The Division 2

mkopec said:

Well im running my skill hybrid build so its 4 of 5 directives on heroic and really the time does not matter to me TBH. Its within 3-5 min per run and I take breaks and shit because it so fucking boring, lol. But still a good farm even though Im only getting 3-4 levels per since my skills pretty much delete everything.

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I just ran all 5 directives when I was doing it with Core Str. Pop the drone as soon as you open the first door, then by the time you breach and get into position the turret should be off cooldown. Drone lasts for about 4 minutes with all the bonuses from that set so you never really have to deal with Cool Skills again.

One of the issues I've noticed with heartbreaker, memento, and other stacking builds is there's a weird balance to difficulty levels. Challenging or lower and you often just don't get enough bad guys to really roll the stacks, but heroic or legendary it's more risky trying to grab backpack stacks or proximity bonus armor.

The youtube videos always look impressive but they're usually near 100% accuracy headshots and know exactly the spawn points to stagger things before they even raise their weapons. For a scrub like me I've found it just as fast for xp or other farming to go pesti or core skills on challenging. The lesser drop rates are offset by never losing a kill squad or having to run back from a wipe. I know many people like the difficulty where surviving every fight isn't guaranteed but I'm fine riding that 98% success rate.

My new motto for Challenging retaliations and Heroic everything else is take whatever good build I feel like playing and shove Turmoil into it. Everything is better and faster, and the split damage really has no effect if you choose your targets well. Just don't try to mix it with Overdogs, because what you want to be doing is targeting the tankiest things in the room and let pretty much everything else die to collateral damage. No need to ever worry about suppressed targets or dudes you can't get LOS on at all, they just die. Dudes putting out turrets? That's a good thing because it has a lot of hp and it's just going to sit there and let you shoot it, killing a couple of his friends in the process. It really is a game changing item for QOL as long as you don't try to take it into the really difficult content.

As for Heartbreaker, never really been a fan but I'm slowly changing my mind since picking it up again after getting Lexington. I've tried making that Kingbreaker gun work a few times since I got one that came perfectly rolled from the seasonal track back whenever it was first added. It's just not a good gun, and the extra base damage and laser beam accuracy of Lexington more than makes up for the extra dmg from Perfect Flatline. I've been using the build to try to make progress in escalation and it's the only thing that's worked decently well above tier 1 so far. I really don't like the shotgun in the second slot though. I carry an LMG that also has Flatline for situations where it makes more sense to hang out in cover instead of tanking with the shield. Also using two actual dps weapons of different types is good because the worst thing about every non-Gunner build is suddenly needing to worry about ammo reserves again. That's not just a problem in escalations, I often run out of ammo in escalations between getting jumped twice per block plus the kill squads if I only have an AR. The other pain in the ass with HB is that I've got all sorts of perfectly rolled blue core pieces but still have only ever gotten one piece with high enough CHC to justify swapping it to red and optimizing.

If you have yellow Core Strength items and a Picaro good enough to reroll yellow, you should try out my build that I posted a while back. I think it's about as good as you can get for a hybrid build (definitely more gun than skill, but the skills are still a significant chunk of damage).

The proto nerf is supposedly for the loot crates in escalation missions, not the event cache.

Ronin's will 100% drop a key now, but I'm sure they will nerf the solo exploit to get them by relogging.

mkopec said:

Oh and I need another ninja back pack too so I dont have to bank the only one I have.

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I really should start using my alts again. I had them all at 30 for some reason I can't remember now, but I think it'd be much better if I split up my builds since it's less hassle than always changing around seasonal mods, having to remember which guns have the +15% on my specs, etc. Also, I'm running out of both loadout slots and stash space, even just keeping stuff from the best brands/sets that rolled high enough to max out with minimal optimization. 450 just isn't enough.

Plus the creator collab projects are per-character and give a ton of exotic mats and named caches. Definitely worth doing 4x.

mkopec said:

For some reason I have 500 stash, maybe its the Manhattan DLC?. Also the dailes and some of the weekly are per character too, I think?

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Yeah, pretty sure all projects are. I just never have enough steel to waste on the SHD requisition one and I really don't see myself doing 15 floors of Summit four times. If I need exotic mats that bad I'll sacrifice an alt slot and use it to "farm" Lullaby/Merciless to dismantle.

I've got 450 slots with both DLCs. You must have the Anniversary bundle from last season? That's the only other thing with stash slots included. It's still 1000 credits and all you get now is the Big Al skin and that stash slots. Seems rather steep.

mkopec said:

He was even saying this shit has to be nerfed because they were walking away with like 20 proto per mission.

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Considering the cost to reroll that seems perfectly reasonable, so obviously it needs to be nerfed.

I wonder what the odds are of them fixing the "login, wait 2 minutes, DELTA-03, login again, now you can actually play" thing.