Live Stream Legacy Presentation
Live Stream Legacy Presentation
Daniel Erickson taking the podium.
Legacy system designed to touch almost every system in the game, was too risky for launch.
Current state of legacy system: very pretty experience bar.
Game Update 1.2 will introduce Family Tree, automatically updated with all of your characters in a Legacy.
Reach level 50 with a species will unlock other species for other classes.
Level 50 with a species and you unlock all variations of that species across both factions.
Complete Chapter 2 and unlock class emote and apply that to your buffs.
Complete Chapter 3 and unlock Heroic abilities.
Example: complete Chapter 3 with Sith Warrior and unlock Force Choke on your other characters.
Complete all misions for companion type (ranged tank), unlock shorter cooldown and longer duration on Heroic for first companion of each type, in addition to stat boosts and Presence buffs.
Alignment abilities including Dark, Light, and Grey.
Social rank unlocks including dancing with companions and emotes.
Most rewards can be purchased with in-game credits or unlocked.
All unlocks and rewards are retroactive.
Cooldown reductions for emergency fleet pass and quick travel pass.
Jetpack unlockable as a short duration sprint for Bounty Hunter, other classes receive rocket boots.
Sprint moved to level 1.
Training dummies on Ships, including Operation and Warzone versions.
Repair Astromech will repair items, buy items, sell upgrade items for Ship droids.
Mailboxes and Galactic Trade Network on ships.
Legacy weapons and armor as tokens, usuable for alt. characters. Legacy items do not scale.
New item type: Bound-to-Legacy.
Customizing your alt. character experience: boosting PvP experience, lowering level required for Speeder license.
Q: Will transfering characters work with legacy system?
A: When character transfers come, the higher of the two legacies will take priorities.
Q: Will players be able to share Legacy names?
A: No plan currently, something they really want to do.
Q: Will players be able to use Force Choke as Republic? Will new unlocked species be transferable to current alts?
A: Yes, new unocked species will only be available to newly created characters.
Q: Will players be able to use weapons that aren't designed for them, like a Sith Warrior using a double-bladed lightsaber?
A: Not permenant weapons, but iconic class abilities.
Q: Will players will be able to change their looks, like hair color, facial features?
A: In the "short term," there is a plan to allow players to customize their characters post-creation.
Q: Will legacy buffs apply to party or just solo?
A: Yes legacy buffs will apply to party, potential to create unique party dynamics.
Q: Will there be legacy banks for characters?
A: It is in the pipeline behind guild banks, along with mail restrictions being lifted to help alleviate issues.
Q: Additional character slots per character?
A: No current plans, but noted desire.
Q: Will class buffs become cross-faction?
A: Yes, but they will not stack, and become faction appropriate.
Q: How likely will endgame flashpoints gear be transferrable to alt. characters?
A: No current concept for that, but there are Legacy items available for alt. characters.
Q: Will dual spec'ing come to Legacy rewards?
A: Multi-spec is coming, not just dual-spec. Not coming in 1.2.
Q: Any plans to be available to change your Legacy names?
A: Currently in the works, but currently only available through in-game tickets and customer service. Will become an automatic service in the future, either through time or payment.
Q: Is there a current cap to Legacy levels?
A: Legacy level cap is 50 currently.
Starting questions from the livestream.
Q: Any plan to give some form of crafting advantage through Legacy?
A: Crafting beginning to be more BoE, less BoP. Ship droids sell crafting mods for your droids, including voice restraining-bolt.
Q: What about companions, can they be put in family tree?
A: Not right now.
Q: Are we likely going to see cosmetic ship upgrades from Legacy in the future?
A: There will be cosmetic ship upgrades, but not neccesarily from Legacy.
Q: How can an Agent use the Force?
A: Point of the Legacy is that Force using abilities runs strongly through families.
Q: How will Heroic abilities affect open-world PvP?
A: It will make it interesting, open-world PvP is more like the wild, wild west.
Panel concluded.
Live Stream Legacy Presentation
Daniel Erickson taking the podium.
Legacy system designed to touch almost every system in the game, was too risky for launch.
Current state of legacy system: very pretty experience bar.
Game Update 1.2 will introduce Family Tree, automatically updated with all of your characters in a Legacy.
Reach level 50 with a species will unlock other species for other classes.
Level 50 with a species and you unlock all variations of that species across both factions.
Complete Chapter 2 and unlock class emote and apply that to your buffs.
Complete Chapter 3 and unlock Heroic abilities.
Example: complete Chapter 3 with Sith Warrior and unlock Force Choke on your other characters.
Complete all misions for companion type (ranged tank), unlock shorter cooldown and longer duration on Heroic for first companion of each type, in addition to stat boosts and Presence buffs.
Alignment abilities including Dark, Light, and Grey.
Social rank unlocks including dancing with companions and emotes.
Most rewards can be purchased with in-game credits or unlocked.
All unlocks and rewards are retroactive.
Cooldown reductions for emergency fleet pass and quick travel pass.
Jetpack unlockable as a short duration sprint for Bounty Hunter, other classes receive rocket boots.
Sprint moved to level 1.
Training dummies on Ships, including Operation and Warzone versions.
Repair Astromech will repair items, buy items, sell upgrade items for Ship droids.
Mailboxes and Galactic Trade Network on ships.
Legacy weapons and armor as tokens, usuable for alt. characters. Legacy items do not scale.
New item type: Bound-to-Legacy.
Customizing your alt. character experience: boosting PvP experience, lowering level required for Speeder license.
Q: Will transfering characters work with legacy system?
A: When character transfers come, the higher of the two legacies will take priorities.
Q: Will players be able to share Legacy names?
A: No plan currently, something they really want to do.
Q: Will players be able to use Force Choke as Republic? Will new unlocked species be transferable to current alts?
A: Yes, new unocked species will only be available to newly created characters.
Q: Will players be able to use weapons that aren't designed for them, like a Sith Warrior using a double-bladed lightsaber?
A: Not permenant weapons, but iconic class abilities.
Q: Will players will be able to change their looks, like hair color, facial features?
A: In the "short term," there is a plan to allow players to customize their characters post-creation.
Q: Will legacy buffs apply to party or just solo?
A: Yes legacy buffs will apply to party, potential to create unique party dynamics.
Q: Will there be legacy banks for characters?
A: It is in the pipeline behind guild banks, along with mail restrictions being lifted to help alleviate issues.
Q: Additional character slots per character?
A: No current plans, but noted desire.
Q: Will class buffs become cross-faction?
A: Yes, but they will not stack, and become faction appropriate.
Q: How likely will endgame flashpoints gear be transferrable to alt. characters?
A: No current concept for that, but there are Legacy items available for alt. characters.
Q: Will dual spec'ing come to Legacy rewards?
A: Multi-spec is coming, not just dual-spec. Not coming in 1.2.
Q: Any plans to be available to change your Legacy names?
A: Currently in the works, but currently only available through in-game tickets and customer service. Will become an automatic service in the future, either through time or payment.
Q: Is there a current cap to Legacy levels?
A: Legacy level cap is 50 currently.
Starting questions from the livestream.
Q: Any plan to give some form of crafting advantage through Legacy?
A: Crafting beginning to be more BoE, less BoP. Ship droids sell crafting mods for your droids, including voice restraining-bolt.
Q: What about companions, can they be put in family tree?
A: Not right now.
Q: Are we likely going to see cosmetic ship upgrades from Legacy in the future?
A: There will be cosmetic ship upgrades, but not neccesarily from Legacy.
Q: How can an Agent use the Force?
A: Point of the Legacy is that Force using abilities runs strongly through families.
Q: How will Heroic abilities affect open-world PvP?
A: It will make it interesting, open-world PvP is more like the wild, wild west.
Panel concluded.
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