Jan 10, 2012

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Your Guide To The Chase For The Magenta Crystal!

As some may be aware (and certainly the mention of it in my latest Blasters, Beggars & Credits post generated more than a few comments), the method to get the fabled Magenta Adegan Crystal has finally been revealed. A group of Redditors (and it’s unclear to whom exactly receives credit, so why not just give it to r/swtor as a whole) unraveled the mystery and shared it around the evening of the sixth – we feel confident that the secret is out!

Before starting the text guide, here’s a handy video (thanks Oawa!) of the run we did to get it done the other night. Before anyone gets uppity, we went as a group and did everything sequentially because it was easiest to do it that way, and not because Jaro from Jen’Jidai might be out there.


This sleuthing was based off of Georg Zoeller’s hint: “273.15.” Based on that, they figured out the exact steps to acquiring the crystal. So we figured we’d post a guide for those that want to embark on the journey. Be warned, some spoilers follow, and if you like figuring out puzzles, you may want to skip this one! For those that don’t know, 273.15 is the temperature (in Kelvins) at which water freezes.

Heavy risk - but the prize...

Your quest for magenta should first take you to Tatooine to get a buff. This buff is called “Sustained and Refreshed,” and it lasts for 30 minutes, albeit without a timer. Speed is of the essence once you get the buff, though 30 minutes should be plenty of time so long as you don’t engage in other activities.

In order to get the buff, you need to find a water vaporator that has a glowing object attached called a “Water Access Panel.” These vaporators are located in Jundland, and are all over the place, but look to be mostly concentrated around the Republic base of Dreviad Outpost.

Back off the Water Access Panel, mate.

Once someone gets the buff, the item goes away and spawns in some other location. It also takes 15 seconds to cast. However, if you are taking multiple people through to get it, you can all click the panel at the same time and complete it off of just one click.

For a desert planet, there's a surprising amount of moisture available.

Now, you have your buff. The next part of your magenta quest is to head to Hoth, specifically to Highmount Ridge. Above Leth Outpost, in the southern part, is a mountain ridge; ascending it to the approximate coordinates of -993, 148 will place a debuff on your character called Extreme Altitude; additionally, if you have the “Sustained and Refreshed” buff, you will have a new item in your inventory called Pure Shockfrozen Water.

Delicious, pure water.

Now that your timed portion is done, you must travel to Ilum to one of the daily quest areas, northwest of the Republic Waystation and southwest of the Imperial Waystation (around -555, 34 on the map). There you will find an item on the ground called a Depleted White Adegan Crystal.

Where's the magenta? It's just white and off-white, here.

If you have the water in your inventory, clicking on this item will cause a Force Ghost Champion with around 214,000 HP to spawn. A 4-man group with reasonable gear should be fine to kill him; we had 16 since everyone wanted to get a crystal made (this was our 3rd or 4th run at it in the past few days, with similar numbers attending each time).

It's a g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-ghost!

Killing him spawns a bunch of crystals on the ground that anyone with the water can then loot (in exchange for the water, of course).

Now you know that white crystals need water to grow into magenta crystals.

And with that, you’re done – or, well, sort of. You also need to find an artifice who has the pattern. The guild I’m in was lucky enough to get the 33 power crystal to drop from the Belsavis world boss (known as The Primal Destroyer) a few days before the method was discovered for acquiring the magenta crystal (we’re on the Jung Ma server for any interested), but it does seem that the pattern is a rare drop from that boss. Gargath on Hoth supposedly also drops the crystal.

This whole adventure reminds me of the days in World of Warcraft, you could go to Blackrock Spire, have a Priest Mind Control a specific enemy NPC, and then have him grant a huge fire resistance buff to everyone in your raid. This really helped out in the early days of fighting Ragnaros! I think undocumented puzzles like this are very cool, and hopefully we’ll see more like it from the team at BioWare down the road?

Good luck on your quest!

  1. Jonas Birk Jensen says:

    I liked the puzzel, I just find the whole “kill a world boss” a bit annoying, since it require a huge amont of effort to down such a boss if you are not in a raiding guild, or a guild with enough people. The fact that they a buffing The Primal Destroyer just makes matters worse.

  2. Does this work for the Empire faction? I MUST KNOW!!!

  3. For the Empire-players (like me): Exactly the same.
    Get the buff from a Vaporator from Tatooine, get to the mountain on Hoth within 30 mins thereafter to get the water, then to Ilum to defeat the Force-ghost. All the exact same locations.

    For Empire it’s a lot easier, cause the mountain you have to get up to, is just north of the Leth-outpost (3rd taxi-point) on Hoth. Take the taxi, turn north, and start moving.

    I did it, as soon as this guide was posted here. Couple days later I was lucky on my dailies-run in Ilum: 4 Republic-players were on the brink of killing the ghost, so I stayed. Not knowing exactly what would happen if I looted the crystal-spawn, so I let them go first, but I could then use the spawn and get the crystal. Only need to find some1 with the schematic now, or wait till my guild is ready to start on the World-Bosses (and get lucky).

  4. My Bounty Hunter is level 31 and while running around on Tatooine, I found the vaporator with the glowing base. I got the buff, ran to Hoth, and got my Pure Shockfrozen Water. Right now, it is safely tucked away in my cargo hold, waiting until I hit 50 and can take on the ghost boss.

  5. coords are way off its actually -907, 505 on hoth

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