Defiance

Not sure if it's been mentioned here but evidently you only get Weapon Skill if your weapon is leveling up. If it's maxed out you don't gain any weapon levels? Kind sucks to have to constantly be changing to trash weapons just to keep leveling up your weapon skills.

Maxing out a weapon earns you a random bonus on that weapon (5% reload speed, etc.). The bonus changes when you log in log out or change instances.

diablo syndrum.

Well I definitely have to watch the show now, I find myself wanting to know more about what is going on.

Qhue_sl said:

Well I definitely have to watch the show now, I find myself wanting to know more about what is going on.

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First 14 minutes.

http://player.theplatform.com/p/hQNl...t/miDVG0Vn79rB

350 ego, shit's very crazy.

Most fights are now swarms of 99er dudes with shields, followed by 4+ elites of the same version. 6+ melee dudes, and sometimes 2 or more elite versions of those. Sometimes all of that is followed by a swarm of hellbugs. Some of the side missions are getting super hairy. Almost all have at least 1-2 grenade spam launcher mini-boss dudes that can be a pain.

I've yet to do a mission where I don't die at least once.

300+ ego things really start to open up. You'll begin your first Rep grinds.

Don't waste your keys on lockboxes early. What a lockbox drops is linked to your Ego rating. Save keys for Synergy set mods. Basically in order to complete the set, you need to slot the weapon with the mods with the same synergy label. It's very RNG based, so might not be everyone's cup of tea.

At about 350, you'll start getting dailies as well, these should be linked to the first rep, I think it's the one the dwarf dude is in charge of but I'm not sure. Although I think I was already working on a rep at around 280 or so. Most rep weapons have synergies. You'll see a "Synergy Lockbox" for sale at the rep vendor.

Rep and Contract video guide:

I'm at 350 ego and I've done all the quests I've seen, and I'm at 80rep (I forget which one it was). Saving up to the 200 for one of the 300+ rating weapons. Still have a ton of side quests and such to do. Additionally some hubs (like the Mexican chick and the dwarf dude) have quest posts that you can do really quickly and drop them off at a drop box. You can do about 4 or so before they're out, but it may reset in 24hours, not sure. May be part of the dailies, I know the dwarf says "you can do this again in a while". These quests don't give anything special aside from 2000exp, some SC, and a white mod. But they're usually pretty fun and quick.

We're playing mostly in what would be Marin county, there's a huge robot guarding the golden gate. I guess it's either a world boss, or maybe some event thing, because 1 missile insta-gibs you, and he launches clusters of them.

The Episode content thing is really just a cool gimmick. It's mostly a side quest thing to link you, "random VBI operative #22203" with the show. In the show they'll say something like "yeah, that operative did it", and you'll feel giddy that it was you...

Was a bit of a surprise when the faction stuff unlocked. Even more surprising was that it seemed to be shared across players somehow? All I know is that one of the faction quests maxed itself within a few minutes of me unlocking it even when I wasnt doing a damn thing. Perhaps it was counting kills from events that I literally drove through on my way somewhere else?

After finishing a faction contract, do you have to actually go turn it in? I finished a few, and they are sitting there on the contracts tab saying "0 days".

Servers still down?

PS: Weapon skills perks do not reset on zoning/relogging. If you max out say LMGs, switch to a different LMG and you'll gain xp towards the full weapon skill tree. Yes, you'll need to "level" up several different weapons of the same type to get to all the perks.

The contracts are weekly / daily quests, so once you have finished them you have to wait for them to reset.

Game needs second wind like borderlands 2.

Fuck all you people. You guys make it impossible to skip any god damn MMO. Bleh guess I'll pick this up.

Do I have to play this game?