I was also a bit worried about grinding for 8 characters, but today, I did all the H2+ except 3 and I went from influence 2-3 to influence 10 with the four alliance specialists. If it was legacy bound, you'll just have to do that 3-4 times to get maxed, so 3-4 afternoon. And after that, what ? A whole part of the 4.0 system just finished and not much to do...Btw, it's pretty easy to up the companions influence : doing all H2+ gives you 60 crates, so a lot of gifts too. But I won't lie, it was hardcore grinding, running from a place to another for...5 hours perhaps ?

Totally agree with OP here. I'm not a RP nazi, but the game is pretty immersive and you choose to play on a RP server because you don't want to break the immersion. I can totally understand people who don't want to roleplay seriously 24/7, but at least, we need some rules and advertisment about names and minimum "communication decency" (about that, sorry for my poor english). I play on french server (plize don't force choke mi) and it's not rare to play with Darth Darkkiller and Obilol Kenonoob. I'm just asking for some pop-up windows at the character creation, with three lines about naming, leetspeak and immersion and perhaps a link to non-RP server, so the new player can find his way easly.

Ok, thanks ! Since you're here, how much accuracy would you consider decent to go 55 hm flashpoints ? I assume the 110% is for operations and I find it pretty difficult to achieve.

Well, sorry if you don't like Noxxic. Personally, I'm not a big fan of theorycraft, so I look for someone else to do the maths for me and this site looked serious. I'm willing to change my mind about it, but do you have another source to suggest ? Still, the thing is alacrity doesn't work well, for what I've read. Accuracy and willpower are definitely the most important.

Hi, Willpower >= Accuracy (110%) > Surge (75%) > Power > Crit (30%) Source : http://www.noxxic.com/swtor/pve/sith-inquisitor/assassin/deception/item-modification