Tom Clancy's The Division 2

Is there any point in keeping yellow or otherwise gear under the gear score you’re at?

For example I have a machine gun at 300 GS. Is there any point in keeping previous ones at lets say 250 GS or just sell them on. My stash is getting full.

I was thinking it might be like Destiny where you can convert the 300 one into the 250 one because it has better perks/stats etc.. but I haven’t looked into crafting or mods or anything yet so don’t know.

Thanks!

If you join a clan around level 22, there's a clan vendor selling 25% armor chests. There's an open clan on PC called "we play dirty" the right level, join them buy your armor and leave.

25% will probably get you over the 300K armor level easily enough.

gimli2112 wrote: »

nope thrash all guns (just to edit this first point my main AR is 495 I have had 20+ of the same type drop higher than 495 but none of them have had higher damage rolls)
hang on to gear though if it has very high rolls. eg. Damage to Elites on a mask over 40%, or weapon damage on a chest or back pack over 10%, specific weapon damage over 10% on the gloves (ah man I could write a book on this stuff but there's certain gear you shouldn't thrash) What you hold onto is largely dependant on your playstyle and what you're building towards.
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I would generalise, by not excluding guns for the same reasons. You should keep gear that has exceptional buffs and talent types, even for ones you are not currently using. If it looks interesting, keep the gearpiece for later use. E.g. I have a spank'n'tank build that has good constant damage and healing, zero crit and using unstoppable force + compensated instead of berserk to allow my healing talents to work properly. At the same time I am keeping a bank of gear with alternate synergistic talents that would allow a super bursty build if I want to try one later. Any gear item with a GS can be used to recalibrate another of the same type, once the basic buff/talent type matches also.

12gauge dave wrote: »

Just completed tidal basin gear Score 469.
What to do now?

Get to 500 by doing the same things over and over again.

Glebee wrote: »

Its taking me an age to get from 490 to 500. Stuck at 498 for ages. 500 gear is not really dropping.

The rank up caches, dailies, level 4 control points, heroic bounties, contaminated DZ gear and (sigh) heroic missions and the raid Other than that you're in the lap of the gods.

Don't get too hung up on 500, you'll be just as powerful at 495-500 but it's really annoying . My main has been stuck on 499 since the patch.

There's only a limited number of weapon skins you can get from the crates out in the world and once only. After that you have to open the caches from the apparel tab in the main menu. You can get keys from xp and real money (yuk) I got a few from the apparel event but again there is only a limited number of them.
I expect the thing is set up to make you spend real money

You unlock the DZs as you progress through the story, if you're WT 2 you should be able to go to the entrances of each and follow the prompts.

Once all three are open two will be normalised so gear doesn't matter and one will not. This rotates each week, it in the one that's not that you'll find all the pin and misery. Only kidding come in what have you got to lose?

DZ can be fun if you're in the mood ie. drunk

sticker wrote: »

Cheers! I'm not seeing any access to 2 DK Zones atm. I wonder if the setttlements are red, then thye are not available?

Quick one: Am I better off shooting up to WT4?

Yes and once there straight onto WT5,

Gear Sets (the green ones aren't great, there's an argument for two piece true partriot but I don't get it)

The most important piece of gear is probably the chest. Depending on what you are at you probably want Unbreakable, Unstopabble Force or Bezerk) Fenrirs gives you an additional talent and Gila extra mods. You need at least one red lego that you can roll to weapon damage.

Backpack again with a red to roll weapon damage. Mine also has Hard Hitting and Vitality talents. Two talents is very much desireable

Kneepads again Fenrirs for extra talents (Hard Hitting and Patience) or Gila (Patience) for extra mods.

Mask for PVE with high DTE and Hard hitting.

Holster this needs to be a petrov if you are running an LMG and should roll 30K+ health into it.

Gloves need a high roll for AR or LMG damage or whatever weapon you main. Gila's good here or Murakami for the 8% heath.

If you can get at least two Gilas you should have at least 3 system mod slots which you can use for low level mods and get an extra 12% specific weapon damage, this is a bit of a grind but certainly worth it.

DTE should be 80% (mines currently 70% and is fine) If you're running unbreakable, bloodsucker or unstoppable force you should have 250K armour minimum, for best results.

There's other ways of going about it but this should help with survivability and hit pretty hard in pve. PvP you may be better off with a 577 build with spotter and on the ropes but Unbreakable and bloodsucker seem to be the meta atm.

Whats the story with the Castle Settlement? Is it glitched out for some - or abandoned intentionally?

gimli2112 wrote: »

Gear Sets (the green ones aren't great, there's an argument for two piece true partriot but I don't get it)

The most important piece of gear is probably the chest. Depending on what you are at you probably want Unbreakable, Unstopabble Force or Bezerk) Fenrirs gives you an additional talent and Gila extra mods. You need at least one red lego that you can roll to weapon damage.

Backpack again with a red to roll weapon damage. Mine also has Hard Hitting and Vitality talents. Two talents is very much desireable

Kneepads again Fenrirs for extra talents (Hard Hitting and Patience) or Gila (Patience) for extra mods.

Mask for PVE with high DTE and Hard hitting.

Holster this needs to be a petrov if you are running an LMG and should roll 30K+ health into it.

Gloves need a high roll for AR or LMG damage or whatever weapon you main. Gila's good here or Murakami for the 8% heath.

If you can get at least two Gilas you should have at least 3 system mod slots which you can use for low level mods and get an extra 12% specific weapon damage, this is a bit of a grind but certainly worth it.

DTE should be 80% (mines currently 70% and is fine) If you're running unbreakable, bloodsucker or unstoppable force you should have 250K armour minimum, for best results.

There's other ways of going about it but this should help with survivability and hit pretty hard in pve. PvP you may be better off with a 577 build with spotter and on the ropes but Unbreakable and bloodsucker seem to be the meta atm.

Excellent write up Sir.

I don't 100% agree on the details, but that's a matter of build preference. Kudos Gimli on always stepping in here and responding with informative and well thought out replies.

For my own side I'd say they kinda shot themselves in the foot with gear sets in that they improved the gear system so much from the Div-1 that they became so much harder to get right (and provide a true improvement over a well thought out, and RNG blessed, normal build). The thing is in any game that uses them good gear sets are about Synergy, between the talents/buffs on the sets and your own talents and preferences. it's something they got absolutely wrong in the early sets on Div-1 and then perfected, to where certain 6pc classifieds where seen as junk by the community at large but in the hands of players who excelled at synergy with their own core (human) talents were insanely powerful. The addition of brand bonuses in Div-2 opened up Synergy from day-1, no biggy, but the way they worked dependancies in using min/max Def/Dmg/Skill buffs was pure ****ing genius. This allows them to balance in game talents against pre-requisite buffs and in doing so other Talents. This was there somewhat in the early game but has been refined a lot in recent patches. Certain awesome buffs preclude each other. Getting good Def+Health regen + damage takes a HUGE amount of balancing, at the same time insance roll-the-dice burst damage builds are possible (anything that relies on you taking damage and crits to me is roll-the-dice). So, what is my point after all that, it's not that gears sets are terrible (though they do need more work) it's that the existing system is so satisfying from a min/max technical pov and effectiveness that they have been occluded.

Love the game, but i feel like I have "completed" it at the moment. My gear is where I want it for bothe PVE and Raid ready....but I cannot raid as I will be f****d if I am going to spend an hour looking for a group. Bounties dont excite me as the gear drops are not exciting. Argument could be made that I could start the exotic grind. I just really want to do the raid, but with a lack of matchmaking it kind of locks me out

Completely board of Div 2 at this stage, even to the extent that I reinstalled Monster Hunter World....:eek:

DeadlyByDesign wrote: »

Love the game, but i feel like I have "completed" it at the moment. My gear is where I want it for bothe PVE and Raid ready....but I cannot raid as I will be f****d if I am going to spend an hour looking for a group. Bounties dont excite me as the gear drops are not exciting. Argument could be made that I could start the exotic grind. I just really want to do the raid, but with a lack of matchmaking it kind of locks me out

I'm in eactly the same place... Love the game but a little fatigued with the gear grind. I've only a few exotics but the work to get there seems to be only with full time players with an excellent crew of mate players.

I'm a solo player - feel the overall system is very poor for the solo player element, especially with the end game raids etc.