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FireJade

Sources of Exotic/Refined Isotope Stabilizers?

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What are the best way to get these?

I'm interested in Exotic Isotope Stabilizers because they are still used for crafted 220 relics, which I would prefer over any later-tier crafted relic (including 240) because they have crit. The only source I know of for these so far is Eternal Championship. (And on a side note, do DMCs drop from anywhere now?)

Refined Istotope (sic) Stabilizers drop from lots of activities, but what's the best way to farm them? The best I've found so far is to repeatedly run the first boss of Blood Hunt, switching toons or resetting the phase/getting a friend to reset the phase between runs. You can get one every 5 minutes or so this way, not counting time to swap toons/gear. Is there a better way?

Edit: I'm no longer subbed. So PvP rewards are out of the question, unfortunately.

Posted Jan 16, 2017, 2:13 AM UTC · edited

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swtorwhore•

Exotic Isotope Stabilizers can be bought with blue jawa droid parts junk

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FireJadeOPHarbinger•

Aha! Excellent, thank you. I like Eternal Championship, but not that much.

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14789632580•

Completing conquests grant blue Jawa junk. You can also get them from command crates. If you have deep pockets, you used to get them from some older cartel packs.

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medullahJedi Covenant•

One thing to be aware of - I'm assuming you're just doing PvE content if you want the crafted 220 relics. If you ever PvP you'll want to suck it up and lose the crit - the 220 Exarch relics don't proc in Warzones.

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FireJadeOPHarbinger•

Ah.... That's a very good point. I probably will end up PvPing as long as someone can help me queue, so I'd have to get a pair of relics that proc in PvP as well. Thanks!

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medullahJedi Covenant•

The 228 grade relics are made from standard Artifice mats and a couple purple Slicing mats so they're fairly cheap. Throw in a few +96 Crit augments and you're home free (assuming you've balanced out Accuracy and Alacrity as well)

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FireJadeOPHarbinger•

Sounds about right. This is where I regret not putting accuracy augments in my relics, since you don't need much accuracy in PvP...

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medullahJedi Covenant•

I keep two Accuracy implants with Accuracy augments, along with an Accuracy earpeice with a different augment. That gets me to 725, which is 109.9% accuracy when I need it, and easy enough to swap out for crit based ones when I don't.

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Low_On_Coffee•

I know PVP daily/weekly rewards and conquest give them.

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FireJadeOPHarbinger•

Conquest doesn't grant them, does it? And I'm preferred, so I don't get PvP lockboxes (updated OP).

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14789632580•

Completing conquests grant blue Jawa junk which you can trade in.

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Pardoz•

Exotics and DMCs can be bought with Jawa scrap (blue and purple, respectively).

Soloing Veteran Black Talon nets you 2 Refineds (plus CXP and influence with your first class companion if you bring them along) , shouldn't take more than 10 minutes, and can be spammed indefinitely - just choose "return to station" at the end and run it again. (Esseles works too, but is a bit longer and has a lower CXP payout.)

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FireJadeOPHarbinger•

That's promising. Having to reset and switch is a pain. Thanks!

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RikuvonDrakeDread Master Rikacha - Gunslinger/Sentinel - Not Good Enough•

I and a friend have run Hammer Station quite a few times, you get three per run and it takes about 7-8 minutes assuming stealth classes and decently levelled companions. Pretty great payout considering the invested time.

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FireJadeOPHarbinger•

Thanks! I'm usually solo, but I will probably make use of this some time.

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boredguy13•

Do vet instead of master, is very easily soloed but only drops 2 instead of 3. Takes about 10 minutes but is easily repeatable on the same toon so don't have the annoyance of that with your Blood Hunt strat. Does have the added benefit of decent cxp though. Edited to say i didn't see you weren't subbed, i think that may kill this for you, no cxp and i blieve you only get rewards for 3 flashpoints a week if you finish them.

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FireJadeOPHarbinger•

Well, only way to find out is to test, I suppose. I know the limit triggers off of last boss (Yadira Ban), but I don't remember if it locks you out of drops from all bosses afterwards. Also, at least in 4.0, the limit didn't "count" for all FPs introduced in 3.0.

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FireJadeOPHarbinger•

Thanks all for the replies! TL;DR:

  • Buy Exotic Isotope Stabilizers and Dark Matter Catalysts from the Jawa vendors
  • Best way to solo farm Refined Istotope Stabilizers is Black Talon on Veteran mode, which nets you two per ~10-minute run (dropping from first boss and Commander Ghulil). I've confirmed that running BT more than 3 times as preferred does not lock you out from rewards.
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