General

• Improved response time for ability activation requests in low-framerate situations.
• Implemented further improvements to ability responsiveness and client-side anticipation of ability executions.
• The activation bar now appears at the correct time (when the activation of an ability begins) and disappears when activation is complete.
• If Sprint was active when a player died, it now remains active when the player is revived.
• Abilities on cooldown are now more easily distinguished from abilities that can be used.

Jedi Knight

Sentinel

• Pacify: This ability can no longer be used on Operation Boss enemies.

Watchman

• Plasma Blades: Now increases damage dealt by burn effects by 5% per point.
• Searing Saber: Now correctly modifies the critical damage dealt by burn effects.
• Changes to Searing Saber and Plasma Blades result in an overall increase in Damage Per Second.

Sith Warrior

Marauder

• Obfuscate: This ability can no longer be used on Operation Boss enemies.

Annihilation

• Hemorrhage: Now increases damage dealt by bleed effects by 5% per point.
• Bleedout: Now correctly modifies critical damage dealt by bleed effects.
• Changes to Hemorrhage and Bleedout result in an overall increase in Damage Per Second.

Jedi Consular

General

• Unity: Now properly provides damage reduction when used.

Shadow

• All Techniques now cost 100 Force.
• Force Technique’s Force Breach now also deals damage when applied. Overall damage dealt by this ability has not changed.

Kinetic Combat

• Technique Mastery: No longer increases the duration of Force Technique’s Breach effect. It now increases the damage dealt by Force Technique.
• Particle Acceleration: This skill now also triggers from Spinning Strike. It now triggers from damage dealt (rather than ability use) such that each hit of Spinning Strike, Double Strike, and Whirling blow have an individual chance to yield the Particle Acceleration buff. The chance to trigger has been reduced to 30% per hit, and it now properly increases the critical damage dealt by Project when a Force Potency charge is consumed.
• Harnessed Shadows: Stacks of Harnessed Shadows now last 30 seconds. Using Slow Time now yields a stack of Harnessed Shadows.

Infiltration

• Circling Shadows: Now requires the purchase of the Shadow Technique skill. Shadow Technique must be active in order to trigger the Circling Shadows buff. This skill now also triggers from Spinning Strike.

Balance (Shared Tree)

• Force Focus: Now additionally lowers the cooldown of Force Breach while Force Technique is active.
• Force Strike: Now triggers from activating melee attacks that hit a target affected by Force Technique’s Breach effect. This effect now triggers more easily but cannot trigger as frequently.
• Force in Balance: Heals the caster for 1% of maximum health for each target struck. This healing effect can no longer crit and no longer consumes Force Potency charges.
• Psychic Absorption: Now doubles the amount of healing generated by Force in Balance and Focused Insight.

Sith Inquisitor

Assassin

• All Saber Charges now cost 100 Force.
• Lightning Charge’s Discharge now also deals damage when applied. Overall damage dealt by this ability has not changed.

Darkness

• Charge Mastery: No longer increases the duration of Lightning Charge’s Discharge effect. It now increases the damage dealt by Lightning Charge.
• Energize: This skill now also triggers from Assassinate. It now triggers from damage dealt (rather than ability use) such that each hit of Assassinate, Thrash, and Lacerate have an individual chance to yield the Energize buff. The chance to trigger has been reduced to 30% per hit.
• Harnessed Darkness: Stacks of Harnessed Darkness now last 30 seconds. Using Wither now yields a stack of Harnessed Darkness.

Deception

• Induction: Now requires the Surging Charge skill to be purchased and requires that Surging Charge is active in order to trigger the Induction buff. This skill now also triggers from Assassinate.

Madness (Shared Tree)

• Crackling Charge: Now additionally lowers the cooldown of Discharge while Lightning Charge is active.
• Raze: Now triggers from activating melee attacks that hit a target affected by Lightning Charge’s Discharge effect. This effect now triggers more easily but cannot trigger as frequently.
• Death Field: Heals the caster for 1% of maximum health for each target struck. This healing effect can no longer crit and no longer consumes Recklessness charges.
• Devour: Now doubles the amount of healing generated by Death Field and Parasitism.

Smuggler

Gunslinger

Sharpshooter

• Diversion: This ability can no longer be used on Operation Boss enemies.

Imperial Agent

Sniper

Marksmanship

• Diversion: This ability can no longer be used on Operation Boss enemies.

Bounty Hunter

Powertech

Advanced Prototype

• Hydraulic Overrides: Visual and sound effects are now easier to recognize.

Trooper

General

• Troopers can now access their ship after leaving and returning to Corellia within 30 minutes.

Vanguard

Tactics

• Hold the Line: Visual and sound effects are now easier to recognize.

General

• Companion Characters no longer occasionally appear unclothed when summoned.

Companions

Doc

• Crazy Talk (mission): Male characters can now complete the conversation related to this mission.

Crafting Skills

• Crafting skills no longer inform the player that no missions are defined for the Crew Skill.

Biochem

• Energized and Exotech stims and adrenals no longer require Biochem to use.
• Energized and Exotech stims and adrenals are no longer bound, allowing them to be traded or sold to other players.
• Rakata reusable stims and adrenals have been reduced in power, providing buffs equal to Energized stims and adrenals.
• The Exotech Med Unit schematic obtained from the Eternity Vault Operation now functions properly and can be learned.

Gathering Skills

• Slightly lowered the amount of resources gathered from harvested droids and creatures.

General

• Players are now able to obtain destined loot from chests when Master Looter is enabled and they are not the Master Looter.

Flashpoints

The False Emperor

• Jindo Krey’s ship no longer occasionally enters a state that prevents it from taking damage.

Kaon Under Siege

• Infected Mercenaries can no longer permanently stun players.

Operations

Eternity Vault

• Soa no longer resets if he uses Mind Trap on the main tank.

Karagga’s Palace

• The chest that is awarded for defeating Karagga on Nightmare Mode no longer appears partially inside a wall and now properly spawns.
• Foreman Crusher’s Perforating Rend now correctly applies itself to targets caught within the conical attack.
• Jarg & Sorno: The Carbonizer Probe no longer disappears if all of the players who attacked it died before the Carbonizer Probe was destroyed.
• Karagga no longer appears above portions of the walls during the fight.

General

• Rakata weapons are now correctly rating 140 and are fitted with mark 25 modifications. These items were previously less powerful than intended.
• The number of commendations in Champion and Battlemaster Bags has been greatly increased, and the direct item trade tokens appear less frequently in Champion Bags. This change allows players to obtain PvP gear at a steady and significantly more predictable rate with an occasional bonus.

Vendors

• It is no longer possible to purchase items while holding down the Shift, Alt, or Ctrl keys.

General

• The Legacy Experience required to advance to Legacy Levels beyond 20 has been increased.

General

• Commendation rewards for Hard Mode Flashpoint daily and weekly missions and Operation weekly missions have been increased.

Missions

Imperial

• General Faraire: Khourlet’s Elite Guards no longer hide behind a door, preventing progression in this mission.
• Last Stand: Players are now able to complete this mission as long as the Voss Scholars are inside the prison cell.
• The Big Show: Using Force Cloak, dying, or leaving the phase while on the step “Defeat the Screaming Blade Cultists” can no longer cause the necessary NPCs to disappear and prevent mission progress.

Republic

• Leave Nothing Behind: The Frozen Biomass Container now remains lootable if the loot window is closed.
• Most Wanted: A mission item can no longer be rolled on if it is looted while the player is in a group.
• Need to Impress: Players can now speak to Ambassador Jannik if they have already completed the mission Gormak Country.
• The Lightspring: The toughness of Vaverone Zare and Nariel Pridence has been decreased. This mission can no longer be failed.
• The Shadow Fist: Mission progress for players who are on this mission has been reset to the first step. Players can no longer become locked out of the stealth generator room.

Bug Fixes

• Bonus Series missions on Tatooine can now be abandoned.

World PvP

Ilum

• Particle Cannons can no longer be permanently disabled.
• Players now receive notification when they kill a target that is not worth Valor due to being killed too recently.

General

• The speed of enemy Ion Cannons has been reduced to improve balance in high-level Space Combat Missions.

General

• The reverse engineering button no longer occasionally disappears after a crafting skill is initially learned.

• Loading screens no longer appear in low resolution if the player selects the low-resolution texture option in preferences.
• Facial animations no longer fail to play correctly in some instances.
• During brief teleports, the splash screen does not appear incorrectly over loading screens.
• Players will no longer experience limited audio, black portraits, or the inability to initiate conversations when they reconnect after being disconnected.

• The min-spec shader option allows faster rendering, at a reduced quality. This option also turns shadows and bloom off.

• Our shadow options are High / Low / None, where:

1. The ‘High’ option renders full shadows
2. The ‘Medium’ option renders only ‘blob’ shadow discs under characters.
3. The ‘None’ option removes even the ‘blob’ shadows.

As you might expect, your choice of shadow setting can heavily impact frame-rate. High shadows will be, comparatively, much more taxing on your system.

• Our texture options are High / Low. We are planning an additional setting for character textures, closer to the quality seen in cinematic scenes, which is under development right now.

• Our anti-aliasing options are High / Low / Off. Depending on your system, these options represent different levels of jagged edge smoothing.
• Anti-aliasing is one of our more system-taxing features, and we do not recommend using it when running a video card with less than 1GB of memory. Keep in mind that the ‘performance cost’ is greater at higher resolutions.
• Note: anti-aliasing is temporarily disabled for AMD 6900 series cards, due to severe graphical artifacts. We are working with AMD to resolve this bug, and we will re-enable the option for the 6900 series as soon as possible.

• Window mode options are Fullscreen / Fullscreen (windowed) / Windowed, where:

1. ‘Fullscreen’ is what we refer to as ‘Fullscreen exclusive mode’. This option gives you the best frame-rate of the three, but it comes with a trade-off of having to reinitialize the display if you tab away from the game and back.
2. ‘Fullscreen (windowed)’ is really just a borderless window that stretches to fill your screen. You lose out on the slight performance gain of ‘Fullscreen’, but you can now tab back to the program seamlessly.
3. ‘Windowed’ is as straightforward as you might expect. If you feel that you’ve gotten the best frame-rate out of this setting, keep in mind that it all comes back to how much resolution you are prepared to sacrifice.

• Missing technology that would cause an unplayable scenario. To be more specific, we require SSE3, introduced in late 2004.
• Missing PlatformInfo.dll file (part of the SWTOR client).
• Failure to create a Direct3D device – usually caused by an absent or outdated graphics card driver.

• We’ve read that some mobile graphics cards might not appropriately set their performance profile when running SWTOR. You can correct this by going to your graphics control panel and manually setting up a profile.
• Disabling Windows Aero can also improve performance slightly.
• And, of course, shutting down background programs can only help.

• SWTOR has the capacity to heavily utilize your system. If you are running the game with high graphics settings, this is especially true. System flaws or inadequacies that might not be evident when idling or playing other games could possibly be exposed when you are running SWTOR, especially in moments that put extra pressure on your system (PVP, Operations, etc.) To name a few things you should look out for:

1. Ensure that your power supply is not failing and that it supplies enough juice to power your system.
2. For temperature considerations, it’s also worth checking that the power supply fan is working properly. Also ensure that your PC case is properly ventilated and your airflow is unobstructed.
3. Ensure that your PC is clean and your system is not clogged with dust and dirt.
4. We recommend taking appropriate precautions (monitoring and cooling) if you are overclocking your hardware. Our advice is to dial things back to the manufacturer’s recommended settings until your system failures are resolved.

• Blue Screens are displayed when Windows encounters a critical error. Errors of this nature are usually hardware or driver related.

1. We’ve provided some information here in the CS forums about ways to narrow down and identify the root cause of a given error. Windows tends to log this information, and those logs are a good point to begin an investigation.

• Time of day you feel latency is worst (if it is restricted to a particular time of day, please include your timezone)
• Your traceroute output at the time you are experiencing the issue using the 'code' tag (see below for details)
• Your traceroute output when you are not experiencing the issue as a comparison

Tracing route to 159.153.92.28 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  ***
  2     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  aus-brdr-01.twtelecom.net [207.114.255.13]
  3    68 ms    39 ms    40 ms  ash1-pr1-xe-0-3-0-0.us.twtelecom.net [66.192.240.218]
  4    42 ms    42 ms    42 ms  64.125.199.186.t00673-01.above.net [64.125.199.186]
  5    42 ms    43 ms    42 ms  159.153.92.28

Trace complete.

• As mentioned in my blog a few days ago, there are some additional fixes currently on our public test server as part of patch 1.1.1, which will roll out as soon as we're satisfied with that patch.
  
• We've heard your mixed feedback regarding the new cooldown animation that was part of patch 1.1, and we have improvements to the readability of that UI coming down the pipe.
  
• We're looking into improving the accuracy of cast bars. Their behavior should already be significantly improved with today's patch, but we believe there is still room to improve.
  
• We're also working on improvements to the responsiveness of individual ability animations, including faction specific timing differences and issues where shortening an ability activation time does not properly shorten it's animation.

• Fixed an issue that could cause graphical inconsistencies, which most often manifested as random screen "flickering."