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Just wondering as in the many hours ive put in, all the mission reruns and dark zone farming. I have had one high end and it was a crap shotgun after the 1.0.2 patch I barely get purples many blues and greens but not had a high end since. All I hear is how other people have great drop rates.
Im level 30 / dz 30 and always runnning hard/chal modes but getting rubbish gear. 175% scav.
I do like the game but having done everything it would be nice to get rewarded for re-running missions and downing named bosses but getting bored now.....
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I reached endgame having cleared the entire PvE world first (missions, side missions, encounters and all intel) under the impression that the best was yet to come -- that all of the best action and gear was to be found (or stolen) in the Dark Zone. In fact, having spent 42 ranks running +150% scavenging, I found just one high end which was inferior to the purple I had. Even after the patch which improved rank 30 chests to drop purples instead of blues and key chests which have a chance to drop golds, combined with my scavenging stat, I found crap purples and that's it.
In the end I came to the conclusion that the best gear isn't found in the Dark Zone. Instead we should farm named bosses or Challenging missions to build up PC for blueprints. Disappointing and repetitive -- I can only do Lexington so many times before Larae drives me insane.
I've now swapped out my knee pads (those alone gave me +93% scavenging) for a high end I had to farm Lexington for to CRAFT, and that gave me the actually useful damage to elites attribute.
The Dark Zone feels rather pointless at this point. There are more rogues now thanks to the patch, meaning solo gear hunters are wasting their time on two fronts, and there's no point in going rogue myself (unless I suddenly want to become a troll) because nobody has any good gear themselves. The open world is equally as pointless since named bosses were removed, and all that's left is to repeat the same missions over and over and over again...
I'm worried that incoming DLC won't be enough to hold my attention for much longer.
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Last patch notes say they've increased high end drop rates in the DZ but nothing for PVE as of yet.
I genuinly hope this changes and they add PVE content soon or I'll end up playing something else within the next month because RNG makes for a sucky game that rewards only those no lifers that put 8+ hours a day into a game.
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I have same "luck". I'm 30/52 and still don't get any HE from DZ after the patch. Same with challenge mode. I'm only got HE for the mission but don't got any from the boss. But I'm found more div techs after this patch.Originally Posted by daddyjam Go to original post
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i am still regularly picking up high ends with scavenging at less than 40%, however my drop rate for HE div tech took a nose dive, so now what i do is when i am farming div tech i run scavenging at around 140% and get quite a few rather than next to none HE div tech and when i am doing challenge's, daily missions and boss farming in DZ swap out my scavenging pads for a pair of other pads which have no scavenging but are rolled to suit my build, they do however have the "perceptive" perk and i don't have a problem for HE weapon, gear and mod drops, probably one every couple of hours or there about's. either scavenging is broken or its actually the perceptive talent that is the trigger for HE drops.. all said though it;s still down to rng so there is no concrete evidence either way other than the amount of high end div tech i pick up with scavenging on.
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