Yeah, I ran into some of those physics glitches last night. On one jump I somehow missed leaping from a wide platform onto a raised wall. A few seconds of me looking like I'm falling appears (though I'm still in the same place because there was nowhere to fall to) and then all of a sudden I'm back at the beginning of the puzzle. Huh? That had nothing to do with me. That's screwy programming. The difficulty in finding the datacrons should be in the design of the puzzles, not the mechanics of the game.

It's just not intuitive, like I said. No one in real life jumps and then moves forward. You either jump in place or move forward then jump. But TOR doesn't work like that. It takes some getting used to.

I don't mean to necro a thread, but I was having a lot of trouble with getting the datacrons on Nar Shaddaa until I read your advice. Jumping in this game is anything but intuitive and I still need some practice, but because of your post I'm five datacrons richer today. Thanks!

I ran the mission again today with some random group. I debated whether or not to go in as a healer again, but I figured I'd give it one more go. Wow. This group was great. Not a lot of chatter, but everyone understood their role and got the job done. No one died.; not once. We sliced through the flashpoint like it was butter. I'm a little disappointed I didn't get any cool gear, but other than that it was a fun mission. No one gave me any grief. Everyone just came in and got it done. It has given me a little more faith in the process. Maybe I'll just avoid late night groups as it seems the less mature ones are bound to be online.

I tried to run Athiss as a healer 3 times tonight. The first group we were a person short and had no real tank to speak of, so we got creamed pretty fast with the big boss fight. Everyone was cool, I didn't get any grief. We just didn't have the right type of players to be successful. However, the second and third groups peeved me off royal. Everything is fine until the big fight and I'm doing my best to heal the tank. But no matter what I do, I get caught up in some area attacks or swarmed by mobs and my heals get interrupted or I need to stop a sec and heal myself. Which means eventually the tank drops too low for me to catch him back up and he dies and blames me for not healing. Like I'm really just standing around watching the show and not trying my best? After getting grief from both groups I've decided to never do a flashpoint as a healer again. You don't get thanks when you keep everyone alive, and as soon as you're overwhelmed and everyone dies you're a pariah. I can't do my job when I'm being attacked by everyone, especially when those attacks knock me off my feet. Healing isn't instant! It takes time for me to cast those powers. But no one seems to get that. So I'll go back to my solo campaign. I get along with all the NPCs just fine.

Thank you. I'll try that the next time I'm caught in a boss fight.

I'm sorry for the n00b question, but I've searched this site and others and can't find the answer. I'm playing a Scoundrel and have some healing abilities. I chose them to be able to heal companions during combat. The thing is, I can't figure out how to do it! The way combat is, it's hard to try to right click on a companion and even if I do, it still seems like the enemy is targeted. If I cast a healing power, the companion doesn't seem to be deriving any benefit from it, so he eventually dies which means I eventually die which means the whole exercise is pretty frustrating. What am I doing wrong? What am I missing? Thanks.

That strategy worked for me. Thank you!

My problem is I target the droids, turn them hostile with the device, and kill them, but they don't count towards my quest quota. WTH? I've killed like 6 already, but my quest tracker only says 2! ETA: Nevermind, apparently if my companion deals the killing blow it doesn't count. So I've told him not to attack while I take care of business.