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  1. #1
    tomblin32's Avatar Junior Member
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    End Game Loot

    Being around 510 gear scored, and running content for hours and only getting gear at 490ish level to me is game breaking.
    I haven't played in days because the grind isnt worth the effort. In Tier 4 i had fun looking for good loot. I'll try the game again in a few patches maybe.
    What do you guys do for fun endgame? SSDD?
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    MerlinMMXX's Avatar Senior Member
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    Tier 4 felt substantially more rewarding. I'm going to create a new character over the weekend and stay below T5, at least 100% high ends will have a chance to be an upgrade, not the 0.5% chance I'm seeing now.

    Massive really dropped the ball again with this one.

    If the looting had been like it is in T5 in the preceding tiers, no one would be any the wiser.

    But instead they change it exponentially and don't even list the change in the patch notes.....

    Beggars belief really.
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    JerginsSoft's Avatar Senior Member
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    Its not the loot, per se, its what you can and cannot do with it.

    You can't build a tank, armor is worthless to even try to spec into.

    You can't build an offensive skill build, the skills are far too weak for it. Maybe a healer... maybe.

    The only thing that you may be able to build is a dps class. That, at least, is somewhat viable until you get into higher challenge content.

    Even gearsets are, honestly, pretty worthless right now, and are not worth grinding for... at all...

    I played div 1 for a very long time when there was frankly no reason to. The gear was sub par, the harder content was impossible at times, and they just didn't make it worth your time. Why did I keep going? The core game was fun. The setting was superb. And mostly, the alts. Making alts and experiencing everything up to the "endgame" was fun enough that I did it a total of 4 times.

    I'll probably do that again here. Everyone else will drop away after a month or so because they'll realize there's only one viable build, and the gear is so underwhelming, and there is no point to grinding out the same stuff over and over again. Don't get me wrong, they completely outdid themselves with the world, activities, and loot generosity. Its 100% better than the launch of Division 1. The problem is there just isn't a meaningful goal at the end. Everything you strive to get feels so weak and underwhelming at times.

    My turret exists for 2 reasons; to crowd control, or to be a football for some guy running around with a sledgehammer.

    My drone does ok with healing when I can run away and hide behind a car, but if I want to send out a swarm of hornets to chase down the guy who just tore half my face off with 2 shotgun pellets from 6 miles away, he'll just bat his hand at it, turn his shotgun sideways, and snipe my pinky toe while sprinting faster than Usain Bolt, hitting me through 3 walls, a concrete parking barrier, and the car I'm hiding behind.

    Doesn't seem like my pokeball or paper airplane can lock onto people with any regularity, and even if it does, they don't really notice it.

    Only thing I haven't tried yet is the shield. After the hive thing, I just kinda didn't feel like it. Doesn't matter, anyway. If I wanted to mod any of them, I'd have to forsake the only useful stats the game has right now, for little or no gain towards those skills.

    People will eventually find it out but as soon as I hit level 30, I began to notice it. There is only one really viable way to play, and that's dps. Eventually the Division 1 got past that, but it will happen here, too. People will get bored of any real lack of build diversity and just... move along.

    I'll still play, well after there's any incentive to do so, but I think I'll be the exception, not the norm.
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    Meh I just have certain guaranteed high score farming runs that are in the open world. Better than DZ loot that’s for sure.

    Armour is totally worth spec’ing into. Throw 300k armour on a sharpshooter build rockin the M1A with unstoppable force on the chest and suddenly you’re hitting for +125k, with patience and armour regen on the knees and that armour repairing talent as your active stat on main weapon... you get a ton of sustain that buffs your already considerable damage. There’s builds out there theyre all just hidden under a mountain of crap rolled gear pieces and stat mumbo jumbo among the brands. Also the skills suck.
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    Gear Score is just a Number. 500GS doesn´t mean u deal automatically more Damage or have more HP or Armor.

    Its simply just a Number.

    Yesterday.

    Chatterbox 490 GS 14.5 Damage per Bullet had a stupid Idea to upgrade it to 500 boom 11.6 Damage per Bullet. U see GearScore is just a Number. Its actually the worst system in a looter Shooter.

    Its not Like Destiny 2 or Anthem u become more powerful with Higher Gear Score.
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    You realize there's a cap right? You should be working on perfecting your gear sets and making variations for them to be raid ready. And set farming. Tp, hardwired. Working on your specializations. The loot cap is 490-500 and up recalibrate to get above. There's so much for you to still do. Don't be lazy and blame the game because you don't wanna farm out optimal things.
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