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Companion Gift Guides

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A quick-glance top gift summary is located at the bottom of each page.

Crew Skills Guide

Their Love Is Only a Gift Away

One of the most interesting parts of leveling a character is having your companion standing next to you and listening to their unique insights as you are leveling up. A lot of the time you can almost feel like you are building a rapport with them. Sometimes though you can also really tick them off with your actions. There is a way to fix that though. You can raise their affection by buying your companion a gift. Each companion likes an assortment of different gift types, with some more pleasing than others. In this guide, I'll be breaking it down by companion and telling you what will make them love you, and what will make them look for the nearest trash bin.

Why Should I Care If They Like Me?

There are two main reasons to get your companions affection up. The first is that they give you specific missions as you gain more affection, letting you not only get additional experience but add a little more flavor to things as your leveling up. The second reason is to make them more effective at crew skills. The higher their affection for you the faster they'll be able to perform their tasks, and are more likely to be critically successful in the process.

As you get their affection higher, the effect of each gift lowers. There are five ranks of gifts, and you'll want to give your companion the appropriate level of gift. You can tell what's a good gift by taking a look at their affection score. Each level is an even 2000 points and is graphically shown in segments on the companion tab of your character screen.

Aric Jorgan

Jorgan is your first companion and plays the role of Ranged DPS. Unlike most companions he's able to equip the Assault Cannon weapon type. Jorgan is the single romance option for the female Trooper.

Elara Dorne

Elara is your Ranged Healer companion that you pick up on Taris around the level 20 Range. A very solid companion to level up with, she is the single romance option for the male Trooper.

M1-4X

M1-4X is your Ranged Tank companion that enjoys snaring enemies and pulling them up close and personal. You get him at about level 24 when your finishing up Nar Shaddaa.

Tanno Vik

Tanno is your Melee Tank companion and is good companion if you like darker choices. You get Tanno while your on the Planet Balmorra somewhere around level 36.

Yuun

Yuun is your final companion and is used for Melee DPS. You get him on the planet Hoth somewhere around the level 41 range.

C2-N2

Your ship droid can only have its affection raised through gifts, but unless you plan on buying the legacy sensor units and send him on specific crew skill runs it's likely not worth it to max out his affection.

HK-51

HK-51 is the first additional companion added to the game. You must have a level 50 character to unlock him initially, but after that, he can be unlocked on every character on your account. This character is mainly a ranged DPS type with some fun extra abilities. Due to the generic bonus to crew skills in both critical and efficiency rating its well worth it to raise his affection to the max.

Treek

Treek is the second optional companion character that you can get. Treek is the exact opposite of HK-51 in that where HK only holds a DPS role, Treek's roles are only that of either Healer or Tank. Treek can be acquired through credits if you have a Legacy level of forty or above, otherwise, you must use Cartel Coins to purchase her. No matter the way you first get her, you can unlock her in your collections menu and make Treek available for all of your characters once they can reach the fleet.

Trooper Companion Top Gifts

Are You Just Interested in the Top Gift?

Sometimes you don't really need to know every possible gift for your companion, you just need to know the best type in order to maximize your investment. To make it easy I've assembled the information in the table to the right. This details the top gift that you can get for each individual companion. Some companions don't have a gift that gets top results, and some gifts only work if you're in a romantic relationship with them, but your best shots are right here.

Who's Your Favorite Companion?

References

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