I tried something today. I just ran around the DZ and only killed stuff without looting any HE's at all. Since i only look for a certain kind of weapon i just ignored the fact that i could extract some loot to break it down again. But why bother looting and extracting? Normally i would be shot in the back by players or groups if I have the big yellow crosshair on my ***. But this time i was running around and only got into 1 fight when somebody thought i would run for the supply drop.
It really makes the whole DZ a lot smoother to play when you minimize the incentive to be shot.
when you want crafting mats you can just farm police academy on hard in 4min legit (2-3min if you exploit the door). Thats gives you more mats per time without bothering to sit around an extraction site for 90sec only to get some crappy loot back home.
But keep in mind that this is the opinion of a solo player. i know group players will disagree with me.
who else does use the DZ like that?
do you also think the DZ loot isn't even worth looting it?
I farm the DZ for deconstruction materials.
I pick up only blue or better items of the type I need for deconstructing.
If I kill an Elite and get a gold drop and there are others around me, I pick up the funds and PC and leave the item to pick up later when no one else is around.
Since I am only after deconstruction materials, 99.9% of the time, I am left alone.
On the rare occasions when I am killed by another player, the stuff I have dropped isn't worth them taking, and I can run back and pick up the items since they have left them behind. If they are lucky, they might get 2000 DZ and 1 key, but usually they get minimal funds and no keys.
Each time I loot a key, I look for a box to open, this way, most of the time I do not even have any keys on me for them to loot.
If the same players are running around in the area with me, and they have killed me once, they already know that what I am carrying is not worth them killing me for and getting Rogue status, attracting the attention of others, so they leave me alone.
This may be why, in my 300+ hours in the game, I have only seen one confirmed hacker in the zone and that player was using a teleport hack to get to Div Tech boxes to open them.
I have made myself a worthless target to Rogues and PvP players, so they pretty much leave me alone.
Since all my friends left me for other games i run DZ solo and pull 60 item per night. I run it for mats . Lower level DZ is ok for HE mods and i did get a nomad chest from a LV 31 boss last night. As for extraction or rogues. this is what i do . if there alot of ppl in area i dont call for extraction. I sit back and bum of someone else. If its one dude i will run in and load my loot at the same time as his.or wait til he done and runs off then i load mine. also one thing i hate when some one calls an extraction they call it in the middle of the room. you have call it near a cover where you can hide and run out to it quick. also i run to higher lv zone to call it in since most ppl will not go rogue there cause of the higher lv mobs.