu now has a bug in its last encounter: the shackles (new to hard mode).
• In response to concerns that some warzones seem to be turning up more often than others, BioWare investigated and confirmed that what’s popping is truly random, as intended.
• An undocumented feature, that it turns out wasn’t ready to be revealed, was discovered in 2.0.1: when you whisper an offline character, the player will still receive the whisper if they’re logged in on another character of the same faction.
• More concerns were addressed for those having problems with the one-time password system, including a late-breaking hot fix for a delay in delivering the mail containing the one-time password.
• Dulfy has an excellent guide on obtaining the GSI speeders, though BioWare advises that some components for those speeders are apparently not yet available.
• Austin Peckenpaugh, Senior Designer, has done a series of blog posts about the class changes in 2.0:
  • Jedi Knight, Sith Warrior
  • Jedi Consular, Sith Inquisitor
  • Trooper and Bounty Hunter
  • Smuggler and Imperial Agent

4. Community

Thanks to Mark Emery for his most generous donation!

William Keele (@DarthKenji) has his latest Lesson from the Holocron for your edification, all about Jawas: “Freaky Little Hooded Creatures”.

For those interested in joining Ootini Fight Club for some endgame PvP, please contact Chong by email (empiredivider@gmail.com).

From Kuze’s Korner, we have Datacron video guides for the four starter planets:

• Tython
• Ord Mantell
• Korriban
• Hutta

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @madmar_sith (be sure to follow him back to join the #swtorfamily!), @voyak, @rbleamon (Ray Leamon), @StoleTarts (Megan), @ForceChuckle, @GregCarter78, @O_JohnnyBravo_O (JB), @EmpireDivider (Chong), @HamSammich509, @dingwog, @JediKrackr, @TheTurg, @BenAKenobi, @Eskatun, @rocketman003 and an email from Masterjedi (@masterbearjedi).

6. Sarlacc Digest

Our topic of discussion was gaming peripherals, based on tweets from @Jayconnell, @YojeVawree and @rclemons1977 (Brian Clemons) and emails from Rendrin, Quaza Impsbane, Marshall Carr and Azazeal.

The devices that we discussed are from both Razer and Logitech:

Razer Naga

Logitech G600

Razer Nostromo

Logitech G13

7. Outro

Thanks to Redna (@RystoJ) and Hyp (@Hypknotoad) for joining us this week.

Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio Paragon.

The starting location (marker is orange)) is on the world map. The datacron itself is located in the The Ruined Atrium of the Tomb of Tulak Hord (marker is green).

+2 Willpower Datacron

The starting location (marker is orange) and the datacron itself (marker is green) are located in the Lower Wilds. Both locations can be seen on the Korriban world map.

+2 Endurance Datacron

The datacron is located near the Departure Shuttle (marker is green).

The starting location (marker is orange) and the datacron itself (marker is green) are located in The Bog. Both locations can be seen on the Hutta world map.

Blue Matrix Shard

The starting location (marker is orange) in on the world map. The datacron itself is located in the Sewer Maintenance Tunnels (marker is green).

+2 Presence Datacron

The starting location (marker is orange) and the datacron itself (marker is green) are located in The Rustyards.

The starting location (marker is orange) is on the world map. The datacron itself is located in Mannett Point (marker is green).

+2 Aim Datacron

The starting location (marker is orange) and the datacron itself (marker is green) are located on Savrip Island. Both can be seen on the world map.

+2 Presence Datacron

The starting location (marker is orange) and the datacron itself (marker is green) are located west of Mount Avilatan.

The starting location (marker is orange) and the datacron itself (marker is green) are located in the Tythos River Valley.

+2 Willpower Datacron

The starting location (marker is orange) and the datacron itself (marker is green) are located in Upper Kaleth.

Blue Matrix Shard

The starting location (marker is orange) and the datacron itself (marker is green) are located in The Forge.

Sand stays. All else changes.

-Iziz, from Knights of the Old Republic

In every Star Wars parody that I have ever seen, one species that always gets included is the Jawa. In Spaceballs they were called Dinks, most likely in reference to the cadence with which they sang as they marched across the dunes. Thumb Wars referred to them as “The Freaky Little Hooded Creatures”; an accurate if not flattering title for the little sentient beings. As we all know, our very own Chill and Teo decided to name their Old Republic podcast after a common Jawa cry. At first glance, Jawas might seem as though some Black Mages had stumbled into Star Wars from Final Fantasy, but like so many other parts of the Star Wars universe, once you dig into the lore surrounding them, a very interesting story emerges.

Even though some models of protocol droids cannot abide these disgusting creatures, Jawas have, in my personal opinion, always seemed rather cute. The average height of an adult is one meter, with an average mass of around 30 kilograms. The most distinguishing characteristics are their brown hooded robes and glowing yellow eyes. In similarity with their cousins the Sand People (more on this later), Jawas do not take off their robes—at least not in public. Through the study of corpses and skeletal remains, xenobiologists have discovered that under those robes Jawas are gaunt, rodent-like creatures with sunken faces. Jawas are known to dip their robes into a special solution that helps them retain moisture in their native environment. This solution is foul smelling to most other species. The staple of their diet is a round and yellowish, tough-skinned melon called the hubba gourd. Tasting sour to most other species, Jawas find them delicious when roasted. They also hunt carnivorous beasts on Tatooine called Squills for their tough pungent meat. The Jawa homeworld was Tatooine, but Jawas—like many other species in the cosmopolitan Star Wars Universe—can be found on many planets including the junk planet, Raxus Prime, which is about as close to Jawa paradise as I can imagine. Jawa life expectancy is around 80 standard years.

Among themselves Jawas speak Jawaese. This language is not only made up of sounds the Jawas make, but also scent-producing pheromones. If the Jawa speaking gave off a bitter smell, then that in combination with the words he said might have a different meaning than if he gave off a sweet smelling scent. Jawas learned early on when meeting other species (mostly to trade for their truly interesting goods) that this way of communicating was ineffective when conversing with non-Jawas. The ever enterprising Jawas developed the Jawa Trade Language, which is comprised of only the spoken component of Jawaese. Jawas cannot speak Basic because of limitations in their vocal chords, a limitation shared with Wookies.

Jawas are a communal, compulsive scavenger species whose unofficial motto is “not to look for uses in a salvaged item, but rather to imagine someone else who might find a use for it.” Jawas have an uncanny ability to get an item working just well enough to sell, a trait that has got them the stigma of being scavengers and thieves. Jawas actually enjoyed being referred to as such.

They live in clan families, each with their own territory for scavenging and living. In the Knights of the Old Republic, we learned the story of how the Jawas got the Sandcrawler machines they became known for. For anyone who has not played that game, Czerka Corporation brought the Sandcrawlers to Tatooine when attempting to mine the planet, but after finding the ore was sub-par, they abandoned their Sandcrawlers to the planet, rationalizing that it would cost more to take them off world than to just leave them rusting out in the Dune Sea. The always opportunistic Jawas scavenged the Sandcrawlers and made them theirs. Each Sandcrawler was led by a Clan-Chief, who was always male. The overall operation of the clan was overseen by a female Shaman. One of three criteria must be met to become a Shaman: possessing some Force ability (able to perform magic), overcoming an illness accompanied by a hallucinatory vision, or being trained by the current Shaman to take her place. Shaman were believed to be able to tell the future, and to perform spells, hexes and blessings to protect the clan. The Shaman was one of the most protected Jawa in the clan and as such was protected in the clan’s fortress and so did not travel in the clan’s Sandcrawler. Once a year before the storm season of Tatooine, all the clans gather together in an annual swap meet. Here all the Jawa clans gather and mingle, trading with each other and attending to any inter-clan business. Navigation data on the ever shifting sands of the desert was also exchanged, along with arrangement of marriages to ensure the continued genetic diversity of the species.

I feel that I would be doing my readers a great injustice if I did not mention the most popular Jawa in Star Wars: The Old Republic: the ranged tank companion for the Bounty Hunter, Blizz. If you have not yet played the Bounty Hunter story and do not want this companion’s background to be spoiled, please skip this paragraph. Blizz was hired by a scavenger crew lead by a man named Slam when the crew was on Tatooine. The young Jawa eagerly joined them as a “ferret,” getting into places where Slam and his crew could not, and was allowed to keep a share of what he found. After being with Slam’s crew for a few years, they went to work for the White Maw pirates on Hoth. The young Jawa was ecstatic about the planet’s “white sand,” and kicked snow up all around him while playing in the snow. Slam saw the miniature blizzard the little guy had made and jokingly called him Blizz, or little blizzard. Blizz liked the nickname and used it from then on.

Lastly, I want to discuss the origins of the Jawa. In my research I have found three theories as to their evolution. The first is that they (like the Sand People) are descendants of humans. The second theory is related to their rodent-like appearance, and says that they evolved from womp rats. This idea I got from The Official Guide to Alien Species, and while it is the most outlandish to me personally it is a theory from an official source. This same book states that they and the Sand People have certain genetic markers that link them to an earlier sentient species on Tatooine, the Kumumgah, which leads to the third theory that is tied into the mythological history of Tatooine itself.

During the time of the Rakata Infinite Empire, a species called the Kumumgah lived on their lush homeworld. They defied the Rakata’s authority over them. The Rakata decided to make an example of them, and so blasted their homeworld from its orbit. The Kumumgah’s native planet was transformed into a glass-covered world. Over the millennia, the glass crystals eroded down into the sands that covers all of Tatooine today. The surviving Kumumgah were decimated and scattered. Ultimately the species split into two groups. One group struck out into the wilderness, eschewing all technology, analogous to space age Amish. This group became the ancestors of the Sand People. The other group retreated into the ruins of the original Kumumgah’s ruined cites. There they scavenged as much as they could to survive, establishing a culture that would eventually develop into one of dinky little freaky hooded creatures.

As always, you can follow me on Twitter using @DarthKenji. Until next time, may the Force be with you all.

1. Introduction

Hyp managed to get the following companion-related achievement while in a warzone. So to maximise your achievement accumulation, ensure you have a companion out before you enter!

He was quite taken with the appearance of the following characters, particularly their helms:

Teo’s male lowbie Sorcerer and Hyp’s female Sniper (Cyborgyna) in Ancient Hypergate, in the state of undress that became advisable with the (now fixed) naked bug.

Hyp’s Scoundrel, Pearlneck, looking… larger than life.

A little scenery from Makeb:

Hyp would love to get his hands on this pet, a miniature Star Destroyer:

Finally, some pictures of everyone’s favourite, Baldygina.

2. Trivia Question

This week’s questions is a “Who am I?” I have been credited on all six episodes of the Star Wars movies. I am also credited on all four Indiana Jones movies, even the one that shall not be named. I am credited on a Pixar movie. And I am credited on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2. Though I am not credited in SWTOR, my influence is clear as a bell.  Who am I?

Please send your answer to ootinicast@gmail.com. Correct answers by next Wednesday will be put in a drawing to win a Taun Fawn code courtesy of BioWare and one of the latest full-size Cartel Packs.

3. The Holofeed

• The Rise of the Hutt Cartel digital expansion launched for all players on Saturday evening, accompanied by a launch trailer (also on YouTube).
• Patch 2.0.0b was deployed during regular maintenance on Tuesday, to fix the issues with reverse engineering color crystals and the naked bug in PvP.
• While the investigation into the apparently lower TTK (time to kill) is ongoing, it was pointed out that the Expertise cap on healing is now 20% (up from 15% pre-2.0), making it equivalent to how it was before 2.0, as the Trauma healing effect is now 35% (up from 30%).
• As part of the fix for the naked bug, Expertise was removed from Warhero and Elite Warhero PvP gear, along with its other stats being boosted, making it equivalent to PvE gear of the same item rating. There remains a bug such that the new PvE gear sets, when bolstered, will give better stats than the equivalent level 55 PvP gear; this will be fixed in patch 2.0.1, coming this Tuesday.
• The caps on Classic, Basic and Planetary Commendations are being revised upwards in patch 2.0.1.
• A performance issue is the reason our mission logs can hold a maximum of 25 missions.
• The current issues with one time passwords are being addressed. This includes a change that has been deployed that extends their lifetime so they are less likely to be expired if the mail in which they are sent is delayed.
• How crew skill missions work was clarified, and some issues were listed. Note that these new rules (e.g., only Bountiful and Rich missions will return an Artifact (Purple) quality mat on crit) only apply for the new 401-450 range.
• A couple of world designers describe the new Macrobinocular and Seeker Droid systems. They also provide some handy hints for how to most effectively use the Seeker Droids.

4. Community

If you have a Sith Assassin (or a Jedi Shadow), we recommend Mad Sith Assassin.

You can find Lance Cadiz regularly live-streaming his adventures at jediconsular.tv.

Megan (@StoleTarts) has written a review of the Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion.

If you are interested in some serious roleplaying, we recommend you join Clan Epsis, on the Jung Ma server (US east coast RP/PvP).

Finally, in Kuze’s Korner, Datacron videos for all the starting planets will soon be available.

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @madmar_sith (be sure to follow him back to join the #swtorfamily!), @GregCarter78 (Greg Carter), @woutergrys, @Geldarion (co-host of Corellian Run Radio), @AspisVodox, @joseph_foran, @TheTurg (Terg), @JediKrackr, @terencemyers, @masterbearjedi (Raz), @ForceChuckle, @roguish98 (Matt Roberts), @rbleamon (Ray Leamon), @EmpireDivider (Chong), @Dimbo56 (SWTOR Mayor), @hadrian9 (Mikhael Lombard), and emails from Quaza Impsbane, Rose and Baffle.

Greg Carter suggests the following rules for the OotiniCast Drinking Game. Please feel free to send us your additions. While listening to the show, anytime one of the following happens, take a drink!

• Hyp requests BioWare give him/everyone Cartel Coin compensation
• Red has some sort of in-game bug
• Hyp requests day/night cycles or starship/fighter inertia
• Teo responds to one of Hyp’s suggestions with “Yeah… not gonna happen” (or just “Yeah” and moves on)
• Hyp refers to Makeb as some kind of scab
• Anyone says “Super Secret Space Project”
• Chill skips the Sarlacc Digest
• Red complains about the Inquisitor storyline
• Teo makes a correct prediction for a patch date

Ray Leamon refers us to Dulfy’s SWTOR Dreadseed and Star Forager armor locations guide, to help you obtain these sets using your Seeker Droid.

@JediKrack’s visual guide to the Priority Transport Terminal outside each class’s hangar on the Fleet:

Chong is quite taken with the helmet which appears to be just a toothpick!

As discussed in the show, you can now find Hyp’s Marauder, Baldygina, on Twitter.

6. Sarlacc Digest

Using Dulfy’s most excellent SWTOR Level 55 endgame gearing guide, we discuss the initial stages of gearing for characters that have got to level 55.

7. Outro

Thanks to Redna (@RystoJ) and Hyp (@Hypknotoad) for joining us this week.

Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio Paragon.

1. Introduction

2. Trivia Question

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Greg Carter!

3. The Holofeed

• Game Update 2.0 was deployed late on Monday night, with the intention of being ready to launch at midnight PDT, though was available for play a couple of hours early.
• The 50% reduction to repair costs that we’d been enjoying in the leadup to the expansion have now ended.
• All members of a guild receive a 5% bonus to XP gain. This is apparently the first of several planned guild rewards.
• Those without early access can now earn XP to just short of level 51.
• Increasing crew skills beyond 400 before the expansion launches for everyone requires early access. You’ll need to purchase the advanced crew skill upgrade from each crew skill trainer before you can progress beyond 400.
• There is a known issue with reverse engineering +41 colour crystals; for now, BioWare advises to not attempt reverse engineering them until it is fixed.
• You may receive warnings that you are close to a commendation cap, when you actually aren’t; this is also a known issue, and is planned to be fixed in Patch 2.0.1.
• As of Game Update 2.0, the set bonus is always attached to the armoring mod. This includes Tionese, Columi and Rakata items where the set bonus was previously on the item’s shell.
• Alex Modny (Assistant Designer) explained in PvP in Game Update 2.0: Scum and Villainy how the bolstering system was being upgraded and the reasoning behind the new PvP brackets (10-29, 30-54, 55 and 55 Ranked).
• As most of found out by now, bolster isn’t working quite as intended now that 2.0 has been deployed. Eric Musco, in conjunction with Rob Hinkle and Alex Modny, explains what’s going on with the “naked bug”.
• BioWare have published two SIS Intel reports, giving an overview of key locations and persons of interest on Makeb.
• Some tips for Game Update 2.0 (thanks to Hru for compiling them):
  • To travel between daily areas (and the Makeb Orbital Station), there are now Priority Mission Terminals (located near the shuttles); these replace the option given on the shuttle doors.
  • There are trainers for the crafting crew skills in the Makeb Orbital Station; the other trainers are in each faction’s starting area.
  • The Makeb Commendation Vendor (located in the Supplies area of the Fleet) sells rating 140 mods for Planetary Commendations.

4. Community

While adventuring on Makeb, you may as well pick up the two datacrons there; you’ll find all the information you need in Kuze’s Korner.

We have two contributions in Raise Your Glass this week:

• Ham Sammich: This week for me was non-stop PvP. Sometimes I felt like I would puke if I got another Huttball match, but I kept pressing to get to level 50 on my Mercenary before the expansion. By the time it was done, I leveled from 35 to 50, maxing out my Valor all along the way. Also big thanks to Chong, Teo, Hyp and a few others for the group PvP; you all made it a little more enjoyable.
• Kile Lewis: I spent most of my time this past week leveling my Sith Juggernaut, Ty’Ranos, and deciding how I wanted him to look using adaptive/custom heavy armor. When I wasn’t leveling that character I was on my main, Skil’Veros, farming credits to fund my alts.

  As I go about leveling or farming I try to level my crew skills just for the sake of being a completionist. I still have a lot to learn about the game since I’m still new to SWTOR. I’ve only been playing for about 3 weeks.

For those interested in joining Ootini Fight Club for some endgame PvP, please contact Chong by email (empiredivider@gmail.com).

5. Force Feedback

We discuss tweets from @madmar_sith (be sure to follow him back to join the #swtorfamily!), @ForceChuckle, @voyak, @masterbearjedi (Raz), @GregCarter78, @lightsideoflif1, @HamSammich509, @YojeVawree, @therealHausman (Jacob Hausman), @TheTurg (Terg), @ruleoftwocast (Kenzan of the Rule of Two podcast), @EmpireDivider (Chong), @AspisVodox, @weihanthekidsun, @ChazDM (Chaz Davis), @Geldarion (co-host of Corellian Run Radio), @terencemyers, and emails from Rose and Arammus.

6. Outro

Thanks to Redna (@RystoJ) and Hyp (@Hypknotoad) for joining us this week.

Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.

You can email questions and comments about the show to ootinicast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter via @OotiniCast. Check out our website, ootinicast.com, which has links to our presence on Google+ and Facebook. We are a proud member of the TOR Syndicate! You can subscribe to us on iTunes and Zune, and listen to us on Stitcher and Radio Paragon.

The starting location (marker is orange) is on Frinn Mesa. The datacron itself takes you to the Cartel Mining Mesa (marker is green). Both locations can be seen on the Makeb world map.

Makeb’s +10 to Presence Datacron

Both the starting location (marker is orange) and the datacron (marker is green) are on Perekta Mesa, in the south-west part of Makeb.