I have my builds set up the way I like them. I have no real desire to go back to farming gear.. for something even harder to find than ever... this may as well be a gear score increase as far as I'm concerned except the new tier is extremely hard to find. I love the idea of 6 piece sets being introduced but I have to find 6 classified pieces for it to work? That just sounds like a painful grind that I'm honestly not up for. I feel like once again all the gear I've farmed over the past few months is obsolete.
I also remember as a player who has been here since launch, there was once a time when there was a huuuuge gap between players who have the time to play 5+ hours per day vs players who only play around 5 hours per week. I see that gap returning, maybe not quite as bad as before but it will only drive more players away from the game.
I think Classified Gear Pieces is a great idea. Even though I have my gear set up as I like, Striker, Tact, Nomad, FireCrest, DeadEYE, Banshee, etc. Pretty much every gear set there is fairly well maxed out on stats I've steered toward. The idea of the possibility of an essentially exotic gear-set piece dropping from a mission gives another level of anticipation from the rewards for completing missions I like running just for the fun of it. Of course, I don't feel the need to have the most topped out gear as soon as it is released. Having that reward potential for doing missions and other activities I enjoy is well...even more enjoyable.
I feel you OP, sucks that once again our gear is basically going to become obsolete, I'm pretty excited for the arrival of 5/6 piece set bonuses and like you don't feel that it should only apply to the Classified Sets which like you mentioned are just going to drive another gap between people who have time to grind and people who can only play every now and then.
As far as I know these Classified Gear set pieces will drop for the weekly events that they will be implementing and then they will not drop in the world until a week or 2 after that I guess as an incentive to participate I don't know.
I will tell you one thing, I am happy that these sets will always roll with the highest possible stats and you can reroll 2 things on them, Diablo 3 does something similar with Primal Ancient Legendary items however these items are incredibly rare. Which when Classified Gear Sets drop in the world I just hope this isn't Barret's Chest all over again were I I have run a mission like 500 times to get just 1 piece of a set to drop.
Don't use Diablo 3 as an example. They don't have PVP to destroy their PVE content like the Division does.Originally Posted by MrFuddyDuddy Go to original post
I don't like how they add the 6pc bonus gear as a ''new rare category'' and slightly powerful which put exotic in a weird place and ''old normal'' gear set useless. I think they should just add 6pc bonus to the normal Gear set and make some New exotic that u can only get it in the global event. And make exotic better.
Exotic now is more like a rare High-End gear, nothing special. Exotic should drop with all max roll stats, armor, attribute and max dmg, bonus roll for gun. It shouldn't exist a ''crap exotic''. Hundred hour farming, it got to be good.
Add 1 more minor attribute for the exotic gear to make it slightly special as a exotic. An extra performance mod slot.
This way, the casual player don't have to farm it over n over again, just have to farm the right stats, attribute and talent, without worrying about the number.
And rework most of the HE gear talent and Some Exotic weapon talent too.
I appreciate that side of the discussion. I admit it will be nice to have some sort of reward left that I don't already have... but I don't think the average player is prepared to grind 100 hours for one of the new 6pc sets. And a casual player who only plays a few hours per week will probably just get frustrated when the hardcores are leagues ahead in a couple of weeks.Originally Posted by seanzadnik Go to original post
This. So this.Originally Posted by vvhorus Go to original post
I do like the idea of the 5 and 6 piece bonus, especially since they seem to really focus the gear set more into its designed purpose. I also like that they have higher stat ranges and can re-roll two things. I don't like that they're "ultra-rare" as that means not dropping a full set ever based on my RNG experience.
They did. You are going to run the same missions over and over again until you can do it blind, but they have green farts that come out of head shots now.Originally Posted by vvhorus Go to original post
Agreed. I mostly play LS and DZ these days with a little farming here and there when i have an idea for a build... I just don't feel up to grinding content I've played a million times to get a better version of a set I've already used... but if I don't I'll probably be at a big disadvantage in the DZOriginally Posted by vvhorus Go to original post