SWTOR Patch 5.1 Gearing Guide

A guide to the new gearing system in Patch 5.1.

Overview

With Patch 5.1 you will have two additional methods to gear out your character in addition to the existing Command Rank system.

PvP (Warzones/Arenas/Galactic Starfighter) – These PvP activities will drop Unassembled Components used to purchase Unassembled Gear Pieces from vendors.

Operations – These operations will drop Unassembled Gear Pieces from bosses, with the last boss of an operation having a specific and guaranteed piece.

In addition to these two new paths, a new currency called Command Tokens will drop from existing Command Crates and rewarded retroactively. This new currency is required to exchange gear from the two methods above. This means that the Command System is still as relevant as ever.

Solo players who do not wish to participate in PvP or operations will still use the same old RNG system of Galactic Command crates.

Command Tokens

Command tokens are a new currency dropping from Command Crates and they are needed to convert Unassembled Gear Pieces to Gear. This is done to make the Command system relevant but less RNG. Command Tokens will be rewarded retroactively and is legacy bound. The amount of command tokens that drops from crates depends on the tier level of the command crate.

Tier 1 – 5 tokens per crate

Tier 2 – 8 tokens per crate

Tier 3 – 12 tokens per crate

Cmmand tokens can be used to purchase Command XP Boost for each tier if you have any extra. These Command XP Boost (15%) will not stack with the Cartel Market boost but will stack with the Legacy Perk (10%). They last 2 hrs.

Tier 1 – 20 Command Tokens

Tier 2 – 28 Command Tokens

Tier 3 – 44 Command Tokens

Vendor for these CXP boosts are found on the Supplies section of the fleet next to all the Unassembled Components/Gear Pieces vendor.

Unassembled Components

Unassembled Components only comes from PvP activities. You can skip directly to the Unassembled Gear pieces if you do operations but for PvP you have to go through an extra step to earn them.

Earning Unassembled Components

5 – Warzone Win

2 – Warzone Loss

3 – Arena Win

1 – Arena Loss

5 – Solo Ranked Win

2 – Solo Ranked Loss

8 – Group Ranked Win

3 – Group Ranked Loss

8 – GSF Win

3 – GSF Loss

Unassembled Gear Pieces

To turn in Unassembled Components to Unassembled Gear pieces, you will need to do so at a vendor. Here are the prices for them. For Tier 2 and Tier 3 you will need to turn in the previous tier’s piece of the same slot. The vendor can be found on the Supplies section of the fleet.

In total you will need 6145 Unassembled Tokens to get a full T3 set assuming you only get your gear from PvP.

Piece Tier 1 (230) Tier 2 (236) Tier 3 (242) Total Implant 80 T1+ 120 T2 + 180 380 Ear 80 T1+ 120 T2 + 180 380 Relic 80 T1+ 120 T2 + 180 380 Chest 100 T1 +150 T2 +225 475 Legs 100 T1 +150 T2 +225 475 Hands 100 T1 +150 T2 +225 475 Boots 100 T1 +150 T2 +225 475 Helm 100 T1 +150 T2 +225 475 Offhand 120 T1 + 180 T2 + 270 570 Mainhand 120 T1 + 180 T2 + 270 570 Bracer 75 T1 + 115 T2+ 175 365 Belt 75 T1 + 115 T2+ 175 365 Total 1290 T1+1940 T2+2915 6145

Unassembled Gear Pieces

The end boss of each operation drops a specific guaranteed piece (2 per in 8 man, 8 per 16m). Other bosses also have a chance to drop an Unassembled Gear

Examples

1st boss - 20% chance to drop any unassembled piece.

2nd boss – 25% chance to drop any unassembled piece.

3rd boss – 30% chance to drop any unassembled piece.

4th boss – 35% chance to drop any unassembled piece.

5th boss – 100% chance to drop unassembled piece.

Loot Table

Story mode drops Tier 1

Veteran mode drops Tier 2

Master mode drops Tier 3

Only the last boss of each operation drops a guaranteed specific piece.

Piece Tier 1/2 (230/236) Tier 3 (242) Implant Soa Kephess, Ruugar* Earpiece Soa Terror From Beyond Relic Karagga Kephess, Revan* Chest Kephess Styrak Legs Terror From Beyond Terror From Beyond Hands Styrak Styrak Boots Brontes Brontes Helm Dread Masters Dread Masters Offhand Ruugar Brontes Mainhand Revan Dread Masters Bracer Golden Fury & Eyeless Golden Fury* & Eyeless* Belt Monolith & Xenoanalyst Monolith* & Xenoanalyst*

*Chance to drop, not guaranteed since it is Veteran mode.

Gear

Finally, the last step is to exchange the Unassembled Gear Pieces and Command Tokens for the actual gear at a new vendor. You will need Unassembled Gear pieces you earned from operations or purchased using Unassembled Components earned via PvP. Again, this vendor can be found on the Fleet supplies section but in a slightly different section.

The exchange rate are as follows for Command Tokens.

Piece Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Implant 8 12 18 Earpiece 8 12 18 Relic 8 12 18 Chest 10 15 24 Legs 10 15 24 Hands 10 15 24 Boots 10 15 24 Helm 10 15 24 Offhand 12 18 28 Mainhand 12 18 28 Bracer 7 10 15 Belt 7 10 15 Total 128 191 296

Remember you earn the Command Tokens at the following rates from the Command Crates