The Division 2
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Palum
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Oh man, the loot and upgrade system is a GRIND. It's fun because I like mindless repetition but holy shit the requirements for expertise and tinkering and classes and skills and yeah it's a LOT.
Overwhelming but I'm not a min/maxxer anyway so I just play for shits and giggles and to see a wasted DC.
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haha I DID mention my desire for a Whites only mod for the 'good guys' side. But alas, White homogeneity is a dangerous thing.Except now with Outlaws and the pure woke shit that will become, and that same guy leading Div 3, wouldn't be surprised if the Division 3 is about protecting liberal rights to protest at this point
Chat GBT to the rescue of what this will be:
"Write a synopsis of Division 3 game but woke"
"In the utopian society of Division 3, where fairness and equity reign supreme, a spirited game unfolds on the hallowed grounds of the playing field. As the whistle blows, diverse teams, representing various walks of life, converge in a harmonious display of athleticism and cooperation."
"The players, each embodying the intersectionality of their identities, showcase their skills with grace and respect. There are no winners or losers here, only participants in a collective journey towards shared understanding and unity."
" Through strategic maneuvers and empathetic teamwork, the athletes challenge stereotypes and dismantle barriers, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone's contributions are valued. Amidst cheers of solidarity from the stands, they celebrate not just the game, but the bonds forged in mutual respect and acceptance."
Marketing tagline: "In Division 3, victory is measured not by points on a scoreboard, but by the strides taken towards a more equitable society, both on and off the field."
Brahma
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Brahma
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Mizake
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Can't wait until Ubisoft decides that all the homeless people are just sleeper Division agents just waiting for their watches to activate.
Vorph
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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Ok, to give an example, here's the build I use most:
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Mostly what I was getting at is there's certain named items which are so ridiculously good that even if you don't use the gun type that brand gives a bonus to it's still best in slot regardless. Damage to armor and damage to targets out of cover are the strongest stats in the game by a wide margin. There are times I put something else in the glove slot out of necessity, like the build above, but I can't remember the last time I played a build that didn't use Fox's Prayer kneepads. So basically that's one of the six armor slots where all you ever need is a single item, and getting it with 15% weapon damage and 12% CHD really is not hard.
It's very obvious when anything drops whether it's going to be useful in a build, because even on heroic 99% of what drops can't be crafted into anything useable. Even when you expand it out to a few more really strong builds (I highly recommend having a glass cannon AR build as an option), there's still only a handful of items per slot that are ever useful. You quickly learn to spot those (and in the long run I'm pretty sure I got way more of my 'perfect' items from weekly vendor resets than I ever did from actual looting) and everything else goes in the trash. Obviously if you're new you settle for what you can get and you'll actually see upgrades a lot more frequently, but that's also why I suggest skill builds for new players because they are so much easier to get what you need, especially when you can just start out with the craftable 4pc Hard Wired set to kickstart it all.
The only other thing you need to know is how the target farming works so that you can go get yourself uniques like Scorpio, Memento, etc. I got mine from the seasons when they were freebies, but I've seen dupes of Memento a few times when I had the tower set to drop backpacks.
TL;DR - Named items and uniques are king, and there's only a extremely small pool of other items that are ever worth considering, which makes sorting through loot much faster than it might seem at first.
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Damage build you usually get critical chance and critical hit damage.
Skill build you usual get skill damage, skill haste, sometimes skill duration, or status effect(condition damage).
They throw a lot of shit at you, but once you figure out the main stats you will run anyways for the build you want (run n gun or skill build), and the option to reroll a stat entirely, makes it easy. So for example you might get a skill piece with 1st stat skill level, 2nd stat max skill damage, you can reroll whatever the 3rd option was to like skill haste.
The loot system was a giant mess in the beginning, how they manage to fuck that up right after coming from division 1, they wanted to get too cute with more rng shit to keep people grinding. By the time the expansion rolled out they were on like loot 3.0 and it was a lot better, way less shitty rainbow crap rolling up. These days it's easy to farm loot through targeting loot system, plus crafting rerolls a stat or maximize them.
Optimal builds have been figured out, most of the youtubers will sometimes come out with hybrid/meme type builds to keep things interesting, since new exotics and sets come out every season.
Gear/build spreadsheet...
Skill build you usual get skill damage, skill haste, sometimes skill duration, or status effect(condition damage).
They throw a lot of shit at you, but once you figure out the main stats you will run anyways for the build you want (run n gun or skill build), and the option to reroll a stat entirely, makes it easy. So for example you might get a skill piece with 1st stat skill level, 2nd stat max skill damage, you can reroll whatever the 3rd option was to like skill haste.
The loot system was a giant mess in the beginning, how they manage to fuck that up right after coming from division 1, they wanted to get too cute with more rng shit to keep people grinding. By the time the expansion rolled out they were on like loot 3.0 and it was a lot better, way less shitty rainbow crap rolling up. These days it's easy to farm loot through targeting loot system, plus crafting rerolls a stat or maximize them.
Optimal builds have been figured out, most of the youtubers will sometimes come out with hybrid/meme type builds to keep things interesting, since new exotics and sets come out every season.
Gear/build spreadsheet...
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Grabbit Allworth
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Yesterday, I reinstalled it because of this thread and played for a couple of hours. I didn't find it compelling, at all.
However, to be fair, I don't have the Warlords expansion but even if it's great I don't think it would change the core gameplay.
However, to be fair, I don't have the Warlords expansion but even if it's great I don't think it would change the core gameplay.
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Its one of those games that's vastly more enjoyable with friends.
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Ubisoftshit with their bag of infinite shitty ideas decided the game needed to do seasonal characters like arpgs diablo/poe, where you have to restart a new character, redo the campaign albeit at an accelerated pace, in order to do the seasonal manhunt.
Current season just started yesterday per usual manhunt season, but the next one will start with the seasonal characters I guess. They've also updated the game so every player with the base game can level to 40, get access to the ny zones, get shd levels, and have done away with world tiers at 30, the ny campaign is still the paid content.
Many players are of course not too pleased with this move.
Current season just started yesterday per usual manhunt season, but the next one will start with the seasonal characters I guess. They've also updated the game so every player with the base game can level to 40, get access to the ny zones, get shd levels, and have done away with world tiers at 30, the ny campaign is still the paid content.
Many players are of course not too pleased with this move.
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Vorph
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The problem with having seasonal characters is that everything they've done to Div 2 in the last 2-3 years turned it into a fucking horrific grind that would make even a Korean MMO dev blush. Everything is either a massive time sink or massive resource sink, and usually it's both. I've got hundreds of hours in the game and I still have only a tiny handful of perfectly rolled items. Hell, I don't even have a single 6% CHC mod, and only one 12% CHD, same goes for my skill mods if I'm not using the free ones from specializations. My watch is nowhere near 1000 either, and they just nerfed a bunch of XP sources in this patch.
And now they expect people to start fresh every season and slog through the same content to get access to the seasonal content to then do the same old grind with the vague promise that the 'progress' you make on the seasonal character will be applied to your main at some point. Yeah, no thanks. Between this and the absolute shitshow that Star Wars Outlaws is shaping up to be, Massive can get fucked.
And now they expect people to start fresh every season and slog through the same content to get access to the seasonal content to then do the same old grind with the vague promise that the 'progress' you make on the seasonal character will be applied to your main at some point. Yeah, no thanks. Between this and the absolute shitshow that Star Wars Outlaws is shaping up to be, Massive can get fucked.
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