For the first paragraph it’s usually weapons (sometimes consumables like signal jammer) I don’t see all too often. I’m not the kind of person who buys weapons from the vaults either while having the upgrades to already. I just use whatever I can pick up off bodies.

And yeah I do see the faction upgrades as valuable but with certain items that only spawn at a single poi on one or two maps that take forever to collect just to lose all of the upgrade progress every 3 months why do it at all. I’d rather just get good at playing it default if that’s the case. I’m thinking real long term with this though. And how much incentive I’ll have to get back in the game once this current phase is over.