So I'm playing my Sorcerer. I'm on the part where I have to corrupt the padawan. I go through the hassle of getting all the data cubes to see what her weakness is. I'm psyched about how this is going to play out. I rescue her from the assasins and what do i do to convince her to help me? I fry her with lightning. Yup, I see the dark side option to fry her, I take it cause I'm full on dark side. She fires and then somehow, miraculously, decides to do what I tell her to. what the heck? That was so weak. Really? How does that play out? Hi, I'm here to rescue you, there you go, I just rescued you... uhm, now do what I tell you to or I will fry you. Ridiculous...

wth? where is this vendor? I look in the map and no vendor. I did the full route around and no vendor... I want my +4 Endurance Yellow crystal of doom back!

Thanks all for all the information. I was not interested in cover's use in PvP since i am not planning on PvP'ing, I should have specified that up front. All in all I am pretty excited about the operative as a healer, and I am glad that I wont have to use cover if I dont want to without gimping myself.

I really like the idea of a melee stealther that heals. I'd like to go healer with an operative. My only problem is I really don't see how a melee healer would sit there kneeling in a corner during fights. Do Operative healers use cover during fights or are they up the slicing and dicing between heals? Thanks ahead of time.