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    The DZ grind: Any tips?

    I'm trying to lvl in the dark zone, which is going okay. Gone from 50-63 the last 3 days, taken loads of hours.
    What seems like it will become troublesome is darkzone funds. In this time I've made about 280k of them. Considering how much time I've spent and how much I've killed, that aint much.
    Any ideas of how to increase them? I've noticed you get about the same in dz 01 as 06 (which is stupid) and I solely play dz05-06 as it gives you a very small chance of aet items also.
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    Originally Posted by Faffnerz Go to original post
    I've noticed you get about the same in dz 01 as 06 (which is stupid)
    This is indeed stupid. DZ XP should be calculated based on NPC level and player rank difference.
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    I am killing everything I see atm, usually that incluees other players also. Chests give you 1100 last time I looked. Sadly, too few of the enemies drop funds.
    They've really made this an insane grind, considering new items each week so if you want them all that's a lot of dz. And nothing good drops there. Ever.
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    Get a group and go manhunt. Regardless of what people on this forum think, the best way is to get a group of 6-8 people and form 2 rogue groups. Usually we've done it by going around as a group of 4 and then picking up 2-4 others who seem to want to go rogue too. Manhunt gives you around 10k each time, and if you got a large group you shouldn't die.
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    Xp aside. Perceptive talent on kneepads works for dz funds.
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    Getting gear with Increased XP helps. Try stacking multiple pieces with Increased XP on it, and that should let you level up pretty quickly.

    Also - playing with friends in the DZ helps increase your XP efficiency.

    Finally - you'll want to stay in the lower DZ areas; more enemies there, and the XP differences between DZ01 AND DZ06 are almost negligible.

    So farming more lower level enemies = better than farming fewer, higher level enemies.
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