seriously, been tracking bosses killed since patch hit and so far I have killed 257 bosses all in DZ5-6(any killed outside 32DZ I didn't bother counting) and the resulting loot included 1 police mk17 204 craptastic sniper rifle, and 1 decent set of 214 striker gloves, the entire time spent killing these bosses I had 224% scavenging, and before anyone asks yes I checked each mod to make sure it wasn't item level 32. I'm honestly amazed the dev's thought they buffed looting in the DZ with the update. so far I am wearing 2 pieces of crafted gear, 2 pieces I got from incursion, and 2 nomad set pieces I bought from the vendor, and 3 crafted weapons... so pretty much nothing changed from pre patch except now its even more of a pita to get crafting materials because I have to farm in the player infested cesspool called the DZ instead of using material nodes around map to get 15-20 HE materials per type per hour.
in all honesty with drop rates like this I don't blame all the people for using exploits to gear up/craft their gear just they can enjoy a game they paid for. we were told they wanted to steer us away from crafting/vendor gear as our primary way of outfitting out character and at the same time they nerfed crafting/conversion rates. but all in all they lied, the chances to find an endgame item now are significantly lower than pre patch, with the added kicker that crafting is now a huge pain in the ***.
also probably collected like 20 supply drops at least and the best item I found was a 191 nomad gloves with a low firearms roll that was immediately deconstructed.Originally Posted by il DOWN li Go to original post
yup, in the time I finally got 1 204 weapon drop I had already crafted 45 204 weapons just so that I could get a m1a and aug with brutal.Originally Posted by Flofirelit Go to original post
Yep, the DZ was supposed to have "the best gear"... but it never did. The chances of replacing a piece of gear in the DZ are terribly low, I've only found one item, a 163 m1a to replace my purple m1a, since the patch. There are a bunch of drops that are higher level, but all you are getting there are matts. It's the same as before, only the color of the material grind has changed.
Pre patch running a bunch of challenge mode missions for credits to buy weapon blueprints would net you enough gear pieces in those runs to be fully HE equipped once you rolled the weapons the way you wanted them. Then the patch came and new gear came out, but unless you want nomad pieces, it's almost entirely found in the incursion, which most people just cheated and got that stuff within days. The DZ is still for farming matts for blueprints, grinding div tech to roll the weapons dozens of times to get a good roll, then waiting a week for a new blueprint.
Most of the game world was irrelevant after rank 30, and now it's just useless that there are no world bosses to find and materials got SEVERELY nerfed. If I turn the wrong way less than 30m from a mission area I will have no idea where I am in the light zone but I could draw you a map of the dark zone complete with div tech locations, safehouses, bosses (with names), and so on....
The dark zone is such a looooooong booooooooring grind area, punctuated by people who most likely cheated to get super high level gear quickly ganking you and setting your progress back. Nothing drops that's worthwhile... I mean, there's gear score 240 stuff in the incursion reward pool but we can't even get 204 score stuff to drop in the dz more than once a weekish. I missed my chance to finally get a good m1a HE blueprint because I wasn't dz 75 last week, how long do you think it will be before I get that chance again? Months? Because even if I got one to drop, there's still so much RNG in the drop that it might just be terrible
All I do is farm dz 6 and I've never seen a 200+ item drop, didn't even think it happens
Funny how they nerfed crafting for the outsid of having players play the game only to give terrible drop rates on top of terrible rng for the utility of those drops when they do occur.
Phoenix credits are useless, so much **** needs to be adjusted in this game