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SWTOR - Dulfy's guide to Makeb

Sevenstar61Sevenstar61 Member UncommonPosts: 1,686
in Star Wars: The Old Republic

Dulfy posted on SWTOR forum a very cool guide to Makeb: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=621125

or http://dulfy.net/

Kudos for Dulfy :)

 

Prelaunch preparation

  • Stock up on experience boosts – major or minor. These boosts (25% experience bonus) will give you about 0.5 to 0.75 of a level more. Three major (lasts 9 hrs) should be plenty.
  • It is not a bad idea to do some dallies/weeklies and then turn them in once the servers are up. If all goes well, the servers will be up about 5 hrs before the weekly reset. Ilum/Belsavis/Black Hole dallies are all staying L50 but Section X is boosted to L52 daily area. It is unknown if the Section X dallies will get reset due to this.
  • Gear up/Respec – Black Hole/Campaign gear will be fine for Makeb content. Dread Guard is more than enough. If you are still in Rakata/Columi you might have some trouble later on. Healers have an easier time but kills a bit slower. AoE specs are great as Makeb mobs often come in large groups.
  • Get rid of extra comms
  • Planetary commendation cap: 100 (this includes the one time overflow limit). 100 planetary commendations will allow you to buy some L52 mods on Makeb. Remember that Tionese cystals will also get converted to planetary comms at a ratio of 2:1 (2 crystals for 1 comm).
  • Classic Commendation cap: 800 (this includes the one time overflow limit). If you have lots of Black Hole commendations, spend them before the patch as the prices for the Campaign pieces you can purchase are more expensive than buying Black Hole armor + Campaign armoring pre-patch. Remember the best gear you can buy with Classic Commendations is Campaign so if you don’t need those then buy stuff with comms and sell them back to vendors for credits.
  • Form premade groups with friends – questing is a lot faster with other players.
Makeb
  • Unless they changed this from the beta, Makeb main storyline + doing all the Makeb dallies once (not including GSI dallies) will get you to L53/54. This is not really an issue as there are plenty of other stuff (i.e. macrobinocular/seeker, GSI dallies, STAGED weeklies) to get you to the level cap. However, if you are severely undergeared, killing L55 mobs at L53 isn't really fun. Hence, doing some pre-patch preparation may come in handy here.
  • I have a guide here of most of the Makeb missions on the Empire and Republic side. Most of the missions are fairly self-explanatory but what you may find helpful are spawn maps I made of various mission objectives. From past experience on launch day, there tend to be more players than items so often there are long lines at specific spawn points. However, these maps will hopefully spread out the population a bit.
  • Datacrons: There are two on Makeb +10 Endurance (hard) and +10 presence (easy). Don't waste your time getting them pre-55 as they can take quite a bit of time. Presence one will probably take you 5-10 minutes but endurance one can take much longer.
  • +10 presence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYQ_HzJz_mU
  • +10 endurance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGxtVzRqXaw
Macrobinoculars and Seeker Droids
  • Seeker Droids and Macrobinoular questline can be started at L52 but it is not advised to not to do them until you are finished with the Makeb storyline as they take a huge amount of time to do and it can be inefficient if you are looking to level to 55.
  • On the Empire side, they can be picked up from T4-M7 and Z1-3C in the Sith Sanctum on Dromund Kaas
  • On the Republic side, they can be picked up from M3-8Z and BB-6G in the Senate Plaza on Coruscant.
  • Make sure to do all the macrobinocular and seeker droid missions together as they require to travel to the same planets.
  • Guide to all Macrobinocular and Seeker Droid missions
GSI dallies
  • Can be picked up as soon as you receive the macrobinoculars and seeker droids from Dromund Kaas/Coruscant. GSI dallies on Makeb are easy and quick to do. Might be a good to pick them up (from GSI terminals located on the first island you arrived on Makeb) as you level.
  • Guide to all GSI dallies
Gearing up at L55
  • Running the four L55 hardmode flashpoints (Athiss, Hammer Station, Cademimu, and Mandalorian Raiders) will give you random Black Market pieces which have no set bonus but can be stripped for mods and enhancements.
  • Running storymode TFB and Scum and Villainy will grant you most of the Arkanian pieces.
  • Running hardmode TFB and Scum and Villainy will grant you Underworld pieces.
  • Basic Commendations can be used to purchase Arkanian relics and some gear slightly better than the Dread Guard stuff.
  • Elite Commendations can be used to purchase Black Market pieces (no set bonus)
  • Ultimate Commendations can be used to purchase Verpine pieces (no set bonus).
  • Here is a loot table for operations drops in 2.0.
Quick link to guides


Sith Warrior - Story of Hate and Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKrlwXt7Ao
Imperial Agent - Rise of Cipher Nine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBBj3eJWBvU&feature=youtu.be
Imperial Agent - Hunt for the Eagle Part 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQqjYYU128E

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