MartyCZE Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 So I just got HK-51 on my main, bought the unlock on my alt and summoned him. Now a red icon is blinking next to HK's icon telling me that he does not meet the requirements to wear the gear he is currently wearing. I have read that his gear is supposed to scale with his level but I also read that this was bugged few months ago and I could not, for the life of me, find whether this bug has already been fixed or not. So, has it been fixed? His stats seem to be way below what mine are, so I am not sure... Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeSaberRattler Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 He was never designed to have his gear scale with you at all. You have to manually gear him up until you hit 50 at which point you can put his 50 gear back on. If you leave the 50 gear he came with on he won't do any damage or very little as most of his attacks will miss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arunav Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 (edited) No - you need to outfit him with leveling gear via cybertech, or, eventually, customized orange shells. The shells he comes with won't equip properly until level 50. Another option is, while questing, to accept droid parts as rewards. This takes a while to get all the necessary parts, however, and they won't really make him the exceptional companion he is for leveling. If you're not a cybertech, search the GTN for level-appropriate gear for him. If geared at blue-level, I find he is better than using a healer or certainly any other dps companion. Edited March 5, 2013 by arunav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamanous Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 I have no idea how the idea of HK-51 getting scaling gear ever got into peoples heads. When you get a normal companion you get a partial crappy green set of gear that you have to replace completely anyway within a couple levels or even right away. When you get HK-51 you get AN ENTIRE SET OF 51 BLUES in slotted gear. That is one HELL of a bonus over other companions. Prior to 50 you have to do exactly what you have to do with other companions ... gear them up. Just because droid parts may be slightly more difficult to obtain is entirely a different matter. Again ... who the hell started this idea about getting a full scalable set of gear (which exists nowhere else in game)? HK-51 starts with ALL skills no matter the level and is more potent than every other companion until end game gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZionHalcyon Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 As someone who leveled with HK from the beginning, I can tell you the people who say HK does little damage at low levels are wrong. When I did it, I found out the same thing the OP did - he wasn't doing very many attacks because he was overgeared for the level, but the few attacks he did do still were better than anything any other comp I could get can put out there. Even if you have to gear him up with low level weapons for the time being and mods, HK's attacks still do outrageous damage at the lower levels and make grinding fly by. By about alderaan or thereafter it starts to equalize if you keep up with the gear, but he still has some nasty attacks. And I can tell you, post 50, if you gear him up fully with augments and assassin droid armor from the daily vendor... well, lets just say my HK unit does better DPS than 85% of the DPS people I pug with in hardmode flashpoints, including some in campaign armor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenarka Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Why do people unquip his starting gear? He can wear his 50 stuff from 1-50. Its a bug..but a beneficial one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowermanx Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Again ... who the hell started this idea about getting a full scalable set of gear (which exists nowhere else in game)? HK-51 starts with ALL skills no matter the level and is more potent than every other companion until end game gear. It came from a dev saying that they wanted to scale the gear he had to the level you acquire him on alts. Eg, if you get him below level 10, he would have lvl 10 gear, if between 10 & 20, it would be level 20, and so on. You were always going to have to upgrade the gear as you leveled up, its just that some people mistook the reference to scaling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobaScott Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 (edited) Deleted. And this eb page went German when I hit edit. Edited March 6, 2013 by BobaScott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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