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Currently on Tatooine with dailies and event rewards and whatnot.

Starts as an area event north of the Republitard base in the Dune Sea.

I ran the two sets of area quests and ended up with 10 tokens and an orange piece of social (light) armor. To buy the crystals from the vendor (who is found just north of the first area quest), it's 75-85 tokens. Mmo is such a shoddy genre, here do this eight times in a row to get a single crystal. Yeah, that's fun.

Every time you die of the rakghoul plague, you get 5 tokens. On my server, everyone's standing around in big groups exploding all over each other to get infected.  :ye_gods:  :why_so_serious:

Seriously?  Who in their right mind at BW thought this was a hot idea?!   :uhrr:

That sounds like it could build a community.

So that's what that was?   :uhrr:

Well, it's one way to keep people from complaining about it the way they did with Blizzard's version of this world event.

I think it's pretty cool myself. It's green-black color crystals. You have plenty of other easier ways to get equally good crystals, so if you want to play laser dressup you get to do some event stuff.

The tokens also aren't bound so you can buy them or sell them or get some on an alt and send them to your main or whatever.

It's actually quite civilized compared to most other Zombie Cancer AIDS-type events as you can just buy a six hour immunity/cure for $2k credits from any Medical Droid and completely ignore it.

Without a LFG tool no one knows how to group together to plague each other. 

Do we know how long it lasts? I'm currently stuck trying to trouble shoot our CEO's iPad roaming issue from across the globe.   :oh_i_see:

So I learned there's actually two pets you can get from this.  Spoilered in case you want to be surprised.

You don't have to be in a group to get infected by other people.  At least on Terentatek, there's just a cluster of players standing at the port location for Imp Fleet AFK blowing up on each other.

Same as Republic Shien, just a bunch of us chillin' in the middle, blowing up on each other.

There's also a quest to get that you can get when you get to Tatooine - but the method of getting it won't be exposed by me coz I don't want to get attacked by those who aren't informed.

 :grin:

Pets and cool color crystals.  Bah.  Now I'm going to have to find one of these afk groups. :sad:

Why? You don't need a group unless you're going after the world bosses.

Group as in a clump of people.  I'd like to gather badges without having to do anything, because I'm sure as hell not doing dailies more than once or twice.

Just stand in the pile at the PVP vendor if you're trying to get infected. People keep dying there somehow, if you can figure out how, you can get the motherlode.

I found out you don't even have to wait to explode. If you're killed during the "Feverish" state by anything, you get the tokens and you explode and infect others. So now there's groups of flagged Republic and Empire players standing by the vendor kill-trading each other to quickly farm tokens. Leave it to MMO players to always find the path of least resistance.  :grin:

It seems to be expanding to other planets, so between that and getting 5 thingies every time you explode (and you will explode) it isn't clear to me that you'll ever even have to repeat the dailies much at all.

If you just want a guide of all the quests: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=415875

Contains SPOILERS and etc.

So there are 8 total new companion customizations, one for each base class on each side.  Which you get from a box is random and you can get duplicates.  They are legacy bound though, so if you get one for a companion on an alt you can send it to that alt.  I'll spoiler the list in case someone wants to be surprised by which they get:


Sjofn bonus:

Fuckin' Corso.

The more fun varient is get infected then do pvp. When you die while feverish you spread the goo so pretty much everybody in pvp is infected so its a pretty fast way to spread infection for that daily and to get infected and blow up.

Oh and you can also buy a case that has a random companion look customization. Downside is its totally random but it basically gives them the feaverish look with the glowing eyes and the green aura around them. Curious if there is one for m14x.

Edit oops did not see somebody had a list hum zombie healer I may have to try to get it. Now if only they allow me to turn companion helmets off.

Looks like we have a week from today before the even ends.  Ends on the 24th (night of the 23rd). (http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=4013846#edit4013846)

Ouch, I guess I might have just enough time to get a single crystal if I do dailies every night or take part in the retarded sitting around and exploding stuff. Blech, times like this I hate being a whore for cool costume stuff.

Also, I found that apparently there are some more quests, I got one from a clicky object in the crash zone to inspect 4 crashed lifepods that gave a couple tokens and another piece of the social armor set (gloves). Leads me to believe there are at least three quests I'm missing (hat, pants, chest), since socials don't seem to include belts.

Also, anyone know how to get the title(s)?

They're adding the social armor quests one per day it seems like. The gloves one was new yesterday, it wasn't there on the first day.

I've only exploded once or twice extra (you'll explode once or twice just naturally while doing the quests) and I'm over halfway to a crystal after doing the dailies twice through; I think one crystal is pretty easily doable but getting two probably is more trouble than I'll bother with.

It also seems that they have set it up to where the dailies open up for you on an individual basis.  For example, I didn't get to take part the first day of the event, so yesterday, when the escape pod quest was apparently added, I could not start it.  It did not become available until today, and the one that they apparently added today did not trigger for me.  So if you're going to try for a full set of social gear, best get started now. 

Don't forget that DNA samples aren't bound, so you can buy them from people who have more time to waste than you.
The prices can be stupid but from what I've heard you can make loads of credits at 50 now so some of you may be able to get crystals from grinding more interesting things and then paying someone thats done the boring bit.

I did 75 DNA samples yesterday while doing laundry.  Just ran by every 10 minutes and shook the mouse so I didn't log off (resets your timer).  Jumped off the VIP bar when I saw I was Feverish.  Wasn't horribly annoying and I got my saber crystal.  Now I want one for Xalek. I think it would look good on a double saber.

People are selling the saber crystals for 600k on my server. I would expect that to go down with all the people I saw farming DNA samples while afk. But who knows. There are still a lot of people with some deep pockets just in my guild that may be buying them all to sell later.

Apparently the title is from killing all three bosses associated with the quest. I got in on a group that killed one by the sarlacc, but missed the other two (at the time I didn't know it was a thing).

Also, one of the dailies (with social pants) is reported to only show up after you've done both the light and dark options for the infected sand people cure thing. I'd put that in spoiler tags if it weren't so dumb. Someone said you also have to have killed the 3 bosses, hope that's not true.

I did some afk and got to about 60 something tokens. If a game is going to make you grind for rewards, I'd rather do something where I can watch tv and drink. Also, that's shitty game design. But it beats attended grinding dailies.

If you get stuck at the first level of infected, inject yourself with a vaccine then clear the buff, or kill yourself.  It seems either transitioning areas or being logged out in that state can get it stuck so you never progress.

It'd been a total waste of my time last night if I hadn't been nursing a migraine and wasn't up to more than feebly chatting.

How long does it normally take? And once you are infected, do you stay infected through death? I haven't quite grokked the mechanics of it yet. I did enjoy infecting people in Hutt Ball though. We should get a guild team together one of these nights...so far every Imp team I have been on has gotten absolutely stomped. Republics on our server are running premades and just killing.

About 10 minutes for each phase.  At which point you explode.  If you splatter on anyone in your death throes, then you get 5 DNA.

Further, there is a daily related to infecting others if you have some of the codex entries when it happens.

This is not true on both counts.  You just have to have done the previous day's dailies, including the one for the gloves.

Edit: I know this isn't true because I've done it with a character who did kill all three bosses and only chose the lightside option for the sand people and I also did it with a character who didn't kill any bosses (only level 35) and only chose the darkside sand people option.  Both characters got the social pants no problem.

Actually, you get the 5 DNA for exploding regardless of whether you infect anyone else or not.  Infecting people is just for that one mission, which only gets you more vaccines.

As for death and the infection, it might be buggy but I think if you have the Lightheaded debuff it won't go away on death but if you have the Fevered debuff you explode when you die, so it goes away plus you get the DNA.  I think that's how it works.

Ok, cool. I'm hoping they give a couple grace period days to catch up, I'm already a day or two behind. Just have boots and gloves.

Yeah the only reason to be in the clump is so you can easily get reinfected if that's your goal. The daily for infecting 10 people is sort of useless.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=4013846#edit4013846

I can confirm you do not need to spatter on anyone to get 5 dna.

Well, that's even better then.  Since I had been bugged from the beginning, I had to go on rumor.

I don't like this progressive daily though.

I was stuck today too. Appearantly you can get stuck at all stages. Taking a vaccine then clicking off the immune buff works nicely

Yeah, fastest way per time investment seems to be: Get infected in fleet, wait until feverish, then leap into one of the convenient chasms. 5 DNA, no repair bill, and a free trip back to the clump of infected people. Just tried it, and it works fine.

I ran through the first day of dailies and blew up in the fleet yesterday. I appreciate that they're trying to do world events, but they need to do better than this. A game event where players are encouraged to spend the majority of their gametime afk is a bad game event. Props to them for trying to let the news about the event come from the game instead of hyping it up on the website months in advance, but the draw-back to not testing the event with players is pretty obvious to see.

Honestly, if all you want is the pet, a crystal and maybe a box or two, you really won't need to do that if you just do the dailies.  Which are pretty fast to do.  I'm wondering how many of the people doing the fleet farming are just doing it to stock up on crystals to sell later.

If you suicide on the fleet you can nab 5 tokens every ten minutes. I was just reading or playing with the cat most of the time I was on. Crappy that it can be gamed like that, but at least it's a way to get a cool saber without raiding or tons of pvp. There wasn't really a good way for solo players to get cool crystals.

I hope to grab a few, it's low hanging fruit to get some expertise and I want a couple for my sith alts.

I wouldn't say that the way we are doing it is encouraged.
You get the DNA whether you infect another person or not and the main way they set up for you to get the infection is by being hit by infected creatures while participating in the event.
These two things mean that the best way to do it for DNA over time is by doing dailies while infected.
Players have just found a way to do it while AFK

I agree that they have implemented the event badly, mainly because there isn't enough active content for those that want to spend lots of time in the game and because of how buggy the virus is.
Hopefully thier next attempt will improve on this one.

Technically at this point with the addition of the 'daily' dailies (the social armor quests), you're correct. 4 DNA for the area dailies, 3 for the 'daily' dailies (if you don't take the social armor), right now will net you 20 DNA. Figuring roughly 45 minutes or so to run through (I don't hurry, but I don't lollygag - I had done the Passenger List and whole Tusken area chain by the time Lantyssa got to the Tusken area, saw her as I left), so another 10 for 2 esplodes. Might be a bit longer, since I'm two dailies behind right now.

But that doesn't take into account messing with the buggy infection mechanic or having the dailies interrupted by it. If you don't get bugged and can move quickly, it's roughly 45 minutes for 30 DNA doing the dailies while infected vs 30 DNA per hour of fleet suiciding, with dailies gaining as more are added so long as they aren't very time-consuming.

As I said, I prefer being able to get the rewards vs every other cool thing they've added that I've been unable to attain, so I'm biased.

Man, this event is more annoying as Empire. So far Balmorra is the only thing I like BETTER Empire-side, what is that about.

BIOWARE Y U H8 EMPIRE

Whats the difference?

So, just how many ways have Bioware (Austin) managed to f**k this up anyway?

Implemented a very limited duration event with no way for players to find out about it other than stumbling across it or hearing about it from other players.

Arranged the event as a progression guaranteeing NOBODY who starts in on the quest after the third(?) day of it (or who misses more than a day or two) can possibly do all of it or get all of the rewards.

Made involvement in the event involuntary until you learn how to avoid it.

Made avoiding involvement be a short-term opt-out that requires repeatedly diverting from what you wanted to do to spend in-game cash to get a temporary vaccine.

Stacked this involuntary involvement on the existing asinine pvp-flagging mechanic whereby you will be involuntarily flagged for pvp if someone from the opposing faction manages to be within range of you when you blow up even if you are on a pve server with no interest in pvp whatsoever.

Made repeated deaths an inevitable consequence of participating (voluntarily or not) in the event. So much for immersion, story continuity, or having any chance of role-playing some excuse for you being alive again a few minutes after BLOWING UP AND SPLATTERING YOUR GUTS ALL OVER THE PLACE.

Incentivized the players to exploit the event by pricing rewards way more than even a few repeats of the limited content would pay for, and released it into the wild with glaringly exploitable mechanics.

So anyway, I'm not playing, having given up on this batch of arrogant incompetent screw ups months ago, so I'm just kibbitzing this fiasco from the sidelines.  So what am I missing?  :popcorn:

You've blown all of that incredibly out of proportion and are looking for shit to bitch about.

Every six hours, oh nose! The only part of your post that was really correct was "So anyway, I'm not playing". That's pretty evident.

It's more spread out and doesn't have as nice a circuit as the Republic has. Plus the Republic has a flight point about a foot away from the daily area, the Empire has to drive a decent amount to get to it.

As far as Empire side, it had something of a flow to it, though it's definitely not always close. Liked how they put the jawa part in two spots, one flowed great for Imps...then they only gave one spot for dewbacks back at the secondary jawa spot. If you could get the dewback and jawa stuff from the first area, it would flow for Imps doing the passenger list then moving on to the second area. Ah, well. One more day for the belt and I'm probably done with it.

I bought a +end crystal for my jugg and a +crit for my sorc. Thinking of either buying one in case I make an assassin (+crit?) or maybe buying a +expertise for both the jugg and sorc. RNG boxes for the companion customizations is teh suxx0rz.

Amusingly, the person I most want a crystal for is the least able to get one.  WTB cross-faction mail boxes.

WTB? You can mail stuff across factions now.

That'll be 100000 credits, thankyouverymuch.

Yeah you can mail yourself a crystal no problem now. :P

WHY DID NO ONE MENTION THIS!?!

Gods.  I've been doing annoying black market transfers.  Argh!

NO SHIT WHAT THATS AWESOME

Time to git me to craftin'. Dammit. Also going to get Sky a crystal, I think.

I mentioned it in guild chat a bunch of times.  Where were you?  :-P

On my Sith.  You should have sent me a mail from the Republic side. :-P

I stayed safely on Voss through most of it so I never got the blow-ups.

I'd still probably like a crystal though.  :oh_i_see:

About 2.5 hours of idling should do it for a crystal. :why_so_serious:

The dailies are quite decent though, unless you are doing them at peak hours when everyone is standing around the same spawns.

Or just buy the samples if you are credit-heavy, prices seem to drop each day. The only thing you can't get anymore if you haven't started yet is the full social suit.

Its not like the social suit is super cool looking or anything, too.

Only piece I absolutely wanted from it was the pants for my inquisitor. Because [omg, not a skirt]!

Nevermore never shut up about it, it's not our fault you didn't hear about it! :P

We totally brought her to the dark side.

We've got lightning. Lightning is cool.

She obviously recognized the importance of it.  Y'all simply failed to recognize the importance of telling me. :-P