Wait people actually roll need for their COMPANIONS?! The things you can only use solo, only have one of out at a time, and deal maybe 1/3-1/2 of the damage/healing of a player character? Oh lawd

Why on EARTH are you bragging about 20 or 30k a day dude. That is one 7 minute daily space mission worth of credits. Did you forget a zero? Or is your main level 15?

I really enjoy this idea, it would be a blast and I assume it would be very easy to implement! The difficulty of the missions would have to be somewhere around a [Heroic 2+] mission. Your healer companion only heals for a max 400-500 hps at 50, but players can heal for up to 2000 hps and prioritize targets. So [Heroic 2+] is probably the most difficult you can make it without it requiring waaay more healing. Rewards should be about the same as the current daily heroics, each boss could drop a daily badge and the final boss could drop a level 50 purple mod or something. Maybe you could switch on a hard mode and get level 51 mods And to the people that say solo content is pointless in an mmo: Do you really spend every second of your online time with a group? During space missions? Dailies? Of course not. 3 companion quests would just add a little more fun and variety to the game, and give you a reason to log on when your friends aren't!

I really enjoy this idea, it would be a blast and I assume it would be very easy to implement! The difficulty of the missions would have to be somewhere around a [Heroic 2+] mission. Your healer companion only heals for a max 400-500 hps at 50, but players can heal for up to 2000 hps and prioritize targets. So [Heroic 2+] is probably the most difficult you can make it without it requiring waaay more healing. Rewards should be about the same as the current daily heroics, each boss could drop a daily badge and the final boss could drop a level 50 purple mod or something. Maybe you could switch on a hard mode and get level 51 mods And to the people that say solo content is pointless in an mmo: Do you really spend every second of your online time with a group? During space missions? Dailies? Of course not. 3 companion quests would just add a little more fun and variety to the game, and give you a reason to log on when your friends aren't!

So you would be pleased if they upped the difficulty of everything, and made it so that raids only dropped 1 piece of loot per boss? Somehow that adds more content? It would keep you playing longer as a deliberate time sink...but in terms of actually content nothing would change! Most players these days STOP playing because of time sinks.

Holy crap, you can really do over 4k dps? Going all out, my vanguard in columi gear does 1200 dps (tested on some elites on Ilum). What class/spec are you? I need to roll that!

Everyone keeps mentioning how awesome guard and taunt are in pvp, which is true, but they completely forget that dps specs can do those as well. And to top it off, guard damage isn't affected by our mitigation. I'd say the best bet if you wish to "tank" in pvp is to follow something similar to the "Iron Fist" build taugrim has. Wear dps gear, turn on tank stance, obtain all the mitigation/utility talents in the tank tree, and put the rest of your points into a dps tree. You can guard, dish out very good dps, and reduce the damage you take by a fair amount.

I never understood the "its optional" argument for adding things into the game. Why not let players have the option to be automatically 50? Why not let players have the option to switch between Trooper and Sage? Why not let players have the option to solo all the content and gain level 145 epics? Why not turn fleet pass and quick travel into 5 second cooldown abilities? Its all optional and "doesn't affect you" in the slightest if someone chooses to do these, so by your argument, these should all be allowed. Honestly I'm sort of 50/50 right now on the issue, but adding options is not always a good thing, since it can cheapen the gaming experience for many. I'm not saying there isn't a good argument for allowing players to change ACs, but it certainly does alter the way the game will be played and is not something to toss in just because a player can choose to ignore it.

On one hand I don't want to go through my class's story line again But on the other hand, advanced classes are really damn different.

Yeah that would make me the happiest as well, however the time they would spend designing these new solo places would be immense. So I figured the best I could hope for is simply them taking current content and make is soloable.

I would be COMPLETELY on board, and it would keep me playing for many more months. The idea of getting to use all my companions and getting to mix and match my team just sounds brilliant. And think of the time sink that will occur by having players gear up their companions for the content! Time sink = more money for bioware. Obviously the gear that drops should be nowhere near a HM in level, and I would say it should only drop level 50 epic mods or something. They should either add an option to flashpoints called "easy mode", or they should create new flashpoints specifically for you and 3 of your companions, whichever seems to make more sense. Either way, I'm ready and waiting!

5 stars

Things to ease the leveling process, perhaps increased xp gains or faster rested xp. Perhaps more/better quick travel options. Shared credits/commendations between characters. And the ability to transfer bind on pickup loot.

Agreed. At least they allow us to get xp for it now... But I before I go attempting to level it up, I'd at least like to know generally what the rewards are (social abilities? NEW abilities? More stats? Races?)

Heh...bugged

Someone learned some memes today

I have noticed that surge is quite powerful actually. It only takes like 5 or 6 points to increase crit damage by 1%. At 400 surge your crits are doing 2.3x your original damage. If you have a 30% crit rate, that 400 extra surge gives you 40% more dps. There is no other stat that comes close to matching that! (and thats not including all those talents the increase crit rate/create automatic crits on certain abilities)

Get orange gear and do dailies for level 50 purple mods/barrels/armor/etc. Or do pvp, and rip out the mods/enhancements in that gear to put in your orange gear. While you do the dailies, check the AH for item level 124+ purples (preferably mastercrafts, since they are actually similar stats to columi gear with the augment). If you have time, do more dailies and get the Rakata earpieces and implants.

Totally agree, though I think it would be hard to balance. As a tank, I can just whip out my healer companion and solo heroic 2+'s as it is. A DPS class would have a much harder time doing something like that. Perhaps they could allow the player to take out another companion for these quests, so that every spec can have "the trinity" (tank, heals, dps)

Yeah I have no idea why they got COMPLETELY rid of orange gear at 50. IMO bosses should drop mods and badges, and you buy orange gear with the badges or something. And armoring is the mod that gives you the set bonuses. One can currently rip out mods/enhancements from their tier sets and put them in orange gear, but the best armoring you can get is a much lower rank, so orange gear would not be as viable.

Yes please!

Obviously having 2 companions at once as the game is right now would make much of the single player content trivial, but perhaps in future expansions a player can bring out another one. It would allow players to try out various companion combinations to keep the game interesting and challenging. It would also allow for 1 of each of the holy trinity of mmos (tank, healer, dps) for average every day circumstances. From a story perspective, about 50% of the trooper story involves building up an awesome special forces squad, but as the game currently is, I can only control a single person from that squad. I sound like I'm bat-poo crazy when my character screams "SQUAD, MOVE OUT", since I'm only talking to a single person. Anyway, just a fun little suggestion to help keep questing interesting!

So in your iron fist build, do you used dps gear or tank gear? (I assume you use a shield generator either way)

I do about 650-700 long term single target dps. So an elite mob with 30k health goes down in 45 seconds. Takes 2.5 minutes to kill a champion with 100k life. (I've timed these before out of curiosity) Are you level 50? Can you really kill an elite in 10 seconds? I went DPS vanguard in both assault and tactics, and found my dps went up to around 1000-1100, but if you can kill an elite in 10 seconds, thats like 3000 dps! Maybe I'll reroll if thats the case

If you want to play a humanoid character, then freakin play one. If they added more races, i cannot think of a single way that it will hurt you, unless seeing a mon calimari trooper would obliterate your immersion somehow. Though i doubt this, because there are jawa heroes already.