wow thanks everyone - very helpful...I'll give it a go. Its surprising how attached you can get to characters even a few levels into the game.

I've gotten myself into a bit of a bind and I'm looking for advice... I have 2 missions left and can't complete either one. One is the blood and bone one which I have completed with a Sith Warrior and didn't even break a sweat...but my Inquisitor just seems weak or I'm maybe trying to doing things wrong. The other is the mission where I am supposed to get that big ugly dude as companion. I figured out to throw the droids off the cliff, but the big guy just snaps me neck. My typical attack method is to use Electrocute from a distance...then as they run to me, I hit them with Force Lightning and when they get to me, I swing for the fences with Thrash and Saber Strikes. I do stim up...typically with Strength - maybe that is my fault? I also keep a medpack on my action bar, but there is a cooldown on how many times I can save myself. Having said that - I did cripple my Inquisitor a bit on armor. Since this was my first character, I made some mistakes. I played a flashpoint and got killed...after dying in the flashpoint I could not even make it back to the flashpoint because just the small random enemies would kill me...eventually I found that my armor and weapon had been completely broken. So I threw them all away and replaced them with whatever I could find. Compounding that problem, I bought an expensive part of boots (1800 credits) and then right clicked them to equip them, but I had not disengaged the vendor so I sold them back for a few bucks *facepalm* I know the easy answer is to wipe the character and start over. I'd rather try to get through it somehow. Any sage wisdom for a Sorcerer down on her luck?