1st time in EV Hard mode, SOA is staring at the floor and I vent heat to keep up with the healing load. I thought it was funny that I was catching up when he was enraged.......

As you get your companion affection up, their stories unlock. So, to answer your question, your one trooper will have the ability to unlock all the companion storylines for the 5 trooper companions.

As far as advice goes, this is the best. The only thing I can add is that his kill you now spell had no cast bar. You simply focus on him, and when he is standing there casting with no cast bar, INTERRUPT. I don't care how good your gear is, he will kill you if you don't interrupt the non cast bar spell. I stood back to the left of the door and sent T7 in, waited for his uglieness to port down, and immediately charged and started to put the hurt down. You will loose your target to one of the clones when he summons them, but look for the wounded one and pound his face, ignoring the clones. Interrupt his spell, ignore clones, and hope you kill him. Yes, when I finally succeeded, when I finally got the mechanics down, it was a letdown. I hit 50 in January and spent a month failing to this quest before I gave up on the character and rolled a Vanguard on a different server, and then a couple BHs on other servers just for fun. Just for the sake of beating my head against a wall I tried it again yesterday. Succeeded in some corellia gear, some Voss, and some belsavis. It is not a lol fest like some people claim, but is remarkably easy once you learn the mechanics. That, or the lol fessters took a Vanguard with them and the Trooper did all the work while they took a short nap.

Took me 4 tries with my 50PT tank, but i got it. I am not a skilled player, I keyboard turn, I click, and I am old, so my reactions are not what they should be. Let Mako tank one, grapple and run the other out of range of the one Mako is tanking, and use all four of your interrupts intelligently. Keep butting your head and you will get it. Bioware will not respond to this because if a bad player like me can get it, anybody can do it. It is stil not nearly as hard as trying to solo the Sentinel final class quest.

We always had a mechanic that this ties into, our flame burst (and flame sweep) applied a 15 second debuff on enemies. Now, instead of just a debuff, our shield chance is tied into flame bursting. My only real complaint is that flame sweep does not buff us for those AOE situations, but that was probably intentional. As far as single target goes, as long as you don't let the debuff fall off, your shield chance buff won't fall off either. Hitting flame burst twice, heat burst once, and then flame burst once more ties our debuff (only has one stack) and buff (at four stacks) together nicely, and while leafing us with more heat than just a single flame burst, does not put us into crazy heat management issues. My question is: Are we going to be able to stack more shield chance without hitting diminishing returns now that we are effectively lowering our static shield chance? I really don't know, but it would be interesting and counterintuitive to allow even more mitigation.