I lol'ed. I admit I never even noticed he enraged, he was that easy. If he did, he didnt live long enough to do much damage. But I guess the saying goes, it was a bug having him enrage in normal mode so thats the reasoning behind the fix.

Back in the EQ days, we could externally parse a combat log while it was being generated by the game as a flat text file. This would pretty much solve the hundreds of people who are crying out for a damage meter, if only BioWare implemented it and then someone could be bothered writing a program to parse it and give pretty graphs. As for in-game addons to do it, for now keep dreaming.

So. How exactly did this end up in the "Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions" forum anyhow?

Good information here, well done.

Open up with a mortar volley then straight away concussion shot the silver/gold enemies. Clean up whats left, heal, let some cells recharge then tackle whats left. A good method is to send your companion onto the CC'ed mob and let it get some threat, then open up. This can buy you some time to DPS while you use some of your companion health up instead of your own. Another good strategy is to mortar strike then straight away hail of bolts or sticky grenade. Sticky grenade can scatter the weaker enemies if they are not killed by mortar strike and knock them down (possibly killing them) again buying you time to finish them off. Also, learn to kite the harder enemies as its invaluable later on, as some of those sith are terribly painful up close in melee, so even if you can shave off 1/3 of their health with hammer shot while kiting around, you can then stand and fight and not be at such a disadvantage. As others have said also, breaking line of sight with an enemy that is simply too tough can again buy you time to throw a quick heal on yourself and avoid some of their more nasty abillities. Theres really no "rotation" its more of a priority system, with the goal being to not blow your ammo too fast and cripple your recharge. Use the most damaging abillities first and weave in hammer shots to maintain that fast regeneration. If you can master this you can come out of fights with almost full ammo.

Yes you can.

I believe this is because Jedi Padawan effectivly hold the rank of Commander and Jedi Masters the rank of General, so that they can out rank most millitary officers in the field.