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Welcome to our little PTS lair boss shindig! So nice of you to stop by!



As is tradition, we have a variety of utility terminals on the PTS server, as well as gear vendors, that will help you quickly create a character, get it to level 70, get geared, and get to testing. (which in this case would be the Hive of the Mountain Queen lair boss).



Here's the General Flow: Create a new Character. On your origin world, near where your character starts, you should find a "Level Booster" terminal, and an "Odessen Teleporter" terminal. Click on the "Level Booster" terminal to set your character to level 70, and receive 500,000 credits (you can continue clicking the Level Booster terminal repeatedly to receive an additional 500,000 credits per click). When you have as many credits as you'd like, click the "Odessen Teleporter" terminal to be moved to the Odessen landing area. Gear your character with the various PTS vendors located at the Odessen Landing. The following vendors are available in this first refresh: Tier 4 Artifact Gear (248)

Tier 4 Artifact Components (248 Mods / Enhancements / Crystals / Barrels / Hilts)

Tier 5 Artifact Gear (258)

Tier 5 Artifact Components (258 Mods / Enhancements / Crystals / Barrels / Hilts)

Augments (228/236/240) and Kits (Mk10) Walk into the phase gate at the end of the Lightbridge to Nowhere at the Odessen Landing to enter the Hive of the Mountain Queen lair area.

Difficulty Targets: Story Mode's gear target should be covered by Bolster, so as long as you've got your gear slots filled, you should be good to go.

Veteran Mode is targeted for fully augmented Tier 4 Legendary (248) gear.



Natural Access:

For those of you interested in finding your way into the lair naturally, the entrance can be found on Ossus in the Ossus Canyons area right around (1200,600).





State of the Lair:

The boss encounter itself (Mutated Geonosian Queen) is mechanics complete and balanced. Final aesthetic tweaking of FX is still ongoing, but art and animations should be most of the way there, so it's pretty much all fair game for feedback.



The Hive of the Mountain Queen environment is likewise largely finished (and I, for one, think it looks pretty amazing), so that's all fair game too.



Non-boss encounters are still a work in progress. This includes the placement of encounters, the size and types of enemies present, the abilities those enemies are using. Take what you see there with a grain of salt. Feel free to give feedback on what's there, but don't be surprised if you find some jankiness there.



See you on PTS! Matt Pucevich | Designer

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