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Tom Clancy's The Division |OT 3| Crafted From 150 OT 2s
- Thread starter VE3TRO
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I got the Xbone bundle yesterday, so it was on sale, kinda. If I like it enough, I might get Xbox Live. There's also the 14 day trial, so I'll be able to give the MP a try. Thank you!
shawnoftheshred
Member
I've had pretty good luck with random matchmaking on X1 (first on hard, then challenging and lately, heroic runs have been going well too). Usually, when we group up, first we ask if everyone has a mic, then ask if they've done it before on that difficulty, decide who the bomb runner is and re-adjust abilities/talents. A little prep goes a long way.
shawnoftheshred
Member
After searching for two weeks for a 268 mask/backpack with native skill power, found both this morning on a Supply Drop + the boss protecting it, adding about 12k in Skill Power without sacrificing too much of my Stamina/Firearms. The G36 has the talent on it where it raises the DPS 14% for 10 seconds after using a skill, so the sheet DPS is more like 230k + in most situations.
Hoping to upgrade some of my prototype mods (level 33s?!) and start to look for 269 GS items with more of the attributes I'm looking for (Crit Chance etc), but for right now, super happy with the build and the stats on it. The M1A with Deadly/Brutal/Toxic and first order of business is re-rolling toxic for Accurate.
Hoping to upgrade some of my prototype mods (level 33s?!) and start to look for 269 GS items with more of the attributes I'm looking for (Crit Chance etc), but for right now, super happy with the build and the stats on it. The M1A with Deadly/Brutal/Toxic and first order of business is re-rolling toxic for Accurate.
ChubbleDucks
Member
I'm assuming this is their attempt to counter balance the tanktician in pvp.
GustyGardens
Banned
I haven't had as much luck. The few times that I've run that Incursion, I felt like I was always changing my abilities throughout the mission to make up for everything that we were lacking. I've run into a bunch of stubborn players in Falcon Lost. Most of those end up with us dying shortly after the first bomb.
Sort of related, but I want to try running recharger smart cover + countermeasure mobile cover in that incursion.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
So that's why my G36 is basically uncontrollable now.
Massive fucking sucks. I don't know if I have ever seen a game beta and launch so amazing and then turn into complete dog shit. Developers usually at least wait for the sequel to fuck things up.
Destiny
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Wouldn't know, I quit playing Destiny the second I hit 30 light level or whatever that shit was called.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Yup, the 30% accuracy nerf hit it harder than the 15% base damage nerf.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
That's really dumb. It won't do anything to tankticians running in a group, but simply make it harder for non tanks and weaker players who will just die that much faster. Again, a massive oversight of deploying changes without any practical testing
Insane Metal
Member
That's really dumb. It won't do anything to tankticians running in a group, but simply make it harder for non tanks and weaker players who will just die that much faster. Again, a massive oversight of deploying changes without any practical testing
So now everyone will be tankticians, apparently.
BurritoBear
Neo Member
This just means we can run around in our 4 man less afraid of random rogues with our buildsThat's really dumb. It won't do anything to tankticians running in a group, but simply make it harder for non tanks and weaker players who will just die that much faster. Again, a massive oversight of deploying changes without any practical testing
No now we will be back to that 1.1 meta where everyone dies in half a second with no time to react.
With the right talents and a lucky crit headshot you can already easily one pump people with the M870. It's going to be ridiculous when that happens more often
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Or teams of 4 will just pop smart cover and stay in it the whole time, practically un-killable.
Insane Metal
Member
Fuck. :|
EL CUCO
Member
1.1 DZ was the best time I ever had fighting other agents. Hope it can capture some of that magic again.
Question: Do I need to have all side missions and encounters to be able to have rotating Critical SnD's? I completed one I had on the map, but I dont see any other ones now.
1.1 in 2016 LUL
I cleared the map a while ago and whenever I complete 1 critical SnD safe house another random safe house will have critical SnD so think your answer is yes you need to clear the map for more critical SnD's to appear. I did 4 criticals on the bounce earlier ready for the reset.
EL CUCO
Member
Broken Reckless and all was better than the garbo we have today.
Thanks. Working on my alt, and I just realized I had another safe house I hadn't unlocked. Thay should do the trick then.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
GG Mubrik, Mildsoss and babyghost. Heroic Falcon Lost cleared in 35 minutes without reclaimer
Crap loot though :/
Crap loot though :/
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
3 hour maintenance coming up, so try after that.
Definitely should do, think the encounters and side missions will need to be complete and you'll be good for crit SnD's rotating.
Had a good few hours in the DZ with loot, supply drops and fighting off some rogues as well as being rogue afew times.
Want to say a huge thankyou to burrito and ruthles for the sentry gloves and chest piece. 2 items that haven't dropped for me since my original 191's and they very kindly gave me their 268's from the DZ
) Some of the attributes don't quite meet my build but it's improved it greatly. It's a shame only 1 attribute can be recalibrated as the gloves have pistol/smg dmg and were electronics when I needed stamina and use an assault rifle but I can look out for a decent Mp7 now having rolled them to stamina.
After recalibration, knocking some rolled armour off other items due to almost running 6000 armour without any mods I'm more than satisfied with my setup. 4 sentry, 2 FM, All weapon talents active: 220k dps/3k firearms, 500k toughness/75% armour mitigation and 31k skill. Obviously have the damage boost from 4 piece sentry now too compared to running 3 sentry, 2 FM and savage gloves.
Thanks again guys!
Northern_Manny
Member
Definitely should do, think the encounters and side missions will need to be complete and you'll be good for crit SnD's rotating.
Had a good few hours in the DZ with loot, supply drops and fighting off some rogues as well as being rogue afew times.
Want to say a huge thankyou to burrito and ruthles for the sentry gloves and chest piece. 2 items that haven't dropped for me since my original 191's and they very kindly gave me their 268's from the DZ
Some of the attributes don't quite meet my build but it's improved it greatly. It's a shame only 1 attribute can be recalibrated as the gloves have pistol/smg dmg and were electronics when I needed stamina and use an assault rifle but I can look out for a decent Mp7 now having rolled them to stamina.
After recalibration, knocking some rolled armour off other items due to almost running 6000 armour without any mods I'm more than satisfied with my setup. 4 sentry, 2 FM, All weapon talents active: 220k dps/3k firearms, 500k toughness/75% armour mitigation and 31k skill. Obviously have the damage boost from 4 piece sentry now too compared to running 3 sentry, 2 FM and savage gloves.
Thanks again guys!
Nice!! Sooooo Jealous, cant seem to get 268 sentry's to drop. I'm starting to think I may have to sacrifice my Missus as an offering to RNGesus and see if that does the trick.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Want to say a huge thankyou to burrito and ruthles for the sentry gloves and chest piece. 2 items that haven't dropped for me since my original 191's and they very kindly gave me their 268's from the DZ
Thanks again guys!
No worries, whole point of running in a group is to share loot so everyone can gear up how they want. If only the supply drop, chest and weekly rewards could be traded...
Nice!! Sooooo Jealous, cant seem to get 268 sentry's to drop. I'm starting to think I may have to sacrifice my Missus as an offering to RNGesus and see if that does the trick.
Once PS4 gets the dlc and we have access to the reclaimer gear set, it will make farming heroic FL a breeze. That would be a good way to get sentry/striker/tactician drops.
Nice!! Sooooo Jealous, cant seem to get 268 sentry's to drop. I'm starting to think I may have to sacrifice my Missus as an offering to RNGesus and see if that does the trick.
lol its definitely frustrating. Even more so when I'd run CM FL and I'd get striker. I'm hoping now I have them I'll get it dropped more often as the game will think I don't want it anymore, the more shit you have the more of it you seem to get!
True. Think I'll grab acouple of hours sleep during the maintenance, was waiting for the SOTG but there isn't one this time. Itching to get back on to try the build out now and see if theres any tweaks here and there that can be done.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
While we wait for maintenance to conclude, here is an one hour podcast of Skillup, Breezy, Marco, Arekkz and Likebutter talking about 1.3 and Underground:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXR7NM_tZ34
Those who don't have the time to watch, pretty much they're not happy with the state of the game atm and decisions taken by Massive. UG as the first paid dlc falls short of expectations.
tl;dr
https://www.reddit.com/r/thedivision/comments/4ssggn/division_youtubers_weigh_in_on_patch_13_our/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXR7NM_tZ34
Those who don't have the time to watch, pretty much they're not happy with the state of the game atm and decisions taken by Massive. UG as the first paid dlc falls short of expectations.
tl;dr
https://www.reddit.com/r/thedivision/comments/4ssggn/division_youtubers_weigh_in_on_patch_13_our/
WheelHoss1
Member
Who cares when bodies are about to start dropping like flies with sentry marks + shotties?
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
its nearly impossible to kill people from a distance in this game. from tankticians to heals+triage and the fact that you need to be up close to actually kill someone because for some reason massive thinks you should need to unload two clips into someone that's in a downed state to kill them, yet a melee hit is enough to send them to valhalla and yeah...
Northern_Manny
Member
Had another run around DZ 5/6 and still no 268 sentry. I did get a couple more 268 strikers gear though so have switched to that until I can upgrade my sentry gear.
Great I thought until I discovered it's bugged and you lose the striker buff when you swap weapons.......fml!
EDIT - Just saw this from Natchai_Ubisoft on the Ubi forums in a thread asking about season pass events:
"Starting tomorrow, afaik
Keep an eye out for article drops this evening"
Great I thought until I discovered it's bugged and you lose the striker buff when you swap weapons.......fml!
EDIT - Just saw this from Natchai_Ubisoft on the Ubi forums in a thread asking about season pass events:
"Starting tomorrow, afaik
Keep an eye out for article drops this evening"
Smart Cover all day every day!
Would it really be more fun if you could get one shotted from long distances?
So I think the thing that honestly bothers me most about how this game's loot system works is that it almost requires that you have the gear Challenge and Heroic mode drop in order to do Challenge and Heroic modes.
The other ways to get at that loot are decidedly limited to things like weekly HVTs.
The other ways to get at that loot are decidedly limited to things like weekly HVTs.
WheelHoss1
Member
MythicReclaimer
Member
Just got a 268 Reclaimer chest piece from my first Heroic Operation of the day, thanks game.
shawnoftheshred
Member
Dark Zone 5-6 are guaranteed 229/268 drops (other than a random named weapon here and there). You can be up there with well under 255 GS and do okay in a good group of four. I spent two hours in there this morning and walked out with 6 268s (2 supply drops, 4 boss drops) and 20+ 229 weapons and gear.
GustyGardens
Banned
I think the issue is that they expect everyone to farm the Dark Zone to get their gear, but the reality is that it's just not for everyone. Underground feels like they're trying to remedy that problem, and I hope that future DLC continues to expand the PvE area, rather than forcing players into areas where they're not comfortable.
yeah, i didn't say that...you certainly shouldn't need as many bullets as you currently do to kill someone when they are downed though. That would go a long way at making long range combat somewhat more viable.
Bluecondor
Member
+1
If you want 268/229 gear, the fastest way to get it is supply drops in DZ 05/06 (and, supply drops in 03/04 also occasionally drop 268/229 items). The bosses in 05 and 06 also drop 229s (and occasionally 268s/teal caches).
The best way to be successful in supply drops and bosses in 05/06 is to group up with a team of 4 - with everyone using mikes. Like shawnoftheshred says, you can pick up some decent gear this way in just a few hours of farming. On Friday, I ran dz 05/06 with a solid squad of 4 for two hours and came away with three 268 Tactician pieces and several 229 weapons.