Companion Change Feedback

Only one DEV Tracker Post today,,, this one,,, and I'm pretty sure they've gone home for the day,,,

Somehow, I get the feeling this was a bone tossed out in the middle of the woods to get all of us into one small area, a CC if you will. Crowd Control works, less impact on the forums. Do I believe someone is going to sit and read page by page everything posted here? Personally, I don't. Only time will tell if they want their game to stay afloat, or sink.

Soo you lied, or you are misinformed?

Please give us your feedback, and we simply ask you to be as constructive as possible. Include information such as:
•Your level -65
•Roughly Average Item Rating-208/216
•Discipline-balance sage
•Companion-lana
•Companion role-healing
•Companion Influence level-15
•Which Mission or Star Fortress are you playing (Solo Mode? Heroic Mode?) SF heroic/H2 weeklys
•Your personal experience while playing this content:
Over all I have to say it is pretty bad after the patch. Most H2's doable but slow, however Attempted solo SF heroic took me twice as long to get to end, died 4 times in row and quit as I was unable to get past 3rd room to final boss. Simply too much damage not enough CC or healing. IMO Companions are no better than they were prior to KoTFE, and thus nullifies the entire expansion for me w/o any real new content.
Simply put time invested vs reward is horrible. There is very little enjoyment out of the game at this point when entire expansion is a mindless grind now made 4x longer and 6x more tedious. As a casual gamer I was having fun prior to this patch, could have tolerated a small reduction in companion effectiveness but 75% is over the top by far.

You all need to keep telling yourself that. It's 7:50 PM, PST, west coast server Harbinger is at "Standard"

I was in Fleet at the Galactic Market kiosks at about 6 PM wrapping things up in preparation for my departure from game when my sub is up in a couple of days more. Only 5 or 6 people around the kiosks compared to Monday when it was 3 layers of people thick around each kiosk. I know. It's where I was going to get my Rakghoul (sp) daily.

Odessen is very sparse compared to what it was pre-nerf.

These are my observations on the heaviest server going, post-nerf.

Those are some lovely rose colored glasses you have there! Same 50-100 people .. right!

I think you are right but it will only be unpopular for the following reason. When they confirmed the nerf I said the people upset were upset about the wrong thing. Their issue was that BW's plan for the expac and their desires were contradictory and that they needed to convince BW to somehow change their plan because without the plan change try would not even consider reverting the companions. I didn't know what BW had planned though. Now people not giving useful data are still dancing around this. I don't know why, but some people are avoiding the difficulty goals set forth by the OP. Not everyone of course but enough to make it frustrating.

Class TK Sage
Level: 65
Gear: full 216 gear
Comp: Koth (healer) influence level 25
heroic: Alderaan heroic 2's.

Even with bubbles and self heals, this was a chore and a half.

Reducing the healing down as far as you did was ridiculous. I feel like the only reason I lived at all was because of my self heals and bubbles.

Note: my sub was scheduled to be renewed for 3 months on saturday. I have canceled my sub due to this ****. Pretty sure I'm not the only one. Fix the comps or revert the change are the only two options I see bringing me back. You should have listened to the complaints when the data mined info dropped, Eric.

EH had 7 instances of Odessen, now we have 3. That should say something.

[*]Your level 58
[*]Roughly Average Item Rating Orange Adaptive Armor Rating 138
[*]Discipline Sorcerer Lightning
[*]Companion Khem Val
[*]Companion role Tank
[*]Companion Influence level 7
[*]Which Mission or Star Fortress are you playing (Solo Mode? Heroic Mode?) Weekly Heroic Missions on Voss (4)
[*]Your personal experience while playing this content I picked this Sorcerer Lightning for this "test" because I died most frequently playing this character through its class story. I completed all 4 Voss Heroic, and earned most of a set of purple 178 armor. I died 4 times while completing these missions. I feel like completing all 4 Voss heroic missions solo with companion was challenging for me.

How is it a lie. I said exactly what he said regarding the difficulty based on his original statement. To START you may need a friend BUT that is only "INITIALLY" and not even universal. "We expect SOME PEOPLE."

When he said "it certainly may be a bit more challenging" it is implicit some may need help at some point when others don't. The minute the word challenge comes into an equation it is inevitable that experiences will vary as no two players are alike.

I get people aren't happy with their design goals but accusing people of lying or being uniformed because you read statements out of context isn't really a constructive way to address the issue

Even on Aussie playing prime time Odessan had 5 instances and 3 were always locked, now there is 3 with less than 20 per instance.
I honestly haven't been on fleet as I have only logged in for a couple mins at a time 3 times since the nerf, but I imagine if Odessan is this quiet and nt at all laggy like it was lol than fleet will also be quiet,