GameBreaker.tv discusses recent SWTOR Patches as well Update 1.2 including some of the issues related to moving mods with set bonuses.

Star Wars: The Old Republic Update 1.2: Legacy is live, however BioWare has decited not to include ranked PvP warzones in the Update. The brand-new warzone Novare Coast did make it as part of the 900MB patch.

Lead Game Designer Daniel Erickson stated,

"After careful consideration, it is clear that to make Ranked Warzones the feature we all want it to be is going to take a bit more time. I apologize for any disappointment this may cause and ask for your patience as we work to make sure the Ranked Warzone Preseason launch is polished and fun."

Source: http://www.swtor.com/blog/update-ranked-warzones-game-update-1.2

Patch Notes: http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes

SWTOR Update 1.2 patch files may have been made available early. Players on the SWTOR forums are reporting getting the 900MB patch when starting their game launcher. Some of the players reported that cancelling the patch will allow you into the game, while other reported that cancelling the patch corrupted their game.

Allison Berryman | Senior Community Coordinator at Bioware has responded to the forums with:

"Hey everyone - we are looking into this right now and will get you more information as soon as it's available."

"Everyone, we advise that you do not log into the launcher until we can provide more information. Thank you for hanging on while we get more info for you.

Update: The issue has been resolved, here is the official post by Allison Berryman | Senior Community Coordinator

"Hey everyone, sorry for the brief confusion. Here’s what happened and how it affects you.

Some patch-related changes were mistakenly deployed early. Luckily, these changes only affected players for a very brief (less than 15-minute) window. We corrected this unintentional change very quickly.

Here’s how it affects you:

If you started or completed the patch download, you have two options:

If you want to continue playing today, you will need to restart your client and re-download the client

If you want to wait until tomorrow and play when 1.2 is deployed to the servers, you can close your client and restart it tomorrow after the patch is deployed (approximately 8AM CDT).

We apologize for the confusion, but only a very small number of players were affected by this unintentional change. Thank you for your understanding. "

Forum Thread: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=399972

Bioware has released a new trailer for their upcoming PvP warzone called Novare Coast, due to be released in Update 1.2.

Many SWTOR players have made a huge investment into their current PvP gear, just to find out that their gear sets will no longer going to be sold after Update 1.2. For players that have completed their full sets this may not be a huge deal. For other players that have their sets half done this patch may prove problematic. Today I want to summarize some of these changes and how they will affect you as a player.

First with Update 1.2 Centurion and Champion PvP gear will no longer be sold, however you will still be able to keep and equip the pieces you have already purchased. Battlemaster gear will still be available with modified stats (new purchases only). There will be also be 2 new PvP gear sets called Recruit and War Hero.

Recruit

The Recruit PvP set is going to be purchasable with credits, and it will allow fresh level 50s to quickly get geared up and have an easier time competing with other level 50s. This is perhaps my favorite change to Update 1.2 as I had a real shock the first few PvP matches I played as a fresh level 50. A full set of Recruit PvP gear will cost 320,000 credits, with the main-hand piece being the most expensive at 38,600 credits. This new set will give you 896 Expertise in total, which will give you a better PvP bonus from the now defunct Tier 1 Centurion and even Tier 2 PvP Champion sets.

Now here is the bad part, currently Tier 2 PvP gear set made for fairly good PvE gear. Not as good as Tier 2 PvE gear, but certainly better than most Tier 1 PvE pieces. Champion PvP gear was also much easier to get, and many players elected to grind Champion gear as their first post 50 PvE/PvP gear. Recruit gear will only be a blue rating 128 gear (rather than Champion purple 136) so it will no longer be as good a choice for easy PvE gear for new level 50 players. On the other hand you will be able to buy it with credits so it may be ok for very fresh level 50s.

Because of its high expertise rating the Recruit set will be fairly good for PvP so I would suggest that players with Centurion PvP gear upgrade immediately. Champion gear will be a bit tougher to call. If you keep your Champion gear you will have less expertise but more stats in total. Recruit gear also lacks the set bonus found on Champion gear. My guess is I will keep my Champion gear and immediately start earning Battlemaster gear.

Battlemaster

Battlemaster gear is getting more expertise compared to the pre 1.2 versions. Some of the other stats are getting a buff, while some other ones are lowered. However the largest change is the fact that you no longer need to have rank 60 valor in order to purchase this gear and that you can purchase this gear directly with WarZone commendations. The total cost of a full Battlemaster set is 12,475 commendations with the most expensive Mainhand piece costing 1550 commendations.

War Hero

Conclusion

My advice is if you still have Centurion gear, dump it for the new Recruit gear as soon as possible. If you have Champion gear, keep the pieces you have but fill in the missing pieces with Recruit gear. If you have a full Champion set start working on your Battlemaster PvP gear right away. Players that currently have a full Battlemaster set things get a bit harder as the new Battlemaster gear has higher expertise from the pre 1.2 versions. It will be a tough decision to try to grind War Hero gear with existing lower rated gear or re-grind the Battlemaster gear before going for War Hero.

BioWare's James Ohlen at PAX East earlier today announced:

"We have our update 1.2 coming in the next week, and then after that, it's going to continue to roll out month after month. It's exciting," he told Boston-area convention-goers."

The next announced maintenance window is this Tuesday April 10th, but we do not know for sure if that is the day Update 1.2 will be released.

Updated April 9th 2012, James may have misspoke when he said next week, the current rumored date is the April 17h maintenance window

Source: darthhater.com

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Lead Interface Artist Michael Voigt gives you a tour of the new User Interface customization options coming in Game Update 1.2: Legacy.

You can read the full dev blog post at:

http://www.swtor.com/news/blog/20120320

DDO community is filled with optimism and worry for unknown bugs and changes as Update 12 goes live this morning on all live DDO Servers.  This update introduces new challenges, which are repeatable timed quests that scale in difficulty to a selected level. Update 12 also features a good amount bug fixes and improvements to raids bosses as well as raid loot.

My favourite is the increase of +2 tomes drop chances in high level quests and raids. I am also looking forward to upgrading some of the Ravers Fate Raid named loot using the new Seals of the Stormreaver that now drop on Elite difficulty and the Monument in Gianthold

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