Do you have the right amount of affection to get the quest from him? Companion quests are based on both point in the story AND affection amounts.

Yes, that's the whole point of modifiable gear.

No, you're not stuck and don't need to reroll. The troll type dude that appears is a bonus. Even if you don't kill him you will be able to progress with your quests. Just return and turn it in and continue on (though as the other poster said, you must have skipped stuff because you should be higher than lvl 7 when you get your lightsaber thus making the bonus guy a lot easier).

AFAIK most of the PC backgrounds are deliberately left fairly vague so people can make up their own legacies and such for their characters.

Power is a secondary stat that increases damage and healing. Focus on your primary stat of aim. However, for dps power or crit are probably useful secondary stats but don't prioritize a secondary stat over your primary one. Check out the trooper forums for advice on which secondary stat to focus on after aim and also how much you want to shoot for.

As far as I'm concerned my head-canon has already retconned KT's crap out of the EU. (also, my personal EU ends before LotF and then skips straight to the Legacy comics)

Yeah, hit escape and the game menu pops up. Select Preferences from there.

Preferences -> User Interface. You can enable a second bottom bar and one on both the left and right side. Every slot can be keybound by clicking on the Keybindings tab at the bottom of the Preferences window and going to the "quickslot" section. In the UI section of Preferences you can also set it so your companion bar appears on the right or left side instead of the bottom.

I'm not sure if those specific ones can be interrupted (been a while since I did the fight) but if they can't be, still interrupt the others because even if those other abilities don't do as much damage as the instant ones, it equals out to less overall damage and will help you survive. If you have more questions please keep asking! There's several of us that loiter in this forum and can help.

Actually, it's not that expensive to maintain orange gear because on later planets there will be modification commendation vendors where you can buy the components for your moddable gear with commendations rather than credits. And you'll get plenty of commendations from questing. For your companion, use loot and quest reward gear. Basically, never spend credits on gear unless you absolutely have to. You can buy orange gear for both you and your companion with commendations also. Additionally, as another option, instead of synthweaving you could get cybertech as your crafting skill. Cybertech crafts armorings and mods for armor so you would just need to buy the enhancement and hilt pieces for gear.

Surge is the crit damage modifier stat. Higher surge means when you crit, the crit does more damage.

That is likely your problem then. You have an ability as a Jedi Knight called "Force Kick". Using this ability while the enemy is casting a longer ability will interrupt the enemy and stop their cast. You can tell when the enemy is casting one of these because a little cast bar will appear over their portrait. As long as you kick before that ability bar fills up you should interrupt him, causing the ability to not be cast. Bind Force Kick to somewhere easy to use (I have it bound to a mouse button) and then figure out what the worst abilities are that the guys uses. Some cast time abilities aren't that bad so you can ignore them but some really really hurt. Figure out which ones are giving you the most fits and then interrupt his cast every time you can. This will make the fights a lot easier. And as the previous poster said, you can do some other quests and space missions and the like to get some quick credits so you can repair before going back to fight this guy.

Are you interrupting whenever possible? I seem to remember needing to interrupt his big things on my Sentinel or getting demolished. Also, what level are you compared to him?

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It was in that same discussion. They said they'd been working on SGRAs since before launch but time and budget constraints kept them from finishing in time for launch. They also went on to say that they already knew which companions would be allowed for SGRA since they'd been working on them. Not sure if there's a transcript or the videos of the Summit up anywhere yet unfortunately.

It will be released this year. Best time frame we have so far.

What performance issues? I alt+tab out of both games all the time and don't have any problems with my performance.

Both ME3 and TOR alt+tab just fine if you set them to Windowed (Fullscreen) mode.

Check out the class forums for each one. If you go to the class forum there's specific sub-forums for each advanced class. Most of them have stickies or links to posts about specs and how to play the class.

Rubat Crystal Republic: Jaxx, Caiden or Kell'an - Aquillian Rangers Empire: Myrine, Tsovinar, Ferenc

There is no climb command. All keybinds can be found by opening up your preference window and clicking on the "keybindings" tab at the bottom.

There's a taxi that takes you straight there once you've gone through the Works.

Nope. Only way to get a different name at the moment is to reroll.

Not necessarily; not if they're rewriting the companion stories for SGRAs like they said they were at the summit. We won't know until they come out later this year but honestly, adding to the current ones would be less work and cost less than creating a whole slew of new companions. I'm expecting a combination of the two personally since there are several companions, as has been pointed out several times throughout this thread, that seem to be pretty obviously already partially written for SGRAs.

These are MMO terms, not Warcraft terms despite what the OP stated in the topic name.