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    High skill gear?

    I wanted to try out a skill based build but all the gears I've been collecting gives between 100 to 200+ skill points. I"ve seen youtube videos of players with gear that gives them 1000 or more skill points, where do you get these from? Are they super rare?

    Right now my build is based on explosive and it works ok, but just want to try something else. Thanks.
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    Kwoung's Avatar Senior Member
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    Originally Posted by Calibigbearbear Go to original post
    I wanted to try out a skill based build but all the gears I've been collecting gives between 100 to 200+ skill points. I"ve seen youtube videos of players with gear that gives them 1000 or more skill points, where do you get these from? Are they super rare?

    Right now my build is based on explosive and it works ok, but just want to try something else. Thanks.
    Here is a handy chart someone put together which shows the possible max rolls of each gear slot. If you get something considered "very good" on that chart, consider it a gift from the gods, even "pretty good" is rare for most stats.

    https://imgur.com/a/JZe4TPa
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    Skill builds at the moment take a lot of work to put together as there isnt a lot of great gear out there.
    I've seen players running skill builds who are very effective but i've not seen their builds. I've tried putting ones together but i'm not getting close to the cooldown times and damage amounts that others are putting out.

    After the patch is should be easier.

    The highest piece I have gives me 776 skill and I have a few in the 600 range as well but they dont come with good cooldown stats so everything is a minute plus.
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    I haven't really built a skill build it takes too much gun damage away. I tried to up my skill power so I can use lower end mods and the skills become at least slightly viable because I am getting bored of using DPS builds. I am level 29 and I kept my lower requiring skill mods from when I got them unitl now. I have 2 extra seeker mines and 2.7% extra damage my skill power is less than 400 and with the 2 extra mines and 2.7% damage they still do not drop a level 29 red. I could add about 60% explosive damage but then I'd lose about 30% damage to elites and lot of weapon damage as well.

    I should have bought an older Call of Duty with a campaign.
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    I don't think the 1000+ SP gear items exist anymore, so if you kept hold of one from when they did then kudos to you. I might be wrong on that but in 380 hours the most SP I've ever seen on an item was 700. As others have said, Skill Builds take a long time to put together; you can't just throw them together like you can with a gun build and expect good results. The good results come but they come very slowly.
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