Force choked dude seemed to be the only one working for me. But none worked before I had dead center advanced to the "Gain access to the upper level" point. I suspect if I had moved the quest along a bit more of the civilians might work. I am not sure though.

That's how a two tank fight should end IMO....

Nice! Nice! You now screwed up the only thing you had done right with companions. If you are going to nerf them like this. Let us put gear on them again so at least we can make them tolerable. If they are worse then what I can get them to with full 224 and augs then you've done it wrong just saying.

May I suggest joining groups formed on fleet rather then straight through groupfinder? I find there seems to be a slightly higher sense of commitment in those groups. I mean you need to bring your a game (skill and a touch of gear.). Once you have the first set of 216 it gets much easier since we don't have companions to gear anymore.

It's that bad?

So I figured I'd hold off on commenting on this until I had played it for a while (yes I had early access and had 3 Characters to 65 before public launch.) I'll break this down into three sections. Pros, Cons, Impressions (or what would make it better for me). First off Pros. * Love the new story. Did I mention I love the story? It's awesome. At least so far. Good reward for doing it and primarily fun to go through (even if you are not leveling) * I can do EV through Group finder again as a higher level. And I can do it with my level 50 friends. Not always the best idea because of gearing but at least I have the option and the bolster makes it mostly work. It's the way group finder should have worked originally. * Tactical flashpoints... Making almost all the old flashpoints into tacticals gives them new life thanks. I appreciate it. * Simplified crafting (for the most part) * Mastery. Seriously I love this stat. * Move from power focus to crit focus for gearing. Might be annoying in the short term but I'm happy to see this finally happen. * Companion Power. At first I thought this was op. But it seems about where a companion would be if I put them in full 224 with augs so I'd say that they are pretty good. Though I hear rumors of this getting nerfed. * Level Sync. I actually think you implemented this well. It's not completely game breaking. Now On to Con's * I hate that I can't customize my companion looks anymore. Also losing all my companions for the story? I would like an option to get them back and or keep them (preferably keep them). Seriously I've had a bunch of them since level 10 and I'm quite partial to the outfits I have on them. * 50 levels of Companion favour? WFT? are you morons on crack? I could see say 25 but 50? They don't even seem to give a **** when I do quests with them anyways. * Ops Groupfinder. I hate the random weekly thingy. I'd like to know the schedule ahead of time so I don't have to check every day. Because let's be honest who wants to do ravagers with a pug group? Most of them quit at the second to last boss. * Biochem... No reusable medpaks now? not even the low grade ones? **** you Bioware. Just **** you (I suspect that will get censored...) * Bugs. Ha! you didn't think I'd complain about this would you. Some simple ones are that stupid not being able to put in my "skill" points on the fleet. If that's not a rest area what is? * Skill trees... I know this is a 3.x complaint but it had to go in there. I want my blasted skill tree back. I don't like disciplines. I quit the game for a while over that * TOS/Ravager Ops. Don't like them. Mechanics annoy the crap out of me by being buggy (unreliable) or require me to have 0.0004ms response time. I'm an old fart now I don't have the reflexes of a 12 year old anymore. I need at least half a second to move. Oh and I hate mechanics that require me to constantly move and still hold agro. GRRRRRRRR. I suspect if I set foot in TOS too many times I'll quit again. * Level Sync. I hate this feature. I hate this feature. No really I do. Also I heard I was supposed to get highlevel drops when I was playing a high level hero in a lower level area... I don't. I still get the crap that's the level of whatever zone I'm in. So either the patch notes are wrong or that was a load of bollocks that I was sold. Impressions While I enjoyed the story I won't be taking most of my character through it. why? because I lose my companions. If at some point they let me get them all back I might consider it. (if I am still subbed at that point). Honestly I know they tell us we lose some companions and crap like that but still. Also having options on who I get back would be nice. Having to do the quest in sequence is annoying. I don't want Talos back. I'd like to bury him. I have no use for Quezn Fez. As an imp I should have the option of taking Khem Val again (okay so I'm partial to that bastard). I like SCORPIO so no complaints there. Xalek can go do whatever. He's of no use to me. And Lokin? while I appreciate you putting in someone that is tied to an even. Putting that in a sequence so I have to do that to get the next quest? Are you trying to make me unsub? Where the hell is options to pick up Jaesa, Kira Carson, Mako. or Vette (she's loads of fun). I mean wft? Oh and let me customize companion armour again. I can understand for like Senya and Lana and crew like that.. But I don't hold any love for those companions. They are temporary allies near as I can see. Not people I can get attached to and find costumes for. Bottom line... I'll stay subbed for the rest of the story and play 2 maybe 3 characters through it (1 dark imp, 1 light imp, possible 1 dark pub). I won't be putting any more characters through the story until something is done with companions that makes it compelling for me to let go of the ones I love.

I wanna see the weekly cap removed for basic comms too. though not like it really matters.

Can't use groupfinder to que for ev/kp/ec if you are 55 though...

IMO classic comms (the new daily comm thing) should be from dailies only with a much higher cap. it's for gearing up companions and getting the first set of gear before we venture into the dangerous world of raiding. I'd rather see people get this gear sooner rather then later. Do you want to try a HM 55 with people still in tionese? I'd much rather see this come fast kinda like on live now where a fresh 50 gets enough gear to be viable in the lowest level operation (granted half the time they have to be told where to get the stuff). comm caps on ultimate comms, basic comm, and elite comms are not so bothersome because there is a slightly limited way to get those but classic comms... even if I only do like Section X and Black Hole that's still near 20 comms easily. if I do another planet it goes up to 30. That tells me that in one week of doing all the dailies every day I will be well over my limit of tokens and I will no longer be getting a reward for my quest. XP and cash don't count in this case when a daily is supposed to provide you with gear of sorts.

Bottom line is I want rewards for doing all the dailies every day of the week. if I'm capped out what do I get? the credits? Oh yay. I want that weekly cap to be around 400 per week. I'm fine with the weekly cap and total you can carry being at 400 because I think that's close to feasible but 200 is just a bit low. I mean really it's 61 gear so I want to get some companion gear in a hurry too. um nope you can gear yourself but not your companion. Seriously. I do play this game for a reward of sorts. They already doubled the cost of most of the gear why limit the comms we can get by so much.

Uh this is why you are wrong. if I can cap out my raiding comms in 10 hours ima be bored as hell with this game. I do a bit of seasonal type work so I get a month off to play the game. I want to be able to play that game all day every day and not be required to go do some RP crap or craft or level alts or explore planets. So what if I get geared up faster then you? Really if you are like that I don't want to group with you even without the cap. I get one month to play this expansion before I get busy again with summer work. Let me play it. Yes I will still subscribe through summer but I probably won't get to spend any time on it at all. I will subscribe through summer if I can't cap out my weekly comms in less then 20 hours if it takes me less then that there is a very very high chance I won't stay subbed. If I can only play the game for 20 hours a week there is a very very high chance I'll go look for a game that can keep me occupied all week. IMO the cap should be high enough to buy a full set of gear thats how it is currently on live for BH comms. I am pretty sure 1k BH tokens is more then enough to buy a set why cap out our coms at not even enough to buy two pieces of gear.

Well i'm tempted to unsub because of the restrictions and go find a game without or god forbid get a life. I dunno I'll have to see just how annoying the cap is and if I can reach the cap on more then 3 toons within a 24 hour period then yeah the cap is going to be annoying as hell.

There will be a vendor on zhiost shadow (imperial side) that you can hand the pieces into for crates of comms more or less depending on what level the piece is I am guessing there is a similar one on the republic side but I didn't care enough about my pub toons to check. so No don't turn them in yet.

I have no problem playing alts and I probably will continue to do that. BUT I DON'T LIKE BEING FORCED TO DO THAT. I mean I have 8 imperial toons already. And I am tempted to buy another slot just so I can level another. Yes I can count to 12... 4 pub toons half of which are 50 so not everything on my account is 50. Having said this there is a very high likelyhood I will hate this new planet and spend most of my time doing section x dailies across several toons..

I would probably fine with it if it wasn't for such low caps

Well probably not even I got 96 comms on tattoine once... so not even half a planet before it will be time to go spend comms.

So the way I read this. There is no point to play the game now till after the 2.0 patch goes live because I won't get jack all for the comms I currently have. I still don't like such a low limit on comms can't you put it to 1000 like all our current ones? I mean really I pay for this damn game. Like the poster above me said. You want me to pay for the game don't tell me I can't play it all day long and all week long. That is for free to play games that limit the amount of deaths you can have or whatever. Unless of course you would prefer I went free to play? I could do that I guess. Edit again... Another thing about this that rubs me the wrong way... PVP token cap stays the same. so I can still gear up a toon in full PVP gear in less then a week if I am slightly motivated. but with the cap on classic comms I can't do that under any circumstances at all. Not impressed at all bioware Not impressed at a..

Basically unless you crit you're losing credits sending companions out on slicing missions. So pretty much I'm not sending companions out right now. Nor am I logging on alts. I'll be looking for some other way to make credits cause that is not reliable enough.

Yeah I'm not sure the point of the extra coding myself. it would have been simpler and less likely to cause bugs to just increase the cooldown timer...

Yeah I'd rather see my opponents op then see nerfs tbh.

Cause they can't play their class?

I must be healing wrong cause I usually end up soloing things I have to help a lower level tank do.