Following the major revamp of the Conquest system, released in SWTOR Game Update 5.8, Bioware continues to make changes to it based on feedback and metrics. Here is what is coming in 5.9 in May.
After a not very successful launch of the new Galactic Conquest system in Patch 5.8 earlier this month, Bioware now continues to make adjustments and updates to it. Coming on 1st of May with Game Update 5.9 “The Nathema Conspiracy” will be a number of changes again.
- Many of the objectives will see their conquest points reward value increased.
- An additional buff for GSF, Warzone, and Flashpoint Participation Objectives is also coming. The “Play a Flashpoint” Objective is being changed to “Play a Flashpoint or Uprising.”
- The “Kill X Enemies” Daily Objective will be split into three Objectives. Kill 50 / 100 / 150. Additionally, progress on this Objective will not reset everyday (if you killed 40 enemies, it won’t reset back to 0).
- A new repeatable Daily Objective for completing 3 and 5 Activity Finder Activities (FP, Op, WZ, GSF, Uprising) will be introduced.
- A new Daily Repeatable Objective to “Defeat the Final Boss in an Operation” will also be introduced
- A new repeatable Objective is coming for “Craft 50 items”. This Objective gives another path for crafters to earn points and is also a mechanism for characters of any level to participate. We will monitor the number of items required to craft closely and will make changes in the future if it is too high, or too low.
The goal of these changes is that if you complete the bigger value one-time Objectives on a given character, you have a lot more ability to earn points via repeatable Objectives. Not only are there more Objectives to work towards, they are worth more points as well. One of our goals is to encourage that you play multiple types of content and so that will always remain the most optimal path to Conquest points. However, these changes will allow a player to more easily get their Conquest points even if they just play one type of content on repeat.
While reading the forum post and writing the news update, a picture forms in my head more and more clearly. More like a memory – the memory of Galactic Command in 5.0 and how long it took to fix this broken and bad system until it is shaped into what we have today.
