Allow us to play without companions.

Please tell us how to implement such a thing when the entire game and the difficulty of all fights are designed around having companions.

Yeah, what exactly stops you from grouping up with someone else? I can even show you the button in the game if you wish.

Are you serious, I would love to have what you guys are smoking. It's not enough we have companion's that speak to us interact on a personal level and even have their own personal side mission which is optional. It's not enough they fill different roles "Ranged Tank, Healer, DPS" now you want to change the game play.

I played MMO's for a long time too, everquest. Then Warcraft that doesn't exactly make you an expert. All warcraft did to "change' was slap the xbox360 "achievements" and used an add on to make in "quest finder" nothing really to cheer about.

You people will complain about anything. In Fail-Craft we had NO compainon's the closest thing we got to that was a PET and this pet sure didn't heal me during a fight or take threat. It was stated a billion times in detail about the compainin system, and what they could do. You are speaking for maybe about 10 people out of a million.

I know for a fact you can lvl all the way from lvl 10-50 by only running warzones. Perhaps if you don't want to run with companions you can just lvl all the way up to 50 and then do all of your class quests......

The only AI change I see needed is to give companions enough common sense to stop standing in AE damage abilities. I get annoyed when I have to toggle them to passive and back to get them to stop standing in fire. Changing the game to be played without them is just a foolish request as companions go to the core of what this game is. You can't sit there and say they are useless and then in the same post say without them you can't complete content. If they were useless you wouldn't even need to request that they change the system as it is since you would see no change in difficulty with or without a companion.

I don't want to micromanage them, especially when they often don't respond to said micromanagement in the first place. Speaking of doc, want to know how many times he's died to AOE from elites because I told him to move and he stood there like a brick ( and yes, I put him on passive to get him to come to me)? I've lost count. That is the kind of aggravating nonsense I am talking about. With the bugginess of the crtl-number commands ( locking your character in autorun etc etc), using those is hit and miss. Not to mention, I have 4 bars full of hotkeys I already use on a regular basis, I'd need another set of arms and hands to throw a 5th bar in ( thanks to the lack of macros).

Hardly. But your posts all have the same common factor that defines the very worst elements of this board:

1) badly thought out and pointless demands that are either completely unworkable or outright make no sense

2) a sense that because it's a problem for you it must be a problem for everyone, even if the problem is so trivial that literally you are the only person who says it's a problem

3) A ready willingness to dip to complaining that anyone who disagrees with you is wrong.


As to your "suggestion",

There is nothing - wrong - with - the - AI. Khem Val tanks better than the majority of the so-called tanks who inevitably manage to aggro the entire damned planet that are controlled by people, as long as you have the common sense to turn off his AoE effects which are not that good anyway. Revel and Vette DPS better and more evenly than most of the pew-pew-pew BH and I don't have to watch them float up in the air all the time spamming DFA and TM. Doc and Talos are better healers than the people who usually end up letting me get killed in FP because instead of healing the tank they are off loldpsing or , worse , trying to keep the DPS up who refuses to let me build threat.

If you can't figure out how to use them, that's your failing. Not the game's. Not the AI's. Yours. I'm no big fan of SWTOR so far, given all of it's myriad of failings, but that very simply isn't one of them.

Sooo there "useless" but at the same time they make such a HUGE difference you can't level without them ? Make up your mind... horrible pointless thread.

I know for a fact you can lvl all the way from lvl 10-50 by only running warzones. Perhaps if you don't want to run with companions you can just lvl all the way up to 50 and then do all of your class quests......

Cool alternative, lame arena for 40 levels. i can barely wait to play huttball for 40 levels and get squashed by everyone higher level than me for the next umm... i think it takes 4 hours to level from 10-50?

No, no they don't. That is the main problem. They are unresponsive oftentimes, and do what they're told too late for it matter.