SWTOR Companion Commander’s Compendium Guide

A Commander’s Compendium is the fastest way to raise your companion’s influence level to level 50 immediately in Star Wars: The Old Republic. A companion’s influence level represents how good they are in battle, and how useful they are in crafting and gathering, with 50 being the highest possible.

Normally you would need to raise your companion’s influence with a mix of questing, crew skills, and companion gifts, but a commander’s compendium item allows you to quickly bypass that process.

How to Get a Commander’s Compendium

There are three different ways to get a companion Compendium.

Cartel Market

You can buy a Commander’s Compendium from the Cartel Market for 1,000 Cartel Coins, or a pack of three (for three companions) for 2,500 Cartel Coins.

Every companion has an influence level, and you can see their influence level on the Companions and Contacts window, in a circle beside their name.

However I do NOT recommend buying compendiums with Cartel Coins – there’s a cheaper way to get one that doesn’t involve spending your precious CC!

GTN

The Commander’s Compendium is also often available on the GTN – but they seem to be very overpriced compared to the third option, so I don’t recommend buying these.

Conquest Vendor

You can also trade 3 Dark Projects + 4,250,000 Credits for a Commander’s Compendium at the V1C-0RY Conquest Vendor in the Strongholds & Crew Skills section of the Republic or Imperial fleet.

Dark Projects

Dark Projects are a type of crafted item that can be crafted by any crew skill. If you don’t craft, you can buy three directly from the GTN.

If you do want to craft them yourself, the Dark Project crafting schematic becomes available from the crew skill trainer at crafting level 150 for all crew skills. How to Craft Guide

They are a bit complicated to craft as they require multiple steps, but they are used in multiple parts of the game including some cool decorations and for conquest crafting. Dark Projects require 8 Refined Isotope Stabilizers, an Iokath Recombinator and a War Supplies: Invasion Force.

Invasion Forces

Invasion Forces can be crafted by combining one of each of the normal war supplies, an the schematic is also available to all crew skills at rank 150.

War Supplies

The normal individual war supplies are crafted across multiple crew skills and then need to be combined into the big War Supplies: Invasion Force item.

• War Supplies: Armored Vehicles: Cybertech
• War Supplies: Armored Vehicles: Armstech
• War Supplies: Armored Vehicles: Armormech
• War Supplies: Crystal Capacitors: Artifice
• War Supplies: Crystal Capacitors: Synthweaving
• War Supplies: Holocron of Strategy: Artifice
• War Supplies: Holocron of Strategy: Synthweaving
• War Supplies: Infantry Supply Kits: Biochem
• War Supplies: Starship Weapons: Cybertech
• War Supplies: Starship Weapons: Armstech
• War Supplies: Starship Weapons: Armormech

The Isotope and the Recombinator are a bit harder to track down as they are considered materials from previous expansions and are no longer part of the normal rotation of rewards

Refined Isotope Stabilizers

The Refined Isotope Stabilizer can most easily be found from the GTN or the jawa scrap vendor in the Cartel Bazaar section of the fleet named Mnek, who sells blue crafting materials in return for Scrap: Assorted Droid Parts. You’ll need 8 of these, and they cost 10 scraps each. Jawa Scrap Guide

To spend your Jawa scrap, head to the Fleet, and go to the Cartel Bazaar, which is the northern elevator Republic side and the Southern elevator Imperial side.

Iokath Recombinator

The Iokath Recombinator can be bought from a vendor on Odessen in the Alliance Staging area from the Recovered Goods Vendor named Nessl Vaccan, near the Umbara flashpoint entrance. It costs a straight 260,000 credits, so make sure to check the GTN and see if you can get it cheaper there first.

Getting all those components together can be a huge pain – it’s often much cheaper to just buy the Dark Projects straight form the GTN!

This version of the compendium can not be bought/sold on the GTN, so you can not make a profit from it, only use it for yourself.

Is using a Compendium worth it?

If you are trying to get your companion to influence level 50, using a companion Commander’s Compendium is by far the fastest and least expensive way to do it compared to giving your companion any type of gifts, as long as you use the Dark Project / Conquest Vendor method to get your compendium.

The cheapest way to level your companion to 50 would be instead to level them purely by running quests with them, and the most profitable way would be to send them out over time to gather materials – it would take a while, but as you sold the crafting materials, you’d wind up with a profit and eventually have an influence 50 companion. But if you need your level 50 companion because you want to take on some challenging content, a Dark Project is the way to go!

How do you use a Compendium?

Once you have gotten a compendium in your inventory, summon the companion you want to give it to so they are out beside you. Then right-click the compendium.

A confirmation box will pop up.

This will boost your companion up to 50 from whatever rank they currently were!