You can agro Corso manually on proper target by "Ctrl+1" if you don't know already

I have 50 lv PT and can't say that this skill vital for tanking, it useful but not vital, it better for PvP than PvE, and I have Comando, his robot companion have grappling hook too same as Corso before 1.2 and can't say I really happy about this ability, most of the time this skill useless or even worse, if you not use this skill manualy stupid bot pulls mobs under your AOE attacks, and not agro groups properly, I like BH version on Blizz more than trooper version. For pure DPS purpose companion AOE attacks when you killing though mobs one by one are not important at all, it usefull only on groups. IA companions didn't have harpoon at all, and it is no problem at all, if you know how to manage their abilities.

Gunslinger have much better looking armour, an coolness factor of a double pistols > than single sniper or blaster rifle. I have IA 50 lv and best looking armour I have was orange Imperial officer coat from the first part of the game, end game agent armour sets a (bleep!!!) pieces of (bleep!!!) trash, same I can say about other imperial clases, Jugs for example looks like (bleep!) robots . Imperial agent story is one of the best storilines in the game, and best storiline on imperial side, it's like good old days spy novels from '60s. Smugler companions are little more interesting than imperial agent have, except maybe Calio, she is real anarchic damned wretch and pain in the arse, and she have good side story.

Now Corso is the same as IA Calio and have more utility than have before for gunslingers, harpoon is useless ability for tanking IMHO, If you can't turn off AOE abilities to prevent your pet from agro CC'ed mobs, it's your problem. I have operative on imperial side and can't say that melee SCORPIO tanks better than ranged tank Calio, on dispersed pack of mobs she much better from my point of viev. You say "Use Bowdar" ... but he is melee tank, and you get him on Nar Shadda, not near the end of the story like IA SCORPIO, but not from the start, and remeber that scoundrel have more survivability than gunslinger, it more forgiving and it have heals, with some luck and skill you can easily solo group content impossible to solo for other classes, it was fair nerf stop whining.

I didn't use cover, but use crouch instead, rewrite keybinding from Shift+f to F for it, explosive probes and long rifle shots are handy sometimes it will not be wise thing forget about this possibility.

Healing OP are nice, and pretty forgiving, and realy easy to play, if you know what are you doing you will be really hard nut to crack, don't forget that only healers can solo some game content that even good geared tanks with good geared healing companions found hardly soloable

Lighting storm + 2 orbital strikes, some fire from your legacy flamer and if there survival force choke BH can do the same DA+LS+OS+F+FC=WIN All you need is 4 50 lv characters to unlock this abilities

If that so then better to go with something like 31/7/3 with maxed defences and health, killing things is not main tank purpose anyway, but doing dailies and other trivial stuff will be boring as hell

Not so valuable if you geared well for tanking, there is no content in game where it were fatal fault, maybe I take Hot Iron instead prototipe cilinders, for this build for slightly better DPS.

Indeed! And what angry bad skilled PvP'ers can't understand, and excrete tremendous amounts of frustration, what ends by painful nerfs for major PVE community... Damnation on their dad-blasted heads!

Love the idea. Why you can't have both if you play sleazy selfish bastard something like Ming the Merciless as example

I found disapointing that we still have 4 bars for our skills and stims, grenades ect., yep they give us pet bar but this still is not enough, and mostly useless in groups +2 aditional skill bars will be nice.

Found this build more usefull for me, good tank & decent DPS (for a tank spec of course) and really nice rail shot crits http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#301GMGrdoroGRZMsZb.1

My re-breather is missed to

Unlock all classes legacy abilities and rise all companion affection over 9500+ an you will be able to do tremendous amount of damage in heroic moments, really worthy to do