You can give your companion a boost with Presence Stims. You can get those from med droids or the GTN would have better ones for your level. In the cantina on Belsavis you can also go to the cantina vendor to get a food or drink item that also gives a presence boost. I agree with the above poster with going slowly at the edges, just take one mob at a time and watch for patrols. Sentinels don't really have a tank stance in the classic sense so you need to keep yourself as DPS. Since any companion can do all 3 roles, use the companion that has the most affection. You might also try putting your companion in tank stance and having them fight first. You'll need to heal after fights, but it might go smoother. Good luck.

I happened to read this thread yesterday and had a character I could try it out on. In my case I had played this Mercenary through Hutta then leveled him to 50 with heroic missions only (during double XP). When I hit 50 I did a round of daily missions for the Gree Event. I wanted to do the relay mission so I went back and finished my class story on DK so I'd get my ship. This all got me to level 53 so I could do the SoR prelude. I haven't gone any further as I will want to finish my class story before doing KOTFE. I think I'll play through Rishi-Yavin-Ziost before going back to my class story just to see how it looks/works. Thanks for posing the question, it's been fun playing it out to see what happens.

I was credited my subscriber grant today April 18. The last grant I received was March 16. This is 33 days later. I was billed March 30 for a new 3 month subscription. It certainly seems that the fix hasn't been fully applied. In the interest of clarity, the whole subscriber grant system should be reset to grant a set number of days after billing. Telling customers that grants could be received in as little as 2 days and as many as 20 days isn't helpful.

To start KOTFE you only need to be level 60 and have access to the chapters (by having subscribed).

Correction: I was able to put HK-55 in the stronghold, but when I went back with a different character that had completed Chapter 9, the spot was empty. When I went with a character that hadn't gotten HK-55 yet (she just started KOTFE Chapter 1) the spot was still empty. The space counted as decorated for the stronghold conquest bonus. Going back with the character that had placed him, he is invisible when you have him with you, no holographic. I'm going to leave him there in hopes they just need to code the holographic HK-55.

I was able to put HK-55 in my stronghold. I'd acquired him as a companion, then went to my stronghold and added him . I haven't gotten that character to chapter 9 though to see if he's still there. I tried the same thing with Marr, right after he joined me on his ship, but it didn't work. Maybe I need to play a little further through the chapter to have it trigger. I'm going to try this again today.

This quest changed a bit in 4.0. I just happened to have done it today so it's fresh in my mind. It used to be you just threw the grenade and there was a bonus related to the piggys. Now, you have to kill 20 piggies to get the grenade. When you enter the area, you are given a bonus to kill the champ on the east rim of the pit. If it didn't have you do that, maybe you had the quest in your log from before 4.0? I'd abandon the quest and get it again if that's the case.

Finally got error code 2004 or 2005, I clicked more info and nothing came back. It will let me select other servers, but I've got most of my characters or Harbinger.

I don't know what hilt you have in your mainhand now, but look at your force bonus damage before and after adding in the 204 hilt. It really depends on how much your Force Power increases versus the decrease in Willpower. Remember that each point in Force Power increases your Bonus Damage by .23 while each point in Willpower increases it by .20 while giving you a little crit. You'll be losing the crit chance you lose with the drop in Willpower as well. If you're running with a 198 MH now, I'd say don't bother, but with a 186 or 192 there's likely a benefit albeit an unorthodox one.

It clips for Body Type 3 as well.

Agreed, I like the dark red color and have it on some male and female characters. Now with all the new hair styles that color is now clown red. I won't be getting a new hair style no matter how cool if this color thing isn't sorted out.

The achievements are also there for people who play on PvP servers. Personally, I just ignore the achievements that are related to aspects of the game I don't do.

Yes and take your first skill point in Boresights to increase the damage of sweeping blasters.

I'd go with a Mercenary, lots of AOEs and you start off with a healer companion so you don't have to take as much time recovering between groups.

I'm reminded of the first April Fools Day after the game went live and they did a practical joke movie that a new ship droid mini-game was coming. You could clean the ship, wash windows, and stuff, I will have to try and find it again... Here it is, enjoy! http://www.swtor.com/info/news/news-article/20120401