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Epic Story Boost Information

Azaron_NightbladeAzaron_Nightblade Member EpicPosts: 4,829
in Star Wars: The Old Republic

More info has been posted about the 12x boost that's starting today for subs. (Including some clarifications regarding gear, since people keep thinking they'll need a high level character to fund it all like last time. Or that they'll be forced to level with the 12x bonus, while in fact it can be disabled. :) )

http://www.swtor.com/blog/epic-story-xp-boost

 

Hello everyone, let’s talk about the Epic Story XP Boost and how it’s an improvement over our 12x boost that we gave prior to Shadow of Revan.

Our Epic Story XP Boost allows all subscribers to level from 1-50 by playing only their Class Missions and from 50-55 on Makeb by playing only the Rise of the Hutt Cartel main storyline. This Boost does not affect Shadow of Revan as it was already designed to be a more streamlined leveling experience. If you have never played the original 8 Class stories, there has never been a better time to dive in!

With the Epic Story XP Boost we have made some exciting improvements over our initial 12x offering from last fall.  These improvements include travel, itemization, and quality of life changes.  Here are the details on some of those changes:

  • All Class Missions now reward a lot more Basic Commendations than before, allowing you to stay geared as you level. Also, Modifications for your gear have had their Commendation costs reduced.
  • All Taxi Destinations are unlocked for all players. Allowing you to get around on each planet much easier.
  • Quick Travel Bind points are now automatically unlocked whenever you reveal that region. No longer will you miss a Bind point.
  • The cooldown on the Quick Travel ability has been reduced. If you are a subscriber with all 3 Legacy unlocks, you can get the Quick Travel cooldown all the way to 0. We put the “Quick” back into Quick Travel.
  • The cooldown on Emergency Fleet Pass and Transport: Personal Starship have also been reduced. Just like Quick Travel for subscribers, if you have all 3 levels of Legacy unlock you can get those cooldowns all the way down to 0.

As you can see, the Epic Story XP Boost not only brings a huge boost to the experience you gain from Class Missions, it provides big improvements to how you travel around the Galaxy. With great quality of life improvements to both travel and staying geared while leveling, the Epic Story XP Boost is the best time ever to play through all of our great Class stories.

If you are the type of player that wants to play through without an experience boost, to not accelerate your leveling experience through the Epic Story XP Boost, there is an option for that as well. Simply visit your Faction’s respective fleet and purchase the White Acute Module (it costs 0 credits). Upon using this consumable, it will suppress the effects of the Epic Story XP Boost for 8 hours. You can simply right click the White Acute Module “buff” at any time during the 8 hours to turn it off.

The Epic Story XP Boost will be live for all Subscribers as of Monday, May 4th. This boost will remain active for all subs into this Fall.

Eric Musco
Community Manager

My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)

https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/

Comments

  • MMOman101MMOman101 Member UncommonPosts: 1,787
    I think they should make this active all year long.  I have not started up, yet, but I have a 60 card that I will probably use during this window.

    “It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”

    --John Ruskin







  • HarikenHariken Member EpicPosts: 2,680
    People are complaining about the update already on the boards and this xp boost didn't get added yet. The new area is very short on questing and some have already finished it. So what they are saying in post is its very short.
  • grimalgrimal Member UncommonPosts: 2,935
    Originally posted by MMOman101
    I think they should make this active all year long.  I have not started up, yet, but I have a 60 card that I will probably use during this window.

    That's exactly what I did.  Too good to miss.

  • RobsolfRobsolf Member RarePosts: 4,607
    Nice!  Looks like I have my next destination, if/when my newly found ESO addiction wears off.
  • eddieg50eddieg50 Member UncommonPosts: 1,809
    As long as you can turn it off, who wants to out level their character?
  • Azaron_NightbladeAzaron_Nightblade Member EpicPosts: 4,829
    Originally posted by eddieg50
    As long as you can turn it off, who wants to out level their character?

    "If you are the type of player that wants to play through without an experience boost, to not accelerate your leveling experience through the Epic Story XP Boost, there is an option for that as well. Simply visit your Faction’s respective fleet and purchase the White Acute Module (it costs 0 credits). Upon using this consumable, it will suppress the effects of the Epic Story XP Boost for 8 hours. You can simply right click the White Acute Module “buff” at any time during the 8 hours to turn it off."

    There you go.

    My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)

    https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/

  • JonBonJawaJonBonJawa Member UncommonPosts: 489
    what's the point of getting everyone to endgame so quickly in this gane? I don't get it
  • Viper482Viper482 Member LegendaryPosts: 4,101
    Originally posted by JonBonJawa
    what's the point of getting everyone to endgame so quickly in this gane? I don't get it

    No, you don't get it because it was never about getting to the endgame. It is about enjoying the journey to the end game more. The class stories are best thing this game has to offer. Forcing us to grind out levels in between class quests by doing mundane collection and kill quests ruins the experience for many. Now we have a choice to not partake in that crap.

    I do not play this game when the 12x xp is not active, I know I am not alone. Hopefully bioware gets its head out of its arse and keeps this going forever this time.

    Make MMORPG's Great Again!
  • JonBonJawaJonBonJawa Member UncommonPosts: 489
    Originally posted by Viper482
    Originally posted by JonBonJawa
    what's the point of getting everyone to endgame so quickly in this gane? I don't get it

    No, you don't get it because it was never about getting to the endgame. It is about enjoying the journey to the end game more. The class stories are best thing this game has to offer. Forcing us to grind out levels in between class quests by doing mundane collection and kill quests ruins the experience for many. Now we have a choice to not partake in that crap.

    I do not play this game when the 12x xp is not active, I know I am not alone. Hopefully bioware gets its head out of its arse and keeps this going forever this time.

    so how about doing PvP or play space missions in between, it´s not like story is the only thing to do apart from sidequests.

    and even the sidequests have lots of stories including voiceovers.

    now everyone plays just the 8 class stories and races to max lvl, then what?

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