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Rakghoul Pandemic Dynamic Event Guide–Updated Daily

2012-04-16 21:24:04

Hey everyone, this is Dulfy from dulfy.net. Most of you are probably well informed of the Rakghoul event by now, but for those who are just doing it for a first time, this is a good starting place! The Rakghoul Pandemic a new dynamic event that started on April 15 on the planet of Tatooine. It involves a series of time limited quests about the Rakghoul plague! The rewards you obtain from this event are a title (Containment Officer prefix), 9 Codex entries, 2 Rakghoul vanity pets (Pale and Crimson) a full set of Containment Officer armor set (light armor), special Black Green color crystal, and infected Companion customizations!

This event is not restricted to 50s only. All of the quest mobs do scale to your level but beware that if you are too low to enter Tatooine, you might have a bit trouble with the local residents.

You might need to wait a day to pick up the new dailies if you did not do the dailies since day 1 of the event.

April 16 – New Daily – Passenger List, picked up the same place as the Stardream wreck.

April 17 – New Daily – Hybrid Strain, picked up when you killed Infected Sandpeople in the same area as [AREA DAILY] Outbreak and [DAILY] Blood Sample.

April 18 – New Daily – Pure Virus Sample, picked up in the same location as the Wreck of the Stardream in Dune Sea when you click on a Shipping Manifest.

April 19 – New Daily – Newly Infected, picked up in the same location as [AREA DAILY] Outbreak on a datapad.

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Dailies
Scavenger Hunt – Tracking the Origin
World Bosses
Rakghoul DNA sample and their rewards
Codex Entries
Containment Officer Outfit

Dailies

[DAILY AREA] – Wreck of the Stardream

[DAILY]- Blood Sample

[DAILY]- Passenger List – April 16

New – [DAILY] Pure Virus Sample – April 18

[DAILY AREA ] – Outbreak

NEW – [DAILY]- Hybrid Strain – April 17

[DAILY] – Plaguebringer

To start off all the dailies, you need to head to this location in Dune Sea (Outpost Zaroshe is the closest speeder/Quick travel point for Imperials and Outpost Thorazan for the Republic). Doing these dailies for the first time will reward you with Codex entry 1-4 for the Rakghoul Pandemic event.

Upon entering the area, you will be given a

[DAILY AREA] Wreck of the Stardream- this is a multistep quest and fairly self-explanatory but if you need it, there is a full walkthrough available. Rewards are 7175 credits, 4x Rakghoul DNA Sample and 1x Rakghoul Vaccine. Codex entry 1-2 are obtained from doing this quest for the first time.

Killing any Rakghouls in the area will give you 3x Blood Samples, which starts up

[DAILY] Blood Sample – this is a lead in to the next [DAILY AREA] quests and rewards you with 7175 cedits, 50 LS or DS points, 2x Rakghoul DNA Sample, and a choice of 1x Rakghoul DNA Sample or Containment Officer boots for your faction: http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42049/imperial-containment-officer-boots http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42057/republic-containment-officer-boots

As of April 16, there is a new daily that can be picked up also in the same location as the Wreck of the Stardream

[DAILY] Passenger List – you can read a full walkthrough here. Rewards are 7175 credits, 2x Rakghoul DNA Sample, and a choice of 1x Rakghoul DNA Sample or Containment Officer gloves for your faction: http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42050/imperial-containment-officer-gloves http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42055/republic-containment-officer-gloves

As of April 18, there is a new daily that can be picked up in the same location as the Wreck of the Stardream

[DAILY] Pure Virus Sample - picked up when you click on the Shipping Manifest in the same area as the [AREA DAILY] Wreck of the Stardream. You are then asked head to an outpost (Rennar for Imperials) and grab the samples off the wall inside the building. Rewards you with 2x Rakghoul DNA Sample, and a choice of 1x Rakghoul DNA Sample or Containment Officer Head for your faction: http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42046/imperial-containment-officer-helmet, http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42052/republic-containment-officer-helmet

Doing Blood Sample daily will lead you to the next area for the event in Jundland,

Where you can obtain

[DAILY AREA] Outbreak – another multistep quest and fairly self-explanatory but you can read a full walkthrough here. Rewards are 7175 credits, 4x Rakghoul DNA Sample and 1x Rakghoul Vaccine. Codex entry 3-4 are obtained from doing this quest for the first time.

As of April 17, there is a new daily that can be picked up in the same area as Outbreak/Blood Sample

NEW - [DAILY] Hybrid Strain - picked up when you killed Infected Sandpeople in the same area as Outbreak. You are then asked head to the designated area to scan and kill infected Jawa. Rewards you with 2x Rakghoul DNA Sample, and a choice of 1x Rakghoul DNA Sample or Containment Officer legs for your faction: http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42053/republic-containment-officer-legs http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42051/imperial-containment-officer-legs

As of April 19, there is a new daily that can be picked up also in the area of Outbreak/Blood Sample.

NEW– [DAILY] – Newly Infected- obtained from a datapad lying on the ground. Quest asks you to click on Dewback corpses located west of Outpost Largona. Rewards you with 2x Rakghoul DNA Sample, and a choice of 1x Rakghoul DNA Sample, Containment Officer chest or belt
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42047/imperial-containment-officer-armor, http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42054/republic-containment-officer-armor
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42048/imperial-containment-officer-belt, http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42056/republic-containment-officer-belt

Lastly, if you get infected with the Rakghoul virus (via either killing Rakghouls/infected NPCs or standing next to someone that blew up) and blow up while infecting other people nearby, you can get this quest

[DAILY] Plaguebringer – goal is to infect 10 other people when you blow up (takes about 20-30 minutes to from first infection to blowing up). There is a write up of how the infections, blowing up etc works! Rewards is 4305 credits and 5x Rakghoul Vaccines.

Scavenger Hunt – Tracking the Origins

This is a quest/scavenger hunt that will grant you Codex entry 5 and a Crimson Rakghoul pet! You need to head to the Empire/Republic main city on Tatooine (Mos Ila for Empire, Anchorhead for Republic) to start off this quest.

Basically, you need to grab 3 items within the city, each item will give you a 10 minute buff. Once you have all 3 buffs, it will be converted to a 1 hr long buff that allow you to pick up the quest Tracking the Origins from the terminal near the speeder/Taxi.

This quest is fairly long and requires traveling all over Jundland and Dune Sea to find 12 starship fragments. I wrote a fairly detailed walkthrough which you can read about here.

Rewards you with this!

World Bosses

Killing each of these three world bosses on Tatooine will grant you with 1 Codex entry each, giving you Codex entries 6-8 for the event. There is a writeup on the world bosses here.

Urtagh: Level 50 bantha world boss located in Outlaw’s Den (-35, 449) on west Jundland section of Tatooine. He is a new world boss introduced with this event.
Zama Brak – Level 50 world boss located in the NE of Sarlacc Pit in Dune Sea area in Tatooine (-1216, 419). Another new world boss introduced with this event
Infect Trapjaw – Level 30 world boss found in the middle of Dune Sea (-1770, –867). Spawned by clicking on the skull in the middle of a circle of dead Jawas. Can be duo’ed fairly easily, soloing is also possible if you like a challenge.

Rakghoul DNA Sample and their rewards

Rakghoul DNA samples are obtained from doing the dailies (8 from the Area Dailies and 4-6 from the two dailies so far) and also via dying with the Rakghoul virus. Everytime you die due to the virus, you gain 5 Rakghoul DNA in your inventory. You do not take any durability loss on your armor when you die this way.

Dying with the Rakghoul virus is therefore the fastest and easiest way to get those Rakghoul DNA samples. You just have to find a spot on the fleet where everyone clump together in a pile to get infected. If you want to die faster, you can jump off or find some other ways to kill yourself when the Rakghoul virus is in the Feverish stage. This method can get you 5 DNA sample

There is a Jawa vendor (Jeelvic) located in the NE corner of Dune Sea that will exchange your Rakghoul DNA samples for rewards.

The stuff you can buy are mainly color crystals, infected Companion Customization and Pale Rakling.

Item	DNA
Advanced Black-Green Hawkeye Crystal (+41 Power)	83
Advanced Black-Green Indestructible Crystal (+41 End)	83
Advanced Black-Green Eviscerating Crystal (+41 Crit)	83
Advanced Black-Green War Hero’s Crystal (+41 Expertise)	83
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/37926/advanced-black-green-centurions-crystal	75
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/37822/advanced-black-green-resistance-crystal	75
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/37711/advanced-black-green-savage-crystal	75
http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/37756/advanced-black-green-vehemence-crystal	75
Infected Companion Lockbox	20
Pale Raking	60

Infected Companion Lockbox will contain one of the 8 Companion customizations. Which one you get is random and the customizations are Bind to Legacy.

Infected Malavin Quinn, Andronikos, Corso Riggs, Kira Carsen

Infected Tharan Cedrax, Vector, Mako, Elara (missing for now)

The Black-Green color crystal looks like this, fluorescent green, which is kinda cool!

Pale Raking looks like this (image taken from Reddit)

Codex Entries

There are 9 codex entries so far for the event

1. The Final Flight of the Stardream

Obtained while doing the 2nd step of [AREA DAILY] Wreck of the Stardream

2. Captain Magnus

Obtained after completing [AREA DAILY] Wreck of the Stardream

3. Outbreak on Tatooine

Obtained after investigating the three murals as part of [AREA DAILY] Outbreak

4. The Sand People’s Cure

Obtained after investigating the Shaman’s mural as part of [AREA DAILY] Outbreak

5. Origins of the Outbreak

Obtained after finding all 12 starship fragments as part of Tracking the Origins quest

6. Defeated Urtagh

Defeat Urtagh, level 50 World Boss in Outlaw’s Den area of Tatooine.

7. Defeated Zama Brak

Defeat Zama Brak, level 50 World Boss in NE of Sarlacc Pit in Dune Sea

8. Defeated Infected Trapjaw

Defeat Infected Trapjaw, level 30 World Boss in the middle of Dune Sea.

9. Earned Containment Officer Title

This one is a bit buggy, some people reported that they obtained the title after defeating all 3 world bosses while others didn’t get the title. It is likely that you can obtain this achievement after the event is over.

Containment Officer Outfit

The outfit are part of quest rewards associated with [DAILY] quests. These daily quests don’t disappear when a new one is coming out so there is no rush!

April 15- Boots – [DAILY] Blood Sample

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42049/imperial-containment-officer-boots

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42057/republic-containment-officer-boots

April 16- Gloves – [DAILY] Passenger List

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42050/imperial-containment-officer-gloves

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42055/republic-containment-officer-gloves

April 17 – Legs – [DAILY] Hybrid Strain

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42051/imperial-containment-officer-legs

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42053/republic-containment-officer-legs

April 18 – Head – [DAILY] Pure Virus Sample

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42046/imperial-containment-officer-helmet

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/gear/42052/republic-containment-officer-helmet