Today was the 3.3 Dev Live stream previewing the soon to be playable Togruta race and upcoming Yavin Stronghold. We were also treated to Toby’s beard, a glorious and majestic beast. If you didn’t get a chance to watch it you can on Torcommunity. There is a summary of notes from Xam Xam and I, but I thought I’d also write down how I felt about everything that happened on the stream. Togruta Confirmed to be one of the most difficult to pronounce, spell, or pluralize races, Togruta has also been one of the most requested to make playable. We only got to see the female Togruta on stream, but Eric assured us they would unveil the male Togruta and other character appearance options as they were finished. I assume they’ll stick to the classic red, yellow, blue, and green coloring with different lekku and montral lengths and designs. WTF is a montral you ask? It’s the upper horns that Togruta have. Now go forth and impress your friends. I’ll probably make one and level it until 30 or so like most of my alts. It’s exciting though, and I’m glad this race is getting put in because it makes a more realistic and full Star Wars universe. Lots of different alien races are important as part of the uniqueness of Star Wars. I’m sure we’ll see a lot of Ahsokas, Ahsôkas, and Ahsökas on fleet. And who knows what Ebon Hawk is going to get up to. Yavin Stronghold Seeing the Togruta was cool, but she really was just the Vana White of the stream. The Yavin Stronghold was the real star, and let me just say...it is awesome. The ambiance, the layout, it’s perfect. When you enter your stronghold it is on a landing pad. A path winds between two trees to the front of the main building. Suddenly memories of the old Jedi Academy books hit me like a bantha and I GOD DAMN NEED THIS STRONGHOLD! You can really tell the Devs learned from previous strongholds and have listened to what players want. There are a lot of hooks and different placement variations including 16 centerpiece hooks and 2 starship hooks. The main temple has very high ceilings and there are hooks going all the way up them. There are hooks on the facade of the temple which Toby previewed the Temple Moss decoration on and even two waterfalls in the stronghold. The first is really charming and is inside the temple, and the other is outside as you enter the unlockable Temple Grounds. There might be a secret cave behind one of the waterfalls, Eric and Toby certainly hinted at it, so we shall hope so! Another cool feature of the stronghold is the temple roof. There are hooks here as well and from it you have an absolutely stunning Yavin vista to see. In order to access the roof there is an intractable Ancient Stone Tile which rocket jump-flips you up the the next level. The Other Shoe Both Togruta and the Yavin stronghold will be a part of patch 3.3. This patch will be accessible on the PTS tomorrow, June 4th, and is slated for a Live release on July 21st. Of course, tomorrow’s version of 3.3 on the PTS will only have the PvP and class changes that are on the Patch Notes and wont include Togruta or the Yavin Stronghold. There was also the usual clamoring in chat about PvP and PvE content. The PvP questions were redirected to the Bad Feeling Podcast interview and I kinda figured there wasn’t going to be any news on that front. I obviously made a few snarky NiM mode comments, but I wasn’t the only one. So where is the PvE content? Eric did answer this… well, they just released the World Breaker Monolith! Sigh. Do you hear me? SIGH. 6 months, 1 boss. They at least should cop up to the fact we aren’t getting Nightmare Mode and it’s going to be almost a year between operations...AGAIN. I’m not going to lie, Eric’s passing off of Monolith as content left yuck in my mouth after an otherwise really awesome stream. I do understand that most people enjoy different content than me, but I think 6 months (or longer for PvP) is long enough to wait for some light at the end of the tunnel. Worth It? So, will I buy this stronghold? Yes. I like how much nature there is and the floor plan of the temple. I wish they would have decorated a little more on the stream with lighting because it was dark, but otherwise the stronghold looked fantastic. The indoor waterfall is really a great feature and I can’t wait to decorate that area. If you want some ideas decorating the stronghold, SWTORStrongholds made a great guide on Yavin decorations and you can always browse all the Decorations over on TorCommunity. Are you going to be shelling out the credits for this stronghold? What are you looking forward to decorating. Been waiting to use the 1 item and now you finally can? Let me know in the comments below!
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6/3/2015 08:35:49 pm
I soooo need the Yavin IV stronghold as well but dammit why do I have to give up one of my other 4 to own it...have invested so much time and cartel coins in them that Musco's you can still only have 4 at a time made me cry out like Episode 3 Darth Vader...."NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"
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maebeebuzz
6/4/2015 01:37:28 pm
I was surprised the SH limit didn't go up as well. They did say they were looking into raising the limit, we will hope they do that I guess.
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Random
6/4/2015 02:20:10 am
Monolith was actually a good boss and made this year better than the Forged Alliances casual crap we got last year... until Bioware ruined it by messing with it and buffed it till it was too hard for PUGs and now you have to be in a big enough guild to get a 16 man guild group from somewhere.
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maebeebuzz
6/4/2015 01:40:44 pm
Monolith is a pretty good boss, but I guess my issue is that it's only 1 boss. After 6 months I expected either NiM mode or some insight that we're getting a new operation. Hopefully they will announce it on the 15th!
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maebeebuzz
6/4/2015 01:42:51 pm
Hey Shintar! Thanks for reading!
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