The Division 2

for anyone else leveling, don't be a dumbass like me and deconstruct all your purple 350-450 mods that have only blue (armor/health/hazard protection) icons on them, some of the talents that are really good right now - Patience, Unstoppable Force - require 4-7 blue thingies on your armor and having a mod or two to boost that number is helpful. When I was leveling I thought "who the fuck wants more armor/health" but turns out ya need it sometimes to get the talents activated.

Still whatever you are missing its really not that hard to farm up again, just run checkpoint alert 3s a few times (solo) or just run the daily hard mission 3-4x in a row (solo or matchmake) and you should have 100/100 full slots in your inventory and can go a bit slower in trashing stuff you don't want.

It does suck that for all of us who were behind the fast leveling curve are stuck farming CP3s for blueprints, while those who did it two weeks ago could farm level 1s due to a bug. CP3s aren't super hard but they can be very frustrating or slow depending on how shitty the AI is, and very buggy when it comes to reinforcements and actually flipping. Plus its always awesome in the middle of taking it over some elite patrol or whatever wanders by and fucks you in the ass. I hope they have more ways of getting blueprints soon.

Gearscore doesn't really matter but for funsies if you wanna power up good talent items that you are keeping until WT5, you can recalibrate the stats part (red/blue/yellow basic stuff like armor, HP) and for some weird reason it'll go up to like 468 (higher?) gearscore. I did that to all my gear for fun, no real point but once you do that you can't swap talents via recalibration so only do it to gear that has the exact talents you want and is 450 already. You'll be tossing it all in a week anyways.

To farm mats just once a day recapture Solar Farm (mid right) control point, it has a shit load of crates around it plus a few weapon and armor crates. Also doing a key run in the sewers will usually give you a ton, the bottom left sewers area is pretty fast.

This ia nice spreadsheet of all the guns, talents, and mods you can get in the game right now and the nice thing is the mod sheet lets you fork your own private google spreadsheet and check off the ones you own so you see what you still need to farm and where. Click the tabs on the top to change views. Not linking since forum embeds it:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT9cuFYaxTl1zwVpNkcPLIFq1aI8vzdm_GEVi7kff_23oO7qEEbihitnb_JiWcxq3x5Cpjhp9xe9LCr/pubhtml#

today's hard daily - rochester island - is crazy hard in 4 man, the last bit when you get waves of enemies all around you and nowhere really to hide out. heard its actually easier in challenge or solo hard, i tried in a random LFG group but we wiped twice and then people kept leaving so I gave up. might try it solo later tonight to see how that is.

really good to learn that about holstered vs equipped, i was wondering. holstered has to be NOT your active weapon, and i guess then equipped just has to be any of your 3 weapons.