I've read a few threads on defeating the Stark class quest, but the ones I found were a bit old, and so I'm posting in part to see if any of the changes to the Skill Tree effects people's advise on this quest.
I'm sitting at level 45, and so if I recall I'm a few levels over Stark, and this quest is still destroying me, so it has amplified for me just how much I need to learn about this class (and the game, for that matter). Normally, I play with Qyzen in a tank role. I'm not married to that, but I've just always felt too squishy playing with Tharan or the others.
On this quest, here's what I've tried that has worked best for each character (died 20-30 times or so):
1 - Qyzen in straight attack - I've gone in on fought hard with Qyzen tanking. Try to stun his heals and use my high damage attacks as much as possible. This is the closest I've gotten, but still no cigar. I've also tried Qyzen in the dual tank ability (can't remember the name), and it doesn't make that much of a difference.
2 - Tharan with LOS - I try to hide behind the boxes up top and angle so Tharan is healing while I'm using project and other AOE effects. I've never found the sweet spot where Tharan has LOS to see me and Stark can't. It prolongs the battle, but I've still missed stunning a heal or two such that I really haven't dropped his damage that much. This worked better than me just going after Stark directly with Tharan healing, but not by much.
3 - The woman (can't remember her name) with me tanking - Following some other recommendations, I tried setting her as passive and attacked for awhile, then set her to attack after I drew the threat. I never figured this out. I feel like I'm too squishy and too incompetent in my role to tank well.
A few questions I have:
1 . Gear - I know I'm probably undergeared, as well as Qyzen and my other guys. Is there a reasonable way to improve their gear before trying again?
2. Leveling - I'm pretty thorough about doing side-quests as I go along, so I don't have a lot of solo quests queued up right now. Is there a reasonable way to pick up another level or two as a primarily solo character with no pending quests? I haven't tried the Space combat much, so if that's a reasonable way, I'm happy to try that (and would be curious if I need to upgrade my ship before trying).
3. Jedi Shadow Balance - I'm willing to respec - I'm not married to Balance at all. Any suggestions on how to think about this spec well, or other specs I should consider?
4. Strategy - Any other suggestions of companions to focus on or approaches I can take to the battle?
Happy to have a challenge, so I'm reluctant to just go in with somebody and knock it off, so I'd love any suggestions about how I can improve. I encounter these class quests as a wake-up call to learn the system better. I definitely need to!
Thanks for any advice.