Oh great Lord Ptach, Hast thou stumbled over a conquest schedule in your travels throughout the universe?

It has been mentioned before in the forums, but one of the complaints that I hear the most is that the RNG from crates is seriously broken. As an example, I have been doing ranked wzs and one way to get cxp and the schematics drops. Half of the tier 3 schematics i have gotten (so six of 12) are advanced resistive hilt 51 (on a sentinel). So one is good (but versatile would be better lol), what do i do with the others? There are many similar examples that I have heard.

mea culpa on forum placement. I didn't know that you could destroy schematics from wz crates and get cxp.

It has been mentioned briefly in the forums, but one of the complaints that I hear the most is that the RNG from crates is seriously broken. As an example, I have been doing ranked wzs and one way to get cxp and the schematics drops. Half of the tier 3 schematics i have gotten (so six of 12) are advanced resistive hilt 51 (on a sentinel). So one is good (but versatile would be better lol), what do i do with the others? There are many similar examples that I have heard.

One thing that would go a long way towards gearing alts is making the command pack drops of earpieces, implants, and relics legacy bound rather than character bound. This could also work for ops drops of the same items. It would be simple to implement and could be done retroactively.

I am sure it has already been suggested - BB-8 would make a great new companion to get in a future chapter......

I do understand presence and yes the numbers vary, but I am unclear that the presence affects the heals and damage much based on running the heroics on Alderan with a companion with influence of six and again with one with influence at level 21. Both were on heals and my health seemed to get decreased about the same. Unfortunately I didn't create any precise measurement. The regular class buff does raise mastery on companions from 4300 to 4515. That did appear to me to make a major difference. I will see if I can test better this weekend and records hits. That way I should be able to see if the presence really affects power/magnitude of hits/heals. Overall I think the nerf made sense but it might have gone a bit too far. I do think a more clear connection to effects with increased influence would encourage players to increase the influence on more companions to higher levels as would some more differentiation of abilities as discussed in other threads, eg Nadia having her major force blast. These are tweaks to a great expansion!

I may have misunderstood the patch notes. I thought companions abilities scaled based on influence. On one of my characters i have a companion with influence 6 with better stats than Lana at 21. Most of the companions, no matter what influence level, have the same stats in the companion window. I can't really tell if this is a display issue with the window not displaying the stats properly, or if they are in fact not actually scaling. Is this a known bug or am I missing something, have tried logging in and out, going different planets, doing diferrent missions, etc. I do understand that they are all less powerful but I understood there would be some differentiation. Impossible to really comment on the gameplay with this appearing not to work but at least to me in play they all seem to function at more or less the same level no matter what the influence level is, ie a comp at level 6 is as useful or not as one at 20 influence.

I may have misunderstood the patch notes. I thought companions abilities scaled based on influence. On one of my characters i have a companion with influence 6 with better stats than Lana at 21. Most of the companions, no matter what influence level, have the same stats in the companion window. I can't really tell if this is a display issue with the window not displaying the stats properly, or if they are in fact not actually scaling. Is this a known bug or am I missing something, have tried logging in and out, going different planets, action etc. I do understand that they are all less powerful but I understood there would be some differentiation.

Ok, I am also confused about the new Expansion. Understand all subs get a new level 60 character and companion. That you can level them to 65 and earn new companions with an entirely new story line. What about existing level 60 characters and companions, can they be leveled to 65 with different content or are they just junk in October?