Okay, I thought I’d help everyone by telling you all some of what I have learned at the End Game stage of SWTOR. There are a lot of online guides, but most have a lot of assumed knowledge and you need to read
a lot to get a good overall picture.
For those not in the know, End Game is what you experience at level 50. You hit that and you cease gaining experience and stop levelling up. The only way to advance, therefore, is by acquiring awesome gear (also called ‘kewl lewt’ to those who used to play World of WarCraft). Here is a guide on how to do that.
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This map of Vaiken Station will show you three places of importance refferred to in the following guide:
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At Level 50:The moment you hit level 50, travel to the Fleet. Wander over to the
PvP Mission Box (labelled '2' on the map above) and there will be a quest called
New Technology. Get the quest, then you can immediately hand it in. Your reward is a
complete set of armour called
Recruit Armor.
This armour set includes everything, with weapons, full body parts, ear, implants, and even relics. I reached level 50 at the end of the planet Voss, and played through Corellia (completing my storyline) before going to the Fleet to get my Recruit Armor. Even with tons of high level quest reward items,
every piece of Recruit Armor that I received was superior to every item I already had.
So get this cool free set as soon as you can!
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Tier Armour:You will see in General Chat people talking about the best equipment, and you will hear the word ‘tier’ banded about. This will be a term familiar to players of other online games.
Tier Armor is the best in the game, and comes in different levels. The higher the tier number, the more powerful. However, this is more of a book-keeping term, and the armour does not identify itself by Tier (leading to different players assigning them different numbers). Generally just stick to referring to the armour by name!
Updates add new tiers all the time, and they currently are as follows:
Tier One – Tion
Tier Two – Columi
Tier Three – Rakata
Tier Four – Black Hole
Tier Five – Dread Guard
You will find vendors for these in the Fleet, in four groups of five. Each vendor in the group offers a different tier (arranged from Tion on the left to Dread Guard on the right), and the four groups correspond to the four classes (Sith Warrior, Sith Inquisitor, Bounty Hunter and Agent). They are marked '3' on the map above. Here is what the Inquisitor vendors look like, and you can see the name of the Tier armour they sell.
Your goal at End Game is to gradually replace your Recruit Armor with Tier armour, grinding for the new sets piece by piece.
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End Game Flashpoints:Your Recruit Armor is designed for PvP play, but is of such high quality that you can use it for playing Flashpoints too. You can now tackle the earliest of the
Hard Mode Flashpoints.
These are the normal Flashpoints with every enemy beefed up to level 50, so not to be tried lightly! At level 50 these become available with the Group Finder, though I would start with the simplest, the good old
Black Talon.
The HMs (Hard Mode Flashpoints) drop decent loot. From the bosses you can get Tion (Tier 1) armour pieces and
Commendations. Like your normal planet Commendations, save enough of these and you can trade them in to a Tion vendor for yet more Tion armour parts.
The end boss of each HM also drops a single piece of Columi armour (Tier 2) and this is even better than Tion. Hopefully you won’t have to play too many HMs before you get lucky and win the Columi parts you want!
Also be sure to check the Fleet mission board (marked '1' on the map above) for
Daily and
Weekly HM quests! These say something like “complete one HM” or “Complete 3 HMs”, and once done you can turn them in for a load of Tion and Columi Commendations!
Time and patience will earn you Tier 1 and Tier 2 armour by doing the HMs and their associated quests.
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Daily Quests:Aside from the Daily HM mission, there are other Daily quests which reward items simply called
Daily Commendations. These level 50 repeatable quests can mostly be done solo (a few are Group quests) and are found in Belsavis Section X and Corellia Black Hole special zones (they are not on the normal maps for those planets).
Do these Daily quests while you are waiting in Group Finder for an HM!
You can get a few dozen Daily Commendations a day, and need 100 at least for some bits of gear, sometimes even 400! However, grinding these can allow you to buy Rakata gear (Tier 3, currently only ear pieces and implants) and so are well worth your time!
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Beyond HMs and Dailies:Eventually you will have replaced large parts of your Recruit armour with Columi (Tier 2) and a few bits of Rakata (Tier 3) gear. Then you can tackle the big Operations, and from those you can earn Tier 3 and above loot!
Good luck!
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I shall return to and edit this guide as I explore and learn more of End Game. And also update it as Bioware add new tiers/quests/operations and alter the loot rewards from existing quests and Flashpoints.
Anyone wanting to add (or correct!) anything, please post a reply below and I shall update this main guide based on your help!
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