Spoiler so i ve been running a lightside sith warrior who s going to join the republic.
Siding with the republic war on iokath.
To get elara dorne as your companion you have to side with the republic in the story.
The point is that cross faction groups are restricted to iokath dailies iokath operations and iokath open world pvp.
Swtor the war for iokath siding with the galactic republic sith inquisitor neutral.
Most of it is straightforward with some exceptions to get malavin quinn as your companion you have to side with the empire in the story.
The empire came to help me during a previous chapter.
The republic even after saresh was unwilling to put themselves out there for you.
Wasn t even a question.
You have a reason to side with the imps on iokath even if you don t want to help them win in the long run.
After siding with the republic on iokath on my warrior and skipping to inflection point the choices didn t play out correctly.
Do you have what it takes to secure the superweapon before it unleashes destruction across the galaxy.
If for some reason a character is on the fence acina did help out against zakuul.
This is the main story arc to unlock the iokath dailies.
But as a republic character i want to side with the republic here.
When i did it on empire it was empire all the way.
Iokath was later revisited in the war for iokath storyline released with game update 5 2 in which players are forced to ally with either the galactic republic or the sith empire independent of their original faction leading to significant story deviations including the death of either jace malcom or darth acina and gaining either elara dorne or malavai quinn as a companion.
Choose to align your forces with the republic or empire in a brand new storyline explore the ancient and highly advanced planet of iokath or team up with allies to defeat tyth a deadly droid superweapon in the start of a new operation.
Granted i don t know the full ramifications of choosing a side here on iokath but i m just having a hard time with the decision.
So if you do queve for a warzone in a cross f group on iokath you will most likely get a warning or you will be unable to queve or it will delete your character and sacrifice it to the deleted gods.