#swtor flashpoints

How do I get it? 

1. If you are doing the story progression, the mission with cut scenes is granted after you finish Iokath, ie, Fractured Alliances/the Forgotten World. 

2. If you are doing the flashpoint as a standalone, pick it up by going to your activities panel, choose the solo tab and scroll down to Crisis on Umbara. 

3. You can also pick up the standalone flashpoint on Odessen. Go to the base elevator all the way on the side of the Odessen plaza, near the two Star Fortress quest givers (Lt. Marko is one). Take the elevator to the Alliance Staging Area level. The terminal for Umbara is on the lefthand side of the room before you go up the stairs. Go to the little blue terminal, click, choose difficulty level you want, and then go through the blue curtain into the instanced area which is right there. 

Section 1: Great Train Heist (or not)

You will be fighting to the front of an Umbaran train. BUG: The game often is very laggy here. Also remember that you are on a train that has wide open gaps on both sides - you absolutely can be thrown over the side or fall. Conversely, if you have any skills that will yeet enemies over the sides, they will work here. 

The mobs here are not particularly challenging if you are max level. Remember to give the medics your undivided attention first. 

You will notice that a lot of the rooms have explosive barrels. You can't just click them; you have to target them with a skill to get them to break. They explode, and if you are strategic about this, you can get rid of a lot of your enemies very quickly. 

Several of the rooms also have trip wires and red areas on the floor. If you step on these, a turret will appear. You can use skills like Force Charge or use the boxes and crates around the train to get across without touching them, but honestly, the turrets aren't a huge deal and stepping on them isn't likely to be the end of the world. 

When you get to the part of the train that appears to be a dead end, after you dispatch the three NPCs, mouse around on the boxes to find a datapad to click. Now click the console in front of you that has turned blue. That will make a grapple box flashing green appear on the next train car appear. Click it to grapple across. 

In the last room before the bosses, you will notice four kolto barrels in the corners of the room. These are your kolto stations, more or less. Click on them to kick them open and heal yourself and your companion(s) if needed. This is a challenging room with heavier mobs and a lot of trip wires and turrets, so you may need the kolto, and they're fun to smash at the end of the fight regardless/ 

You can also pick up a flamethrower in an early room. Why not? The more help you have, the better. It will stay as a temporary ability for the entire flashpoint and you can keep using it. Look for the clickable red/blue bottle on the crates. If you don't get one here, you'll have another chance just before the final boss.

Bosses #1 and #2: Technician Canni and Assassin Elli-Va

Canni's big claim to fame is his ability to summon autoturrets. Elli-Va is a Force user who will disappear and reappear at will. There's a knockback, so be careful and mind the edges of the train. I find the easiest way to handle this fight is to anchor my character against the train door, so if they are knocked back, they're not flying over the edge. Let your companions work on Canni and concentrate on Elli-Va while you are in your corner, who will come to you and stay on your character until she is defeated.  After Elli-Va is dead, join your companions in fighting Canni, who will keep calling turrets. After both bosses are defeated, you will have to also defeat any remaining turrets; they will not vanish on their own. 

Trainwreck time!

2. Great Train Fail 

So your great train heist...sort of failed. A lot. This section will have you going through the train wreckage. Run up the hill and stay to the right to avoid pulling every mob in the joint. There's an achievement for defeating a certain number of Injured Umbaran Soldiers. They appear as neutral yellow-name plate NPCs but you may find that you accidentally pull them very quickly  while fighting other enemies. 

In the second section, you will be gathering six canisters of Umbaran crystals. Veer left to avoid the heaviest mobs and look around the back of the train. There are a bunch of crystal canisters at the back around the train cars with minimal enemies. When you have enough, you will find an opening about halfway through the wrecked train cars so you can get to the other side and toward the next section. 

An Alpha Slybex is also at the back of the train. There's an achievement for defeating it, but if you want to skip it you can easily do that too. 

After you have enough crystals, run up the next hill to Boss #2. 

Boss #2: Vixian Mauler

The Mauler stomps and pounds its fists. It has a knockback, which should not be a problem so long as you don't position yourself near the train cars that are on fire. No real tricks. Stay out of the nasty circles and cones and mind the knockback. 

Now walk along this train car, carefully avoiding the trapdoor, and jump down at the end. You will be walking through another short area, this time with angry Umbaran wildlife. At the fork in the road, veer left to the huge angry mob of critters and soldiers. Steer clear; a lot of them will kill off each other and you can take out many with the two explosive barrels. You will get a message telling you that you need to find a way through the rubble. 

Go back to the fork in the road and veer right. At the dead end of the path, you'll find blue clickable boxes. It doesn't matter which one you choose, they are all the same. You will get a temporary ability for a missile launcher. Go back to that critter-soldier mob area. You will see a green circle light up. Stand in it and press the temporary ability button on your screen to fire your missile launcher and clear the path. Now head up the hill. If you need a repair droid, there's a poor one stuck IN the metal scrap to the left. 

It's another short run up the hill, past angry Umbaran fauna, to the final boss. 

Boss #3: Spider Droid 

If you have not picked up a flamethrower, get one here - there are some on the table on the righthand side of the area. by the repair droid. Visit the repair droid before you start the fight so you're at your best. 

The Spider Droid does not move, but it summons huge mobs of soldiers and assassins. I usually like to start by throwing Heroic Moment Orbital Strike at it, and then the Heroic Moment grenade, and then jump in, doing as much damage as possible before the first wave of mobs shows up. Stay out of the fire circles; the safest place is often under the droid. 

The droid calls huge mobs, and if you are underleveled, they can easily overwhelm a companion. But remember that flamethrower? Use it! Or lead the mobs close to the barrels and use that, or your other skills, to explode the incendiary barrels around the perimeter of the fight area. You can take out a lot of the mobs and do a lot of damage to them. There are some barrels right around the droid as well; make sure you ignite them to cause more damage. 

After the spider droid is defeated, you will still need to ignite all the barrels AND defeat any remaining mob NPCs to get out of combat and end the fight. Now click that blue tower on the right or press exit area, and voila, you're done.

Boss #1: Jindo Krey Jindo Krey is a Mandalorian and he will get increasingly more damage as the fight goes on. As the screencap here shows, there's also a ship that looks like the bounty hunter's ship (IT ISN'T, AFAIK!) that will be firing missiles at you to complicate things. Run up to the console pictured in the second screencap and click it to temporarily send that ship away. Other than that: once again, you're on a platform with open sides so mind your step.

Mini-Boss(es) 2: Prototype B-16 and Prototype A-14

Eh. Droids. Just kill B and then A. That's how it usually shakes out for me. No major tricks. You're on a platform again. Boss #2: HK-47

If you are doing the HK-51 quest, HK-47 will drop a part you need when you defeat him. He should have a yellow loot "ray." YOU DO NOT NEED TO DO THIS FLASHPOINT ON VETERAN OR NiM TO GET THE PART! I can personally vouch that it drops from HK-47 in story mode. HK-47 is not quite as lethal as he was when you faced him in The Foundry, if you did. He doesn't have the insta-kill or any panels to frantically click. He mostly stays in the center for this entire fight. Just stay out of his line of fire and keep moving around him. And guess what? You're on a platform! Surprise! When HK-47's health gets low he will vanish and reappear to hit your character with a very long stun. This is his most formidable trick in this flashpoint. Mini-Boss #4: Chondrus Berani

This is the only boss/mini-boss you will fight in this flashpoint who is NOT on a platform where you're in danger of falling over the edge. Enjoy it while it lasts. Chondrus does have a knockback but the most he can do here is throw you around the hallway Final Boss: Darth Malgus

BUG: If the fight goes on too long, or you get too far away from Malgus, he has been known to reset. He will return to the bottom of the stairs and reset himself back to 100% HP. That's not fun. So make sure you stay close.

Malgus has a nasty knockback that will toss you right into the air shaft if you are unlucky. He also throws Inquisitor skills like Force Storm as well as single lightsaber skills. There are a few on-screen announcements about how you will have to face Malgus alone or whatever - just keep fighting. The trick for this fight is to anchor yourselves on the stairs, with your back to the wall, so that Malgus cannot throw you anywhere. He will actively try to do that. He will also sometimes end up fighting your companion and the combat assistance droid at the bottom for the stairs, so taunt him or put your companion on passive to pull him back to you. Remember: when Malgus is defeated the loot will not be on his person. It will be in this box that appears at the bottom of the stairs.