WATCHMEN

Crew Skills

Crafting Skills

• Dread Forged armor now provides materials when Reverse Engineered.*

Items and Economy

General

• A new tier of PvE Gear, the Dread Forged Set, has been added which can be obtained from Hard Mode Oricon Operations.**
• Oriconian gear can now be obtained via the Striketeam Oricon and Dread Executioner Galactic Reputation Vendors.**
• Players can now can use either Shift + Left Click or Shift + Right Click to split a stack of items, which will allow the function to be used while the GTN Window is open.

GTN

• Players can now use Shift + Left Click with the cursor in the search box of the GTN to add the name of the item.
• Added a sortable "Unit Price" column to the GTN Window, which will display the listed item's price-per-unit.
• The GTN now auto completes with the price and duration of a player's last posted auction. In addition, the last price will be remembered on a per-unit basis. i.e. If a player puts 1 med pack up for 10 credits, and their next auction is a stack of 20 med packs (the same type as before) it will auto complete 200 credits (10 credits for 1 x 20 = 200). The remembered price and duration are reset upon area transition or log out.

Legacy

• New Galactic Reputation Organizations! Complete Oricon missions to earn Galactic Reputation with Striketeam Oricon (Republic) / Dread Executionsers (Empire) to purchase special rewards.**

Operations

Dread Fortress

• The Dread Fortress has been disbled for this round of PTS testing*

Dread Palace

• New Operation! The Dread Palace is a new Operation on Oricon which is available at level 55 in both Story and Hard Modes.

Missions and NPCs

Oricon Missions

• Pre-empted Signals (Republic): Players are now able to access the terminal for the "Access the Coded Terminal" mission step without needing to log out and back in.

Oricon NPCs

• The Corrupted Geo Beast now attacks approaching players as intended.*
• The "Punish" and "Rebel" debuffs applied by Commander Jor Nasar and Commander Banok Ral now have desicriptions.*
• Commander Zaoron's "Reaper of Life" ability now has a description.*
• THe "Repulsed" debuff applied by Commander Malora Pradon now has a description*
• The "Charged Charge" buff and "Shifting Polarity" debuff applied by the Dread Guard Defender now have descriptions.*

PvP

Warzones

Arenas

• Players who accept the Arena Warzone queue no longer spawn dead when entering the match and now backfill the team.*
• Players are no longer removed from their group if they are timed out at the end of an Arena match.*
• Republic and Empire players are no longer be assigned to backfill the opposite Faction's Solo Ranked Warzone team.*
• When a new Arena rounds begins, it now resets the cooldown on PvE Medpacks.*
• Class and role tooltips now appear properly when the opposing team first enters the Arena.*
• Class and role tooltips now appear properly when a player of the opposing team is stealthed.*
• Removed the pre-match timer that displayed while waiting for others to join an Arena.*

* These notes apply only to PTS and will not be included in the final Live notes.
** These items were included in a previous PTS update.