Hello TORWarriors! It’s been a pretty eventful week in SWTORland and we were able to grasp some of that news for this episode of the TORWars Podcast and bring it to you early.  This week in addition to bringing you the latest and greatest from all things Star Wars: The Old Republic, we have yet another special guest host with lots to talk about, so let’s get on with the show.

No, cutting open a tauntaun is not the kind of operation we’re talking about.

Intro:

Please welcome TORWars Guild member extraordinaire and TOR Team One Ops team leader, Russ aka Ox. We asked our friend and guild mate Ox here to discuss the future of SWTOR and to help us speculate on all the things we can be expecting this summer with the release of major game updates focused on guilds and their Ops teams. The “Summer of SWTOR”, specifically Game Update 2.2: Operation Nightmare, is right around the corner so let’s get on with the show.

News:

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• â— The first TORWars Guild Transmission is up and introduces news about our new Republic Guild
  
• â— Game Update 2.1.1 hit the servers on Thursday.
  
• â— Server Transfers planned to begin on June 4th for Asian Pacific servers and open to ANY server. This is likely to give the players the love they so desire. Will this be the end of the APAC/Oceanic servers since a lot of the concern is that those servers appear empty?
  
• â— Collection Edition Armor Dyes BoP is a bug that was ‘fixed’. What are your thoughts?
  

This week in SWTOR:

Server transfers and Game Update 2.2: Operation Nightmare. Many people seem to be down on this particular update because it seems like it’s just recycled content. What are your thoughts?

Discussion Topic:

With the advent of server transfers, TORWars, among the myriad of other guilds out there, is looking forward to many friends bringing both their Imperial and Republic toons to The Shadowlands! In preparation for this influx of players to our guild, not only have we started a Republic guild, but we have some new Ops groups forming and are looking to fill some spots in our established groups. So, this week we’ve invited our very own TOR Team One Ops Leader, Russ (aka Ox) on board to talk more about Operations complete with tips and tricks for all guilds running Ops at this time.

ShoutOuts:

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• â— Enjin.com
  
• â— TORWars Guild – Shadowlands, Empire
  
• â— PayPal Donations – Thank you so much!!!!
  
• â— Corellian Run Radio
  
• â— Gamersaurs
  
• â— TORWars Featured Articles:
  
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  • â— To Dye or Not to Dye, That is the Question… – A new article up by Jean Prior who also writes our weekly column, Loading Screen
    
  • â— Guild Spotlight by Alice Wilkes: This week Alice shines her light on one of the oldest guilds in-game, Jen’jidai. If you would like to get your guild in the spotlight, contact Alice directly at Alice [at] TORWars [dot] com.
    
  • â— Carnage Gaming takes down Olok The Shadow and Operations Chief, 16M HM
    
  • â— Command Decisions by Major Snarl: The Major gives us tips and advice on keeping your guildies busy during those long summer months when their mates may be on vacation.
    
  • â— SWTOR Loading Screen by Jean Prior: Jean talks about the two most important things in a game besides design and that’s Lore and Voice acting.
    
  
  
  

And that’s the end of episode #154. We hope that you enjoyed it. Should you have any comments, ideas and opinions, please put them in the comments section below.