A large number of “leaked” new Reputation Decorations, coupled with the parts of the new map give us clues and food for thought and analysis on what the Manaan Daily Area could offer in SWTOR 7.1!
While decorating my Republic Fleet Stronghold, I came across a new deco with the source listed as Reputation: Manaan, meaning it was from the new daily area!
According to Reddit, these decos were available on an older build of PTS as well, and have been in the game since 7.0.2. The post shares a few images, but I decided to go through and take pictures of all the new Manaan decos we can preview!
Even if you don’t decorate, you may still find these previews interesting because BioWare tends to mostly just convert existing assets into decos. They don’t usually make brand new models specifically for decorations unless they are part of deco packs sold on the cartel market.
For example, the farm plots, equipment, and flora you see on Dantooine can be purchased as decorations in exchange for Dantooine Surveyor’s Notes at the reputation vendor. Meanwhile, you won’t find the Sith Lord’s Artifacts decorations elsewhere in the game because they come from a CM-exclusive deco pack.
This means that the 25 Manaan decos we can currently preview could give us a clue as to what the new daily area might look like. It’s definitely possible that these decos are unrelated to the daily area, but that seems unlikely.
New Manaan Decoration Previews
The low resolution is a result of the decoration preview window being tiny.
All of these decorations look super cool! I hope we get to fight the Tentacled One, possibly as the boss of a heroic mission. I am super intrigued about the progenitor temple too.
These decos have me a lot more hyped up about the new daily area than I was before. I had assumed it would just be reused assets like what we had for the Manaan storyline that launched as part of Update 7.0, but based on these decos, it seems more likely that it will be a completely new area. Regardless, I’m looking forward to checking out the daily area on the PTS in the coming weeks!
Invasion Zone Map
We can also see the full map of the Invasion Zone, which isn’t super informative of geography, but it seems to include quick travel points for sections of the daily area.
The other Quick Travel points are: Ancient Selkath City, Hidden Imperial Base, and Public Port Arrivals.
Based on the decos, it seems we’ll possibly be going to a kolto excavation site, some sort of ancient kolto progenitor temple, and possibly sneaking into an inhabited Selkath floating city.
More Story?
We still don’t have any word about how much of a story there will be with the new daily area on Manaan. Since it was originally meant to be released with the launch of 7.0 or very soon after without a special story, kind of like the Onderon and Mek-Sha dailies, I don’t recall that it was going to have its own story.
However, 7.1 won’t be coming out until mid-summer, so it’s possible that plans have changed. If there isn’t a new story, BioWare should at least give us a new mission like Inflection Point on our ships so we can skip Ossus, Onderon, Mek-Sha, and Echoes of Oblivion.
I wouldn’t get your hopes up about being any new story content beyond maybe a brief expository cutscene, but the daily area itself seems like it will actually be a cool new area.
Disclaimer: I put the “leaked” word in quotes because this is something we can find in the live game. It’s not exactly a leak because it’s been there for a while and it was made available by BioWare, not a third party. But there’s no better word for it. And we don’t know if this is intentionally in the game or was made available by mistake.
Update: Now that SWTOR Update 7.1 is live, you can also check out the complete SWTOR Manaan Daily Missions and Achievements Guide.
