I question if "killing" Revan will actually happen, Bioware tried that once in a mid level Flashpoint, fans didn't like it. I also hope it explains why he suddenly has gone "Hmm Revanites, yeah maybe they aren't as bad as I first thought, ah screw the republic I'm going with these crazy cultists that have clearly haven't read my novel!" That aside, all the class stories were left pretty open at the end of chapter 3, and it saddened me that we will never see them properly continued again. I hope that they are just holding onto that cherry to bring it back for the Emperor's return expansion, in which I guess the Empire and Republic team up to bring him down? who knows, I can't see how the SW would turn on him but never mind. This is a good step in the right direction, if they can do one quest for each class this expansion, hopefully we can get more in the future. At this point I'd even be happy if, lets say in the next expansion, they only do one planet, and we all get class quests on it and no planetary quests, sure kills the multiplayer aspect but so few people group up to quest on planets anyway, and those that do want to can just do each others class stories together. My guess for what they will be, is... sad to say unrelated to chapter 1-3 and probably just... "insert class title here" We have heard of your exploits on "insert class story element here", you are needed to stop a new threat! meet me at "insert location".

So far I've finished the Dancer's outfit (who even wants that?) gotten the bottom half of the Perceptor's outfit, and gotten the legs of the Revan outfit 8 times, never seen the mask or chest piece. I also have a nice collection of emotes and speeders, then the rest of the junk you get in the pack (exp boosters etc...) This is the first time I've bought anything off the store, saved up all my points from when F2P hit and the extra I got this month from subbing and bought a few extra coins from one of the cheaper offers. I bought about 8 or 9 packs, got a lot of the Revan's Robes (as I mentioned) nothing else worth having.

I've been looking this over for a while now and the only difference between the two shells is a shield gives +20% shield absorb +5% shield chance and most importantly the ability to even shield an attack. A Generator gives no benefit, the only difference between the two is how they are itemised so if I were to take my War Hero Generator's mods and put them into a random modable shield I should only be gaining the shield stats and not losing anything correct? Seems like a bit of an over sight by Bioware to let us equip shields without being tanks or just not give any kind of benefit to using a generator shell > a shield.

Did you call him out before speaking to him on the ship? that seems to cause issues with him not gaining gear. There are other bugs with HK. If you complete the quest to unlock him at 50, he has no portrait in your crewskills window but if you buy him for a low level alt through legacy he does get a portrait. He also messed up viewing items on a companion, as you will toggle through the window and find that one of your companions is missing and one is doubled up, normally HK himself.

No he comes with all level 50 gear with grade 51 mods, which can't be used on a low level character due to not meeting the requirements. His gear is meant to scale but its not working yet.

Odd that you menion that because so far I've sent Kira out of countless missions and she's critted probably less then 20 times. In the few I've sent HK on so far, he's critted in almost every single one and this was way before gaining full affection. I question if his crit chance is incorrectly stated it seems a lot higher then 1%.

He's useless pre-50 due to gearing problems and also not gaining affection from conversations. His combat skills are the best of any companion by far, though healers are still preferable. He doesn't have a "Love" gift which makes the lack of gaining affection more of an issue. At level 50 however, when you do use a companion (daily areas) he is good, though his best trait by far is his crit chance in crewskills, he's saved me buying a lot of augment kits, and doubled the production of my costly consumables. This is where he shines most, so sadly I rarely have him out for combat since I always have him crafting or doing gathering missions since he seems to always bring back purple grade mats.

I don't think you understood the issue with pre-1.2 Expertise, the defense gained from Expertise completely nullified the damage gained, the only thing getting a buff from it was healers. The reason for re-working Expertise is because healing was becoming so bad that DPS couldn't kill anything if healers were healing each other (still a slight issue to this day). DPS needs to be in excess of healing otherwise games just become stagnant with neither side being able to kill each other and only capping when you CC the healers taking them out the game, rather then simply killing them. Yes in a one on one engagment a healer is pretty much a free meal to a GOOD DPS, but you always have tanks to reduce their damage by 80% with Guard + Taunt, and your CCs to help you live. If you can't out heal a DPS thats only doing 20% damage even with the expertise changes then I don't know what to say. Now lets break down my current expertise bonus (rounded down for simple maths). 22% + to Damage 18% Damage Reduction 12% + to Healing As Damage reduction takes + to damage down to 4% Healing is still on top with 12%, meaning you are gaining 8% more to your healing then DPS is to their damage. There is nothing in expertise that allows a DPS to nullify the Healing bonus but the damage reduction does mitigate the damage bonus.

The Jedi Rakghoul thing was Taris' world story though not the BH story. Your story on Taris was to collect the impossible outcast Mandalorian Bounty. They also weren''t being used as a weapons, it was just a Jedi training Nekghouls because they were clearly sentiant, which under republic law means you can't slaughter them like animals and need to extend diplomatic channels where ever possible. It'd be like discovering Ewok's just to kill them because they don't speak basic and aren't space age level in technology. Like I've said your blaming the entire republic, an organisation built on peace and friendship with thousands of worlds under its control, because ONE Jedi had it in for you because you wounded his pride? He lied to everyone else, I can understand being against the Jedi, but never did the Council come into play either, he used Jedi under him and made up lies to the Senate to get you to be the most wanted man in the Galaxy. Which makes no sense there are far greater threats to the republic then one Bounty Hunter who honestly you could hire yourself if you gave him enough credits. That's why he had to lie, because you got away and foiled all of his attempts to capture you, anyone else would have left it alone but this Jedi clearly had a huge superiority complex and couldn't, so he lied and took it to extremes. As far as I'm concerned my vendetta was against him not Chancellor and certainly not the entire republic. As for the Empire hiring the BH, it can sometimes but mostly it doesn't and you've been given the choice to battle both the Empire and the Republic multiple times, when the credits are right. But that doesn't explain why in PvP and PvE and every other aspect of the game the BH is an Imperial class, there is nothing Imperial about it. Where is that long term contract that was given to the BH by The Grand Moth or a member of the Dark Council that makes their work Imperial exclusive? It doesn't ever exist, which means if you took the BH story and placed it in a neutral faction it wouldn't make a difference, you wouldn't jump up and go "Well its clearly an Imperial Class!", same if you added it to The Republic's roster, up until chapter 3 it wouldn't make any less sense being on the republic side.

The republic has hired bounty hunters before, although reluctantly, Braden worked for them at one point during The Great Galactic War, but I'm not really saying the BH should be able to work for the republic, I am saying that in terms of the BH story he is never really alligned with the empire in such a way I would consider it an Imperial Class, if anything he is nothing to either faction, he takes jobs from random people and imperials but mostly the Mandalorians. If you discount the world stories which aren't really part of your story since everyone does them, then within the confines of the BH story there is never truly a point in which you work for the Empire, you simply get a few contracts from them, mostly just to get to your true target, Balmora springs to mind (and you kill an Admiral there). The only time you work for the Empire is for Tormen's contracts and you have the choice to invalidate that at the end of the chapter. So before and after chapter 3 (depending on the choice you made) you never work for the empire, you mostly work for the Mandalorians, which does seem to hint at the BH story being written back when BW thought about having the neutral/underworld faction. It was the very first class we were ever shown after all.

It was when I first met the guy, because I refused to go peacefully and killed his troopers (again attacking imperials), I'm the galaxies more wanted I'm not about to unarm myself especially on an imperial cruiser. He said something to the effect of, "You damaged my properity so I'll damage yours" and starts choking Mako, you don't even have Skadge at this point. I even told him then and there your gonna die for doing that. As for the Chancellor it seems to be he didn't approve of what he found out to be complete lies in the end which is why, in letting him go he clears your name and leaves politics for good afterwards, then its time for my payback on Tormen. Meaning I'm now cleared of all republic charges, the Former Chancellor understood he'd been lied to so really not his fault, he was fed false information and has gone to live out his days peacefully. The true one behind all my headaches and killing of the Inner Circle, which aren't mandalorians they're just great hunt champions, Mandalore says there's always a Mandalorian in the Circle and he has to leave, which is why he makes you one, to replace him as the Mandalorian, was the Jedi and I already got my revenge on him. So as of the end of my BH story, I'm all good with the republic and I killed a High Ranking Darth.... hardly in good favour with the empire, and everything else chapters 1 and 2 don't lead me to believe in any way that the BH is or should be alligned with the empire, he works for himself and only himself.

Its more the Jedi then the Chancellor, speaking with him I understood he was a good man and he cleared my name with the republic, just because some bald Jedi had it in for me because I injured his pride a few times isn't enough reason for me to hate the entire republic, I've certainly had issues with the Imperials as well, Tormen choking Mako was a big, "Well you've just painted a bulls eye on your forhead* I hold no allegiance to either faction, but that's the point I don't see why the BH is an Imp class in everything else when its story never really ties you down to just the imperials, if anything its a nothing class, in regards to the factions. Its not a soldier and you can, within the confines of the story, attack imperials just as often as the republic. Again from a gameplay stand point it would have taken more work to have a neutral or under world faction and that for the sake of PvP/E and side balance the BH needed to be on the imperial side, I just think Bioware could have done more to explain why it is an imperial class.

*WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED CHAPTER 3* Okay having played through the story of the BH fully I understand in chapter 3 you can't work for the republic until the end depending on the choice you make, but for the rest of the story and after chapter 3, they give no reason as to why you can only fight for the Empire. Personally my BH was more of a Mandalorian always fighting for Honor and Glory, not out to make credits for cheap kills. So I found myself in an odd postion, I have killed top tier Imperials as well as Republic Officials in almost equal number. Most of my contracts have been from the Mandalorians and even those involved killings imps as well as pubs. From a story standpoint there is never a point where I thought for a second I was working for the Empire and ONLY the Empire. I understand for class balance that the Imps needed their "Trooper" but shouldn't the story have reflected that? Shouldn't there have been a point where you work for the empire soley? You do in Chapter 3 but you can choose to turn Darth Tormen instead of killing the Supreme Chancellor so at that point you've again become a free agent. The only "tie" I can think of is that you are a Mandalorian and Mandalore is working with the Empire. Yet the role you play in the Mandalorian culture kind of stops dead after you stop Jicoln on Taris, so you aren't fighting with the other Mandalorians. Really is there something I missed or is it just a game machenic and the story was never intented to reflect it?

I'm not so sure the Emperor has been in-game yet, not in his true body anyway, but I do believe the one in the Revan Novel was his true body for a couple of reasons. I'm a collector so I got both the hardback and audio versions of the Revan novel, finished the book a few days after release and listened to the audio version not that long ago. Both portray The Emperor Scourge encounters as vastly darker and having a far more powerful presense then either of the voices. Infact in the audio version of his voice is very calm while speaking but at the same time malicious, like a dark whisper telling you to do evil and it echoes. I loved this voice and hope Bioware reuse it for the true emperor. Now given his written discription and the pure fear Revan, Scourge and the Exile felt just looking at him, and the special effects given to his voice, and his eyes being discribed as black voids. This all leads me to believe this was the true emperor, as none of these are traits any voice of the emperor has displayed, they retain their own physical bodies and voices to an extent. It could just be easier to portray that power and presense in writing then in the game, but the drastically different discriptions and pure power the Emperor had in the novel, just by being near him is something never truly shown in the game so it was either a far greater avatar then we have seen, or the true emperor's body.

Because LS in the BH story is all about Honor and the Mandalorian Code, and DS is a murderer out for nothing more then making quick credits. Tarro had spat all over the honor of the great hunt and disgraced the mandalorians and his teacher, for this he did not deserve the honor of a duel and lost that right when he resorted to cheap tactics to win. So the honorable thing is not to give the scum that chance but to punish him by killing him without battle, thus he wouldn't go to the mandalorain after life, he needs to have died good death to go, he was not given this, thus his cancer was removed from the culture.