I've been running General Assembly, solo in hard mode, the past few days to feed equipment to an alt.
It takes me 13 minutes to run it solo and at a minimum I get 4 purple and 2 yellow items. Normally there are a few blue drops as well but those seem to be random. The 2 yellows and 4 purples happen every time.
I'm sure it would be better to run lexington in a group (faster) on challenging. But with finding a group and wait times for others in the group I think solo at the UN might be my best route. I'm just looking for what works for others.
While that might be the most fun way. I'm not sure it is the most efficient way. Unless you are roguing it up bigtime to get 9 pieces at once. There is actually a lot of dead time in the DZ spent running toward purple fists that only turn white as you approach them. Then there is the couple of minutes you spend at the extraction.Originally Posted by Crazydude87 Go to original post
If everything is good, you don't run into any rogues, you land on a server where the competition isn't so fierce that you are pulling one boss every 15 minutes, then yes it would be more efficient.
currently only viable place is the DZ sadly using keys to increase your number of HE per hour. I usually can get 27-30 HE items extracted in 20-25mins. rather annoying imo though prior to 1.1 I would farm material nodes around the PVE map and in 1 hour would walk away with 18-20HE of each type of material, now because of conversion nerfs I get max of around 7-8 per material type. basically makes only 1 viable option anymore for farming HE material and that is the DZ while before you could either farm DZ or farm PVE map.Originally Posted by Kumacho1957 Go to original post
that seems rather slow. I can clear about 7 bosses + 9 chests in less than 20 minutes easy including extraction times and detours to pickup Div tech along my route in DZ5-6.Originally Posted by Kumacho1957 Go to original post
That's why you got to try and assess dominance over your farming route. Show those randoms who's bosses these are.Originally Posted by Kumacho1957 Go to original post
3x 9bag loots of HE's from DZ, deconstruct from Extracted stash, rinse/repeat. No use in keeping items since they're all 160ish gear level and a few crappy 182 GS items.
Pre crafting nerf tools were hardest to get, post crafting nerf weapon parts are hardest to get.
Fabrics are still easiest and electronics are high as well. Greens and blues are SUCH A FREAKING waste of time:
From my adventure of going from lvl 0 to 30 on new character and breaking down EVERY SINGLE ITEM I EVER ENCOUNTERED or got as reward = I didn't get a single HE crafting material breaking EVERYTHING down from 0 to 30. Post 30... whties, greens and blue deconstructables are... immeasurably useless.
They should implement pre-nerf crafting costs. No reason not to. They only nerfed crafting costs because of people farming bullet king/hornet etc.
But even worse: After the craft nerf thousands of players exploited rewards vendor to get 999 of each color/variety of crafting mats, 1 bil credits and 999 dz tech... guess what. None of them received ban.