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    Could we get a comment from the Devs here...

    I have seen a lot of people posting about rewards for Challenging or Heroic missions, but I have yet to see any of the Devs reply to one of the threads. Maybe it is buried under the hundreds of fuming player's posts, but I just have not seen it. Could we please get a reason as to why Heroic missions were left out as being an option for 515 gear? I, like most of the rest of the community, do not understand why this would not have also been added. You have essentially pissed off the majority of the community by locking the current "best gear" behind the DZ. This could have easily been avoided by also including Heroic PVE content.. I get that the DZ is currently a major bust and you want to draw more people there, but your logic just doesn't make sense.. I also understand that this will be "temporary" as the "best" gear will come from the raid, but that is a month away now with the delay.. How many players are you going to lose in that month? If you added 515 gear to both DZ and Heroic, you would still get more people to go to the DZ.. Anyone who has done a Heroic mission and also gone to the DZ knows that the DZ is an easier place to farm. This would still entice PVE players to go to the DZ, but also gives them the option of gaining that gear through the very difficult Heroic missions. When you couple this with your new two bracket DZ system, I think that would more than help populate the DZ. At the very least it would have helped.. This would have made both PVE and PVP players happy, and the current outcry would have been avoided..

    I will admit, I do not like the Dark Zone.. I never have been a big fan, but it isn't because of the overall concept. I simply just do not have a consistent group of people that I play with that want to go. I have gone in before with a full group and it can be fun, so I get why the PVP people are wanting more than the current setup. The way your trying to draw more people in though is likely going to really hurt the future of the game. Your going to lose a lot of your players, when you could have avoided it by adding one simple thing.

    So I guess what I would like, along with almost everyone else, is an explanation as to why this was done? Thanks in advance for your time in responding.
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    The devs added another statement about higher GS (TBA) dropping in the raid, so DZ will not have the highest gear.
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    "I also understand that this will be "temporary" as the "best" gear will come from the raid, but that is a month away now with the delay.. How many players are you going to lose in that month?"

    Ya I saw that.. Which is why I included it in my post...
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    Originally Posted by Shanedog2005 Go to original post
    "I also understand that this will be "temporary" as the "best" gear will come from the raid, but that is a month away now with the delay.. How many players are you going to lose in that month?"

    Ya I saw that.. Which is why I included it in my post...
    Who stated that the gear score increase will be before the Raids?

    It might coincide with the new content drop, which includes the Raids. Gear score increases usually only happen with new content drops.
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    Originally Posted by Shanedog2005 Go to original post
    "I also understand that this will be "temporary" as the "best" gear will come from the raid, but that is a month away now with the delay.. How many players are you going to lose in that month?"

    Ya I saw that.. Which is why I included it in my post...
    And you MUST raid, that is the same crap, just in a different mode. Is it really so hard to stand by the promise that you can get everything everywhere ? And i am not talking about a tiny token chance or the FPC. Yes, you can tweak some numbers about amounts and maybe roll distribution, but why do we need all those restrictions, 99.99% of the gear currently dropping is already vendor trash due to the insanity of RNG on top of RNG, that you can't and will not be able to recal into anything useful.
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    Originally Posted by Diedel443 Go to original post
    And you MUST raid, that is the same crap, just in a different mode. Is it really so hard to stand by the promise that you can get everything everywhere ? And i am not talking about a tiny token chance or the FPC. Yes, you can tweak some numbers about amounts and maybe roll distribution, but why do we need all those restrictions, 99.99% of the gear currently dropping is already vendor trash due to the insanity of RNG on top of RNG, that you can't and will not be able to recal into anything useful.
    Is it really so hard to MAN UP?
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    I guess I was under the impression that the PVP changes (515 gear dropping in DZ) would be happening before the release of the Raid.. Regardless, my question still remains.. Why not have Heroic missions and DZ drop the same level of gear? The current system does not reward for playing higher difficulty missions (other than dropping more of the same terrible gear). They could kill two birds with one stone here.. They could appease the entire community by increasing the rewards to Heroic missions, and eliminate the current outcry behind locking 515 gear behind DZ.. How does that not make sense to everyone?
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    Originally Posted by Shanedog2005 Go to original post
    They could appease the entire community....
    And how do they do that by locking the best gear behind PvE exclusive content?
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    Originally Posted by R1_Stealth Go to original post
    Is it really so hard to MAN UP?
    You know I’ve killed a few people, and been killed in the DZ. I’ve never been overly happy or overly upset. There’s no man up to it what so ever, it’s all RNG. Stop fooling yourself... You are not skilled at this game. You have better stuff. If you don’t have better stuff you die. Every time I see the word “skill” I see read “more time played” or “better RNG”

    I love the game, but let’s not make it something it’s not...
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    "And how do they do that by locking the best gear behind PvE exclusive content?"

    I never mentioned locking gear behind PVE content.. actually quite the opposite.. I think there should always be at least 1 way to farm the highest gear for each.. I mentioned matching the 515 gear drops coming to DZ by adding the same to Heroic missions.. When the raid finally does release, they could match the GS level by adding similar rewards to the ODZ.. Then just add unique gear/weapons for both the raid and ODZ.. It really isn't all that difficult to make each side happy..
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