The Division 2

Those skill builds are 180 from what you would build for solo though. Skill builds for damage are worthless. Self cucking yourself for healing skill builds are team only. Because you will be doing fuck all besides healing/ressing at that point and that gear doesn't work once you leave the group to get any content done yourself.

I've run out of motivation to log back in since I'm not a streamer or had a bunch of time to play when this launched and exploited easy gear. Nor do I like grouping, so the DZ is a no go. I don't even care about Heroics, I just wanted to be able to do challenging stuff and have the world tier set to challenging but not just be bog standard all reds with an LMG. Too bad for me.

Damn. I am looking for a COVID game to play and this seemed very appropriate. I guess I can look at the backlog?

Qhue said:

Damn. I am looking for a COVID game to play and this seemed very appropriate. I guess I can look at the backlog?

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Like Alias said, if you have the base Div 2 game, playing through it once for the story difficulty is fine. Everything feels good and its fun. It's only the end game content that either the grind appeals to you or doesn't.

mkopec said:

Dude, you have 100 gear slots on your person, and can make 3 load-outs without spending any SHD on more off the bat. Its as easy as clicking one button and yourre in your full red gear, full rifle build, smg, lmg, whatever the fuck. Shit, even while in combat, lol. Dont make it sound like youre locked into a spec because youre not. I get good gear of all sots every day that I dismantle because its not my thing.

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Yes. Still doesn't solve me being a whiny bitch because what I wanted to work doesn't work (skill damage builds). Getting a basic heal build set up would take me just buying/crafting some extra HW and then matchmaking and standing at the back and pressing some heal skills occasionally, fine, great, awesome.

But we're still left with very little successful build diversity for Challenging+ difficulty.

I still can't believe that not only did someone think that it would be a good idea to go back to exotics having ranges on their stats, but also that you shouldn't even be able to recalibrate.

Blitz said:

I just reached 38 and needing 40 to do the Keener mission. Holy fuck, you almost get "one shot" even in Story mode. That shit is dumb as fuck.

I can see why people are hitting 40, going for Bullet King and then just stopping. Paint me guilty though, I've enjoyed the expac so far. That being said, I'll probably hit 40, clear the missions, maybe go for Bullet King and slop together some decent set and put it down until they one-touch in a few months. Zero interest in playing some "one shot" disco. If I wanted to do that, I'd go raid Mythic again.

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Best part is the devs patting themselves on the back so hard cuz "the game is difficult again! yeehaaw!"

Think I've finally about had it. Shield build was ok, but nothing special. Even if it was godly, the pistol reticule is just too damn annoying after a while.

I'm a fan of the sniper turret build, but I went from having ~20 keys for all DC factions plus 7 cleaner and 5 rikers from leveling to being basically out of all of them, and I still never got a Go Bag.

I don't really mind the game being harder now, but bullet sponges are stupid and the grind is far worse than WT5 because risk vs. reward is so out of whack. Plus NY content really isn't that interesting once you complete the story so it's just grinding to get back to being able to do the same stuff you've done a million times.

If you hate PVP (especially the DZ, which is a whole 'nother level of ass cancer) as much as I do, or your build just sucks ass still because nothing good ever drops, what you should do is turn all your CPs green--ignore the manhunt ones for obvious reasons--and then set the global difficulty to Heroic and turn on all 5 directives. Then watch as target practice activities appear all over the place because only green activities can spawn when you have full control over an area. It's just like the exploit they patched last week; all they "fixed" was the crazy amount of xp and extra loot you got from failing it 3 times before completing. Now you just complete it on the first go, and move on to the next one. It's not quite as fast as the exploit was since you spend a bit more of your time running but it's still 330k XP which is almost half a season rank and more than 2/3's of a SHD point, and as long as you dodge all the random enemies roaming the streets there's zero gear requirement. It's a good way to level up a specialization that you have few/no points in too. Just don't forget to refill your ammo, or you'll run out fast because of that one directive. Or just do it all with a pistol.

Doing that for a couple hours yesterday got me more ~max rolls for my library as well as a couple exotics (sadly just two Chameleons, which is a garbage tier gun) than the last dozen+ hours I spent in Hard missions and doing CP3's.

There's some other weird exploit going on now too. Only video for it I've seen is some Chinese dude on YT though. He hands in a few resources to a CP officer and gets a cache without leveling up either SHD or the season. Then logs out and back in and does it again, over and over. I've given tons of resources since I like to keep that detection buff running, but they've never given me a cache for it so I don't get it. Someone said you had to be season rank 15+ but I'm over 20 now.

Does Coyote's Mask have fixed stats, or did I actually get lucky for once?

Better than mines..

mkopec said:

So 3 bounties tonight and what drops?

3 chameleons...

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I got one yesterday from doing a Control point. Mine is on the shit end of damage though. Then I opened a crate and got the Acosta go bag. My luck is done.