Awesome. Thank you very much. Using the guide previously posted and these few bits of wisdom I have a better idea of how to gear up from here.

Once again, I did do research. My issue is finding the right balance because there seems to be no agreed upon balance.

Ok so accuracy Augs up to 100%. I figured as much. My main issue is getting the right blance between crit-power-surge because from what I've read there isn't a common ground amongst the guides that I've read.

After looking through Hotwired and Dulfy's guides about gearing my merc I've hit a wall. As it stands I'm around 93% accuracy with ~21% crit, ~68% surge, and roughly ~260 power on my gear all 172 item rating blue augments. My ear and implants are still 124's, belt and bracers 124/156. The three articles I've read have said completely different things and I am curious to see how the community is gearing.

Just finished the BH main story as a merc tonight at lvl 52. I used Mako the entire time except for the odd missions that I would use a newly recruited companion for a test run. Definitely the better companion. Relatively good dps and awesome healing if you keep her geared. Missions go a lot faster without having to stop every 100 hundred yards to vent heat and reload. Now just gotta figure out endgame.

I checked my internet. I use TWC Turbo and that's supposed to cap at a 20mbs limit but I was getting 22. It was definitely the bitraider. I applied the fix and it's actually moving along now.

i5-3570k ASrock Extreme6 2x GTX 660 SC (current drivers) 16GB Corsair Vengeance LP WD Black 1TB Corsair Neutron 128GB SSD Windows 8.1 (up-to-date) where would my problem be as this is the only game that has taken this long to download? also my internet is performing above what I'm paying

Like the title says. Had to do a clean install and so far I'm passing 48 hours straight downloading, patching, and installing. This is getting a little ridiculous. Possibly may reach 72 hrs of this crap.