sources:
http://dulfy.net/2012/04/22/companion-g ... s-for-1-2/
http://www.swtor.com/holonet/companions
Companion Gifts & Affection
Why gain affection?
Max affection with a companion will grant you a 5% crit chance to all crafting done by that companion and 15% efficiency (faster crafting). After 1.2, max affection will also unlock stat bonuses for the first companion of each type (i.e. melee tank, ranged dps) to be unlocked and a small presence boost (+10 presence, stacks with other companions, even if they are the same type)
The stats bonus are permanent and works even when your companion isn’t out and in operations.
Melee Tank: 1% Accuracy
Ranged Tank: 1% Max HP
Ranged DPS: 1% Crit
Melee DPS: 1% Surge
Heals: 2% Healing Received
Crafting crit chance and affection: Maxing out a companion will grant 5% crit chance to crafting, this is in addition (and additive) to the baseline crit chance that is received when crafting items of different difficulties and also whatever crafting bonus that companion might already possess.
Orange difficulty: 10% crit chance
Yellow, Green, and Gray difficulty: 15% crit chance
For example, if you are using companion X with maxed out affection and with a baseline 2% crit chance to Underworld Trading to do an orange Underworld Trading Mission, the chance for this mission to crit would be 10% + 2% + 5% = 17%.
One thing to note is that romance with a companion change their responsiveness to certain types of gifts. For most companions, this will make that particular companion more responsive to courting/luxury gifts. However, certain companions like Ashara will change their responsive to a wide range of gifts when you romance her. For “simple” companions, their response to courting/luxury gifts during romance are in the romance column. For more “complex” companions, they have a separate row to reflect all the changes.
Each class have 2 companions (one male, one female) for romance options (opposite sex humanoids only). Smugglers/Agents have 3 companions (one male, two female) available for romance because they are awesome! Sith warriors also have companions available for romance although one of the companions does not seem to change their “likeness” to gifts even when romanced.
There are 5 companion affection rating ranks
Rank 1: –1000-1999 (yes, that is a negative sign)
Rank 2: 2000-3999
Rank 3: 4000-5999
Rank 4: 6000-7999
Rank 5: 8000-10000
There are also 5 ranks of Companion gifts, depending on the rank difference (Companion affection rating rank – Companion gift rank), here are the modifiers. (i.e. A companion at rank 1 affection getting a rank 2 gift would have a modifier of 1.1)
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