Sentinels/Marauders, the new 4x DK?

[OldRod_KS]

This weekend, I tried 2-boxing Hammer Station with my Sage/Shadow combination. I've been able to do Heroic 2+'s with this combo on Coruscant and Taris, and could do some Heroic 4's before they greyed out. One Heroic 4 on Taris I was one level grey before I could do it.

Hammer Station is a level 17 flashpoint according to the quest log. At level 19, I couldn't even get past the first area - the 2 giant battlebots dished out too much damage. At level 21, I couldn't get past the first boss (the mining droid). At level 24 I could do everything except the final boss, but the flashpoint goes grey at 23 so I wasn't getting any experience for the majority of it.

Probably could have done it lower if I could keep the companions from breaking CC and could keep them focused on one target. I would CC one mob and immediately one of the Qyzens would do an AE attack and break it, then they seemed to change targets all the time... and on the final boss, he keeps spawning commandos to fight for him - the companions were all over the place.

I think with the pets under control and if I had my healing setup actually figured out, I could have done the entire zone at 21 or so.

[Multibocks]

This weekend, I tried 2-boxing Hammer Station with my Sage/Shadow combination. I've been able to do Heroic 2+'s with this combo on Coruscant and Taris, and could do some Heroic 4's before they greyed out. One Heroic 4 on Taris I was one level grey before I could do it.

Hammer Station is a level 17 flashpoint according to the quest log. At level 19, I couldn't even get past the first area - the 2 giant battlebots dished out too much damage. At level 21, I couldn't get past the first boss (the mining droid). At level 24 I could do everything except the final boss, but the flashpoint goes grey at 23 so I wasn't getting any experience for the majority of it.

Probably could have done it lower if I could keep the companions from breaking CC and could keep them focused on one target. I would CC one mob and immediately one of the Qyzens would do an AE attack and break it, then they seemed to change targets all the time... and on the final boss, he keeps spawning commandos to fight for him - the companions were all over the place.

I think with the pets under control and if I had my healing setup actually figured out, I could have done the entire zone at 21 or so.

This is easily fixable. Go to companion abilities and turn off anything that is AoE. Downside is that they won't hold aggro on everything.

[Riiker]

This whole post just blew my mind! I'm going to have to read this over and over until I've figured it out. I'm new to MMOs and multi boxing. Just got my 4 knights to 11 and have gone sentinel with all of them. I think I'm going to stick to a group of only one class until I can get a handle on all of the abilities and stats.

Edit: just finished hammer station with my 4 sentinels at level 18. I'm pretty impressed by them.