Raising Affection Tip: How to Get Rid of 30 Sec Timer

Lisa Clark companions, featured, tips and tricks

Are you looking to max out affection with your companions? Have a companion or two that is not full on affection yet? If you’re looking for a way to gain that affection more quickly, here’s how you can get rid of the 30 second timer when giving gifts.

Zdlite posts:

“Dunno if this is common knowledge yet, but i thought i’d drop this gem. When giving companions gifts espec when you first start (cause you can buy a gang of rank 5 greens from vendor, across form GTN). You can negate the 30 sec wait time, with a loading screen.

I use the first instance zone, stand outside hand gift, run in hand gift, lather, rinse, repeat. My load time is usually under 10 secs, plus it’ll also cycle crewskill missions for ya =)”

Is it an exploit?

Here’s the big question that people have before using this trick. Will BioWare consider it an exploit? Could your account get in trouble for this? I’ve been unable to find an official answer at this time but what I do know is that the timer is going away in patch 1.2 anyway so I don’t see why they would really care about using this tip between now and then.

Lisa Clark

Lisa has been an avid gamer since she was old enough to hold her first controller and a game writer for more than a decade. A child of the Nintendo generation, she believes they just don’t make games like they used to but sometimes, they make them even better! While consoles will always be her first love, Lisa spends most of her gaming time on the PC these days- on MMOs and first-person shooters in particular.