Star Wars Galaxies live update 2 improves Entertainers, Medics

by Michael Zenke Mar 15th 2008 at 11:00AM

The second major live update to Star Wars Galaxies was pushed to the servers on Thursday! This continues the new SWG team commitment to regular bugfixes and updates in between their larger content drops, called 'Chapters'. We got a tease of this update's content last week, and most of what was hinted at by the developers has shown up in the official patch notes.

Highlights include:

Many changes to the Entertainer class (hence the image above). Those lucky performers now have a new instrument, the ability to pause during songs or do solos, new colors for instruments and props, and several long-awaited bug fixes.
Changes to the Medic class were prevalent in the update as well. Backline healers were tweaked in a number of statistical ways - primarily aimed at making them more viable in combat.
The 57-month veteran awards were added to the game.
Minor changes to the Bounty Hunter, Trader, and Smuggler classes
Improvements to the UI, including a more useful buff interface and a number of UI bugfixes.
A number of miscellaneous fixes that generally clean up the world a bit. My personal favorite: "The Feather Duster and Flower Bouquet now properly follow prop rules. This means they cannot be equipped in combat and only entertainers can dual wield them."