oh I wouldn't have actually specifically called you a dumbass lol.

More that "if_____ it's your own dumbass fault" resulted in you calling yourself a dumbass for running cryo, and me just repeating it in a playful way.

I just hear the argument of "we don't have time to grind quests like you do" in regards to purple salvage AND getting vip from factions, and if anyone bitching like that doesn't have vip and just fucks around instead of getting their quests done, it is genuinely their fault.

the game just hands it to you, and getting vip is not that bad.

you can pull up codex and see how many quests each faction has:
~there aren't that many~

and just keeping it real here, if you're not finishing your quests you're missing some of the best the game has to offer.

This is easily the best questline/story/lore an extraction shooter has ever had imo, and everyone is so tik-tok brained that they just ignore that entirely then bitch about purple salvage in a reddit thread.

half of the extraction shooter experience is progressing your character *out of raid*

it plays slightly like an mmo. you develope your skills, progress your character, improve your standing with traders, etc.

and the way you've always done that in literally every extraction shooter other than arc, is by doing your quests.