I don't see how this is a "stealth nerf". It was pretty clear that in their current state they were being easily exploited by cheaters and credits sellers with macros. Bioware was going to do something at some point, it was just a matter of when.

If I suddenly got triple my paycheck, I would ask what is going on because there most likely was an error. If drug dealers that hand out around my work place start getting a paycheck and they end up making more than the people working. Then you are damn right that I'm going to complain. You are right that credit farmers will still credit farm but there is a huge difference. They won't be generating the massive amounts of credits and greatly increasing inflation without the large amount from slicing. People like you just look at what is in front of your face and not the bigger picture. For example say they leave slicing exactly how it is. The rate of inflation greatly increases and the value of your hard earned credits drop. Eventually credit sellers will be selling massive amounts of credits for practically nothing. Which means less people will buy credits by going through the cartel market so less money for Bioware. Which also leads to people getting bored with the game quicker and moving on since you can get everything so easy. Lets also not forget the cheating environment vibe giving off by all the bots farming the nodes which results in frustrated people. Yes there will always be some bots but it is 10x worse when you watch them get massive currency when it can easily be stopped. Keep in mind this is just a few things for example, this has a huge chain reaction on the game. You are also hilariously wrong about a slicing change having an effect on players. People who buy credits don't farm in the first place. That is the whole point of them buying credits so they don't have to farm. Also that fact that people keep screaming how great credits from heroics are and they are so much better than slicing. Then why are a little extra credits from slicing needed? Just make an alt which is more fun and do more heroics? Lastly some people keep implying there is more important things as if altering slicing is a month long project. When in reality its a few hours at most of work so its not going to take away from other things getting fixed.

Sorry but they are broken. They were fine pre patch and all they needed to do was add new spawns in Zakuul. OP is right, they are not balanced with the rest of the game.

Are you really comparing no game play spending many hours traveling/picking up quests vs game play possibly taking an extra min or two to complete a heroic? Not a very good troll attempt I must say.

Like I said above if H2 Star Fortress is the only thing people are having difficulty with especially with certain classes. BW can easily increase the console buff that you can grab inside so that it isn't too hard. By just increasing the buff it will also keep doing star fortress without the buff challenging for those that want it harder.

If it is just Star Fortress H2s BW can easily increase the console buff if many people are having problems. From what I see on the rest of the forums though is that companions suck everywhere in game so people can't play and it doesn't match up at all to what I'm seeing in game. I still don't understand the urgency in getting everything done so quickly that even if it took you an extra hour to complete all the weeklies it is so horrible. Even if you couldn't spare an extra hour then just don't complete all of them. It not like there is some huge content patch coming every few months. People will have this alliance grind for the next 6 months at the very minimum to do.

These are the two complaints I see the most after the companion adjustment. I'm really confused as to how anyone is complaining about these two things. I have a rank 10 only companion and can clear heroics easily and just as fast as I did before the patch. Only difference is my health isn't full the entire time and i might need to use some defensive abilities. People really can't beat these? Are you kidding me? What specifically are people having problems with? How is it taking you so much longer to do them? I've seen someone say 3x longer? Even if it took a few minutes longer, what is the big deal? If you like playing the game why do you want to complete everything so quickly so you can leave? It seems people would be glad if they could send the companion solo to do the heroics while offline and just log in and collect the rewards so they are done with everything in 5 minutes.