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Raes

Vyemm Raider
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Was random matchmaking challenging missions last night and got Roosevelt island. Last area was a clusterfuck and we wiped like 4 times but no one quit and we managed to pull it off. Hard difficulty shouldn't be that err hard, but it is a really tough area. No good cover, minigun on the boat, constantly getting rushed. Not fun, lol.

Trying to do the hard daily now, but I keep getting stuck at 10% when trying to join a group.
 

Vorph

Silver Baronet of the Realm
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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.
Everything is far easier solo compared to 4-man scaling. 2 or 3 supposedly isn't bad, but i don't think pug matchmaking will stop at less than 4.
 

mkopec

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Roosevelt island is by far the most challenging daily to date on challenging mode. this one showed up several times now in the past few weeks since I was 450. Most of the other daily challenging shit is cakewalk, but this one? Man, fuck, the end part is pure aids. Most groups I have done this before with usually wipe 3+ times, usually on the last wave too. Like both tanks destroyed, one at a time, no problem, then all hell breaks loose. Mobs come from both sides, and middle. And swarm the team. Not to mention 1-2 hammer bros thrown in for good measure. (which are easy by themselves, you just dodge, but with 10 other mobs shooting at you, its death)

I think there should be a checkpoint after you destroy the two tanks, myself.
 
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Vorph

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^ And that's why I never group. Roosevelt is np at all solo. Still holding onto faint hope that the raid will be soloable like everything in Div 1 was.
 

Chimney

Trakanon Raider
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It's not that much worse than any other challenging mission when people don't know what they are doing.

When you destroy both tanks, rush boat and you can end it without even having to kill the rest of the mobs. If I'm demo spec I can just kill the whole boat once the ramps drop solo and then blow hatch and gg.
 
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Gravel

Mr. Poopybutthole
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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#
Meh, I went with a dps/defense hybrid build (tried Unstoppable Force/Patience), and my conclusion is that armor/hp are worthless. In fact, Mtashed did a video on this today.

Unless they change something, go full glass cannon. 200k+ armor and 50k+ hp isn't going to do shit for you. It buys you maybe an extra second, but more likely not even that.

It's better to just be able to melt the shotgunner or foam guy who's 5 meters from you in a single magazine versus trying to reload because you wanted some cool defensive talents.
 

Vorph

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I definitely agree you don't want 200k armor, but on the other hand 50k hp isn't enough. I've watched some videos of dudes who went full 14R insanity and they don't appear to kill any faster than I do and I see them doing plain open world shit and they get torn up like it's on Heroic and have to hide behind cover dropping multiple chems. I can tank most anything short of one-shot melees and getting flanked by a Thrower with their cheater SMGs just with my armor sustain, and I'm pretty sure Strained alone is about equal to the extra 9R they have (since some of those are mods and mods are mostly trash compared to actual stats on gear). Sure, Strained isn't up all the time, but it is when you absolutely need it.

I'll be sticking with the 8B/5R crit build with Strained/Berserk/4x Hard Hitting/Clutch/Patience/Safeguard until they nerf it. Which I suppose will happen sooner rather than later, given the river of tears from PVPers about how unfair it is that their one-shot sniper build gets ripped to shreds by a Vector.
 

Raes

Vyemm Raider
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They call it armor, but it's just health. Game has no avoidance and no damage reduction. All you get is armor regen. With the amount of damage you take per second, you could double your armor and still only last an extra few seconds. As has been stated faster regen trumps more armor.
 

amigo

Molten Core Raider
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For anyone having problems with titanium: Solar farm in East Mall. Lots of titanium there and around, toward Sinkhole.
 
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Fadaar

That guy
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FYI one of the best things you can do is have the anti-shock ability on your sidearm. Fuck that shit in its stupid fucking asshole, basically guarantees you die when playing solo.
 
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Leadsalad

Cis-XYite-Nationalist
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I still died to a challenging bounty last night about 6 times because both mobs were doing it and one of them had another ability that was scaling completely fucking wrong and doing 500k damage in ~3 seconds.
 

Alasliasolonik

Toilet of the Mod Elect
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202067
 

Hosix

All labs matter!
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Foam sucks. Gotta drop those guys fast. But while you deal with them? The Olympic javelin thrower hits you with a Molotov cocktail at 100 yards. Mofos on point!
 

Utnayan

F16 patrolling Rajaah until he plays DS3
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Awesome fun last night with Gator Gator and George. Did the challenge daily. Did a level 3 CP. and then moved on to masks. Got most of them too. Only a few to go there. Up to 447 GS and ready for Friday.
 
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Gator

Trakanon Raider
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Awesome fun last night with Gator Gator and George. Did the challenge daily. Did a level 3 CP. and then moved on to masks. Got most of them too. Only a few to go there. Up to 447 GS and ready for Friday.
Will you be on tonight? Maybe knock out the rest of the masks?
 

Tarrant

<Prior Amod>
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So I really like the first blood perk on my sniper rifle, is that something that I wanna keep or are there other perks that are better?

Also I just got a mask thats +40% damage to elites, is that a state I wanna stockpile too?
 

Vorph

Silver Baronet of the Realm
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First Blood is mostly nonfunctional. You might get it to work at the shooting range, and occasionally with a SVD or SR-1 in the field, but it's useless on a Model 700.

44% DtE is the highest I've seen, but you'll find the vast majority of the time you can't xfer it all without hitting the cap. Odds are a 40+% roll will still be useful at 500 if you get a good mask that just needs DtE to be complete.