Bioware staff - Clueless

The first part of your post makes my point exactly. The Madness tree focuses on non-specific Sith Assassin skills, and most of those don't require a Double-Bladed Lightsaber. I'm not sure that was what you intended to do, but thanks for that.

You can argue that gaining electrostaves is 'useless' all you want, but it is not true. The weapon serves a purpose and can be equipped while you use a good portion of your abilities. It has a function therefore by definition it is not useless. Would you be gimping yourself by equipping it? Yes, of course, the same way you'd be gimping yourself as a protection Paladin equipping a two handed weapon. The majority of your abilities require one-handed weapons and a shield, but you still have the option to equip a two-handed weapon if you so desire.

Yes it does still use the light-saber...
Charge is the Base of the Sith Assassin (For DPS and for Tank).
Without charge, you can't play ur classe. That is the bottom line.
You can play a jedi knight with medium armor... but you can't play a with assassin without charges...
Yesterday we killed the HK-47 for the 4th time...
1- Electro Staff
2- Quel Dromas Light Saber
3- Long Shot (i think thats the name of the OP wep)
4- Electro Staff

Awsome, 50% of our MH drop (HK is THE boss that drops the Tier MH) was for companions only ?

Not having any luck there.

Out of interrest, you said for the 4th time.

What was in the other drops?

Because 3 out of 8 (this drop and the previous one) sounds like a lot of companion stuff, but if you got none the first 2 times then it becomes 3 from 16 items, which is a small percentage.

How many companions can use electro staff ?
2 ?

Xalek
Vector
and ?

So,
A couple of weeks ago we killed HK in false Emp Hard Mode.
I got the Electro Staff from it.

Since I am an assassin, and the only class in the game that can use it (assassin + Shadow), I took it.

When I equiped I found out I coulnd't use maul, or the charges anymore.
Those skills all require double-bladed lightsaber...

IMO that makes no sense, for 3 reasons.
1st - the marauder / jugger can use the vibro sword and use all their skills
2nd - i am the only class in the game that can equip it, so I assume I can use it.
3rd - it is an epic drop from a hard mode for a companion only ?

Well, I opened a ticket to ask about this, and meanwhile I gave it to my companion.
1 week later (yes, 1 week), a "droid" (staff) contacted me to discuss the issue.

He started the conversation saying: "Electro Staff is a companion only weapon, that is why you can't equip it"...

I was like, "***?" I can equip it...
So, even after I wrote a 10 lines ticket, I explained the issue again. His answer was:
"Oh, so you can equip it ? now I get it, let me look in my resources for an answer".
a few minutes later he tells me:

"Sith assassins are an advanced classe from Sith inquisitor that focus on martial expertise"

Ya... Thanks for teaching me how to play my class...

Once again I explained him what was going on...
He answered: "sith assassins requires double-bladed lightsaber in order to use their most damage skills"...

After that I got a lil bit pissed and asked to talk to a "Senior droid"...
I have been waiting for 3 days now...

Anyway...

The staff who answered me is COMPLETLY unprepared and has NO IDEA of what the game is and how it is played.
I am VERY disapointed at Bioware for that, and I AM STILL waiting for an answer regarding this subject...

in the meantime my companion will still use the electrostaff....

1per class. thanks for playing.
note that not all use willpower tho

i also agree that you should be able to use it. as it would add some flair.

You should have logged a bug report rather than talking to a CS rep about it. I'd be surprised if CS reps actually play the game.

This topic is not about the Electro Staff issue... is about a GM not knowing the game... that is preposterous...

Would you rather their customer service people stop answering tickets altogether and just play all day instead?

As for the weapon, I can tell you for 100% certainty that Marauders cannot use it. Most of our high level abilities specifically require two lightsabers.