To solo DZ...tank is the way to go.

Convert your blues and greens now before the update makes everything grindier.
Consolation can buy DZ HE gear at lower level.
The bitching rants will commence now.



This post has been edited by 6so: Apr 6 2016, 08:56 AM

To be fair you can buy DZ HE gear easier but not the really good stuffs that everyone wanted. Win some and lose some.

A little annoyed with them flip flopping the game mechanics so much and furthermore won't know exactly what type of gear supposed to give out during supply drop. Think with enough of people making hoohoohaha over it, they might revise the fixes.

They should have ironed out most of these things by looking at their Beta data or designed a better Beta before the game launch to gauge the nitty gritty side of things.

Before addressing the vanity gear fixes, stash crate capacity, & what not...they need to fix important gameplay glitch like disappearing floor, audio loss, game crashing unexpectedly, refusing to spawn at checkpoints during challenging modes, mission not starting after matchmaking, etc...

Think they meant no div tech needed for the current DZ 50/Level 31 gear anymore because it will be cycled to BoO special vendor. DZ06 vendor will have a new list of Level 31 gear that requires yellow div techs. The problem now is those highly desirable Level 32 gear tied to DZ 75/90. Still a long road to grind. Hardcore players will hit DZ more aggressive now to reach level 90 before incursion event next week.

Pointless to craft the current DZ 31 gear at the moment. Created a new character solely to buy blue gear on the cheap to boost yellow materials stockpile.

Right now more and more level 30 noobs doing challenging mission. Having inadequate stats is one thing but don't run away to hide when you can take an enemy down. Sacrificing myself to bring down a rusher armor, they run back to staircase to get raped by a single armor less shot gunner with healing stations everywhere. The worst part was already told them what to do before at the library with 4 rushers. Damn pathetic...End up single handedly took down Hornet and the gang next round with 3 corpses again whining it's too hard.
A tip if you face Hornet at the bottom level you can skip doing one wave of enemies with Big Guy and you can snipe Hornet easily at the staircase doorway.

The other thing that really annoying is they keep getting in your line of sight but only to burst fire and run away again. At the bare minimum do enough damage so when the next dude to you had the chance to finish the target off.

There was even one time a dude blaming me that I couldn't one shot with my sniper rifle. How our low DPS affected his gameplay. BTW it's beginning of the mission at Lincoln Tunnel. He couldn't make it pass Toll gate before rage quiting.

Now everyone can take a breath and hit DZ with all the more conviction. Now it drops HE gear a bit like Borderlands. All for the better I think.

SMG - Accurate,Brutal,Deadly,Destructive,Ferocious,Vicious,Fierce for me personally.
For DMRs you need Balanced at the minimum.

The other thing to consider also your FSE stats coz to fully unlock the talents you need quite high stamina and electronic numbers which may dictate your play style.

Simple only just make everything yellow..you'll be doing fine.
Think the stats will give you advantages of killing things a tad faster or your skills cool down faster. Even at 65% armor mitigation a good rogue or challenging mission enemies still rekt you like no tomorrow. The good stats just buy you some time to save yourself by using a heal or skill to turn the table around.

They encourage you to face certain named bosses to drop specific gear. The idea is to tone down slot machine crafting and focus on killing named bosses to hit DZ level 75/90 for the Incursion's L32 gear requirements. To a degree this sound cool but practically will it work is another story or somehow somewhere someone finds an exploit to do it easily or way too grindy to hit DZ90.

Curi tulang from work to play Russian Consulate moments ago...met 2 crazy John Rambo who I believe they individually can solo the challenging mission no sweat. The way they took turns to rape 4 rushers and 2 Big Guys like a tornado while myself and the other player just couldn't keep up with them. Think they are running Electronic build because their skills cool down is super quick and there's a talent that cool down skill efficiently with healing. Seeker mine, grenades and healing lit up the screen from 2 of them.

Breakdown of the new armor set.

Check your scavenging numbers and gear that enable enemies to drop more item. My 133% usually gets the pitt named bosses to drop a yellow. Your mileage may vary in terms what you gonna get as some says he can drop M1A but all this while only got Midas, Sidearm and mods.

I had my suspicion that if your crew had low scavenging stat, it can take awhile to see the yellow beam of light.

Gave up on dropped weapons already coz most of 'em just out DMG Barney gear a little. Unless they got talent you want. Will see post patched tomollo will gear b more interesting.

Now I am collecting the boring materials by free roaming coz after awhile you'll be quite surprised the amount of materials you can get. I have 80++ yellow materials for each type. The goal is to hit 100++ provided my hand not itchy to try rolling gear.

This post has been edited by 6so: Apr 11 2016, 11:44 AM

Farm Lexington for the boss to drop advanced firearm mod or wait and see whether DZ blueprints will be cycled to BoO by tomollo.

Kinda like the new update. More dangling carrots for us to chase after...sadly the really delicious one are DZ75/90 and quarter million dz money per item. Guess will hit DZ again cause I stop going there after level 55 and busy collecting materials/phoenix credits.
The daily/weekly missions can prolong the game's life a little. The Incursion is meh! but challenging mode is like hitting a bloody impregnable brick wall again. * * Will wait for someone to come up with a sound way to do it efficiently.

Enemies stood to drop more resources for you to pick up...like bullets,grenades,etc...

They did bump up the difficulty. Think they want new players to prep themselves for challenging mode or the incursion so players won't catch off-guard by the steep difficulty spike.

Lately been seeing a lot of skilled players brought their PVP tactics to challenging mode. You can do Lexington very quickly with it. So the method is pop a self heal, the one that overheal or damage buff when you are about to rush an enemy....any damage taken quickly retreat to the healing dots/cloud so you can bring up your health bar. It's a risk and reward strategy that you can easily do...if you are skill build the healing particles will last a little longer.

If you want to hit DZ75 do remember to bump up your kill xp perks. A single normal mob can get you 300++xp per kill as oppose to naked 180-200xp. If strictly on leveling, forget about chasing named bosses coz clearing mob can yield 1-2k per group. Consider the named bosses as bonus. If you are running on a group, use your gear's talent that boost extra xp from accolades.

If you are lone wolfing DZ, use DZ04 as your extraction point cause you can easily escape from it when rogues coming for you. Don't kill off the enemies in the containment zone right next to the extraction point. Anything went wrong...run to the mob so they can hinder rogues pursuing you a little and not to mention they stood to take down the named elite that spawned there with DZ key chest available for them to open. You can even do u-turn to face the rogue/s when they took the bait to fight the mob or jump on them as they will assume you to run forward instead of facing them with the mobs.

There also 8 to 10 division tech cases lying around in DZ04. Don't join an ongoing firefight cause they can turn you into a rogue or the other way around unless you are confident of taking them down. Hence aim for the mob instead of loots if you really want to level up.

If you have a wicked trolling streak...pick up only the greens and vanity stuffs so you can imagine the reaction of the rogue agent.

Damn it DZ75 M1A change to First Wave Vector.....will be stuck using crappy HE M1A for some forseeable coming period.

Poor Massive...band aid one hole another one appears.
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With tons of people bitching about bad HE drops including myself....got an iLvl204 Tactical Aug3 with decent talents from Incursion Challenging ....if I'm not mistaken the one crafted from BoO blueprint is iLvl 180 something. ATM the max GS I can get is 202 but the stats are pathetic. Stamina not even 60k. With Striker set I can get 300k dps with activated talent.

This post has been edited by 6so: Apr 18 2016, 12:55 PM