Profession: Combat Medic, Doctor's and Medics
• The Advanced version of Bacta Shot, Bacta Toss, Bacta Spray, and Bacta Jab will now heal more damage than the Improved or standard version of the same ability by a medic with the same Healing Efficiency.
• Players will always use the best version of the bacta heal available to that player.

Profession: Dancer, Entertainer, Musician
• If you have been denied service from an entertainer, you will no longer be able to pay a cover charge for inspiration buffs.

Profession: Doctor
• Adjusted Doctor buff durations to improve the usefulness of Doctors in groups.
• Doctors should now have full accuracy certifications on Battle armor.

Profession: Scouts and Rangers
• Grey-con (considered) mobs will no longer break scentMask or camouflage kits.
• Lower-level creatures that break scent-mask or camouflage kits, will only attack from the same distance as they would have had the player not been concealed (rather than attacking immediately).

Profession: Shipwright
• A KSE Firespray Schematic can no longer be used to reverse-engineer a zero-mass spaceship component. When a player's ship is launched, if there are any zero-mass components, their mass will default to a value of 50,000.

Profession: Smuggler
• Bio-Linked items should now be able to be sliced.
• Weapons with power-ups can no longer be sliced. You must remove the power-up before you can slice the weapon.

Profession: Tailor
• When crafting clothing items, only valid color palette choices will be displayed during crafting.

Quests
• Two new quest series added! "Catch a Fallen Star" and "Nagem's Jobs".

Catch a Fallen Star: On Yavin IV the Rebels are fighting a desperate delaying action as they attempt to get their last elements off the planet. In the midst of this chaotic fighting, both the Rebels and Imperials are salvaging as much of the fallen Death Star as they can. Of course some undesirable elements have moved in to take advantage of the situation. Criminals, both great and small, have started their own operations to salvage as much as they can, and then to sell what they get to the highest bidder.

Nagem's Jobs: Nagem Dr'Lar has been hired by the Imperials as a civilian contractor to salvage as much of the Death Star as possible around an area known as the Scorch. He has been fighting off criminal groups trying to get to the salvage before he can.

• Chapter 4 of the quest series, "Secrets of the Syren" is now live! Questgivers from "Secrets of the Syren" chapter's 1-3 will now give quests for chapter 4 as well as the previous chapters (1-3).
• Improved the spawning locations of mercenaries on the "Secrets of the Syren" quest.
• The lockbox on the Avatar Platform should no longer spawn inside the wall.
• Added loot to the checkpoint lockbox on the Avatar platform.
• Mos Eisley quests should give all badges properly.

Space
• Players will now be able to group with pets in space.

UI
• Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma now default to 1.0. Because of the world lighting changes, these settings have been defaulted to 1.0 to account for any Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma changes previously made. To readjust any of these settings, open your Options window (CTRL-O) and click the Graphics button on the left side of the window.
• Objects that have been sliced should now display a message on the examine window of the object after they have been sliced.
• Rotary timers no longer seem to "pause" for an extended period of time.
• Reptilian Meat is once again named Reptilian Meat.
• Grenades now have rotary timers and display their status in the combat queue.
• Enhancer items now have rotary timers.
• Stimulant Packs (stimpacks) now have rotary timers.
• Vehicle control devices in the toolbar now have rotary timers.
• Added 1 new music (Swing) and 1 dance (Bunduki) icon. These new icons are available in the Command Browser (CTRL-A).
• Added 6 icons for new entertainer abilities. These new icons for centerStage, colorSwirl, danceFloor, featuredSolo, fireJest2 and laserShow are available in the Command Browser (CTRL-A).
• Added Rage and Anger icons.
• Some fungi, particularly Kasyyykian, Rori, Talusian, Tatooinian, and Yavinian will now properly display their names with no codestrings.
• Jedi defender role icon no longer appears where it's not intended.
• In-game references to the /find directional path "yellow ribbon" now refer it as the "glowing path".

Vehicles
• Players can no longer offer rides to other players if they are driving a multi-passenger vehicle. Instead, qualified players can simply 'enter/exit' the vehicle through the radial menu.

A character is allowed to ride with someone:
1. There is room in the vehicle.
2. If they are in the same group.
3. If they are not in combat.
4. If a passenger is declared Overt, then the driver must also be declared Overt and both characters must be the same faction.

Note: A declared faction player can only ride in another player's vehicle if that rider is also factioned declared, and for a friendly faction. If the driver manages to go from faction declared to covert, any declared factional riders will be ejected.

• When in a vehicle, the offer ride menu should only be displayed when the selected person is in the same group as you.
• Increased the volume of BARC Speeder sounds.

Veteran Rewards
• Added new display case for veteran miniatures (9 month milestone).
• Added fireplace (24 month milestone).

World
• The lighting for Star Wars Galaxies™ has been improved to be brighter, especially in dark areas, dusk, dawn and darker planets. As part of these changes, the Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma settings have been default to 1.0 so that the changes are properly displayed. To readjust any of these settings, open your Options window (CTRL-O). Also as part of these changes, Personal Lights for players have been readjusted so they will no longer turn on and off for the day night cycles. Players can still turn it on or off as normal.
• Optimizations to the terrain system have been made to improve performance and lower memory usage.
• Players will no longer be prevented from attacking (or being attacked by) targets throughout Level 5 of the Rryatt Trail on Kashyyyk due to invisible obstruction.
• Meatlumps and Vandals in Coronet should spawn properly.

Japan
• Less IME spam in text boxes (Input Method Editor).