Tom Clancy's The Division

Yeah, it took me 3 tries to get Lexington's challenging daily today, before I got one that worked.

As far as running challenging, I have a RL friend that just hit 30 last night, and we ran the last mission on hard twice for purple gear. Just finished a run of Lincoln Tunnel and he did fine. I'd say go for it.

Looking for some people to play this with on Xbox 1, GT: AsleepdanZzz

I'll grind out some lincoln tonight if anyone wants in. I'm probably pretty close to being able to solo it at this point so can carry whoever if you're fresh to 30. PC obviously, @ Obsequey.

I'm not 100% sure why people do Lincoln over Lexington. Maybe it's a dps thing? Lincoln has a timed event so that's a set amount of time whereas Lexington only has one timed portion (the rooftop with Sergeant Ramos after he's freed) and that's like 30 seconds max. Everything else can be forced by killing mobs. In pugs I was doing Lexington in about 15 minutes and with my group somewhere around 11 minutes.

It's mostly a gear thing, yea. In Lincoln there's no runners, only the melee chumps, and no heavies either, so it's far easier for fresh 30s and ungeared people to just flail through it. You get relatively safe positions for all the fights as well so you can take as long as you need to pick everything off before advancing.

Just want to make sure... You can no longer farm the named elites (Chains, Bullet King, Strings, Apollo, etc) that free-roam outside DZ by killing them and then letting their guards kill you? About to hit 30 so was wanting to farm them if possible for some gear and HE drops (Caduceus rifle for instance).

Lost Virtue_sl said:

Just want to make sure... You can no longer farm the named elites (Chains, Bullet King, Strings, Apollo, etc) that free-roam outside DZ by killing them and then letting their guards kill you? About to hit 30 so was wanting to farm them if possible for some gear and HE drops (Caduceus rifle for instance).

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just hit 30 was well, took my time didnt really get into the game right away, any easy ways to gear up quick?

TecKnoe_sl said:

just hit 30 was well, took my time didnt really get into the game right away, any easy ways to gear up quick?

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Reposting from earlier:

grind the united nations mission on hard until you're kitted in full purples, it's like minimum 8 per run and it's stupid easy even with poverty gear. Then move on to the tunnel mission on challenging, you'll be grinding this for a while. Somewhere around like 100-120k sheet dps you'll want to move on to farming russian consulate. It's not nearly as hard as people make it out to be, and unless it's the daily only relatively similarly geared people queue for it. Even without the sploit farm hornet is worth farming, as he drops ilvl 31 high ends, including weapons, which unless you wanna grind DZ to 50 and farm DZ tech forever (fuck that), is the only source of high end weapons besides the vector.

Aside from that route do the two hardmode dailies for 30 phoenix credits total. You're first PC purchase should be the vektor blueprint, craft as many of those as you can. Out of like 10 vektors or so you're bound to find one that has at least like 2/3 good talents (you want some combination of armor shred/crit chance/crit damage/accuracy).

Once you have a decint-ish vektor and full purple gear you can likely just grind challenge mode missions as much as you want.

Avoid Russian Consulate and Powerplant until you've got a bit better than purples.

I snuck into a Tunnel Challenge Mode yesterday wearing mostly purples and riding on the coattails of people who clearly were pretty kitted out. Was a fun experience, but I can certainly see how it will take quite awhile to earn enough Phoenix Coins to reach a threshold where I deserve to be doing Challenge and thus able to earn a decent number of coins.

I see now the utility of having +max ammo and the talent that regenerates ammo as I was routinely running out of ammo during the mission. There was a ton of ammo on the field of battle, but seeing as we were perched way above that field and running to grab some would have been a quick path to hamburger it was still a problem. The MotherBox that regenerates ammo doesn't seem to be as generally useful unless you are just using a good marksman rifle since it doesn't generate near enough to keep you going even through the duration of the box.

So a friend of mine have been trying to play together, he's 27 and I'm 9. I'm assuming the enemies are supposed to show the appropriate level to me and him, sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. Is this a bug or something or just not possible?

Example: Sometimes the enemies show my level on my screen and his level on his screen, other times they are all skulls to me and I get one shotted constantly.

So can we play together or am I fucked and I'm going to have to level up beforehand?

In general there is some degree of autoscaling in terms of which phase of a given area you are put into up to a certain max value, but as you are grouped you should both be in the same phase and thus seeing the same bad guys.

it may be that the extreme difference in your levels is breaking that system and it just can't handle what to do with you as a pairing.

Looking to tear through some Hard/Challenges tonight. rush33 on pc. I will be on around 4pm central if anyone is starting that early.

Been running Lexington on challenging, but haven't done anything else on challenging. Hard dailies have become VERY easy.

Hekotat_sl said:

So a friend of mine have been trying to play together, he's 27 and I'm 9. I'm assuming the enemies are supposed to show the appropriate level to me and him, sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. Is this a bug or something or just not possible?

Example: Sometimes the enemies show my level on my screen and his level on his screen, other times they are all skulls to me and I get one shotted constantly.

So can we play together or am I fucked and I'm going to have to level up beforehand?

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If he joins your game and you're running around the open city it'll be your level stuff. If you do a mission it'll scale to the highest level in the party (ie his) and you'll be fucked.