To stop the game going on forever when a draw isn ' t allowed . You disable it from happening by getting good and winning the game or not playing in knockout tournaments . <| sep |> 1 . BiS gear is still necessary for any NiM ops and several of HM ops Ravagers TOS . Come next week , pvp gear will be removed and BiS will matter in pvp as well . 2 . Getting one companion to 50 really helps in soloing difficult stuff Eternal Championship speedrun , Heroic Star Fortresses , even some HM flashpoints can be soloed onlevel . 3 . Getting at least one and potentially up to 6 companions to Rank 50 also helps for those who craft a lot . The crit rate becomes really significant at that point , giving you plenty of extra stuff to sell for high profits . 4 . KOTFE KOTET release next week is the latest story batch . At the start , you lose all vanilla companions even the ship droid , about half of them return during the story , but you now have the option to permakill some of them Kaliyo , Tanno Vik , Skadge , Xalek , Broonmark , Aric Jorgan , Rusk . If you had those companons at high influence level , you can reclaim them for craftingcombat purposes , but they won ' t feature in the story . 5 . Personally , I enjoyed Shadow of Revan content . If you follow it in order PreludeRishiYavin 4 Ziost , it gives closure to Revan ' s tale , brings back the Emperor to the forefront of the conflict and introduces many characters , who become future companions . It ' s not bad stuff and I ' d say better than Makeb was . 6 . KOTFEKOTET I suggest you do at least once . It doesn ' t have much replay value , as the story is the same for every class , but character models for NPCs and new cutscene effects really give it a cinematic feeling . When you have to do it 10 times to unlock content for your alts , it become incredibly boring , but the first couple of times it ' s legitimately worth checking .