Companion Gifts

[likwidtek]

This is very useful:

Copy and pasted from another site.

The basics of it is that you can give your companions gifts in order to raise their affection towards you by buying gifts from vendors, getting them from certain crafting missions, or buying them off the galactic market. With higher affection you can unlock more conversations with your companion, companion specific quests, and they will preform crew missions quicker.

When you look at companion gifts you will see that they have a rank between 1 and 5 and this determines how many affection points you will get for giving it. Each rank of gifts equals the companions affection rank which is in increments of 2000. So the get the most out of a gift you want to give them one that is the same rank as their affection to you so it works like this.

Rank 1 Gifts for Affection Rank 1 = 0-2000
Rank 2 Gifts for Affection Rank 2 = 2001-4000
Rank 3 Gifts for Affection Rank 3 = 4001-6000
Rank 4 Gifts for Affection Rank 4 = 6001-8000
Rank 5 Gifts for Affection Rank 5 = 8001-9999

You can still give rank 1 gifts to a companion that is over rank 1 affection but they suffer heavily from diminishing returns. If you give a rank 1 gift to a companion that's affection rank 2 they will only gain 50% of they points you would've gotten if they were rank 1. At affection rank 3 they only receive around 25% of the affection points and it continues to drop in this way.

But you can still get a decent amount of affection points from a gift that's ranked lower than a companions affection rank if it is a blue or purple quality. This also applies if the gift is the same rank as the companions affection. A blue gift will grant give around 50% extra affection than a green and purple quality gifts are said to be around 75%.

Another key to maximizing your affection gains is to know your companions likes and dislikes. Your companion will gain more affection points from a gift they love than one they simply like. The order of how your companions feel towards certain gifts is like this: Favorite,Love, Like, and Indifferent.
So if you can try to give companions gift that they Favorite or Love for maximum gain.

To see what gifts your companions like you can just follow this link: http://www.swtorface.com/p/swtor-companion-list.html

Also understand that if a companion is romanceable they will have "Courting" type gifts listed as a Favorite but they won't respond to gifts as if they are a Favorite type until you are already romancing them in you dialogues.

It's not perfect.  But mostly it's accurate.  For example I've found some Loves and Favorites that should be switched, but it's still great.

Here's another good one:

[victoriah]

awesome!  thanks for posting!

[likwidtek]

Also:

Rank 1 Gifts for Affection Rank 1 = 0-2000
Rank 2 Gifts for Affection Rank 2 = 2001-4000
Rank 3 Gifts for Affection Rank 3 = 4001-6000
Rank 4 Gifts for Affection Rank 4 = 6001-8000
Rank 5 Gifts for Affection Rank 5 = 8001-9999


(edit:  updated original post)