bet there's a million of these threads all ready, but I'll just go ahead and share my story (or one of a hundred).
So, I'm a bountyhunter powertech - shieldtech speced, in other words a tank, i run around with mako, my healing companion, because i don't really fancy having to self heal after each and every fight. I don't have any real CC nor do i have anything that does a great amount of dmg for any burst solution.
Today, well right now in fact, the fights still going on in the background as a write this and have for probably 15min now.
I'm in an instanced area doing a quest, mine you, no heroic, 2 man or anything, just a normal quest.
So i come up against 2 strong mobs Kaleesh Supplymasters, They're healers...
I can't even get their health down bellow 60% and they can't even scratch my armor.
"hay just interrupt their heals" - "oh ya, give me a no CD interrupt and I'll handle it"
Sure, you could argue, just die and summon a dps companion, ya i could, but is that really considered "fun" gameplay?
feels like the companions have a way to big impact on your gameplay alone, making some encounters impossible to balance for BW.
but other then a ton of small bugs and some balancing that needs to be done, the game was just as awesome as I've been hoping for during the hype years, thanks you!