Official Q&A Thread for July 13th Blog Post

Could you elaborate please on what role you see deception assassins playing? and are they close to operating in the way that was envisioned? Currently it seems as though they have less burst, less sustained DPS, and less survivability than other DPS classes such as the marksman sniper for example. Is this deliberate, and if so why? Thanks.

Sorry if this has been answered but I haven't found anything online to give me a definitive answer.

To start off, are healers penalized when healing themselves/others in open world environments like they are in warzones and areas like Ilum? I imagine they are not in PvE servers but what about PvP servers where nearly everywhere you go flags you into PvP. Does the penalty only apply itself only when you are attacked by a player or start to heal another player engaged against players?

With those questions in mind it brings me to my real question. Does giving your healing companion PvP gear benefit them over PvE gear? Are they subject to the same PvP healing penalties and does expertise give them bonuses to healing your character? If not it would seem better to equip them with PvE gear to heal you when attacking other players.

Would I want to equip a companion healer the same way I would want to equip my character if I was primarily a PvP healer?

I currently use Broonmark as my main companion (hes just cool looking), i play a juggernaut tank, so dont require him to be so and theres a nice little dps stance that i use along with some DPS gear and he does quite well.
One thing i noticed is he cant use his main stat DPS offhand, instead he has 2 offhand choices.

• Shield Generator (Str/End)
• Power Generator (Aim/End)

Q: Is it possible for you to make it so Broonmark can use his appropriate stat offhand being a focus (str/end) instead of the current power generator (aim/end)?

Let me see if I can word this right:


Are conversations options assigned a certain numbered short cut based on what would be most suitable for that class, or is it mostly random?

Any chance of down the road adding companions in that would be recruited based on choices? I am thinking of KOTOR 2 where if you are Darkside you get the wookiee companion Lightside you get the BH, Male you get the handmaiden, female you get disciple. It would be nice to get some variety and it could be balanced by giving the companions the same stats just different voices/appearances.

The crafting droid companion seems to be an afterthought in the game. Recently, they became viable for crafting, but as combat companions, they're pretty much terrible. Droid Armour is designed with tanking in mind, and yet they can't equip shields, or switch to a tanking stance to use it, they have a tendency to run into melee range for an unarmed attack when everything else is on cooldown, and the healing mez requires a weapon, which they cannot equip. Any chance of improvements, considering that they're the only option for healing until you get the proper companion?

Now that the server transfers have happened and many people have made the move to more populated servers, what are your plans for the servers that are still there with really low population, and the characters there? Will they be force-transferred at some point to their destination server? When (roughly) do you plan to make this transition?

A follow-up: Is there a paid character transfer service on the way? (Or anything that would let me consolidate my characters on Correllian Run / Harbinger into one server). Any idea when that might be implemented? (Rough estimate is fine).

Are you considering implementing the other colors of the Elegant Dress set? And other color variations for other social sets as well? I have seen the Elegant Dress set both in green and red on NPCs and yet we can only buy a white version of it. My Sith Inquisitor would LOVE to have it in red.

Are there any future plans to add an armory to the swtor site?

Will we ever have an option to have cybernetics on species other than just Humans? I would love to play as a Cyborg Pureblood, or a Cyborg Rattataki, for instance.