Balmorra · Recruit Tanno Vik: where to go and what to do
The first specialist hunt leads through the Markaran Plains, Sobrik, a missile scheme and a prison in the Balmorran Arms Factory.
4 required class-story entries. Each entry identifies a quest contact, where to travel, what to do and the next mandatory class mission. Heroics, planetary quests and bonus enemy counts are kept separate.
01 / 04Balmorra · Recruit Tanno VikPURPLE TROOPER CLASS STORY
Missing in Action
START WITHArdon
WHERE TO GOBalmorra, Markaran Plains listening post
MAIN OBJECTIVEFind Tanno Vik, the demolitions specialist Havoc Squad needs.
Required previous mission: Recruitment Drive. If the purple objective is missing, finish the listed prerequisite and its ship or contact conversation, then check the story journal before taking unrelated planetary quests.
Follow these story objectives
Meet resistance contact Ardon.
Investigate the listening post where Vik was expected.
Speak to Technician Jalba about the intercepted message and Vik's move to Sobrik.
Where players get stuck: There is also an Aric Jorgan companion conversation called Missing in Action. This is the Balmorra Chapter 2 story mission.
Mission and dependency source: published SWTOR quest record. Names and objective order were researched, but exact doors, taxi pads and live-game map floors have not been verified in play. When a mission stage changes, use its updated in-game marker.
02 / 04Balmorra · Recruit Tanno VikPURPLE TROOPER CLASS STORY
Smash and Grab
START WITHTechnician Jalba
WHERE TO GOBalmorra, Sobrik-area story objective
MAIN OBJECTIVEFollow Vik's trail to Sobrik.
Required previous mission: Missing in Action. If the purple objective is missing, finish the listed prerequisite and its ship or contact conversation, then check the story journal before taking unrelated planetary quests.
Follow these story objectives
Talk to Technician Jalba at the listening post.
Follow the purple class marker to Sobrik and complete the required investigation.
Examine the dead Balmorran Resistance fighter at the new objective.
Where players get stuck: Holding Your Ground is a bonus enemy-count objective, not required.
Mission and dependency source: published SWTOR quest record. Names and objective order were researched, but exact doors, taxi pads and live-game map floors have not been verified in play. When a mission stage changes, use its updated in-game marker.
03 / 04Balmorra · Recruit Tanno VikPURPLE TROOPER CLASS STORY
Target Acquisition
START WITHBalmorran Resistance Fighter corpse
WHERE TO GOBalmorra, missile and vault targets in Imperial territory
MAIN OBJECTIVEInvestigate Vik's proposed use of a Republic missile against an Imperial vault.
Required previous mission: Smash and Grab. If the purple objective is missing, finish the listed prerequisite and its ship or contact conversation, then check the story journal before taking unrelated planetary quests.
Follow these story objectives
Inspect the marked Resistance fighter's body.
Follow the purple objective to Vik's missile-and-vault operation.
Complete the required interaction, then report to Druan when Vik's capture is revealed.
Where players get stuck: Reclaim the Village is a bonus mission, not the required next step.
Mission and dependency source: published SWTOR quest record. Names and objective order were researched, but exact doors, taxi pads and live-game map floors have not been verified in play. When a mission stage changes, use its updated in-game marker.
04 / 04Balmorra · Recruit Tanno VikPURPLE TROOPER CLASS STORY
Den of Thieves
START WITHDruan
WHERE TO GOBalmorra, high-security prison inside the Balmorran Arms Factory
MAIN OBJECTIVERescue Vik from Imperial imprisonment.
Required previous mission: Target Acquisition. If the purple objective is missing, finish the listed prerequisite and its ship or contact conversation, then check the story journal before taking unrelated planetary quests.
Follow these story objectives
Receive Druan's information about Vik's captors.
Go to the Balmorran Arms Factory and enter the class-story prison objective.
Free Tanno Vik and finish the conversation.
Return to the Thunderclap and activate its holoterminal.
Where players get stuck: Prototype droid kills for Research and Dismantlement are optional.
Mission and dependency source: published SWTOR quest record. Names and objective order were researched, but exact doors, taxi pads and live-game map floors have not been verified in play. When a mission stage changes, use its updated in-game marker.
Complete the final purple objective and associated conversation, or use the Thunderclap holoterminal when prompted. The next-mission button goes to the following required Trooper class quest. Mission locations and old coordinates are from quest catalogs; precise doors are not yet playtested.
