Can someone else confirm this? This means that the only purpose of maxing out companions is for story and performance purposes, if you completed a single character, and seems kind of...bad. Why cap presence and duration..

So the minimum cooldown reduction is 5 minutes? Do the additional companions continue to give duration then? And I assume the presence buff keeps stacking as well?

The way it seems right now, is it possible to get an 'epic moment' or w/e it's called with no cooldown? if each companion is minus one minute on the CD and there are 20 companions total? Just wondering, since that would really be the only reason i'd finish leveling my alts, instead of going completionist on my main (that and the presence bonus at least).

Just re-subbed, played through eternity vault and the hutt instance on all difficulties, then stopped playing due to a combination of a lack of playtime and general frustration with the game. Anyways, looking to get back into the current scene in terms of instances and raids, but I'm not really super interested in hard-core style raiding atm, since my schedule is insane. Looking for a guild that does actually clear content, but on a semi casual basis (or a larger guild that has a raiding regiment that is open depending on gear and schedule and such). And a bunch of people to hang around with on ventrilo or mumble or what have you. Currently I'm available mostly in the mornings (7-11/12AM est), since I'm working graveyard shift, but that's likely to change in the next week or two. Anyone have any ideas or recruitment spams to throw at me? Played a concealment operative, mostly rakata or rakata level mods, pretty decent gear for the time I played at least, not sure how much it has changed. I also have the giant bowl hat of awesome from the last guy in the hutta instance. It's awesome, so I just had to throw that out there.

One of the previous patch fixes was 'fixed the exit shuttle in karaga's palace from returning you to the wrong area' or some such. At one point, apparently there was a small chance that if you were republic you could get dropped off on the imperial fleet, and the npc's are neutral. He just went up to the vendor and bought it, at least that's what I gathered after looking through a few similar posts.

Ladies and gentlemen, I regret to inform you that random does in fact mean random. However much you may dislike it, however bad your 'luck' may be, however much things seem to be a pattern. They are not. You're 'problems' as stated in this thread are a miniscule minority, which tends to imply that the thousands upon thousands of forum posters NOT posting in this thread are not having issues. TLDR: Random loot is random, keep on trying, eventually youll get something, or something will drop that will break your fancy 'x drops with y in group' patterns.

Special abilities start at 50%. We put all the melee on sorno, all the range on jarg, and burned them together. We also only used one tank (yes on 16m).

It crits for almost 1k for me, no reason not to take it.

Ehh... I have about 2k cunning and 405 crit rating, and run at 43% crit - that puts my BS at 58%. I call BS on 72%. Anyways, nothing is broken, at least in dps terms. I know a few healing talents are in fact broken, there are a few threads around listing the abilities. If anything is broken, it is talent specific only, the raw stats work fine.

Well, I've honestly found that I can compete quite well in raids. At the moment our primary dps are myself and a mercenary, no-one else really comes close (we have alot of small-ish numbers, with big crits in between, it's more than it seems). 3800-4200 lacerates, 4000-4200 backstabs, acid blade/corrosive constant 800 ticks. It's a very viable spec, just not as easy as some others.

I don't think your primary stat has soft-caps, just secondaries. I know I hit about 1980~ish cunning in raids, and it seems to give me full benefit.

some of the companions start with green modable gear, as far as i know there is no difference.

Wait wait, you came from wow, and you are expecting a... 'good/helpful community' ? You do know that the public wow forums are considered the cesspool of the internet, right?

It would never happen, due to the politically correct leeches currently infesting most of society, and the 'scandal' that would ensue by a game 'promoting' slavery.

lol @ the above guy. They are not hard-coded into the area, otherwise they would not be interactables. They are extras, added in for some inexplicable reason, then not removed. It doesn't really matter too much to me, nor do I see why people complain about it, but meh.