What if every Companion worked like Treek?

Cause it makes Treek irrelevant. You won't pay 28 dollars for an irrelevant companion would you? Story isn't all that interesting and can't exactly Romance her (Eww). Only perk is she is slightly more flexible then the others. OP at the lower levels slightly better then the average Healer/Tank at higher levels.

I use Nadia on my Shadow now, at 55. Heals are for people that can't kill fast enough, and if they can't kill fast enough, it's a gear issue. My tank spec'd Jugg uses Jaesa, and my Sent uses Kira. Notice a pattern? No healers required. Now if I were going to solo FPs at level, I might want to bring one, but really, if I hit the same FP with a guildy, I'd use Nadia on my Shadow, and let the guildy either heal, or run a healer comp. Our kill speed won't suck, and heals become a luxury, not a necessity for that kind of content. Ops are a different story, but since you can't use comps there anyway, it's really not worth the development time/money.

Try to solo champion not more than 3 levels below you as tank Shadow/Assassin with DPS companion.

Of course:
- Holiday
- Almost non-existent downtime

You are not reading it properly. I am not arguing with you or for anyone else how I play my toons and what I use as companions and why. You use whatever you want, I use whatever I need - not a question and not up fordebate neither.

I am arguing about the choice to bring whatever companion I want, when I want it, with whatever combo of AC I want to have, just like the examples above. I ALREADY HAVE the roles and that was never in question. I want those roles to be fulfilled by the companion OF MY OWN CHOOSING, not the forced POS role / comp combo.

I want Blizz as a healer and Zenith as tank. I also want Nadia Grell as healer and not DPS, just because I don`t like my current choices. I also want Forex as healer. Again, I ALREADY have those roles covered, but on the wrong companion, or a lesser... desired one. And some of them are downright opposite allignment!

Guys — for the love of Marr —
stop quoting this whole post when you reply just to type 1 sentence unrelated to anything I wrote. Thread spam like whoa.

Then you're out of luck? Because as I understand it, that used to be in, in Beta, but they pulled it out? You can argue for it if you like, but I still don't see that it's worth the development time/money to mess with, especially in the format presented here. I'd much rather they spent that time and money on new content, something else to do besides the same tired dailies/FPs and Ops.

The problem is you can play this game all day — if you only take me as an example, Galactic Starfighter was a complete waste of resources because:

• I don't PvP
• I don't play it
• I've spent zero Credits or CC on GSF
• It could not exist, and I would never notice the difference

But I'm not upset they devoted an entire update cycle to GSF, because it's appealing to someone, and I'd rather the game appeal to more people than less. The happier everyone is, the healthier SWTOR is, and the healthier SWTOR is, the better "my" portions of the game also become.

Basically, something does not have to directly benefit you (or every single player) to be worth adding. It really comes down to a lot of decisions beyond our scope to decide, especially since it's impossible for us as players to really understand the cost of implementing any feature — something seemingly complex could be quite easy, and something seemingly "easy" could actually require weeks of code detangling and restructuring.

Look at for example the Aikion and TM-59 pistol models — before you were "out of luck" if you wanted to dual-wield these, or have them on a non-GS/Merc character, because they were class-specific rewards.

Adding these models to CM really didn't do anything for the vast majority of players, but it made a small segment very happy. BioWare made the decision it was worth it to implement.

All we can do is express what we'd like to have, and why, and offer some ideas about the way we'd be happy having it implemented. Even if BioWare never "listens" (they do, but they decide it's never going to leave the Wall of Crazy), at least we know that we tried in a reasonable way.

I (and others) proposed Companion Kits letting you totally customize any companions' role. This gets a lot of flak from people arguing that it dilutes companion identity too much (eg, Skadge healing, etc).

So, I'm trying to take those complaints into account, and propose a compromise that meets everyone's desires somewhere in the middle.

Yea GSF was cool for about 5 minutes. Then I realized this is stun wars the old stunpublic and they needed to add stuns into dog fighting too.