Frustrated and DisheartenedFollow

I'm sorry - this is a long-ass post. But if you get through it, I hope you'll understand that it actually helped me feel a scintilla better about my situation by writing it.

tl:dr - my end of chapter one class mission is broke and I cannot complete it, and now my IA is in limbo.


My highest level character is an Imp Agent, Operative spec, that is presently L32. I have had a blast leveling him. I love the accent - very James Bond-ish. I unknowingly created what I think is the perfect look for a special agent - he has kind of a young skateboarder look with shoulder-length hair that almost covers his eyes and a little chin beard. The story hooked me at level 5 and has not let go. I happen to love Kaliyo as a companion. My IA's skills are exactly what I enjoy playing in an mmo - stealthing about and taking out who you need to, and then getting out quietly. And I cannot play him any more. In fact, I haven't played him in over a week now.

I'm stuck at the final mission of chapter one of the class story. So, even if I play other alts I'm unable to crack open my Legacy, and I'm losing out on the 300+ Cybertech my IA has plus the cash in his pockets. The final mission involves killing an elite, and he is bugged. People on the class forum advise taking a buddy, but I've started the mission and cannot get anyone to my location. Also, I cannot abandon the quest and I cannot get out of the location I'm at. I may be able to PvP but I haven't checked that. If so, that's the only thing I can do - no mailbox either.

SpoilerThe mission involves going to a starship and confronting a mystery man who I have been tracking down, who Intelligence believes is funding the separatists. It is likely he is also responsible for killing a very powerful Darth (Jadus) and a load of other Imp muckity-mucks.

When you get to him, you learn that he is Darth Jadus, he has faked his own death, and he has Eradicators that can basically fly about in space and destroy large areas of any planet they are targeted on. You have half of the launch codes and Jadus has the other half. He offers you the opportunity to join him, become the Hand of Jadus, and all you need do is enter your half of the codes.

You are told by your handler that you have two other options - you can enter the codes to throw him off, thousands will die, but you will be able to stop him and then stop the Eradicators. Or, you can refuse, and fight him long enough to set off some internal ship force field which will disable Jadus. There is supposedly at least one other ending involving Diplomacy, but I didn't get it; probably because our earlier choices affect our later offerings. Oh yeah, you can't kill him but you can disable him long enough to get to a panel and start the process of raising the force field. But you have to fight him three times because you have to access the panel three times. Whew.

Being Mr. DoGoodyPants, I refused to even launch the Eradicators temporarily and chose to fight him. Bad move. He stands on a big, open deck that is a few steps up from the main deck, but he cannot be targeted unless you stand directly on top of him - and even then it is not easy to target him. He has some powerful casts and can two-shot you. After all, it has been explained to you by your handler earlier in the game that he is second only to the Emperor in terms of power. The only way to beat him is to interrupt his casts while you beat him down. Did I mention that he can two-shot you? The IA has an interrupt on 12 sec CD, another on one minute CD, and another that I cannot remember the CD for but its longer than 12 secs.

I have logged in every night and tried five or six times each night to kill this guy. I had 132,000 credits and now have 101,000 credits. Oh, and I really don't care about the money, I'm trying to show how much I've tried to complete this mission. I have read everything I can find on this issue and, of course, those who have succeeded say "It's easy, you just have to . . .". To be fair, there are some who offer good advice without being snarky, but the advice has not worked for me. I have not gotten this guy below 50%!

I don't claim to be the best at these games, but I think I'm above average. I have raided since '07, in two mmos, on guilds/kinships that were at the top on my various servers, and been a core raider in those guilds for as long as I can remember. But the only way I can get this guy targeted is to have my companion attack him while I try and stand on him and target him so I can attack him, and that always results in a dead companion and me then running for the area where there are LoS blocks so that I can kite. I have tried all the other suggestions, including putting my companion on passive until I get him off the platform and then putting my companion on active, but all that micro-management takes time and winds up in failure.

I don't mind a challenge. I don't mind a mission that I have to re-do a half dozen times to master. Hell, I don't mind re-doing it a dozen times if necessary, as long as I make progress each time and can finish it. This is not a challenge, it's the end for my IA. I am forced to fight an elite without a companion to assist me.

I actually re-rolled another IA on the other server I play on, and intended to just go with the Dark Side option for this mission. But then I thought about re-doing all that content. I can't do it.

Sounds like you may need to pick the dark option. My dark Jedi has had to pick a few light side options for a "better" outcome. You might not want to, but you may have to.

Yeah, I'd try to reset the mission too, see if that helps. Either that or open a ticket and explain what's going on. I'm not entirely sure that will be of benefit, but you never know.

Believe me, I tried. I think it's because I'm on his starship. There is no exit and when I went to the "landing pad" my ship is not there.


It's very tempting at this point, but it's not an option because I cannot reset or abandon the mission, I'm on the boss' starship, and there's no mission giver to talk to - I spoke with her on my holo and I have no access to it now.


That . . . is fecking brilliant. I tried my quick travel but here was no where to travel to, and I can't believe I didn't think of my fleet pass. I will let you know how it turns out. If it works, you get a cookie. A really big cookie.

Cookies are always almost the best way to go all the time. True fact.

Yeah, you have to get the timing of Flash Bang, Distraction, and Debilitate perfectly on his one spell (lightning surge I think it was) otherwise you die horribly. His other spells and melee damage don't do nearly as much. I did the quest at level 31. I fired the "lasers" and disabled the ship and then fought him, so I don't know if it follows the same fight format.

I originally tried the quest at level 30 and he kept resisting my disrupts so I kept dieing. I used the fleet pass and went and got another level and tried it a few more times before finally beating him. I tried a few times to los him, but overall it seemed to not be worth the effort and the lost dps.

Ummm, noob question, but what's an emergency fleet pass? Is it a physical item, or some other thing?

You get it when you specialize, I think.

They can't give it to you at level 10, because you may not have reached the point where you can use the actual shuttle to the fleet.

Idiggory - I'm sorry to inform you that you are my new best friend! It worked! I went back to Fleet and asked in chat for help, and the first reply was "Ginthel, the class quest is designed to be done solo." Followed by a number of other people saying things like "I had no problem with mine" and the like. One person even advised me to give it a try and see if I die. I felt compelled to inform them of how long I'd been trying, how may times I tried, and how much I spent on repairs, the fact that the mission was bugged, and I also told them to check out the class forum if they believed all class missions were easy.

Someone whispered me - a L50 Jugg - and offered to help. I felt bad when we got on the ship and I whispered him to tell him I had forgotten to mention that I had to kill the boss three times, but he was cool with it. Did it, killed him, got the completion. Woo-Hoo! I feel like a weight was lifted off my shoulders.

Thanks everyone for the advice, I really appreciate it.

As for you Idiggory, I hope you like chocolate chip cookies because I'm about to bake up a batch.


And if you have a security key you can purchase a fleet pass that is not on your regular fleet pass CD for 1,000 credits.

As a Jedi Knight I had a problem with a quest to goto a downed space ship on Tatooine. I read the forums and torhead and it seemed others were having issues as well. Then I found one awesome post explaining how to attempt the encounter and I proceeded to steamroll through it.

It can be frustrating after wow, where solo pve takes no effort but I had a fun time overcoming that one.

I agree that some of the fights are definitely tough and complicated. There are also fights that are an obvious attempt by Bioware to force you to get to know your skills better.

In fact, just before I did this bugged mission - about a half level before - I had a mission to kill a guy for some reason I don't remember. He had a couple of adds and he was a gold star. I died a few times to him but quickly realized that the key to this guy was interrupts. Now, was it a coincidence that I had this fight just a half level before my Chapter One final mission that requires interrupts to beat? The earlier fight was not as tough (and I don't mean because it wasn't bugged, that guy just wasn't going to two-shot you) but it did force you to concentrate on a skill that was necessary for the final mission.

I'd like to believe it was all part of a bigger picture, to make sure you are prepared for the "big fight."

Yeah I tried to do my boss fight for the end of Ch. 1 last night and I got creamed. I think I might have gotten her down to 50%? I asked about it in guild, and they asked me if I had Khem upgraded properly. I looked at his gear and realized that he had no helm, no ear piece, and no implants and that half his gear was really outdated. So I went to the fleet, bought him some gear and we'll see how I do tonight. They also mentioned it's a good idea to use interrupts and stuns and such to keep her from healing. I didn't really think of that lol.

No, ours doesn't have a one shotter. She heals herself though, and she has an ability kind of like the AoE knock back that we have. So some of the suggestions I've read is that when you see her casting that, to put Khem on passive so he comes to you and avoids it, and to interrupt her heals. I also saw suggestions of putting him in his dps stance and just healing him and/or keeping dots up. So we'll see. It's entirely possible that I might not be able to do it at 30. I'm only a few bars from 31 though, so if it proves to be too difficult I can always go run a flashpoint and then come back.

Went back last night and one shotted her. It was close, but I did get her down in one try after I got Khem's gear upgraded and actually used my stuns and interrupts on her. By the time I finished the rest of the class quests to the point where they were sending me to Taris, I hit 31. Although from what I read on the forums, it's a lot easier for sorcerers than it is for assassins. Because of her AoE knock back ability, melee toons and companions are going to take a lot more damage, and afaik assassins don't have a way of healing themselves or Khem.

I was under the impression that we had to use Khem no matter what? As soon as you kill her you have that cut scene where stuff happens with Khem. Trying not to get too specific so as not to ruin it for anyone else who hasn't gotten their sorcerer up that high yet.

Well yeah I'm not saying it's hard for them, just that it's probably more difficult due to the incessant whining of some of the Assassins in the thread I found.

Tonight, I finished Chapter 1 on the Jedi Knight. I wont' go into too many details, but you finish the bit up on an Imperial cruiser.

So, I solo the thing, get through (32 DPS Guardian, FYI), and promptly get destroyed by the main bad. So, I decide to bring in two guildies with the idea that we'll breeze through it.

We meet up at the fleet, we get onto my ship and head in, and all the enemies have respawned. No big deal, right?

Turns out two elites would spawn every time we did a pack. It was incredibly frightening. After getting a system down, we managed to get through it, but I don't get just how it could escalate in difficult all of a sudden :( .

All instances increase in difficulty the more members you have. I think the only part where the difficulty doesn't change is the bosses, though don't quote me on that.

But yeah, the Big Bad of Chapter 1 can wreck your face if you don't interrupt his channeling move. You do that though, and the fight is actually easy. Being level 34 helps too.