Rare Loot System

The Rare Loot System is a new feature in Star Wars Galaxies introduced with Hotfix 17.10 that gives adventurers a chance to obtain a bonus reward for defeating encounters. These rewards can range from items that are no longer available through normal gameplay to items that might be extremely rare to completely new items.

Loot Tables
There are three categories of rare loot: Rare, Exceptional, and Legendary. When an adventurer kills a mob and qualifies for rare loot, the encounter will have a chance to drop a rare loot chest. Adventures will need to loot the chest and open it in their inventory to discover what rare loot they have won. The items acquired from the Rare Loot System will be marked with a Rare Loot tag within the examine window.

Rare

 * Bane's Heart
 * Geonosian Costume Instructions
 * Kowakian Cage
 * Living Canals
 * Nym Collectible Globe
 * Triumph
 * Wampa Costume Instructions

Exceptional

 * Aurilian Crystal
 * DNA Storage Device (Forage Worm)
 * Emperor's Senate Office Chair
 * Holo-Entertainment Table
 * Jedi Master Cloak
 * Jedi Relic
 * Prayer Mobile
 * Shard of Ferocity
 * Shard of the Serpent
 * Sith Relic
 * The War Phoenix

Legendary

 * Bar Corner Piece 1 Schematic
 * Biological Focus Crystal
 * Concentrated Bacta Tank
 * Life Day Painting (Proud Wookiee)
 * Nightsister Melee Armguard
 * Sunrider's Destiny
 * Synapse Focus Crystal

Restrictions
Restrictions are in place to prevent adventurers from farming mobs or spam killing trash mobs with area abilities. Adventurers need to fight challenging mobs to earn a chance to find rare loot.

According to Hjal, using macros (for combat or otherwise) do not affect your chance to get a rare loot chest. AOE's are fine as well.

Collections and Badges
Adventurers can also complete new collections and earn a new badge and the title "Fortune Hunter" through this system.