Fun fact: General Ortol doesn't do the shackles if you are in there solo with a companion.

Thanks for the replies. By way of answering my own question, i spent the whole day hunting MCR-99 droids all over the galaxy and i did receive the email with the pet.

Hi there, Does anyone know if it's possible to get the MCR-100 minipet on multiple characters, or do you only ever get the one when you first pop the achievement? Thanks!

It is still available, it can be a little tricky these days. The mob is hardly a world boss, it's a big nerf that breaks out of its cage while you are fighting the one guy that comes down from the shuttle IIRC. So the trick is to not kill that guy too quickly and therefore give the nerf time to break out. If you completed the mission and the nerf didn't break out, you can do it on another toon, or be in a group with someone else who has the quest. Just make sure to keep that last guy alive until the nerf comes out.

Or if you are a stealth class, use your combat stealth and it will end the combat. That's what i did on my first runthrough.

Last night on Harbinger: After a couple of "group member has declined the invitation" false pops, i got a real pop for ... Master Mode Battle of Rishi. I thought well this won't take long, probably one or more people will insta-quit, but there we all were standing on the dock. I was on my Serenity Shadow; we had a 70 Guardian DPS, a 70 Sage healer, and a level 50 Vanguard tank. Wups. Anyway, we were apparently all there to play, so we dove right in. Things went fine for the first while (the "easy" part of the flashpoint): the trash was fine, the first boss fight was fine, i stealthed the three bunkers just fine. The second boss fight was a little less fine, the tank was tunneling Lord Vodd, and since i was DOT spreading to and from Master Obai, he was glued on me for the whole first half of the fight. I died just as Vodd went down, got rezzed, and we finished ok. Then on to the last boss. I've done this FP enough times (with guildies and PUGs) that i was not optimistic. But my personal policy is never to out-loud rain on the parade and ruin the mood. And everyone seemed to have a fantastic attitude. After a handful of wipes, no-one complained or made any noise at all about quitting. The tank asked if either of us DPS could switch to tank, since at level 50 they didn't have all their good tanking abilities yet. It so happens i'm equally happy to tank or DPS on a shadow, so i said sure, and the both of us respecced... ...And proceeded to down the boss on the next attempt. It was the first time clearing that FP for at least two of the group including the healer, who did a great job. It's not every group that will even stay together for a Battle of Rishi pop, let alone keep a can-do attitude and go on to finally clear it. Those are some of my favourite and most memorable runs, where we can all have a good attitude and have fun and overcome adversity!

Awesome, thanks.

Do we know for sure whether these bugs are fixed in 5.1? Or how to know whether i'm currently affected by it? When i'm tanking it's easy to notice 121% accuracy vs. 111%, but is there a quick way to check when i'm in Serenity? I'd like to know whether i can trust my parse numbers or not.

I've been maining a shadow tank recently, but i had occasion to dust off my DPS gear and play Serenity for a bit. Since i've been grinding my GC ranks for tank gear, i still have mostly all my 220/224 DPS gear from 4.0. I got on the dummy and did 6500. Then i upgraded all the augments to the new 228 ones, and parsed 7200 DPS on the dummy. Cool. So i wanted to get my Hatred Assassin to the same place. I sent the legacy gear over (armors, mainhand, offhand) and re-augmented the left side gear with 228s. And i got on the dummy, and did 6700. What gives? The legacy gear is obviously shared, and the left side gear is identical except the Shadow has a 224 earpiece and the Assassin has a 220. Implants and relics are identical, all 220s. The Shadow has 18 more mastery, 21 more endurance, 13 more power, 8 more crit than the Assassin, but i don't see how that translates into 500 more DPS. All my utilities are the same (well, faction mirrored of course) and my controls likewise. Does anyone have any ideas of something i could be missing? There's no chance some bug is making the Shadow behave differently than the Assassin?

/signed. This is ridiculous. If you're going to re-run the event later on, call it "Dark vs. Light II" or archive the last event to "Dark vs. Light I" and get on with it. I can't imagine it would be identical anyway, they would have to update the level to 70, the crafting to 600, include the KOTET chapters, maybe some different world bosses and ops bosses, etc. Achievements are there to be a record of our achievements in the game! And getting to 100% Dark vs. Light was a doozy. It's just plain insulting to take that away from us.

I completed Legend pretty early, right after they fixed the FP Master bug for the 2nd time. I had saved out the 10-round Eternal Championship for very last, just so i could control the toon and the moment when the achievement popped. The most intimidating part for me going in was the crafting and PVP (i had never done either before), and the HM flashpoints (i hadn't done most of them ever.) It turned out to be not so bad at all. I read some tips about the quickest way to craft, and it was fine. I held my nose and joined the lowbie WZ queue. I knew i would hate it, and it turns out i did, but it was kind of cool to have a reason to actually try it at least once. About half of my HMFP runs were with guildies, and half pugs. Out of my initial DvL runs, there were only 4 FP's where i had a group fail and disband (Blood Hunt, Battle of Rishi, Korriban and Lost Island.) But going back through with experienced guildies in voice chat easily did the trick. Since my guild is full of great and helpful people, we've been doing tons of all the group content (HMFP, world boss, ops, eternal championship) runs to get people complete, and we have had at least 15 people get through Legendary.

I can't find it now, but i want to say thanks to whoever had the tip of tanking Shae Vizla from range. It never ocurred to me to try that, and so i've been relying on offheals from DPS to live through this fight. I was even thinking it might be ideal to try it with 2 healers. It turns out she does not use her flamethrower ability if you're not in close. I was on a shadow tank, and tried to keep about ~9m from the boss, just taunting and throwing rocks, along with slow time and force breach. If she got a flamethrower off, moving farther out of range seemed to cancel it. It was the easiest run ever, in a good pug group with no offheals (sentinel & gunslinger dps). I have a lot less fear of this boss now.

Yeah, that was certainly a factor. I was nervous from the start, and i was kind of panicking a bit in the moment. Anyway, i have a followup to my previous post about being a newbie tank and forgetting to switch to tank stance. I was on my "normal" shadow, hoping to get a complete KP GF run in, that would be better than ending the night on the disastrous note i described earlier. Again, i joined as DPS, but we were having problems getting a tank at all. Once again, i say i'm new to tanking but offer to switch. They say fine, so i respec, change gear and double check everything this time. And the whole run went really well. We wiped once when we somehow aggroed 3 packs of trash all at once in the open area with the anti-air guns. But all the bosses happened just like they should, and i think i did pretty well. So i had the chance to redeem myself from being the weird person!

Oh my - i need to come and confess my sins immediately, before someone else comes to rat me out here. Preface: i'm just finished leveling a shadow tank. I'm brand spanking new to tanking, but i'm trying to learn more and get better. I recently tanked most of KP in a guild run, and it went really well, but i'm still nervous to try it with pugs. So KP SM on group finder, i'm specced as Serenity (which i know well) with my DPS gear on. Just before the first boss (in fact AFTER we've killed the cats and Bonethrasher is staring down at us) our tank mysteriouly quits. We requeue and decide to 7-man it for now since a tank doesn't make much difference for this boss. We lose one dps in the acid bath, and then some more later, finally it was down to 2 DPS and one healer to do the last, i don't know, 20%. Amazingly he didn't enrage, and we got him down at last. Interesting and fun run so far. So i nervously offer to switch to tank because it'll be quicker to find replacement DPS and i have actually tanked this before. The group isn't giving me time to respec, forging ahead through the trash. Finally we get to Jarg & Sorno, and i finish switching Disciplines and reassigning Utility points, switching out all my gear, and finally rearranging my quickbars how i want them for tanking. I'm nervous but i tell them i'm ready. I was not ready. We're still 7-manning it at this point, but we go ahead and engage. I notice i'm having some trouble keeping aggro on one or both bosses. I wasn't solo tanking the one guild run i did, but this seemed worse. We actually got them both down to the final 5% or so, and we lost a bunch of people all at once to AOE flames, so i don't think that was directly my fault. We wipe, and one healer leaves, followed by the other. Ah well, good try, better luck next time. I went back to my stronghold to lick my wounds and noticed: I had not changed to Combat Technique. I was still in Force Technique. :facepalm: So my AOE taunts were actually dropping threat, and my high-threat skills were DOTs instead. Arg. I'm sure i am on some ignore lists now. All i can say is Mea Culpa. That's one mistake i won't make again.

A quick follow-up: I submitted a support ticket asking if they could manually grant the missing achievements, and they responded within a few hours saying they were granting them. I've now got my 100% EV!