Oh yeah definitely, I've had to vendor like 30 of the things. It's extremely high.

Bump. This is still an issue lots of people are having. It was funny at first but honestly, now it's grating on my nerves a bit. It breaks immersion in a serious way, and I (personally) think that immersion is important in this game. I play mostly for story anyway. Is it bugging anyone else that the "known bugs" sticky isn't being updated with all the bugs we keep bringing up? :/

Both of these are true for me as well, on Harbinger.

I'll agree with you on one of your points, at least, it's ridiculous that there are still quests that have bugged for years that Bioware still hasn't patched. One quest that springs to mind is the Secret Passages quest, which won't let you click the required area at all unless you switch instances (though this doesn't work for some). You're out of luck unless you have enough people on your server to have a second instance, as well. It's been like that since 2012. 2012! That's unacceptable. There's another heroic quest I can't recall the name of that has you pick items up off of dead NPCs, but a lot of the times the item you need just flat out doesn't register or it won't let you pick it up. If you keep killing enemies more and more yellow bars will pop out of their corpses but it won't let you pick any of it up. Lots of people had solutions for this (log out, reset quest, exit and return), however none of these solutions worked for me. They really need to fix this stuff. It isn't some kind of obscure bug that hardly anybody runs into, a ton of people run into it during their normal leveling. I've seen quite a few people running around confused on the Secret Passages quests and had to tell them to switch instances to complete it. They really shouldn't have to.

You haven't heard one people in game say how OP the companions are now? I've seen it like 10 times and I am NOT exaggerating.

Do these low effort replies actually work?

Nah. It used to matter when I used my cooldowns, such as interrupts, and stuns, on heroic and elite mobs. I remember many bosses for class stories I couldn't beat until I properly understood my skills and used them when needed. But look, I'm all for a difficulty decrease from what there was before, and most companion changes I'm fine with. However, there's a difference between easy and so-easy-a-toddler-can-play-it. And this game is DEFINITELY the latter right now.

I do not sit back and let companions do it all themselves and it's ridiculous you assume I do. However, the way the system is now pressing 1111111111111 feels exactly the same as using your combos. How is that fun? It's brainless button mashing. Also, do you understand that the reason that people are bringing up the fact that this game doesn't require gameplay BECAUSE it perfectly illustrates how desperately this game NEEDS to be tuned down? It's a symptom of the underlying problem. Competing against your companion for kills is not fun, by the way, other poster. Also, it's not a solution for the actual problem. I'm genuinely surprised by the amount of people in here who seemingly want this game to play like a game for four year olds.

The point is that it doesn't MATTER if you fight with them or not. Are you seriously denying that never having to heal, fight, stun, interrupt, or disengage is NOT a problem? The game is not nearly as engaging when everything you do doesn't matter.

I like how the people who actually want to have to play this game are apparently the weird ones. The companion right now does ALL of the work and that's not acceptable. This is a game. It should have gameplay.

The game is balanced around using your companion, though, bioware has said as much many, many times.

The game is balanced around using your companion. "Do not use your companion" is not a solution, it is a bandaid.

How about you actually make counterpoints instead of calling everything people say that you don't agree with "crying"? How immature.

No, I up arrowed the quote and then addressed the other people in the rest of my paragraph.

^ I'm not asking for this game to be hard. I'm asking for this game to be at least a little bit balanced. I don't care if the balance is pretty heavy in "player" camp. I just care that the "enemy" camp has even the smallest chance, even if they only get that chance if you massively misplay. That doesn't happen now. Also the fact that your computer setup/internet setup has disconnection issues honestly is your own issue that you need to fix, it's not a good reason to make the game so easy a baby could play it.