How often do you do die in solo PVE?

For me, it depends on what companion i bring with me.

Tank companion = they will most certainly fall against elites or multiple strongs, but by then the elite is close to death or the last strong is close to death and i can kill them before they kill me.

DPS companion = They will die pretty fast, so both you can your companion have to be top notch geared to beat down the elites and strongs fast enough that you can win, even if your companion goes down.

Healer Companion = Well, the downtime is virtually non-existant, unless you run out of resource (ie. Force, Energy, Ammo or too much Heat)

It seems like, despite bioware saying that you can use any companion and not feel gimped or punished for the choice, you seem to be punished for it ingame.

In the end, for best performance of leveling in pve, bring your healer companion, if you want high downtime or death, bring the tank or dps companions.

All i can say is, they need to balance them out, they have the healer companion working right, now they need to buff up the companion dps considerably or their survivability and they need to give the sodding tanks their armor bonus back, otherwise, whats the point in having a tank companion if they go down just as quick as a dps companion, while dishing out pathetic dps.

Just my opinion i guess.

I died a few times on leveling my IA to 50. It was typically in a boss fight after a dialogue sequence. Simple fact of the matter is that, as a sniper, it makes zero sense to engage an enemy from the center of a room, face to face, toe to toe. After respawning and recharging, getting my position, it was little problem. I've died plenty of times being silly, but I've never had a moment where I didn't anticipate death.

Edit: Addendum: I don't feel like an epic toon having to drag a companion along with me. For some reason it makes me feel gimp. In fact time to kill is quicker in the low levels while as levels increase my character gets weaker as it becomes more dependent on companion and fights take more rotations. Shouldn't I be mowing through the chaff with all those added levels under my belt?

Not very often.

Usually when I try to be a hero and do everything myself lol

I think it really has to do with your experience as a player.When the game first went live you would see a bunch of player bodies as you were doing a quest.Now a few along the way but not as many as before.People learn the system so they have a higher survivability rate.

LOL at the "I never die because I'm pro thread..."

for leveling? yes,

but for 50 daily heroic quest, maybe not,
i found mako cant save me from being attacked by 4 golden jedis and 1 commando,

so i replace her,
i use jawa,
IDK Skadge or blizz is better tank,
but that jawa make me can solo 50 H2+ quest.

My Guidmates and I have taken to calling every elevator we come across "Darth Elevator" because of how dangerous and evil they are.

some of them are worse than others tho.... the one on imperial side Quesh from the landing pad into the base is a brutal drop

Not often anymore. While leveling as powertech, I did die on occasion as Mako would randomly stop using her healing abilities. (never had to watch my health bar, so I never noticed until it was too late) That was months ago; I hope it's fixed by now.

My mate probably has nightmares about the Hoth elevator haha. He's always complaining about it.