Found out Massive buffing pvp bullet DMG by 20%....bye bye to tank-tician or getting instant melt like patch 1.1.

If you have 350-400k toughness...a single sticky bomb can't kill you. It's the chain reaction from BFB that will kill you. Need to space out a bit from team mate when engaging those meow-meow(pussies).
Decent smart cover will grant you enough defense against tank-tician.
Able to drop pesky rogues on M1a and smart cover.

All weapon talents will have a fixed number to unlock. Think Deadly needs 2.5k Firearms, so if you do not want or couldn't get to 2.8k firearms...you can try re-roll Brutal on the 3rd slot. If you are running Alphabridge...you can craft HE 182 weapon to unlock the talents you want cause it's a lot more easier comparing to unlocking gs229 version.

This post has been edited by 6so: Jul 18 2016, 09:36 AM

So we died to this toxic build!!!
We are a bit late now...guess Massive will have another reason to NERF things again.

We die dunno how many times only manage to kill them one time only.
Gonna respec my alpha to a shotgun build just in case.

Bro Stomek also bringing in some kamikaze agents.

To run Falcon Lost CM/HM you need 1 tactician with minimum 26k skill power to output a max pulse or/and smart cover.
2 sentry to quickly take down enemies with shotgun or m1a.
The fourth guy can be anything as long as everyone keep stacking heal on each other.
Throw a turret or support station at apc so the turret will focus fire on them when doing bomb run. Flashbang also can disable the APC's turret for a short time.
Pop tactical link and survivor link together during the shotgunner waves 1,4,5,8,9,10,14 so you can kill them as quickly as possible.
If you are doing left side under staircase, you need to focus on grenadier as they can wipe you out and wave 13 to be extra cautious cause 1 medic and 3 heavy gunners will rush you at the door where you are camping.
Pop 2 survivor link for wave 15...one to collect the bomb and another when planting bomb.

Think you need to decide which build meta you gonna focus on.
5 sentry + 1 HE (Reckless/Savage) = DPS with M1A/Shotgun
4 sentry + 1 HE (Reckless/Vigorous) + 1 HE (Savage) = DPS M1A/SMG/AR
4 alpha/sentry + 2 tacticain = Balance
4 tactician + 2 final measure = Tank-tician
4 alpha + 2 final measure = DPS with balance build or full glass canon or skill.
The above are the popular builds on ps4 ATM until Deadeye/Reclaimer/Firecrest/Blind available to us.

You need to lock down FSE ratio. 5:1,4:2,3:3,3:2:1
Take note with high electronic on mask and backpack can push skilled power to 30k++. Tactician can push it above 40k.
The rest is all a matter of allocating Firearms or Stamina stats.

All CHC you ever need is 20% when you able to hit max pulse of 40% so I wouldn't break a sweat if I couldn't get the best CHC stats. A decent smart cover will override all the CHC can afford to you when you can output 40-50% damage buff and 50-75% damage mitigation across all board. During PVP a concealed pulse negates all the CHC you gonna output.
At the end of the day is whether you want to be Class canon,Balanced or Skilled. Just these 3 classes that matters at the moment. A tank only makes you feel good but you still gonna be owned by purple npcs in DZ06 or Sentry shotgun shredding your 500k toughness.

Teal drops pretty much boils down to your luck. I can go without getting a single drop for 2 days and then I can get 3 teal sealed caches within a single extraction. Even supply drop not guaranteed green gear set. If dz06 is too hot to handle, can try the 03/04 area cause you still able to get 229/268 items but more and more rogue agents targeting extraction nowadays.

I think they take account of gear values in you inventory to determine the dz bracket. Even with a single 229 weapon unequip you are automatically put into 231 zone.

It's a 50/50 thingy now with DZ06, sometimes you get co-operative players who would rather farm than griefing everyone. Then you will bound to find one server with rogues everywhere. Suppose after tomorrow people will be occupied with the underground dlc for awhile until they got what they want and the grief will start again.

Just be ready to change server when things are not in favor of you.

PSA don't be a jerk during extraction cause one of the strategy to deter rope cutter is to mount your loot during the last 10 secs. Don't go mount purple loots at the last spot on the rope. Was fed up with these noobs who does not take consideration of team mates. Reviving them countless times and still does all these petty acts of annoyance to others. Without us helping to clear named bosses in the first place, you don't even get to extract to begin with.

I gonna do the multi character farming in underground....it only takes 30-40 mins to reach level 5.Hopefully by today I will have 20 underground caches to open.
Then will do Dragon's nest heroic mode to farm the four bosses. Need a team.

During dragon's nest heroic mode...my m1a crit 2.4mil with sentry mark,smart cover,pulse and tactical link.
About five shots down go the horseman.
If min/max my build a little more, think I can hit 3mil dmg but will never able to reach Inigo's crazy record of 7mil dmg to the horseman.
The best way to farm loot is taking down the four horsemen and die to npc so you don't have to do the first portion again. By the end of my fourth round...all the yellow and teal drops like cutting the rope.
Weapon kits also abundant. Think now I have about 16 of them.

After the long weekend grind...here's some observation of the underground dlc.
Dragon's nest -
- The four horsemen drops plenty of loot that good for selling or dismantling. The gear set drop pretty much down to your luck and don't have your hope high for it dropping everytime.
- Not many matchmake players incline to complete the incursion. So it gonna be frustrating for players who wanted to farm Deadeye and Reclaimer.

Underground -
- The first 10 ranks were exciting and then the rest halt to a long grind.
- Right now there are way too many noob players who don't use smart cover and pulse to rush the NPCs. So prepare for countless mission failures unless you have a solid team.
- Pulse before going into a skill jammer area so you have an idea where the npcs are.
- Clear off the two shotgunners each time you got into a new area. So again many rambo died to them.
- Play aggressive only in timer mission so not every operation needs rambo-ing.
- Stick together as a group and not running around like a headless chicken during firefight.
- Underground caches not the most efficient way to get loot or maybe my rank too low to see any good loot from it.
- Heroic mode needs a solid team to pull off and know what they are doing.

Reclaimer -
- Very fun to use and a great support build.
- Useful for PvE and not the best for PvP cause shock turrets/sentry shotgun still rule Dark Zone.
- Coolheaded weapon talent will grant you endless use of consumables.

You can get it from UG but will be very slow...out of 30++ UG caches, only 2 to 3 pcs Reclaimer.

Finally reached level 40 underground....


Think right now there are way too many butthurt players doing heroic mode. A lot of them gave up when got wiped and does not understand the core mechanics.
Whenever there's "investigate area" type of mission, you can skip engaging most of the enemies. Bait and kill the shotgunners and then pop an ult to evade the others or just ninja the way out of it.
Same goes with locating named boss.
Still don't understand until today why players still baby with their survivor link. Pop it already when in tight situation or rush up to timer specified objectives.
When you grouped up with good players, a three phases heroic mode can be quick and fun. The loot also quite ok.
If short of few hundreds to a thousand xp points, do a quick solo hard mode to reach the next level rather than relying bad players doing heroic mode.
Guess will wait and see if 1.4 worthwhile to come back!

Some of the 1.4 PTS preview recap.

When 1.4 hits, the division will be a very different game from what we are playing now. Guess now need to buy up the L32 performance mod blueprint and stockpiling credits,bird money,materials,etc...for 1.4. No point doing underground at the moment unless you are close to completing ugl40 or just farming phoenix credit from there while you already have minmax gear.

Was watching some streams from Chappie and Breezy, tier 4 incursion is not exactly a walk in the park and dz06 still can be challenging. PvP hard to tell yet cause no one able to minmax their gear but the biggest surprise is some of the potato weapon actually got better. Scar-H can rival M1A and LMG can dish respectable damage. Survivor link and tactical link is all different now. Defib healing is godly OP in PvE that you need to see to believe.

I believe it's worthwhile...right now the loot is raining from everywhere. You can get 10 to 13 pcs of loot from a single weekly HVT event. Soloing tier 4 Lexington Challenging can get around 10 pcs. The big issue at the moment are stash size and grinding credits to reroll stats on gear.

Need to relearn a fair bit on stats cause they really overhaul the whole works to optimize your gear. The best improvement is you are no longer forced to run only on sentry as the others are equally balanced for more diversity build. Even potato gun like LMG M60 is potent.

No need UG cause it's more of an alternative farming route for players who don't go to DZ.

The thrash mobs drop it for me. Couple on the roof and another during the last phase. Guess RNG god favor me on that run.