Regarding using Focus Target on companions... This was a great idea that unfortunately didn't work. When I set my partner's companion as my focus, the health bar does not reflect the companion's actual health. It just stays at full health. It must be bugged. Of course, this tends to result in a dead companion. Does the companion as focus work correctly for anyone else? Unless this starts to work, I'm back to hoping that they add companion health bars to operation-frames-in-party-mode. Thanks again for the suggestions.

Thanks very much. That's a great suggestion. I'll give it a try.

Currently, when I am in a 2-player + 2-companion group I use party frames to heal. When I am in a 4-player (or more) group I use the operation frames to heal. I'd prefer to have operation frames up all the time. This would also free up the F1-F2 keys for binding. Has anyone found a good way to monitor companion health with operation frames up? Thanks

I'm looking for advice on how to level Diplomacy without going broke, please. I have tried only choosing the diplomacy missions that return crafting materials, but I haven't had any luck selling them on the GTN. Perhaps it's just my server? Also, I only seem to get the most common materials to drop, even from rich yield missions. Perhaps I have bad luck. I really enjoy Diplomacy. I'd like to keep it, but at the moment I don't see a way to make it feasible. My sincere thanks for any advice you can offer. My character is level 18, diplomacy is level 60, total credits in the bank = 200. I'm surely missing something! My apologies if this has been discussed before, I looked several pages back in the forums without seeing much on Diplomacy. I didn't see a mechanism to search the forums (I must be missing it?).

Agreed. When using operation frames for healing parties of less than 4 PCs, it would be ideal to include health bars of the companions.