The Division 2

Div 2 was pretty great at launch, it just needed some more polishing and some systems from Div 1 1.8 copied over. Instead, every patch for the first six months or so was done by retards whose goal was to turn the game into a dumpster fire.

The patch that finally 'fixed' loot and added in targeted farming seemed good at first, but it's still frustrating as hell. Getting a decent Hard Wired build was trivial, but even with another 70-80 hours after that I was never able to put together all the pieces of any other strong builds. And it still takes way too damn long to sort through all the garbage that drops; recalibration is still so restrictive that it feels like you're looking for the 1% of 1% drops to actually keep. Even with targeted loot that gets old super fast.

This new loot revamp sounds like the crew of retards is back in charge, though at least they had the sense to increase GS this time, instead of just fucking everyone's shit up and saying, "ok, now go re-farm it all at the same tier... have fun!"

In the end, spronk is probably right. The only real hope with Div 2 is that it eventually gets to the same point Div 1 did with patch 1.8... and then they leave it the hell alone and all go off to work on Div 3.

Well they're also tweaking recal again giving it a library, and adding display of stats as a bar that will quickly help you determine how good are the stats on the gear, and reducing the amount of drops but better quality drops. Skill mods have no power restrictions because skill power is no longer a thing but skill tiers, you can get +1 skill tier on an item as a core stat, wear 6 pieces and you get max level tier which also unlocks overcharge on skills.

Just wish all this shit was also done with the last revamp not even 6 months ago...

Waiting till the gear changes drop before playing again, ep 3 trailer dropped couple days ago, flamethrower new spec, returning to NY.

Yeah, I need an overhaul to happen and then to continue playing my fresh character so I am not inundated by all the changes on an already progressed character.

I absolutely loved the first and second Division up until endgame. I'd get all sorts of drops, but never know what was good and what to go for. It was just way too cumbersome and I think Division 2 was even worse with color build shit and whatnot. So then my problem is I'd google what a good build is, and farm that, and then a week later it would get nerfed into the ground. The meta changed so much so I'd feel obligated to save everything just in case it ever became really good. Then my inventory and stash gets full and I don't know what to trash, so eventually I just get burnt out from managing inventory. Did they ever make fixes to the inventory in D2? If they'd just copy Diablo 3 or whatever it would be so much better.

Stave said:

I absolutely loved the first and second Division up until endgame. I'd get all sorts of drops, but never know what was good and what to go for. It was just way too cumbersome and I think Division 2 was even worse with color build shit and whatnot. So then my problem is I'd google what a good build is, and farm that, and then a week later it would get nerfed into the ground. The meta changed so much so I'd feel obligated to save everything just in case it ever became really good. Then my inventory and stash gets full and I don't know what to trash, so eventually I just get burnt out from managing inventory. Did they ever make fixes to the inventory in D2? If they'd just copy Diablo 3 or whatever it would be so much better.

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Scroll up for the upcoming patch notes. They increased stash size a while back, but next update you will be able to save stats from gear in the Recalibration station. Something that they make sound like was their idea, but was suggested on the forums like since launch, lol. Just like most of the smart changes they tend to make. Which would be great, if it didn't take them so fucking long.

My favorite thing about Div 2 is "Hey, we're making a bunch of changes to our retarded gear design in the next update, SO... no reason to log on til then!"

Raes said:

Scroll up for the upcoming patch notes. They increased stash size a while back, but next update you will be able to save stats from gear in the Recalibration station. Something that they make sound like was their idea, but was suggested on the forums like since launch, lol. Just like most of the smart changes they tend to make. Which would be great, if it didn't take them so fucking long.

My favorite thing about Div 2 is "Hey, we're making a bunch of changes to our retarded gear design in the next update, SO... no reason to log on til then!"

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Yeah no point in me logging on until these changes, but I do look forward to returning then. So the way I understand it is I can essentially suck out a stat on an item and store it in a library, and then I can put that stat onto new items? I wonder if it's unlimited uses once you have it, and if you can put every stat on an item, so basically if you get max health, max damage in your mask library, you will always be able to make every future mask max health and max damage?

Stave said:

Yeah no point in me logging on until these changes, but I do look forward to returning then. So the way I understand it is I can essentially suck out a stat on an item and store it in a library, and then I can put that stat onto new items? I wonder if it's unlimited uses once you have it, and if you can put every stat on an item, so basically if you get max health, max damage in your mask library, you will always be able to make every future mask max health and max damage?

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From the way it's worded it sounds like once a stat is in your library it's unlimited use. But, you are still limited to one recalibrated stat per item.

Raes said:

From the way it's worded it sounds like once a stat is in your library it's unlimited use. But, you are still limited to one recalibrated stat per item.

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Will it still be completely fucked where WT1-4 have higher max stats because they can allocate less to armor from the total stats cap? Will WT6 items fix this absolutely retarded design decision?

We shall see.

About the only thing to play for is exotic drops, you can get everything to drop anywhere now except for the ar which is still a raid exclusive drop. It'll be handy to get extra exotic pieces for quick upgrade to whatever the next tier is, gs 550 probably. I'm assuming you would get higher stat caps from drops in heroic as you do now, so no real point farming up regularly stuff till wt6 comes out I think.

I would prefer they made heroic fun rather than extreme ball-busting tedium before making people slog through that shit to get good rolls. Kind of kills whatever enthusiasm I might have for playing the new patch / WT.