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    No more Gobal events? Bought in the last sale and cant do some things in end game

    I bought it in the last sale, I loved the game, but it's very complicated to get end game items. If only they would come back with the global events and add a rotation for those events to happen, it would be wonderful. They're forcing people to migrate to the second game and the way they're trying to do it is the wrong one of all. Many people still like and are satisfied with The Division 1. I do not even want to migrate, it's only been 1 month since I bought the D1. I hope they come back with the global events and do not let the game die completely. I'm sure it's easy for them to leave events on a weekly or monthly rotation. It would give new airs to the game and the novices could make the contents of the events, releasing masks and gear up.
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    I've been repeatedly asking the same thing. I don't believe it's a dead game. About 1/3 of my friends from Division 1 have gone back to playing it; I had a few players in my survival game yesterday. Some people say D2 is simply D1.5, but I argue that they are vastly different games. The removal of main stat attributes, the changes to skills, and the DZ, are major diversions from the 1st game (that I don't like btw).

    You will likely be discouraged if you try to farm for classified gear outside of a global event because the drop rates are so low and the item pool is so large. I want to finish AB and FC but no way I'm going to farm bosses that drop classified gear at 3%; I'm waiting for the GE
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    resistance is best place to farm classified sets i always farmed there alone best % ratio best place
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    Originally Posted by london_whale Go to original post
    You will likely be discouraged if you try to farm for classified gear outside of a global event because the drop rates are so low and the item pool is so large. I want to finish AB and FC but no way I'm going to farm bosses that drop classified gear at 3%; I'm waiting for the GE
    I have finished up 4 more gear sets on my 2nd account since you posted your other post about drop rates. All I have done is LZ boss runs, Survival, and a little Underground. Sadly, my favorite (D3) just will not seem to drop. It is missing 2 pieces, and 2 other gear sets are now only missing one then I'll have all 14 on this character. Mind you they aren't the best rolls, etc but they will be complete. I finished up Striker this weekend then spent nearly 3k Div Tech to get it rolled and maxed out so now it is ready to go.

    I like the boss runs. They are easy and even a poorly equipped and new player can do these since it is generally one boss, surrounded by 3-8 regular enemies. I also agree with Veghvaald that Resistance is a very good (perhaps the best) way to farm Classy gear outside of GE's.
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    Seems to me these are people having played 3 years with over 2000 hrs in claiming Resistance is best way to get good drops. Hell, I saw the same thing claimed on a YT guide for getting The House SMG, but the player obviously already had great gear and weapons because he was playing it solo and taking on all high end yellow elites with tons of armor bars, shooting at close range and easily killing them.

    So let's put things in perspective here, in reality, it seems in my experience so far, to get good drops, you need 1, to be on a high World Tier status, 2, very advanced weapons and gear, and 3, a hell of a lot of luck even then. Even when I dabbled into replaying Grand Central Station on WT5 Legendary, the dozen or so drops I got from the first two groups of enemies until one no-clipped into a wall breaking further progression, were mediocre at best and actually substantially lower in gear rating than what I had.

    So this tells me irregardless where you get your drops, without the multiplier of Global Events, once you get to gear rating 250 or so, they are generally going to be lower rated. At best you're going to see better set pieces. This means the game is far more of a grind without GEs any way you look at it. I can see how those whom sold their souls to the game, putting in all their leisure time and now have decent stuff already, would like playing it, because that's the only way you can enjoy all it's features, but to the average gamer, it comes off as an annoying, repetitious grind.

    The game just has some horrible design choices. Lets say you FINALLY get all pieces of a pretty good set, and now want to max it. As Bambihunter just admitted, some sets can take a LONG time to fully acquire. Furthermore, unless you have that GE multiplier, chances are you're going to have to spend quite a bit to max it. Worse yet, the horrible crafting, optimizing, etc systems won't even tell you what exact stats it will have after dumping all those resources, Div Tech, and credits into it. Such things should NEVER be left to luck, especially after a very long grind to get them.

    It's a shame because the level design, graphics, atmosphere, and even story are pretty immersive, but the RPG mechanics, the thing that everything hinges on in a deep RPG game, is just a crapfest. They put you on a ridiculous wild goose chase, then have no clue how to reward you for it once you finally find what you'e looking for.
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    Originally Posted by Frag_Maniac Go to original post
    Seems to me these are people having played 3 years with over 2000 hrs in claiming Resistance is best way to get good drops. Hell, I saw the same thing claimed on a YT guide for getting The House SMG, but the player obviously already had great gear and weapons because he was playing it solo and taking on all high end yellow elites with tons of armor bars, shooting at close range and easily killing them.

    So let's put things in perspective here, in reality, it seems in my experience so far, to get good drops, you need 1, to be on a high World Tier status, 2, very advanced weapons and gear, and 3, a hell of a lot of luck even then. Even when I dabbled into replaying Grand Central Station on WT5 Legendary, the dozen or so drops I got from the first two groups of enemies until one no-clipped into a wall breaking further progression, were mediocre at best and actually substantially lower in gear rating than what I had.

    So this tells me irregardless where you get your drops, without the multiplier of Global Events, once you get to gear rating 250 or so, they are generally going to be lower rated. At best you're going to see better set pieces. This means the game is far more of a grind without GEs any way you look at it. I can see how those whom sold their souls to the game, putting in all their leisure time and now have decent stuff already, would like playing it, because that's the only way you can enjoy all it's features, but to the average gamer, it comes off as an annoying, repetitious grind.

    The game just has some horrible design choices. Lets say you FINALLY get all pieces of a pretty good set, and now want to max it. As Bambihunter just admitted, some sets can take a LONG time to fully acquire. Furthermore, unless you have that GE multiplier, chances are you're going to have to spend quite a bit to max it. Worse yet, the horrible crafting, optimizing, etc systems won't even tell you what exact stats it will have after dumping all those resources, Div Tech, and credits into it. Such things should NEVER be left to luck, especially after a very long grind to get them.

    It's a shame because the level design, graphics, atmosphere, and even story are pretty immersive, but the RPG mechanics, the thing that everything hinges on in a deep RPG game, is just a crapfest. They put you on a ridiculous wild goose chase, then have no clue how to reward you for it once you finally find what you'e looking for.
    This will probably be my last direct post to you Frag. Let me just say I have repeatedly tried to correct assumptions, given tips earned by hours of game play, and you mostly just ignore them and keep on complaining about the game. All of us that has played the game very long at all can tell that you haven't tried many of the things we are saying. This is glaringly obvious surrounding the WT levels. Instead of playing challenging at lower WT levels, which will mostly yield lower tier stuff, play on the highest you can. Even if it means lowering the difficulty.

    Do this. Tonight, log in after downloading a LZ boss map. Run the map completely at the highest WT you can (which if you are 250, it'll be WT4). You can do this once every 4 hours as mentioned elsewhere. One single run, should yield enough 256+ gear to enable you to raise the WT level during the run. I have perhaps had a single run where I didn't get either exotic or classy (these were all done on WT5 however), but it hasn't happened more than a time or two in hundred(s) of runs. Honestly, a person with WT0 gear should be able to take out the LZ bosses with a little strategy, so not hard at all. They reset every 4 actual hours (not game play). Once you get the map memorized, you can run it in ~30 minutes or so.

    Then, hopefully you'll have enough to play Resistance in WT5. You may want to watch a video or go in with someone who has done it before. Or, you could run it on lower WT, just know your drops are going to be lower too... I ran several wave ~10-12 runs with literally 'just to WT5" thrown together gear without issue, but I could run it in my sleep so you may not fare as well and without knowing the loot locations it will be admittedly harder. Other than the DZ, the Resistance is the only other part of the game that I'll be perfectly happy if I never see again.
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    Last post because I'M not listening?

    I've said before you only hear yourself, and now I have proof. I only said the game gets stagnant AT the 250 gear rating. I never said I was STILL at that level. I'm like 267 now, and stated it before.

    Maybe get up to speed with what the person you're claiming to try to help is saying, instead of only hearing yourself when you claim I'm not listening to YOU enough.

    JEEZ!
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    OK. I am done. I have tried as long as I could...
    *ignored*
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    Originally Posted by Bambihunter1971 Go to original post
    OK. I am done. I have tried as long as I could...
    *ignored*
    No harm done at all, you were getting annoying and childishly hypocritical and self righteous. I see no loss in being ignored by someone ignorant enough to spend over 2000 hrs on such a poorly designed game. LOL
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    Originally Posted by Frag_Maniac Go to original post
    The game just has some horrible design choices. Lets say you FINALLY get all pieces of a pretty good set, and now want to max it. As Bambihunter just admitted, some sets can take a LONG time to fully acquire. Furthermore, unless you have that GE multiplier, chances are you're going to have to spend quite a bit to max it. Worse yet, the horrible crafting, optimizing, etc systems won't even tell you what exact stats it will have after dumping all those resources, Div Tech, and credits into it. Such things should NEVER be left to luck, especially after a very long grind to get them.
    At least its not like item enchanting in some of the old RPGs, where you had to hold a breath because more you enchanted items, more likely they broke in a next roll. You can not lose items in The Division´s optimization table at least :P
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