UPDATE: According to the Update 5.4a Patch Notes the bug has been fixed!
Let’s farm those good ol’ Daily Areas!
This week is a “Double Rewards” event in Star Wars The Old Republic. What players discovered, though, is that it’s way more than double for the daily quests in the good ol’ forgotten daily areas – Section X, Oricon, Ilum, Corellia and so on.
I was first poked with this info by a loyal subscriber of mine on Facebook (thanks, Luella!)
The regular CXP this week for a normal daily quest is ~2.2k, the weeklies are going for ~1.2k and if you use a CXP boost, it goes up to ~3.4k! Insane, right! Take advantage! SWTOR game director Keith Kanneg confirmed that this is going to remain so until the end of the week and they will even consider not returning the amount CXP per quest to its normal value after the event is over.
Keiths’ exact words on the matter:
When I found out about the substantially increased CXP in the daily areas I had to go check if it was real. So, I tested it on my main characters, and validated it across a variety of other characters, and sure enough, it was true. I even used the CXP Perk, and the CXP 100% boost, just to see how much I could get on each quest.
Then, realizing we needed to stay indoors for the weekend, I decided to see how many Command Ranks I could gain on just one toon, by doing all the Daily Areas each day, along with daily FPs, and other normal activities. I managed to gain 200 levels and to echo a lot of your comments here, it was fun to see so many others on Yavin, in Black Hole, over on Iokath and Section X. I also did Oricon and had forgotten how fun those quests were to do, too.
There’s a legitimate reason to lower the CXP values as they are out of whack with the rest of the game, but there’s an even more compelling reason to not lower it all the way back to 75 and to review the values across the board. I like a lot of your suggestions about rotating it, finding a good compromised amount, giving you a reason to visit these areas, and substantially reducing the time it takes to level up your alts (catch-up mechanic).
So, thanks for all the ideas. We’ll decide what to do next week, but in the meantime, take advantage of this massive CXP change. I’m confident that’ll help guide us in our discussions and decision about what to do next.
Check what other InGame events we have coming: SWTOR InGame Events Schedule: September 2017
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