List of comprehensive Operation Guides and recommendations for improving your performance to beat the most challenging group content in SWTOR.
List of Operation Guides
Eternity Vault Operation Guide
Complete guide to the Eternity Vault Operation in SWTOR, including best paths and strategies and all rewards and achievements you can earn!
Xenoanalyst II Guide
Complete Xenoanalyst II Guide for Story and Veteran Mode, available in Ilum during the Relics of the Gree event. Includes instructions on how to get to the boss, mechanics and tactics, missions, and rewards!
Nature of Progress Story Mode Operation Guide
A complete guide to SWTOR Nature of Progress Operation on Dxun in Story Mode. Learn about every mechanic of every boss encounter and find out the best working strategies to defeat them.
Nature of Progress Veteran Mode Operation Guide
A complete guide to SWTOR’s Nature of Progress Operation on Dxun in Veteran Mode. Learn about every mechanic of every boss encounter and find out the best working strategies to defeat them
Izax Veteran Mode Operation Boss Guide
Detailed guide to the final boss in Gods from the Machine Operation on Iokath in Veteran Mode. The fight is quite long and involves several phases with interesting and different mechanics
R-4 Anomaly Operation Guide
This is a collective guide to the R-4 Anomaly Operation in SWTOR. It’s designed to give you a general overview of the operation, show you how to enter inside and start it, what missions you can pick up and complete, the bosses you have to defeat and puzzles to solve, and the loot and rewards for running the operation.
Propagator Core XR-53 Ilum Lair Boss Guide: Story and Veteran Mode
SWTOR’s Game Update 7.6 comes with a new lair boss on Ilum called the Propagator Core XR-53. We’ll explain all of the mechanics and how to defeat the boss in Story Mode and Veteran Mode.
If you are a new player or just approaching the level cap, the following might be of use to you. If you are an experienced raider, leave your thoughts and ideas in a comment below to help and expand this guide.
How Class Awareness Affects Your EndGame
Knowing what your own class can do is vital. You should learn your limits and how far you can push yourself and your character within the EndGame content.
Your knowledge of other classes’ capabilities and features is key. Acting and reacting to what your fellow raiders do next to you or to you, is very helpful. How to draw the most benefit from an AoE healing effect, how to avoid a harmful AoE effect without hurting others near you, these are all skills that come with time and repetition.
The best way to gain knowledge is to play more than one character and on a higher difficulty level in both solo and group content. Seeing the encounters from different perspective and role will help you get better with your own main class as well.
How to learn the fight’s mechanics and why it’s important
If you haven’t done a boss encounter or an Operation, doesn’t mean you are entering the upcoming fight blind. Look for clues both in the environment and during the fight for familiar elements from previous experiences.
Knowing where you might be able to kite an upcoming wave of adds or where you could hide from the boss’s next big special attack, can save not just your character, but the whole team as well.
When you are a part of a more experienced team, don’t be afraid to admit you are new to this place. In the majority of the situations, everyone else will be friendly and willing to help and teach you. last, but not least – some mechanics of boss fights are predictable, even if they are new.
Looking at a giant Rancor-like monster, for example, would always give the main tank a clue that this one probably has frontal AoE and is most likely recommended that they should turn the monster with its back towards the rest of the raid group.
SWTOR relies heavily on graphical (visual) and audio notifications to let players know something special or important is about to happen. Learn to pay attention to these hints and your EndGame progression will probably become a lot easier and more fun.
Your PC Hardware and Server Latency Do Matter
Regardless of the fact that SWTOR cannot run smoothly and properly on any PC, you still need at least a 30+ frame rate to be competent to do the hardest content available in the game.
If your game freezes or jumps a frame, you may miss a very important hint for an upcoming attack.
The game still does not allow add-ons and probably never will. The good news is that it wasn’t ever built to require them. Everything is clearly shown on your screen, you just need to learn where, how and what to look for.
Another factor of very high importance is your Server Latency. Some Classes and Disciplines will require you to perform combinations of abilities in a very quick succession – burst healing or burst damage dealing, for example.
Unfortunately, in most cases your latency doesn’t depend on you, and the only possible actions you can take, in an attempt to make it better, is to upgrade your internet connection or! In other words – if you have higher latency (above 150-200 ping), pick the class(es) you want to play with that fact in mind.
How relevant is your character’s gear
Not all of the content in the game is balanced the same. Because of that, instances of the same level and tier can seem too easy or too hard.
If you are new to the content, you’d better follow the recommended minimum requirements. Once you gain enough experience, you will likely realize that things can be done with a less adequately geared-up character.
Don’t be surprised if a middle boss or a bonus boss is tougher than the final one. You will sometimes face unbalanced encounters in the same instance.
These things may seem like a mistake, but sometimes they are intended by the developers. Gearing up today can be done both solo and with a team or a guild (the second option is much faster too).
Should you tolerate other players’ mistakes
Everybody makes mistakes. We all learn from them and that helps us evolve from newbs to pros.
When you notice the same player repeating the same mistakes over and over, your tolerance should be minimal if you are tackling the higher difficulties of Operations and want to progress through them naturally.
Making a mistake yourself is not the end of the world. If you notice it, fix it. If you don’t, but others point it out to you, don’t take it as an offense. Take the advice, learn from it.
There’s always a good chance that someone more experienced than you exists somewhere and you should look them up and learn from them.
Getting angry with yourself after a wrong move or raging on your fellow team members after a wipe is never beneficial. It usually ends up creating unwanted tension and discomfort.
