SWGOH Cantina Update and Game Changes

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  • Cantina Update
  • Fey’s Cantina has been remodeled with updated models and textures. Cantina patrons are more varied and occasionally move. Important information is now surfaced directly in the Cantina. Navigation has been streamlined, and separate rooms for guilds and ships are removed.
  • Cantina Table Updates
  • Coliseum/Marquee: Visually updated.
  • Arena: Table now provides top-level info about Arena ranks and GAC rounds.
  • Guilds: New table for guild info and management.
  • Raids: New table for guild raid information.
  • Guild Events: New table for Territory War or Territory Battle information.
  • Campaigns: Includes all campaigns, Fleet and Mod campaigns.
  • Events: Shows active Event cards. Includes a new Challenges tab for Challenges and Ship Challenges. Events now unlock at level 15, reduced from level 20.
  • Basic Training Events unlock levels have been shifted down.
  • Galactic Battles: Top-level information on Conquest and Galactic War runs.
  • Scavenger: Visual update, character Rillik revealed.
  • Access to Shipments and the Store remains at the bar.
  • Campaign Restructuring (Goes live one day after the Cantina update)
  • Light Side, Dark Side, Cantina, and Mod campaigns have content overhauls, representing specific Star Wars moments with new enemies.
  • Structural and Reward Changes
  • Reduced encounters per battle; most now have 1 encounter, with 1-2 battles per tier and a 2nd “boss” encounter.
  • 7 new battles added to each of the Light Side (Hard) and Dark Side (Hard) campaigns, across tiers 6-9.
  • Cantina Battles have a new 9th tier with 7 additional battles. First-time rewards include Zeta and Omicron materials.
  • Omicron drops moved from Tier 8 to Tier 9 battles (0.75% drop rate, increased from 0.5%). Tier 9 battles cost 20 energy (up from 16).
  • Tier 8 nodes that previously dropped Omicron now drop Zeta materials instead (1% drop rate).
  • Mod Battles reduced from 9 tiers to 2.
  • Tier 1: Same rewards as Mod Challenges Tier 3, costs 10 Mod Energy per battle.
  • Tier 2: Identical to previous Tier 9, rewards Mod Slicing materials, unlocks at player level 60.
  • Mod Challenges will be permanently removed from the game once campaign changes go live. Quests requiring completion will be updated or removed.
  • Story Alignment by Campaign
  • LS/DS Normal: Tier 1 - Episode I, Tier 2 - Episode II, Tier 3 - The Clone Wars, Tier 4 - Episode III, Tier 5 - Episode IV, Tier 6 - Episode V, Tier 7 - Episode VI, Tier 8 - Episode VII, Tier 9 - Episode VIII & IX.
  • LS/DS Hard: Tier 1 & 2 - The Clone Wars, Tier 3 - The Bad Batch, Tier 4 & 5 - Rebels, Tier 6 - Andor, Tier 7 - Rogue One, Tier 8 - Legends, Tier 9 - Ahsoka.
  • Cantina Battles: Tier 1 - Jedi: Fallen Order, Tier 2 - Solo, Tier 3 - Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tier 4 - Doctor Aphra, Tier 5, 6, & 8 - The Mandalorian, Tier 7 - The Book of Boba Fett, Tier 9 - Legends.
  • Mod Battles: Tier 1 - Battlefront & The Acolyte, Tier 2 - Tales of the Empire, Tales of the Jedi, & Skeleton Crew.
  • Farming and Economy Changes (Will go live with updated campaign content)
  • Farming Node Changes
  • Light Side Hard
  • LS Hard 2-C: 8th Brother moved from LS Hard 6-E, replaces BT-1.
  • LS Hard 3-C: Vulture Droid moved from LS Hard 4-D, joins CX-2.
  • LS Hard 4-D: TIE Defender moved from Fleets Hard 3-B, replaces Vulture Droid, joins Iden Versio.
  • LS Hard 6-E: Added IG-88, replaces 8th Brother, joins IG-2000.
  • LS Hard 6-F: (New node) Droideka moved from LS Hard 8-B.
  • LS Hard 7-F: (New node) Jango Fett moved from LS Hard 8-D.
  • LS Hard 8-B: Added Cad Bane, replaces Droideka, joins Xanadu Blood.
  • LS Hard 8-D: Bossk moved from DS Hard 9-B, replaces Jango Fett, joins Hounds Tooth.
  • LS Hard 9-F: (New node) Rebel Officer Leia Organa (farmable for the first time).
  • Dark Side Hard
  • DS Hard 2-A: BT-1 moved from LS Hard 2-C, joins 0-0-0.
  • DS Hard 7-F: (New node) Imperial Probe Droid (farmable for the first time).
  • DS Hard 9-F: (New node) Darth Vader (Duel’s End) added.
  • Cantina
  • Cantina 4-C: Kylo Ren’s Command Shuttle moved from LS Hard 9-A, joins Kylo Ren.
  • Cantina 9-A: (New node) Wampa (farmable for the first time).
  • Cantina 9-E: (New node) General Grievous (farmable for the first time).
  • Cantina 9-G: (New node) Hermit Yoda (farmable for the first time).
  • Fleet Hard
  • Fleet Hard 3-B: Added Bistan’s U-wing, replaces TIE Defender, joins Temple Guard.
  • Fleet Hard 5-E: Added TIE Advanced x1, replaces The Mandalorian.
  • Other Economy Changes
  • Omega Battles have updated Event art and rewards. Refresh costs are the same.
  • Tier I: 20x Mk III ability materials.
  • Tier II: 10x Omega ability materials.
  • Tier III: 3x Zeta ability materials.
  • Credits and Ship Building Materials are no longer required to promote a unit’s Star level; only Shards are required.
  • Cantina Currency shipments of Mk I and Mk II character ability materials have increased quantity from 1 to 50. Costs remain the same.
  • The cap on Micro Attenuators has increased from 300 to 1000.
  • Drop Rate Updates (Go live with campaign content update)
  • Training Droids drop in higher qualities and greater quantities in all campaign missions, Training Droid Smuggling & Galactic War.
  • Ship Enhancement Droids drop in higher qualities and greater quantities in campaign missions that previously dropped them.
  • Mk I, Mk II, and Mk III character ability materials drop at higher rates and quantities across all campaign missions that previously dropped them, as well as Galactic War rewards.
  • Journey Guide Reorganization
  • Journeys are redistributed across tiers.
  • Tier 1: Emperor Palpatine, Grand Master Yoda, R2-D2, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Padme Amidala, BB-8.
  • Tier 2: Commander Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, C-3PO, Rey (Jedi Training), The Mandalorian (Beskar Armor), Jedi Knight Cal Kestis, Jedi Knight Revan, Darth Revan, Chimaera.
  • Tier 3: Jedi Master Mace Windu, Jar Jar Binks, Doctor Aphra, Grand Inquisitor, Starkiller, Darth Malak, Han’s Millennium Falcon.
  • Tier 4: Cassian Andor (Undercover), Maul (Hate-Fueled), General Skywalker.
  • Tier 5: Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker, Bo-Katan (Mand’alor), Baylan Skoll, Executor, Profundity, Leviathan.
  • Early-Game Experience
  • Streamlined tutorial flow, minimizing taps/clicks.
  • Era Unit Inventory no longer appears before player level 20 (Coliseum unlock).
  • Tutorial dialogues have new character art. Doctor M’ak Nar, Adjunct Bam Teel, Vryssk, and Garudda the Hutt reassigned; Fey Zara, Shar Seff, and B7-N5 (“Bev.”) now on tutorial duty.
  • Quality-of-Life Changes
  • Mods can now be sold directly from a reward dialog.
  • The button to collapse & expand status effect displays now appears in combat by default; the option to show the button is removed from Settings.
  • Guild reward crates in Raids have more descriptive names.
  • Fleet Battle 5-E (Normal) difficulty significantly reduced.