Nilmot Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 Weird prejudice to have, on my Powertech I was soloing bosses around the world (champion mobs) with my healer companion at my side, never have any downtime, soloing +2 stuff, and some +4. It's all personal preference but actually developing a prejudice against someone using a healer ? Perhaps it's an issue you should take up with a shrink hehe Never played PT and I imagine there's some class variations, but I do the same without a healing companion. I don't think we're alone either. Anyway, I do agree that mine is a bit of an odd stance to have, but I can't help it. I feel like if you're using a healer you're chosing to play easy-mode and paying the price of moving slower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepperawr Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 The new HK companion is now regularly replacing my healer comp as his kill speed makes up for the downtime between pulls you need to put up with if you don't go healy comp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSStember Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 I was wondering if anyone else was pretty much only using healer companions? For most of my characters I have used only the healers, which makes me a bit sad because they tend to be more boring than the others. Is anyone having success using DPS or Tank Companions? Currently I am playing a DPS Shadow. It really depends on what char I'm playing. For example, I made a Jedi Sentinel (DPS) and she needed the healing companion to lower "down time". But when I made a Jedi Guardian (Tank) he stuck with his DPS companion. Companions help "round out" the character and fill the roles the character can't do themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willhousefour Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 While leveling I think healing companions make a lot of sense for melee dps specs. You'll be on top of the mobs and bound to take some damage and the healing companion mitigates that. For ranged classes or classes that have positional attacks, a tank companion works well since they can hold mobs to prevent an interruption to casting sequences or keep them in position for positional attacks. DPS companions can be used effectively with a tank or healing spec character, but I often level as dps spec to kill as fast as possible. DPS + DPS can be somewhat tough on gold mobs - I always needed my companion to take some of the damage, so I'd let them get aggro then run in and start dps'ing and hope to grab aggro off them before they died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amarhel Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 If I'm playing a class that can heal others; I use tank companions. If I can't heal others; I use healers or someone with control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediCahlwyn Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 My Guardian tank uses Kira 90% of the time (though as another said HK geared is great!) My Vanguard tank uses Elara 90% of the time My Sage healer uses Nadia 90% of the time My Gunslinger dps uses Corso or Bowdaar 90% of the time Sometimes I pull out a random companion during dailies and the like for a change of pace. My bud and I duo Chasing the Shadows heroic 4 with our two Docs, etc. But in general I use the companions above. I swap em up for story reasons if needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RazielHex Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I'm leveling a new Assassin and I've been using my ship droid for healing as I quest. I'm leveling as a tank spec and don't really need Khem to tank for me, also he annoys me more than the ship droid does. Had you been Deception/Infiltration, Khem is a Godsend for keeping your enemies' backs towards you for mauling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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