Note that if you purchase a chip you will only get 1 & if you accidentally purchase a chip you won’t be able to refund it or sell it so you better hope you get something good from the slots. Each variant of slot machines has their own unique chip. Smuggler’s Luck. Compatible chip: Smuggler’s Casino Chip Cost per chip: 2,000 Credits. This slot machine is SO much easier to predict than the Nightlife event ones! After playing 4 stacks of 99 chips I’ve noticed a pattern to the wins. Visually, nearly every time I win a rep trophy or a CM certificate it happens when the two needles on the wheel line up, whereas with the Nightlife machines visual cues were meaningless.
SWTOR Festival of Splendor event guide with walkthroughs and rewards. Festival of Splendor is a gambling event in SWTOR Nar Shaddaa from June 9 to August 25, 2015.
Contents
- 1 The Basics
- 2 How to Start
- 3 How to Play
- 4 What are my chances of winning?
- 5 Rewards
- 6 Achievements
The Basics
When and where?
June 9 to August 25, 2015. Nar Shaddaa Casinos.
What Level?
You will need to have a ship so you can travel to Nar Shaddaa. Level 10+
Can I sell the rewards from this event?
No, everything is legacy bound.
What do I need to participate in this event?
Lots of credits, deep pocket, patience, mouse that can withstand lots of clicks. This is designed to be a credit sink so expect to spend money.
How to Start
Head to the fleet and you will find Advertisement Terminals on the inner ring of the fleet.
Interacting with it will give you a very short cutscene and a mission called Festival of Splendor which will direct you to Nar Shaddaa Casino. In addition, it will give you a few credits and 5 Smuggler’s Casino Chip.
Once you arrive in Nar Shaddaa, head to Club Vertica Casino if you are Republic or Star Cluster Casino if you are Empire.
How to Play
Before you can play on the slot machines, you will need to purchase chips from a Casino Cashier.
- Kingpin Casino Chip: 50k credits or 1 Cartel Market Certificate
- Smuggler’s Casino Chip: 1k credits or 100 Warzone Commendation
There are two type slots: Kingpin’s Bounty slots and Smuggler’s Luck slots. The big prizes are on the Kingpin machines but the Smuggler machine is worth to play for the buff you get from it that will help you on the Kingpin machines.
The buff you want to get from the Smuggler’s machine is the Feeling Lucky buff, which casts for 2 minutes (or until you win the Golden Certificate or jackpot from the Kingpin machines) and you have a 10% chance to get it from a Smuggler’s machine.
Generally the way most people play the slot machines is doing the slot machine shuffle in which they play the Smuggler machine first to get the buff and then head over to the Kingpin machines until their buff gets used up. Since there is a delay before you can use the same machine again, you can probably play 3-4 machines at once so you don’t waste time waiting for the machine.
- There is a 1.5s GCD cooldown before you can click on another machine
- There is a 5s cooldown before you can click on the same machine
Due to the way the machines are positioned, you can play 3 Kingpin machines at once if there are no other players nearby. You can play 4 Smuggler’s machine at once by standing in between 2 rows of the Smuggler machines. You will need to be fairly close to the machine to click on them.
What are my chances of winning?
Unlike gambling in a Las Vegas casino, you know the exact % of winning here. The numbers here are taken from swtor_miner’s threads on reddit.
Smuggler’s Machine
OutcomeDescription% chanceFree playYou get your chip back.50%LoseYou get nothing back29.68%Free play + buffFeeling Lucky buff10%Free play x2You get two chips back5%WinGet a Kingpin chip5%JackpotGet a Golden Certificate0.3%Machine explodesFor that hidden achievement0.02%Kingpin Machine
Feeling Lucky buff from Smuggler’s machine influence your chances at Kingpin machine. It will last for 2 minutes or until you win the Golden Certificate or Jackpot. .
Swtor Smuggler Companions
OutcomeDescription% chance% chance with buffFree playYou get your chip back.50%64.81%LoseYou get nothing back45.86%29.59%WinYou get a Golden Certificate4%5.18%Jackpot 1Vectron Magnus0.23%0.298%Jackpot 2Kingpin’s Rancor0.07%0.09%Machine ExplodesFor that hidden achievement0.02%0.026%Got time but not lots of credits?
The cheapest way to do this if you have the time is to buy Smuggler’s Chips which are only 1k credits. Your odds of winning a Kingpin chip is 5% but you also have a 50% chance to get your Smuggler chip back, 10% chance to get your chip back + buff and 5% chance to get 2 chips back. This is much cheaper than spending 50k credits on a Kingpin chip but you are also spending much more time (some math wiz please help me calculate on average how much credits you spend on a Kingpin chip if you only use the Smuggler machines to get them).
- According to the calculations by venomlash in the comments below, it is about 6 Smuggler chips per Kingpin chip on average so you are only spending 6k on average rather than 50k.
How much I need to spend that rancor mount?
This is gambling so either you are lucky or you are not. Chance to win a rancor is 0.09% with the buff so it is about 1111 clicks on average (1/ 0.0009 = 1111). Each click costs 1 Kingpin chip. If you are buying the chips at 50k credits a pop and doing it with the buff you can expect about 1111 x 0.3519 x 50k = 19 mil credits for the rancor mount. Doing it with the buff and/or using the smuggler’s machine to get the Kingpin chips will be much cheaper but slower.
- 0.3519 came from 1- 0.6481, which give you the number of chips you actually lost since you have a 64.81% chance to get the chip back.
- If you get Kingpin chips from the Smuggler machine at an average cost of 6k per chip, and have the buff, you are looking at 1/0.0009 x (0.3519) * 6k = 2.3 mil
How much do I need to spend on average for item X?
Calculation provided by venomlash, this is assuming you always have the buff and using Smuggler’s machine to get the Kingpin chips. Acquisitions are not mutually exclusive of each other.
- Golden Certificate: 28,958 credits
- Feeling Lucky buff: 3,000 credits
- Vectron Magnus: 709,220 credits
- Kingpin’s Rancor: 2,347,418 credits
- 'Unlucky' legacy achievement: 1,499,250 credits (calculated on the Smuggler machine)
Remember, this is gambling. There is no such thing as if I spend x amount of money I will get this item for sure. It is all about probability.
Rewards
There are 2 items that you can only obtain via the Kingpin slot machines. The Kingpin Rancor mount and the Vectron Magnus mount. Everything else can be purchased with Golden Certificates you get from the Smuggler and Kingpin machines.
Legacy Title: The Unlucky
- If you managed to blow up the slot machine (0.02% chance), you get this title.
Kingpin Rancor mount
Vectron Magnus mount
Golden Certificate
You can see all the Golden Certificate rewards on this page here.
Armor Kingpin’s Fedora3 Golden CertificateKingpin’s Jacket3 Golden CertificateKingpin’s Pants2 Golden CertificateKingpin’s Gloves2 Golden CertificateKingpin’s Boots2 Golden CertificateKingpin’s Belt1 Golden CertificateKingpin’s Bracers1 Golden CertificateMounts Vectron Opus15 Golden CertificateWeapons Kingpin’s Assault Cannon3 Golden CertificateKingpin’s Blaster Rifle3 Golden CertificateKingpin’s Sniper Rifle3 Golden CertificateKingpin’s Blaster Pistol2 Golden CertificateKingpin’s Lightsaber2 Golden CertificateKingpin’s Lightstaff3 Golden CertificatePets & Customization G07-DY5 Golden CertificateHK Hutt Military Customization1 Golden CertificateMako 101 Golden CertificateElara 101 Golden CertificateTharan 101 Golden CertificateDoc 101 Golden CertificateAchievements
There is a hidden achievement for blowing up the slot machine.
AchievementDescriptionPointsSmuggler’s Machine Hammer the MachinePlay Smuggler’s Luck slot machines 100 times10 ptsPayoutWon a Kingpin’s Casino Chip or Golden Certificate from a Smuggler’s Luck slot machines10 ptsSound of RainWon 10 Smuggler’s Luck slot machine prizes25 ptsKingpin’s Machine High RollerPlayed Kingpin’s Bounty Slot machines 100 times25 ptsInstant WinnerWon a Golden Certificate, Vectron Magnus or Rancor from a Kingpin’s Bounty slot machine25 ptsHot ShotsWon 10 Kingpin’s Bounty slot machine prizes50 ptsMounts Cashing InPurchased a Vectron Opus from a casino prize vendor25 ptsBig PrizeWon a Vectron Magnus from a Kingpin’s Bounty slot machine25 ptsJackpot!Won a rancor from a Kingpin’s Bounty slot machine50 ptsHidden Quality AssuranceBlew up a Smuggler’s Luck or Kingpin’s Bounty slot machine50 ptsThis is a simple guide made for relatively new players who want to have a bit of ‘fun’ if they don’t feel like doing missions.
Where to Find the Casino?
Swtor Smuggler Gear
The casino is located on the planet Nar Shaddaa, you can access this planet once you get your own starship very early on in the game.
Once you arrive on the planet, exit the hanger and travel to the Star Cluster Casino via taxi.
What to Do?
There’s not a lot to do in the casino but it’s definitely worth checking out as you could earn some pretty cool looking things for your player & companion from a low level.
Below you’ll find all the different casino chips, slot machines and misc activities (I’ll get it to whenever).
Swtor Smuggler Story
Casino Chips & Slot Machines
How to purchase chips:
You can only buy 2 types of chips from the hospitality droid, the last one I’ll go into more detail below. When you’re at star cluster casino look for a droid and there you’ll be able to purchase as many chips as you want, as long as you have money to throw.
Note that if you purchase a chip you will only get 1 & if you accidentally purchase a chip you won’t be able to refund it or sell it so you better hope you get something good from the slots.
Each variant of slot machines has their own unique chip.
Smuggler’s Luck
Compatible chip: Smuggler’s Casino Chip
Cost per chip: 2,000 Credits
Rarity: Common
Swtor Smuggler Luck Slot Machines
Kingpin’s Bounty
Compatible chip: Kingpin’s Casino Chip
Cost per chip: 75,000 Credits
Rarity: Uncommon
Note: With Kingpin’s Bounty & E-Grace, you are able to win some pretty cool things. Personally the most important one is the golden certificate. Golden certificates can be used to buy limited-time clothing, mounts, weapons and so on.
Emperor’s Grace
Compatible chip: Emperor’s Casino Chip
Cost per chip: N/A – Not purchasable
Rarity: Rare
Note: The Emperor’s Grace is a limited-time event currently taking place from July 14th – August 25th, 2020. Although you’re not able to purchase this chip, you can easily find them from looting enemies or winning them from the Kingpin’s slot. To see if someone dropped a chip, a purple beam will appear from their body.
These chips can not be sold. UNFORTUNATELY, due to some incompetence the Emperor’s grace rarely works, even with the latest patch so it’s best to check different instances.
A Very Important Casino Rule
When the emperor’s grace is working, there’s normally a lot of players trying to get their hands on it but somewhere, somehow most gambling addicts made an unofficial rule to make a queue and wait patiently. This kinda works until someone jumps in line, spams the machine and ruins it for everyone else.
So here’s a few tips to stay on peoples good side 🙂 :
- Do not skip the queue, be patient and reconsider your life choices because you’re waiting in line to gamble.
- Make sure only 1 person is using the machine at a time, if multiple people spams it then it’ll glitch out and remain unusable.
- Be nice :^)