HK-51 Companion Guides

[SoulBender]

I have found a couple of guides that are useful for your HK farming:

HK-51 | Companions details for all classes

SWTOR HK-51 quest guide -patch 1.5

We can use this thread for any tips, tricks or gotcha's with your HK-51 Companion.


Unlocking HK-51 on alts

Per Count Sacula
Just a warning to those who unlock HK and plan on paying to unlock him for other toons. If the person who gets him is under level 50 all of his gear is unusable. I got him for my level 33 gunslinger and he has 5000ish health and no weapon. You can pull out the 50 mods and replace them with lower level stuff but I would imagine it could be a bit expensive.

Raising Affection

Per Zargs
And it seems the only way to get him to love you is to give him gifts. So far I used him on all dailys and not even 1 point.

Crafting Bonus
+1 Mission Efficiency
+1 Crafting Critical

Giving Gifts

Gift Type	Gift Affection Level	Companion Statement
Weapon	favorite	Conclusion: This should improve my efficiency.
Military Gear	like
Courting	indifferent
Luxury	indifferent
Technology	like
Republic Memorabilia	indifferent
Imperial Memorabilia	indifferent
Cultural Artifact	indifferent
Trophy	like
Underworld Good	indifferent

Special Abilities:
Assassinate: HK-51 takes careful aim at a target strong, standard, or weak enemy. Deals mortal damage. Requires and consumes 5 stacks of Target Eliminated. Only useable out of combat. Target Eliminated stacks are gained when HK-51 assists in defeating an enemy.

Blind Side: HK-51 takes advantage of a distracted target, firing a well placed decisive shot for extreme damage Can only be used on targets impaired by Evasion Protocols.

Evasion Protocols: Activates HK-51's Evasion Protocols, which drops a diversionalry grenade and causes him to leap towards you. The primary target is stunned for 2 seconds. Targets around HK-51 have 10% reduced accuracy for 4 secs.

[Zargs]

And it seems the only way to get him to love you is to give him gifts. So far I used him on all dailys and not even 1 point.

[Jetsu]

Has anyone figured out what the stacking buff he gets when he's killing things does (if anything)?

[SoulBender]

Assassinate: HK-51 takes careful aim at a target strong, standard, or weak enemy. Deals mortal damage. Requires and consumes 5 stacks of Target Eliminated. Only useable out of combat. Target Eliminated stacks are gained when HK-51 assists in defeating an enemy.

He also has:
Blind Side: HK-51 takes advantage of a distracted target, firing a well placed decisive shot for extreme damage Can only be used on targets impaired by Evasion Protocols.

Evasion Protocols: Activates HK-51's Evasion Protocols, which drops a diversionalry grenade and causes him to leap towards you. The primary target is stunned for 2 seconds. Targets around HK-51 have 10% reduced accuracy for 4 secs.

[SoulBender]

What I find kind of weird with HK-51 is the mix of Aim and Cunning as primary stats. All his equipment, except for his main and off hand are Aim. His Sniper Rifle and Vibroknife are Cunning.

[war1023]

A lot people complain that isn’t an easy way to gear droid companions. You can’t pull out armor out of normal gear and place it to a droid.

A cheap an easy way to upgrade your droids gear. Pull the Mod and Enhancement out of gear and use the daily Armor or level 49 Artifact one. There is only a 1 stat difference between the 2.

If you got money to blow you can buy raid level armor ones or get the gear rated 150.