After the release of the SWTOR Roadmap for Fall 2017, everyone was excited about the new Legacy perk giving players up to a 100% CXP gain per character at rank 300. The perk was released on 10th of October as part of Game Update 5.5. The text was worded poorly and led to a massive confusion. The perk grants +25% CXP bonus for 1 character at rank 300 of each base class, not for each any character at rank 300. For example, if you have 3x Rank 300 Jedi Knights, you will only get +25% bonus to your CXP earned, not 3×25=75%.
Here is SWTOR community manager Eric Musco’s full message explaining the situation.
Hey folks,
I verified with the team and the current implementation is intended, but I am seeing some confusion around the perk so let me explain how it works. Every time you hit Command Rank 300 on one of the mirrored base Classes (more on that in a sec) you get a 25% bonus to the base value for CXP gains. Since there are four sets of mirrors, you can gain four stacks of this buff, up to a total of 100%. It looks like this:
- Any Knight or Warrior to 300 adds +25%
- Any Consular or Inquisitor to 300 adds +25%
- Any Smuggler or Agent to 300 adds +25%
- Any Trooper or Bounty Hunter to 300 adds +25%
Separately, I know there are questions about how we communicated (or didn’t) around this perk and so let me explain what happened. When Keith put information on the perk in the roadmap, it was meant to be fairly general, but we realize if we had been more specific we could have saved some of this frustration. The requirements for the perk were born out of some technical limitations which prevented us from giving you a bonus for any character which hit 300 (such as multiple Sith Warriors). As I was gathering the notes for 5.5, I didn’t realize that limitation had been put in place and it wasn’t caught during internal review. None of this is meant as an excuse, you should have had this information before today and it should have been in the notes. I apologize for that not being communicated, that’s on me.
The above information has been added into the patch notes for clarity, we hope that you still get to enjoy the benefits of increased CXP as you rank up in Galactic Command.
► Source: swtor.com
