How can my buddy play with me? How do I tell him that you have to put in 1000 hours before you have a decent build and stats...one that would at least be on the same level as mine? Really wondering especially after recent terrible and purple rolls on legendary summit, maybe I should bump the estimate up to 2K or maybe we should just find a new game? Any recommendations for something similar without the no life time commitment?
I recently did a test to see how long it takes from scratch to a good build. About 30-40 hours from level 1 to a heroic capable build. Cut that in half if you boost to WONY.
If you wonder how, check the front page of this forum for a thread called "New to the division.....some questions" and read up on a lot of things for new players.
Or you can skip straight to the build: https://youtu.be/viQwCj-LMEk
Frankly I'm a little surprised people still think it takes 1000
Hours to get good. Maybe it takes that long if you want to run legendary while watching Netflix on your second screen.
TLDR: Equip literally any 6 pieces of gear with skill tier. Turret/drone. Any spec.
This subject was exhausted many times before.
If your buddy can access the summit than means level 40 already.
... and you could drop the arrogance and pretense, and help your buddy to get some good gear with targeted loot in, you guessed it, the summit.
Hope it's not an imaginary friend.
Nice variant on "asking for a friend".
1. It doesn't take a "no life" commitment to play this game and build a character that is quite strong.
2. The fairy tale about the purple loot in legendary summitt.... is either a complete fabrication, or best case is it was from a chest and not an NPS drop or the key chest. It could be a bug, but not likely.
You could also help your friend along by completing missions with him and earning field proficiency caches. You can share the items from the caches you earn while playing with him, thereby giving him equipment with better rolls. You can only share the items from the caches you earn while you are playing together, so any previous caches you might be holding on to will not be shareable.
You can also hold on to your materials for the weekly SHD project and then complete the project while in a session with your friend. This will allow you to share the named item for completing the project and the exotic item you get from the cache. If you have 4 characters that are able to complete the project, you can just logout, change characters, and rejoin your friend and repeat the process. This way you can share 4 exotics and named items per week with your friend. This should speed up the process a bit.
After finishing WONY, you guys can do Summit, setting the items your friend is looking for as targeted loot. I don't recommend setting the same loot as your target. I think it would be more efficient if one of you set your targeted loot as backpacks and the other for chest pieces or whatever gear your friend needs.
I'm not sure if you can buy something from the vendors and share them with your friend. I haven't tried that yet.
It will still take time, but it will speed up the process a little bit. Good luck to you both!!