The Fanatical Swordsman

A very cool high-definition video has been released for Patch 1.2 of Star Wars: The Old Republic, and here are some of the things I saw in it, with additional comments from following the guild summit news.

The video is here.

• New Warzone: Novare Coast (0:32)
• New Operation: Explosive Conflict (0:42)
• New Flashpoint: The Lost Island (0:50)
• Expanded Legacy System (starts at 1:00)
  • Drag-and-Drop Family Tree (1:00)
  • Characters that finish Act 3 grant skills that can be used by any character during Heroic Moment
    • Juggernaut using Flamethrower (1:05)
    • Smuggler using Force Choke (1:07)
  • Mailbox available in ship (1:08)
  • Practice dummies in ship, both raid boss type and player type (1:10)
  • Species of level 50 characters are unlocked for all classes (1:11)
• UI Customization, including Drag-and-Drop feature, profile import and export, and sizing (1:17)
• Improved Character textures (1:24)
• Color Match-to-chest (1:27)
• Mission Tracker usable items (1:29)
• Warzone Lifetime Stats and Ranked Queue interface (1:35)
  • Separate tracking for solo and group stats and queues
  • Counts MVP and badge earnings
  • Will be separated into “Seasons” from the look of things
• Corellia Daily missions (1:38)
• More out-of-combat pets, including baby Tauntauns (1:41)
• Guild banks (1:44)
  • Includes a log of who withdraws what
  • Guildmaster can set parameters on what can and cannot be withdrawn by different ranks in different categories, including consumables and gear
• New gear for all classes (1:47)
  • Smuggler will go from looking like a matador to looking like a Rakatan
  • No idea what is going on with the Knight’s shoulder wings
  • Trooper looks awesome, as per usual
  • Consular is a little revealing!
  • Agent looks like a Power Ranger
  • Warrior looks like a Tarentatek
  • Bounty hunter now has the coolest gear in the game
  • Inquisitor looks like an electro-islander
• A whole slough of very fast moving text (1:50). As many as I could read:
  • New vehicles
  • New lightsaber colors
  • New crafting schematics
  • Ship droids now gain affection
  • Extractable Tier 2 mods (interestingly, no mention of Tier 3)
  • Craftable augments (will be nice to not have to play the lottery)
  • Legacy item drops (which apparently will be bind-on-account and be able to be handed down multiple times)
  • New roleplay emotes
  • Companion gifts will now stack
  • Giving companion gifts will no longer have a cooldown
  • Can now reverse-engineer random drops
  • More craftable color crystals
  • Increased chance of reverse-engineering schematics (Hallelujah!)
  • Crystal Formations on Alderaan (I didn’t realize there weren’t any)
  • Cybertech vehicles no longer Bind-on-pickup
  • Combat log
  • Learnable Tier 2 item crafting
  • Augment slots in Custom crafted gear
  • Trade Vendor added to Corellian Spaceport (woot?)