Having a sizable (about 300-400) legacy bonus to Presence makes new characters super easy, as your companion can steamroll most non-Heroic fights for a few planets, but unless you are a crafter who happens to reverse engineer an item with a Presence bonus, it's something you never have to worry about. Presence datacrons are basically mostly useful for the XP, and sometimes in groups with three people, Presence can help determine whose companion will be used, but that's basically it.

I actually like the pistol for my Powertech, and wish I could equip my Mercenary with the assault cannon. The rest? Not so much.

It seems that this advanced class duo is the only one I haven't touched yet on either side, so with SoR coming up I thought I would try my hand at it. Bu the problem I have is I don't know which one to go with. On the one hand, I am not that fond of the Jedi Knight's story except during Act 2, which is disappointingly short and generic as far as Hero's Quests go, and I really enjoy the look of high end Sith medium armor (and can't really afford similar looking adaptive armor without a lot of credit grinding). On the other hand, the general Imperial story is really starting to get tired after playing it through like eleven times, and even with 12x Xp right now I still have post-Corellia content to deal with, and I only have one Knight to my two Warriors. I guess I could romance Jaesa for a change, but I don't know whether that is worth playing through the Dark Side Warrior again. So, for avid fans of dual sabers, especially for those who played both, which one do you enjoy playing more, aesthetically and narratively speaking? Which one would you suggest for me?

Note that I am a subscriber, and it might be different for preferred access players.

Changing species makes all the other options free, though.

Getting enough comms to remain geared is very easy if you level two alts at the same time, since you only need to do the dailies for FPs and PvP to keep up, and switching between alts keeps you from leveling too fast. But if you are only doing a mad dash to level 55, even ignoring story FPs like the Foundry or the Maelstrom Prison in favor of solely doing the class missions, yeah, that might be a bit problematic by Belsavis.