Do not roll "Need" for companion gear.

Does +presence work when worn by the companion? I thought it only worked when you were wearing it.

Here is a very simple point. Anyone who thinks that companions are not part of your characters spec are idiots.

Have you tried playing through the game without a companion? It's like doing things with one-hand tied behind your back.

Your play style and your combat potential are influenced, quite heavily, by your companion. Therefore your companions gear is as critical as gear for your actual character. Therefore I roll for gear that my main companions can use.

Ya thats what hes saying, and it was news to me as well. I thought as you did, but he sounds pretty smart to me so I'll make Doctor Lokin some of those purple implants I learned.

Make it so companions can only ware crafted gear, quest rewards, and hand-me-downs (already bound to player). This might have been suggested already and discussed, to be honest I didn't read all the posts so sorry if I'm just re-saying something.

I've often seen str items drop without a knight. And yes, I'm talking boss loot, in both flash points and 4 man heroics. The fact that you've gotten lucky and haven't doesn't mean that it doesn't happen.

I've also been in a flashpoint where where we had a jedi knight, but the only STR items that dropped were 3 piece of heavy armor, which the sentinel couldn't wear (I actually gabbed one, for the enhancement, since it was a good tank enhancement that was a minor upgrade)

Interesting to see how you've gone from "it can't happen" to "it almost never happens"

sounds like a bug if it's true.

Stop raining on my presence parade.

All this back and forth over nothing. It's all subjective opinion on both sides of the fence really. Love how gear always turns into a whizzing contest no matter what game it is. Makes me think of a song oh yeah... "Don't whiz on the electric fence."

That's all threads like this are. People whizzing on electric fences trying to see who is the most stubborn and can keep whizzing the longest.

People are going to play how they want to play. And yes that might mean that some people do not get groups because of how they roll on phat lewt and it caused someone to get butt hurt. That was their decision. Then they will start a thread about how they never get groups on their server and need a free server transfer complaining of lack of population. Rinse, repeat etc...

I miss the days of EQ1 when there was no need/greed loot system. The item dropped and the group leader could loot it and then pass it to whoever won the roll.

Excellent so not much change for them. So now the whiners will need to whine for even more restrictive choices.

Its not a bug, its an intentional design of the game, why would bioware force you to have 2 armour sets for pve, one when your with comps and one for pve when you are not.