SWTOR 7.0 How gearing works from the PTS! First look!
⚠️🛑 THIS IS AN OLDER GUIDE! IT IS NO LONGER CORRECT OR RELEVANT! See our updated max-level gearing guide here for more info! https://swtorista.com/articles/max/
We finally have a first look at how gearing and end-game currency and materials might look like on the Star Wars: The Old Republic Test Server. There has been a lot of information and items thrown up on there during this update, but it’s important to keep in mind that this is all on the PTS – which means it’s all a work in progress, and much of it is not finished.
🔗 Written guide: https://swtorista.com/articles/how-wi...
On the test server, you need to start by picking up some free item-rating 318 gear from the Supplies section of the fleet. I assume this is the item-rating of gear you would get naturally as you play through the new story in the 7.0 expansion, which will be set on Manaan.
To gear up, you have multiple different paths you can pick to earn gear. In the current 6.0 expansion, you can kinda gain gear through any activity, and you can use gear you earned through say Flashpoints to up your item-rating, and if you jump into PvP, you can leverage that Flashpoint gear to get higher item-rating items through PvP. The source of your gear in the current expansions really doesn’t matter – just your overall item-rating. This seems to change drastically in the 7.0 expansion.
In 7.0 the paths include: Conquest, which is kinda the solo version, Flashpoints, Operations, and PvP. Once you earn a piece of gear through one of those methods, you can then upgrade it at a matching vendor using currency, items or materials earned through that same method. That means, if you get a Helmet from a Flashpoint, you can bring it to the Flashpoint vendor and upgrade it with currency and materials you got from Flashpoints. You would not be able to take it to the PvP vendor to upgrade it, as it’s not an item you earned through PvP. Each vendor requires a piece earned through that track, and the appropriate type of currency or items to turn it in – for example, if you go up the PvP track, you can upgrade an item by turning in a Helmet you earned through PvP plus a new type of currency which is only earned through PvP.
One important thing to understand though, is that there is no PvP-only or Flashpoint-only or Operation-only gear. Gear that you gain from one source can be worn and used in any part of the game. What separates them is simply which vendor you can upgrade it from and what types of currency or materials it will cost. You can wear a Flashpoint belt, a PvP helmet, and an Operations pair of boots, all in the same outfit, it’s fine.
PTS INFO:
• How to Download and Install the PTS (Video): • How to Download & Install the SWTOR P...
• How to Test Level 80 Characters on PTS (Video): • How to test the Bounty Hunter / Sith ...
• Change Log Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• PTS Forums: https://www.swtor.com/community/forum...
PTS FEEDBACK THREADS
• ➡️ Thread about this PTS update and gearing changes: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Legendary Items Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Vanguard Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Sage Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Scoundrel Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Sniper Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Mercenary Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Powertech Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Juggernaut Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Marauder Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Guardian Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Sentinel Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Operative Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Assassin Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Sorcerer Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
• Game scaling Feedback Thread: https://www.swtor.com/community/showt...
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