An update on Republic Trooper and a massive thank you to all of our readers!

Written By: Andy Muchmore

This past week, July 2nd to be exact, Republic Trooper turned 1 – happy birthday RT! Although it is our birthday week, I felt it was appropriate to update all of you with the status of RT as a whole. Obviously over the past several months things have slowed to a crawl and I would like to personally address the situation.

Three years ago a very good friend of mine, Dave, approached me with the idea of RepublicTrooper.com. At the time I was neck deep in other projects and I was unavailable to help out, even though I was eagerly following the development of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Over the years I would get phone calls, emails, texts, and the like asking if and when I would be available to “make it happen.” Around May of last year I was finally in a place where I could offer my services to Dave and help build Republic Trooper from the ground up. After several months of planning and development RT saw its first public reader and we were off to the races!

Since that time RT has seen tremendous growth and acceptance within the overall Star Wars: The Old Republic community – and I have to say, all of us cannot thank you enough for being readers, listeners, fans, and for not only playing the Trooper class in game, but being believers in BioWare and SWTOR to begin with. When RT went live we were woefully late to the game, in terms of established fan sites, but we did this for the love of the game, the love of the class, and to be honest – the love of the company that made it all happen. As long time gamers we had faith that a company like BioWare would, without a doubt, blow our minds with their new MMO.

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When the weekend rolls around it’s time to relax, grab a cold one, sit down with your squad, and catch up on some scuttlebutt. RT is here to provide you with some things that are worthy of talking about over a good pint with a few friends.

It’s Friday Troopers and that means it’s time for another edition of The Weekend Furlough! This past week was no stranger to exciting and informative news from a variety of sources within the TOR community. Among some of the hotter topics were the Legacy System, the Trooper in PvP, and PvP gear.

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Earlier this week Dave, Andy, and Mike from Republic Trooper had the pleasure of hanging out with the gang from Galactic Public Radio as guests on their podcast “All Classes Considered.”

The topic of discussion was, of course, the Trooper Class and a lot of ground was covered in the discussion. Leveling, Storyline, Skill Trees, Healing, DPS, Tanking, PvP, Operations, and even going commando!

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When the weekend rolls around it’s time to relax, grab a cold one, sit down with your squad, and catch up on some scuttlebutt. RT is here to provide you with some things that are worthy of talking about over a good pint with a few friends.

Every Friday in The Weekend Furlough we try to cover three or four topics that are active in the TOR community and send our readers out to some of the many great fan sites that cover them. After all, we’re not just fans of the game, or even Star Wars – we’re fans of the TOR community at large.

However, this week will be a little bit different. Instead of the usual variety of topics, we’re going to focus on one: Ask A Jedi.

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Nothing prepares a Trooper more for deployment than having the most up to date intelligence direct from the battlefield. If you’re looking for the latest and greatest Trooper intel, you’ve come to the right place.

Patch 1.2 Is Now Live On The PTRs, Mega Patch Notes Released

Late Friday night BioWare released Patch 1.2 onto the TOR Public Test Realms. Anyone can now apply to play, and more importantly test the changes coming in the 1.2 release.

For those players lucky enough to get an invite to the PTRs there are a few perks you can receive. If you play a character to level 10 you will get an exclusive in-game title for all of your characters once Patch 1.2 goes live. Additionally, if you complete Chapter One on the PTRs you will receive a second exclusive in-game title for all of your characters!

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