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Hot on the heels of Patch 1.5 which brought us F2P and the assassin droid HK-51, patch 1.6 has hit the PTS server with a new warzone, gear sets, and heroic Space Combat missions. While the new warzone “Ancient Hypergate” has been known to be coming for a while the introduction of endgame space combat missions came as a bit of a surprise, and offers a new way to earn Black Hole Commendations. Without further ado, we take a look at some of the defining features of Patch 1.6.

Ancient Hypergate Warzone

PVP’ers rejoice, the new warzone Ancient Hypergate will be included in patch 1.6. Set on an ancient Gree Hypergate facility the Republic and Imperial forces fight to charge up their gate to allow reinforcements to come through. There’s one gruesome catch however, the gates can only be powered up by killing members of the opposing team.

Here’s how it works. There are two pylons, one to the east and one to the west which will emit a wave of energy...

Your first impressions are usually the ones that stick with you, as MMO after MMO has taught us. Many players have a permanent memory of their experiences in a game. If the first time they play through it isn’t golden, then odds are they will rarely return. For many, SWTOR wasn’t the game of choice the first time through. After reaching max level, the lack of content, a dungeon finder, and the large number of servers that were mostly empty created a harsh and unrelenting problem that had them ride their speeders off into the sunset.

So here we are, almost a year later, and SWTOR is now free-to-play. Anyone can now log in and play through the entire game without having to spend a single dollar. Of course, there is a catch. It’s a rather big catch that we’re going to be taking an extensive look at: the stifling restrictions.

First Impressions

After patching on the 15th and finding my way into SWTOR, I instantly found my account had been flagged a preferred member, a reminder of the three tiers that that game utilizes. That's one of the decisions I immediately agree with and wish more F2P games would adopt. If you haven’t spent at least $4.99 in the shop (or purchased the box version of the game), then you will have chat and trade restrictions, which prevents many of the bots from spamming the channels and massive credit farming operations from popping...

The new market of The Old Republic may run on Cartel Coins, but we here in the real world still operate by the all mighty dollar. While the price points of the Cartel Coin packages have been detailed, how much is that shiny new speeder really going to cost you? In our latest endeavor into the F2P topic we translate Coins to Dollars and let you know how to get the most bang for your buck.

There are four options when buying cartel coins and the packages range from 450CC to a whopping 5500CC. Unsurprisingly, the larger the pack you get the higher the ratio of Cartel Coins to Dollars will be. If you plan on making a lot of purchases the bigger packs are definitely the most cost effective.

Packages

$4.99 for 450CC = 90CC per $1 (or 1.1 cents per CC)
$9.99 for 1050CC = 105CC per $1 (or 0.95 cents per CC)
$19.99 for 2400CC = 120CC per $1 (or 0.83 cents per CC)
$39.99 for 5500CC = 137CC per $1 (or 0.73 cents per CC)

Cost of Current Market Items

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When it comes to MMOs everybody is trying to get a leg up on the competition. In SWTOR one of the ways to do this is by augmenting your weapons and armor to add an additional slot capable of holding various augments with stats to complement your class. Prior to patch 1.3 the only way to get an item with an augment slot was to hit it lucky and get a critical on the item being crafted. Luckily that has all changed and augments slots can now be crafted by armstech, armormech, and synthweaving and applied to any piece of equip able gear. Below we go over the basic information you’ll need to get your gear augmented and maxed out in stats.

Getting Augment Slot Kits

As mentioned before, the armstech, armormech, and synthweaving crew skills can all craft the different variations of the augment slot kit. The schematics for the kits can be purchased from their respective class trainers. There are six tiers of Augment kits MK-1 to MK-6, the higher the tier of slot the better quality augments that can be placed in it. Crafting the augment slot kits will take around 25 minutes each to complete and require items from synthweaving, armormech/armstech and slicing as well as 10 Augmentation Slot Components or the corresponding tier. The required materials vary slightly depending on whether you are a synthweaver, armstech or armormech and what...