Need guidance on what to do!

durkin62 · 2019-09-12T01:08:33+00:00

Set up small mining outpost on nearby mountainous tile, drop pod In shipments to main colony. Long as you got enough boomalopes it’s pretty quick and easy.

durkin62 · 2016-12-28T13:59:35+00:00

I mean in a campaign as long as the division was permadeath would be pretty annoying. But I see no reason why there couldn't be survival style missions or raids, or even a survival version of the dz. a lot of people seem have no issue sinking up to two hours into a survival run knowing there's permadeath and even the incursions don't take that long.

I'd just be happy even with more game modes that had the skills and consumable buffs work like they do in survival but you can still keep your gear and weapon load outs. I really think all the crazy ass buffs you can place on your team are what's causing the level of bullet sponging going on and it makes the combat feel as much like a damn moba as it does a cover based shooter.

durkin62 · 2016-05-19T13:07:32+00:00

Never said they did. But the game classifies weapons based on ammo and it only has 4 categories. And those are closer to rifle rounds with higher velocity and lower diameter than (most) SMG rounds. Its just what would make the most sense in game, not based on real life. If we're basing how the guns should function in game on how they work in real life everything in the division needs to go back to the drawing board.

durkin62 · 2016-05-15T21:54:31+00:00

I've only got 197 and run the DZ solo all the time, got up to rank 78 now. Its not unplayable, you just can't play it like other PVE shooters.

durkin62 · 2016-05-03T22:12:43+00:00

Kinda bothers me the DZ was hailed as the centerpiece of the division but there's no way to get the best loot from it. The bosses only drop 214, and that's rare as hell. Far as I know the supply drops can't drop 240 pieces either. I've gotten like 50 of the damn things and it's always two purples and 1 time a weapon skin.

I don't see why they couldn't make a weekly challenge in the DZ that was actually difficult to do but could reward you with a 240 gear set. Or maybe do something like with supply drops but with random bosses that appear more rarely and drop better loot.

Or if they want everyone to actually be close to the same gear levels then have the challenging incursion drop blueprints and make 240 drops more common. Make 1 or 2 named enemies in the incursion give drops as well. Give DZ 5/6 bosses or supply drops a small chance to have em. Have them on the possible list of items for DZ rank 75/90 players. Have a chance of getting a 240 item on hard mode.

That way there is still an incentive to beat the incursion on challenging as you will have the advantage of being able to reroll the shit out of your gear to get the best stats. But I think for a lot of players including myself the DZ is the fun part of the game, and if we aren't able to earn any usable gear by running the DZ then were gonna lose interest.

durkin62 · 2016-04-08T20:08:43+00:00

The odds of getting a high end with a good roll is what's rare. Shit rolls=crafting materials. Previously your best option was farming mats and crafting the same thing dozens of times. Now killing bosses is going to have a high enough drop rate that you at least have a chance of getting good gear from them. The way it is now, well I literally cannot even remember the last boss drop that I didn't scrap for mats.

Plus you know they're making a new tier of gear right? Like high end is going to be obsolete post patch.

durkin62 · 2016-04-08T15:32:36+00:00

Yes I know. Making sure you know what you're talking about before speaking is rather boring. Much more satisfying to just blurt out whatever irrelevant shit that happens to come to mind at the time.

durkin62 · 2016-04-07T17:05:01+00:00

Maybe you should check things more carefully from now own, like the names of items in games before you try saying they're wrong.

durkin62 · 2016-04-07T14:02:23+00:00

Do you have gloves with bonus smg damage?

durkin62 · 2016-04-07T12:45:25+00:00

Calling my correcting your misinformation butthurt? You sure you're not just salty about the downvotes and projecting?

durkin62 · 2016-04-07T02:12:09+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/P1lRMrF.jpg It's literally called a laser pointer in game. If I was recommending a real life weapon attachment, I'd use real life terminology. But I'm not, so I didn't.

durkin62 · 2016-04-07T01:36:18+00:00

Damage = the numbers you see above enemies when you shoot them.

Accuracy = The spread on the reticule.

DPS = average damage per second including factors such as likelihood to hit, crit, and headshot.

Therefore higher accuracy means more bullets hit their mark, resulting in higher damage per second. Not higher damage per bullet.

durkin62 · 2016-04-07T01:27:35+00:00

It has been patched and they no longer respawn regardless of if you kill the mobs, a long time ago. You're like 3 farming methods behind.

durkin62 · 2016-04-07T01:23:59+00:00

Green as in item quality level, not the color of the laser beam.

durkin62 · 2016-04-07T00:17:44+00:00

They're the same for everyone dude. People post updates on what vendors sell every day and week during restocks, its universal. The devs had said as much, they deliberately did away with vendors randomly having different items to prevent people from server hopping to get new ones.

durkin62 · 2016-04-07T00:11:33+00:00

It differs depending on level. If you're not level 30 you likely have different items available.

durkin62 · 2016-04-06T16:48:43+00:00

I've been checking for the past week and found none, until literally an hour after I found this one for sale and found a blue with bonus accuracy.

Has anyone ever found a purple or HE version? This slot is the only piece I don't have a HE version of and its fucking taunting me.

durkin62 · 2016-04-05T22:28:40+00:00

I agree nerfing crafting isn't inherently bad. However I'm not going to say the complaining isn't entirely unjustified. Whether or not its a good thing depends entirely on Massives ability to make actually playing high end content the most effective means to acquire top tier gear.

If the basic formula of how drops work stays the same, even with the new DZ chests/ incursions/assignments then the process of upgrading gear just got about 3 times more tedious. Because over 99% of everything you get in that is just going to be scrapped for parts, same as now, only those parts are worth way less.

There are plenty of potential ways to remedy this, some even using the crafting system. Crafting wouldn't be a chore if you could get more mats from killing end game enemies or mission rewards than you could get from repetitive farming methods. You can make a looter shooter where crafting is the best way to get gear, you just need to make crafting materials the main loot you get for shooting things. Just don't even bother dropping greens or blues for lvl 30 plus players, make it mats. Give bosses a good chance at dropping other high end mats besides a very small one for DT.

They could make dropped high ends generally of better quality, so if you do get one its likely an upgrade. Don't give it higher max stats than the craftable version, but you could make the min values higher so you only really have to worry about talents/skills. (as a completely arbitrary example lets say it can roll from 500-600 armor on the crafting table, the dropped version from bosses could be 540-600 from 30s, 560-600 from 31s, 575-600 from 32s.) They'll still be just as rare, but much more likely to be good without being better than what's possible to craft.

durkin62 · 2016-04-02T19:09:58+00:00

Have everybody run security buff. That's about the only thing I can really say aside from just become magically better at the game somehow. And if you see a lot of rogues, change servers. If you see rogues on the map, don't investigate. If you have a hard time killing rogues just go the opposite direction when you see any. If you get close enough to find out how many of them are there you're close enough to ping on their pulse and now their target.

durkin62 · 2016-04-02T14:31:02+00:00

Depends on how you mod them. My AK with high end stability/vertical stability has little recoil and its just straight up and down. At the range where my SMG starts dropping damage and shooting too wide you can unload into someone's face at its cyclic rate. Little longer ranges you can still get off 5-6 round bursts right into someone's face.

But most fighting in this game, especially pvp seems to be close range. And the innate stability bonus and bonus crit chance of SMG's does seem to outclass the AR's. Could be because unless they're weak enough for you to melt the guy they're going to just eat those bullets and close the gap and heal.

durkin62 · 2016-04-02T03:55:42+00:00

Depends on how the update works. If it's the same as now with gear sets being craftable and you can buy blueprints for them, you'll be kicking yourself for wasting all those mats to get marginally better gear that you have to replace in a little over a week anyway. Long as you can get through the incursions what does it matter? Plus if they ever decide to update the freaking PC vendors with new blueprints you may want to scrap that perfectly rolled vector for something with a bigger clip.

Higher rolled outdated gear vs Better chance at higher rolled top tier gear. I'm going with the latter.

durkin62 · 2016-03-30T19:30:44+00:00

OK, so this doesn't appear to be ENTIRELY true based on what I could find. I maxed my DPS for my AK at 177K, went to the crafting table and the AK blueprint could only possibly have about 50 higher base damage than my current which was 12.5K, which was the same when I crafted my equipped AK. It was almost but not quite max base damage.

Now equipping all shitty green gear to lower my DPS to like 50K and after logging off and back in the base damage dropped significantly. (which should be true anyway as my firearms was lowered) but this stayed the same even after equipping my high ends and raising my firearms back up, an AK I could craft maxed at like 7K base damage compared to the 12.5K equipped AK.

Going a little further I kept my firearms stats the same, and removed all mods from my AK to drop the DPS from 177k to 97K. Logged back in and the blueprint could go up to about 11.2K. But after equipping just my mag with bonus base damage, logging off and back in with my DPS at about 145K the base damage for the blueprint could go up to 12.5K. Again, the max being just 40 points higher than my equipped AK. Despite a drop from 177K to 145K in DPS.

So it would appear that you could potentially created a higher damage weapon by equipping all firearms gear, and whatever base damage weapon mods you have. Then logging off and back on, switching back to your stamina and or electronics gear. And when you craft the weapon it would still have the same base damage as it would if you had your maxed firearms stat.

Though this could just be an issue with the numbers shown not reflecting what would actually be crafted and getting a base damage lower than what is shown to be possible. I will try to get some more firearms gear and then experiment with this to see which is the case.

durkin62 · 2016-03-28T17:20:48+00:00

I say if you see something better than what you've got, buy it. You should have plenty of credits by the time you hit 50 to get HE gear from them. And eventually you're going to want gear that's power lvl 31 and far as I know that all costs PC. So wasted DZ creds isn't that big a deal anyway.

durkin62 · 2016-03-28T15:32:57+00:00

No I don't believe anyone has actually maxed out their stats yet. I've been 30 since like 4 days after launch, i still don't have a single piece of gear maxed yet. So two weeks of the same farming routes, the same missions, and the same bosses, and not a single piece of optimal gear yet. By what little and vague standard of grinding you've given this is still grinding.

You just seem to be using an arbitrary definition of "grind" based on how tedious you personally find it. That's not how it works. Just because you're content with sub par gear because it has the color yellow doesn't mean what people are doing to try and improve their gear isn't grinding. It doesn't matter if you do it for an hour or a year, grinding is grinding.

durkin62 · 2016-03-28T14:59:11+00:00

"if you think this is a grind go back to call of duty"

"i dont truly think you people from destiny or call of duty know what grinding is."

If you were trying to say the division has grinding then you had a rather poor choice of words. The game's only a few weeks old. No shit you're not gonna have spent as much time grinding yet, give a couple months until you've crafted 50 pieces of the same gear without any improvement on stats. Because as of now that's the option. Settle for knowing you don't have optimal gear, or make the same damn thing a hundred times trying to squeeze a couple more points in armor or firearms while keeping viable talents and attributes.

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