Unless I'm mistaken, you can buy the Quick Travel perk (unfortunately a character perk, so 200K per character) for 200K and travel to Odessen without doing the story.

Unfortunately all my characters have the legacy boost, so I can't test if the weekly mission for C2-N2 would only yield 500 Influence but the reward is indeed 650 Influence (according to the mission result), which is 30% more than 500 (according to the mission description).

If they really wanted to encourage people to go and play Battlefront they wouldn't have done Revenge of the Revanites for Conquest this week. Having said that, I have no idea how one guild managed to get almost 1 million conquest points within less than 10 hours. It's obviously not crafting, so how do they do that? Rotating alts with a lockout for the last boss of the relevant ops?

I'm really interested to know how you did that. Even pre-4.0.2 I wasn't able to solo the Voss Exarch as a Scoundrel Healer in 208/216 gear due to the fact that he targeted my companion and killed him in less than 30 seconds. I just couldn't outheal the amounts of damage my companion took. I didn't have a problem as a Shadow tank pre-4.0.2 but haven't tested it since then.

I'm bad at ground PvP with or without PvP gear, but at least with a full set of PvP gear I survive a few seconds longer. That's why I like the new Legacy comm boxes. They allow me to do this: 1. Buy a full set of PvP gear 2. Use the set for approx. 1.5 hours 3. Return them to the vendor and get a full refund 4. Go back to 1 whenever I want to do more warzones. The only thing I don't return are the MH and OH, because I put Expertise crystals into them to get the full 2018, and they become bound. The weird thing is: I like GSF a lot, so it's not PvP per se that I'm bad at, just the ground version. I can't really say why. It may be the mix of having to face the enemy but not having to aim properly, or the many stuns, roots, interrupts, or some mechanics I don't understand (e.g. sometimes I defend a node and it seems as if a stealth attacker is able to exit combat and go into stealth every 20 seconds. Am I missing something?). However, I'm not opposed to the PvP requirement at all. I don't have to do 20 matches in a row. I can buy the gear, do three or four matches, return the gear, and do something else that I find more enjoyable.

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Been there, done that. I can totally relate. I tried the Voss SF as a Scoundrel Healer at first. It didn't matter what role my companion had. First the companion (Influence level 40+) got wasted by the Exarch faster in less than 30 seconds, then I followed quickly. I think soloing this as a Healer is near impossible. I then tried it with my Shadow Tank alt and a Healer companion (Influence level 30+). The whole run seemed like a walk in the park. No critical moment whatsoever. Even the last fight with the Exarch was no problem at all. It just took a while longer than expected, because he was healing himself more often than I could interrupt him. But my health never dropped below 70%, and I think my companion never pulled aggro from me, so he never dropped below 80% (he took some AoE damage, but nothing he couldn't heal). TL;DR: Try it with a Tank char. It may work as a DPS, but you need to be able to keep aggro off of your companion. If the Exarch targets the companion, you're likely going to lose the fight.

Another rule that I found out the hard way: Don't try to solo them as a Healer. The boss will target your companion and there is no way to heal the amount of damage your companion is going to take due to their really limited mitigation. Will try it as a Shadow tank next. My Scoundrel Healer got beat so hard it still hurts. It probably didn't help that I tried to solo Voss before I tried the others. My impression of companions so far: excellent at healing, decent as dps, not so good at tanking.

I think these two items weren't in the notes before the servers went down, but I could be wrong.

Yes, pre-4.0 the Rich Grade 8 Slicing mission returned between 7K and 11K credits (give or take). I estimate the average was around 9K. I ran that mission several hundred times on multiple toons. Post-4.0 the returned blue box yields around 4K. It seems as if they lowered the output to 40-50% of what it used to be.

I second this. With 250K max Influence and literally over a dozen new followers I find myself hesitating to spend my stacks of companion gifts. I really don't want to invest heavily into a companion who might get killed in the next chapter. I assume that the devs won't say "Follower X is safe, but Y is not", since that would be a major spoiler, but when they said "choices have consequences" I didn't think they would mean "choosing to invest 10 million credits into a follower to max his Influence may result in a complete loss". And yes, HK-51 is bad, becuase he has no Love gift and Treek.. well she's Treek.

Guild rewards are granted at the beginning of the following Conquest week, i.e. on Tuesday, after the 24 hour pause between two conquests. In theory that should happen tomorrow when the servers come back with 4.0.

Just because Influence is the new Affection does not mean that the acievements had to be completely removed. I guess we are lucky that the Datacron achievements are called "Found x/y Datacrons on <Planet>". If they had been called "Found the Strength Datacron on <Planet>" they might have removed them, too. It certainly would have been an option (apparently too much work) to change the Affection achievements to "reached x Influence with <companion>". I levelled a second Sith Warrior just because I was missing the DS Jaesa achievement and even unlocked HK on an Imperial toon to get the affection achievement with him. (I did that less than two weeks before the announcement came.) However, I'm not going to throw a tantrum because of that. I know perfectly well that software evolves and changes happen. But some changes make more sense than others. And this particular change seems to be of the "quick and dirty" kind, which is ok. They have to set priorities and this is certainly not a game-breaking issue.

A few more details might help to diagnose the issue: - What Windows version? - Are you running in Windowed Mode or Full Screen? - Is it really "minimized", i.e. the window is completely gone and can only be activated through Alt+Tab or clicking the icon in the taskbar, or has the focus changed to another window? (You wrote it sends you to desktop, and that leads me to think it really minimized, but I just wanted to clarify.) - Does any other window suddenly have the focus? If only the desktop is visible and all applications are minimized, then [Windows]+D is the most likely cause. To verify that, when it happens the next time, just hit [Windows]+D. If all windows become visible again, then [Windows]+D was pressed before.

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