ask-td2-community

[blazing timber]

classic ps2 mouse and keyboard

[sudden matrix]

Gotta hard boil an egg every week to get a new ball.

[blazing timber]

lmao btw have you use thise ps2 mouses?

[sudden matrix]

Yes I'm old enough to remember and have used them.

[blazing timber]

look like. i am in the wrong channel my age 777 is missing

[sudden matrix]

Naw we got modded out of existence.

[blazing timber]

nice

[fallow inlet]

Hey Eevee, KiRRA

[loud saddle]

sup Saph

[thorn hedge]

Hi

[civic lily]

👍

[karmic shuttle]

those are white, right?

[thorn hedge]

such a lot quality photo cant tell

[worldly fjord]

What happened to legendary rooms in descent?

[loud saddle]

"COMING SOON TO A SEASON NEAR YOU" /j

[sudden matrix]

Is this a pic for ants?

[worldly fjord]

Couldn't find a higher quality one

[worldly fjord]

thanks

[worldly fjord]

legendary difficulty maybe? similar to white tusk?

i actually havent paid attention to the color of dogs in legendary now that i think about it

[karmic shuttle]

there isnt white tusk warhounds tho

[worldly fjord]

early prototype maybe

[loud saddle]

I mean, it was just a placeholder, wasn't an actual difficulty atm....

it was just promo images for WIP shrug

[earnest zealot]

is the ninjabike messenger bag exotic a dz exclusive?

[rugged stratus]

No

Backpack target or exo caches

[earnest zealot]

ok cool, thank you

[fresh inlet]

-_- wht does that do for me when ive checked n its not there .

ik wht it looks like its not in my library for some reason

[pseudo tundra]

cant help you more than that

[worldly fjord]

if you played a pts before it should be there

[fresh inlet]

i havent played it on this account before at all

so ig ill wait or idk i dont see it tho

[rugged stratus]

might check that ubi connect is updated. it right where it should be on mine as well

[thorn hedge]

Wait

Did u buy the game on steam

[dense basalt]

So here for this

[thorn hedge]

wdym

[dense basalt]

For you to make this mission want it to happen

[thorn hedge]

what about it

[wispy merlin]

"so here for this" = so excited for this

zoomer talk

[tiny stump]

i had to switch to the beta version of the ubisoft connect app before i could see the pts

[fresh inlet]

i checked dont see it but checkuing rn

[worldly fjord]

I have the standard on and it worked just fine

[fresh inlet]

dm me

[tiny stump]

im wondering if it would show up on mine now if i switched back to the regular version but im scared its gonna make my download disappear or something stupid if i switch back from beta

[inner tendon]

The downloaded files will physically stay there unless you delete/uninstall them.

One of the old methods for fixing bugs with it was to download and move the files yourself.

[earnest zealot]

What is the best/ fastest way to get Materials?

[inner tendon]

Running a Countdown on Challenging (or Heroic with a team) and then breaking down everything you can't donate to Expertise is a pretty good "active" method.

[earnest zealot]

I get barely anything from doing that though

[rugged stratus]

can also hit solar farm cp and the area directly around daily. lots of mats packed into a small area

[earnest zealot]

ok makes sense

[rugged stratus]

NY open world running also has a lot of mats cases

[inner tendon]

Make sure you get the CP Officer buff before you go resource farming though.

[worldly fjord]

If your watch lvl is over 1500 i only recommend making mules

[spark crater]

Were technician, gunner specialisations introduced with wony?

[cedar yacht]

before

[spark crater]

No new specialisations added after wony?

[inner tendon]

None added after or with, all added before.
There's a rework to them coming in the future, but I wouldn't bet on that for at least another season yet.

[nova granite]

Is there any way 2 fast reach proficiency rank 10 except by playing with that weapon?

[blazing timber]

donate 20 of that weapon

[nova granite]

To expertise

[tough marsh]

yes, and by donating resources.

[narrow kraken]

Whats the best shotgun🤔

[rugged stratus]

Scorpio

[tough marsh]

for casual builds, yeahg

[tame basin]

M870,Scorpio. And if you want more challenge, there is double barrel and backup boomstick

[civic lily]

imagine torturing yourself in the dz for such a backpack

[inner tendon]

To clarify: no Exotics are locked to the DZ.

[calm jungle]

I am there at 12:00 but I can't find anybody to kill

[loud saddle]

did you show up before noon, or just after (sometimes it's best to show up shortly after rather than be there early and waiting cause it can stop them from spawning)

[calm jungle]

At like 12:30

I sometimes showed up at 12:10 but I couldn't find anything.

[loud saddle]

the bar is just empty when you visit it then? hmmm

[sudden matrix]

You have to be far enough away for them to spawn, if you are too close they wont show. I forget how long they hang out but it's not very long. I just sat like 2 blocks away watching the time ingame and started running over a couple minutes before noon.

[worldly fjord]

i think thats a little late

the NPCs wont spawn if youre already there.
be at the white house and atart running there at around 11:30

[earnest zealot]

I'm only at like 645

[worldly fjord]

yeah its not gonna be good then

[blazing timber]

so descent?

[worldly fjord]

just restarted my pc, gonna see if i get my frames back

[blazing timber]

go ultra low settings

[worldly fjord]

restarting fixed it

[blazing timber]

ok sent you request

[amber snow]

nothing u do saves on the pts right?

[loud saddle]

nothing done in the PTS saves to your live character. nor will it be reflected in future PTS session (after this weekend)

[amber snow]

ok so i dont gotta worry about burning resources trying out the new stuff

nice

[loud saddle]

nope, you're good

[sand nymph]

Btw Do we get to keep those exotics from PTS on our main character?

[foggy needle]

PTS is only a test server, its only for testing so you keep nothing

[rain echo]

you get max mats and rescources as well in the pts

and you cna just buy more when you run low

[swift flame]

Why is the pc lfg so dead is there another server more active or is this just how it is ?

[sudden matrix]

VC channels went away and LFG kinda died with it. #discord-news if you wanna read the post. Other discords are more active just because you can pop into a VC and post that you are wanting to play or join others.

[swift flame]

Thanks for the info

[sudden matrix]

If you want some discords that are more active I can DM you some if you'd like. Just let me know.

[swift flame]

That would be nice thanks

[earnest zealot]

is the Yaahl Hollow Man Mask DZ only or can you get it from a named cache?

[sudden matrix]

Named/conflict caches will drop it.

[earnest scroll]

You can get any named piece(except special ones like pre-order or special events) from named Caches

[earnest zealot]

ok thanks y'all

[earnest zealot]

Can you get the bighorn from a specific place or just target farm Assault rifles and open exotic caches?

[foggy needle]

legendary boss only drop

[earnest zealot]

oh

[foggy needle]

so legendary summit boss farm is the bast place

[earnest zealot]

oh ok cool

[earnest zealot]

so wait you can't even get it from exotic caches?

[foggy needle]

correct, its not in caches

[earnest zealot]

oh, that sucks

[foggy needle]

exotic caches have all exotics except raid only ones and big horn.
also crafted ones and current season exos, you also have to get their blue prints 1st, before they are in the target loot pool.
exo caches is same loot pool as target loot fyi.

[earnest zealot]

ah ok thank you

[strange citrus]

Do I need all individual sticker set to be proficient for expertise or just one gear ?

[rugged stratus]

not 100 what youre asking but, if you are asking about becoming proficient in brand or gear sets , you can donate any mix of the pieces as long as they are same brand.

example: if you get 100 grupo gloves donated the whole grupo set will be proficient. this excludes named items, those have their own category outside of brand area.

every item/brand you proficient increases overall expertise level

[nimble spruce]

not just donate, you can level your proficiency in striker (or any other gearset/brandset) by getting kills while wearing any combination of items from that set- you don't level kneepads separately from gloves or whatever.

[rugged stratus]

that too 😅

[strange citrus]

Thanks just to verify I can have one striker glove be proficient and the whole striker expertise is complete ?

[tiny stump]

yeah the brand sets and gear sets dont go by individual pieces, it does the whole set at once

[strange citrus]

Thank god

[rugged stratus]

back when expertise first came out it was not uncommon to see people running around with 1 of every different set to try and get as much leveled. especially in F10 when xp was really high there 😅

[tiny stump]

yeah i remember looking at their builds wondering how the hell theyre getting and kills or doing any damage

[worldly fjord]

i believe the new smg coming next season is also not gonna be in the exo cache loot pool

[tame basin]

That's how much I like expertise, since it came

[worldly fjord]

you defenetly dont need expertise for pve

its nice to have but not needed i'd say

[narrow matrix]

So what are reconstructed caches I haven’t touched descent yet

[tulip galleon]

Any good tips for trying to kill the 4 hunter spawn in DC? Gonna try solo and then I'll get someone to help

[mellow trout]

I wouldn't try to solo them

Bring a buddy

[tulip galleon]

Yeah that's what I was thinking

[worldly fjord]

opening a reconstructed cache gives you a blueprint for a named item released in seasons 1, 2, 3 and 4

[earnest zealot]

can you get the ninjabike messenger backpack as a drop on Countdown?

because I haven't gotten a single one and I've been farming backpacks for days

[narrow matrix]

U should be able to

[earnest zealot]

or am I just super unlucky

[narrow matrix]

^

[earnest zealot]

go figure

[narrow matrix]

Slap ur router

[earnest zealot]

lol

hahaha

[mellow trout]

Did they fix the bug where ninjabike wasn't in target loot pool yet

[wispy merlin]

a while ago

[mellow trout]

Ah

[narrow matrix]

What about previous blueprints and comms?

[worldly fjord]

For blueprints its only named items from seasons 1 to 4

[mellow trout]

Same with gearsets

And I think it's only a chance to get one unless they changed it

[worldly fjord]

You dont get gear set blueprints in descent

Named item blueprints you can get from descent:

Season 1: Shadow Tide

• Glory Daze
• Devil's Due
• Boomstick
• Everlasting Gaze
• Backup Boomstick
• Dark winter
• The White Death
• Door Kicker's Knock
• Maniac
• Carnage
• Baker's Dozen
• Force Multiplier
• Quiet Roar
• The Sacrifice
• Burn Out
• Cold Relations
• Good Times
• Surge
• New Reliable

Season 2: Keener's Legacy

• Mechanical Animal
• Matador
• Chainkiller
• Harmony

Season 3: Concealed Agenda

• The Mop
• Liquid Engineer
• Everyday Carrier
• TDI Card Custom

Season 4: End Of Watch

• Test Subject
• Battery Pack
• Caesar's Guard
• Scalpel

Only these

[mellow trout]

Oh

[worldly fjord]

Tdi card custom and harmony are bugged and dont drop

[mellow trout]

What's liquid engineer ive never seen one of those

[worldly fjord]

Belstone backpack with perfect bloodsucker. Dz exclusive

[mellow trout]

Ahh

[tiny stump]

is this some sci fi robocop lookin stuff or what

[narrow matrix]

Actually looks like the gun he uses lol

In the new movie

[narrow matrix]

No gift huh

Very slick ubi 😉🥲

[worldly fjord]

Gift is season "zero", launched along side warlords dlc and before season 1 releaed.
Right now its not in the loot pool but during the pts i managed to get the blueprint for claws out, which is also season zero. Fingers crossed gift also comes out next season

[narrow matrix]

Would be nice

Trying to get people to play the game but stuff being dz locked makes it difficult

It’s nice they added the kard custom

[worldly fjord]

Kard is bugged and doesnt drop. No word on a fix, or even acknowledgement on the bug

[narrow matrix]

🤨

[worldly fjord]

.

[narrow matrix]

So how does the blue print work exactly? You have to find parts?

Like donate this from that

Like the goal projects?

Donate this holster, this gun, this chest etc

[worldly fjord]

You have a 12% chance of getting a reconstructed cache for killing nemesis (soon to be buffed to 50%), and a 49% chance of getting one for finishing loop 31
Opening a rec cache gives you one blueprint

[narrow matrix]

Loop… is that like a floor and how long does it take?

[worldly fjord]

Each loop has 4 rooms and one boss arena, the time is pretty much entirely depends how good you are at playing

Also higher loops have more waves of npcs

[narrow matrix]

And so after u finish a loop can u leave?

[worldly fjord]

Yup

[narrow matrix]

But how does the blueprint work? Are you able to craft immediately or do you need pieces like you do for say regulus blueprint

[worldly fjord]

There are no checkpoints though

[worldly fjord]

You can immediately craft

No project BS needed

[narrow matrix]

So it’s one time use

[worldly fjord]

No?

[narrow matrix]

Oh

[worldly fjord]

Once you have the blueprint it stays there forever

Which part of my text made it look like a one time use thing lol

[narrow matrix]

Not you… it just seems like it’s consumed after it’s used

[worldly fjord]

All blueprints are permanent

[wooden void]

One thing you only have to blueprint once, are the weapon mods. Gear mods and skill mods can be repeatedly crafted, but you don't have to repeatedly crafted weapon mods.

And all other items can be infinitely crafted, each with random core attribute ratings and random attributes

[narrow matrix]

What about hollow man

[worldly fjord]

Season zero, not in the loop pool currently

[narrow matrix]

Dam

I want one with weapon handling

[cobalt fern]

How 'bout named caches?

[worldly fjord]

Yeah drops in that

[cobalt fern]

'hell yea

[upbeat coral]

Heyho, got a question. Is it possible to switch Servers via VPN on playstation?

[thorn hedge]

no

[blazing timber]

you can try

[digital chasm]

When does seas 10 start?

[rain echo]

The new season apperantly starts Oct 3rd

[upper burrow]

Remove region lock, make it easier to find players, I can't find players for conflict, descent , summit, raids, countdown, expeditions, anythong, and let us selct many modes at once, so, the first modes with eough players, you join, som gams have it, . the game is great, love it, but there are too many modes, the playerbase i split in too many mdes, difficulties, wold tiers, directives, zones, too much, too separated, the players loos way too much time waiting, go there to queue to find players, no players found, go there wait long time, no players, go other place wait no playres found, repeat over and over again, wait and wait etc, is wearisome, Division 1 is less grindy and more fun,

Make a new expansion please 😃

[graceful grail]

where can i get rikers tactical materials? anyone can help?

[dense basalt]

Can craft if you have blueprints or just do rikers bosses bounties in ny

[craggy nova]

How Scorpio stacks work? Should i hit enemies 3 times to disorient them? It doesn't seem to always work

[main briar]

pretty sure there isn't a region lock, i've been matchmade onto asian and european servers quite a few times before (i'm in NA). as for your expansion request they announced a while back they were working on a new dlc, no release date yet afaik

[tulip galleon]

Hey, asking if there is an easy way to get Scorpio, currently farming in challenge countdown and the past 2 exotic drops have been sweet dreams

[icy crystal]

nah, pure luck homie.

[tulip galleon]

Dang

More farming for me

[icy crystal]

switch to heroic countdown if you’re feeling up to it. Speeds up exotic cache farming quite a bit from challenging.

That’s the best advice i can give

[tulip galleon]

Thanks man

[gloomy summit]

is bluescreen good ?

the talent confuse me

[limpid meteor]

Hii

[plucky mesa]

You're level 40 and are matchmaking on heroic right?

[rain echo]

why it so big jeez?

[tiny stump]

youre downloading the whole game as a pts build of it

i left the last pts on my pc and the download was only like an 8 gig update

[rain echo]

that explains why it says 1 hour 30 mins

though its already at 10 gigs

[blazing timber]

yup they said it was +8 from last

[rain echo]

well tbh i forgot i uninstalled the pts after the last pts for this season and forgot how to reinstall as it didint pop up in my ubisoft libary

[tiny stump]

yeah i didnt find it in my ubi library until i tried switching to the ubi connect app's new beta mode

[blazing timber]

had to switch to normal ubi from beta to find it 😂

[rain echo]

i just went into my files and into my data(D) where all my game files are to find it

[tiny stump]

lol what in the hell

[inner tendon]

hey swtor, nice.

[rain echo]

you a fan to?

[rain echo]

what even is beta mode?

[tiny stump]

a weird UI/design that does nothing reallly

[rain echo]

i have over 2.5 k hours in it i use to no life the game

[tiny stump]

i read that at 2.5 hours lol

[inner tendon]

Absolutely, been playing it on and off since it first went f2p.
im not sure what my time is on it, it was pre-steam so no idea now.

2200 on steam, plus whatever on origin.

[rain echo]

ive been playing since 2014 im in 1 of the biggest guilds and a chancellor(3rd highest rank) in the guild

i havent bothered to sub since i gave up on it and i only log in to log my toons so i dont get kicked

im preferred status

[inner tendon]

I steadfast refuse to talk to anyone on it and don't think I ever bothered to join a guild.

[rain echo]

prices for items is stupid on that game something that sells for like 4.5 mill creds people are selling for like 500 mill on the gtn

and people actaully spend the creds

[inner tendon]

There's ways around it thankfully.
I much prefer the div2 method, where no one cares about buying anything from the store.

[rain echo]

they need to add more to the store

in div2

[inner tendon]

I am fine with it being exactly as empty as it is right now. Because adding more leads to exactly one thing: paid boosts.

[blazing timber]

no need for another p2w

[rain echo]

i mean add more cosmetics that cause textiles and not prem creds

alot of us have alot of textiles just sitting there

[tiny stump]

yeah really

[inner tendon]

I would settle for reverting some of the ones that used to cost textiles and now don't.

[tiny stump]

i bought every single item you can buy with textiles

[rain echo]

same

[blazing timber]

i need to work on that need to open 1200 caches

[tiny stump]

holy shit

[blazing timber]

gacha games have better loot management

[tiny stump]

thats gonna take forever

[rain echo]

1200 caches jeez

most i ever had was like 150

i wonder if they got anything planned for halloween

[blazing timber]

need a good named weapons for Christmas

[rain echo]

uk i kinda wanna attempt a heroic mission with only the sleigher

[tiny stump]

sounds annoying

[rain echo]

its doable

[tiny stump]

def possible

[blazing timber]

ronon lul did dua with sleigher

[rain echo]

leg or heroic?

[blazing timber]

legendary iirc

[rain echo]

props to them

i imagine it was not easy

esp with the heavies

[rugged stratus]

That's all? 😅

[blazing timber]

yeah

[digital chasm]

So Reddit is saying an Umbra/Striker build will be the way to go for the Oroboros..

What do you experts make of this? I’m thinking a HF build or just a created legendary build.

[wispy merlin]

umbra+striker is just for the rpm meme, doesn't beat staples like striker

[sand phoenix]

i think only striker build alone would suffice (or HF)

currently the gun have same base damage as a 1200 rpm vector but has an additional 5 bullet, +450 rpm and retaining reload speed

[blazing timber]

nego hf striker

3 sets to rule pve content

[fallow inlet]

Hope Everyone is having a Great Day Gaming

[blazing timber]

hi saph have you tried the new smg with 1650rpm?

[digital chasm]

You as well

[heavy briar]

fr, with umbra chest it will have 2325 rpm when having max stacks

[tame basin]

Killing hunters on openworld is fun with the sleigher

[earnest zealot]

Can you get the sleigher now or do I have to wait til' december?

[inner tendon]

It gets added to the loot pool "around xmas", so yeah gotta wait until then.
but on the plus side, you can also get the Oh Carol and Chill Out (+ Santa Hunter mask).

[earnest zealot]

oh cool

[civic lily]

why would devs lock such a powerful weapon around a single holiday😭

[thorn hedge]

lol

[civic lily]

👻 ping

[craggy nova]

What's the fastest method of named cache farming, countdown or global event?

[vivid tiger]

Countdown

[jade sluice]

Is countdown a bit more stable now? :o

[blazing timber]

on pc it is rng

[jade sluice]

yay

thanks

[thorn hedge]

Not for me

It just works fine as always

[blazing timber]

exception

[thorn hedge]

Lol

I have no idea how I'm such an exception

[wispy merlin]

uncaught

[blazing timber]

lmao need try and except clause

[wary aspen]

is the best way to get expertise levels to donate all junk?

[worldly fjord]

being a dev has its perks

[blazing timber]

lmao optimising the game for your own hardware 😂 😂

[nova granite]

I know it's a weird question but
what's the percenrage of total npcs in open world who has critical hits points?

I think not all of them has crit hit points.

[swift grail]

You mean weakpoints?

I think most enemies above assault rank ( the lowest one) have some form of weakpoint

[keen grove]

can you spawn hunters in a group? tried steps for one with some teammates and it didnt work, tried again alone and it worked

[inner tendon]

You can, but the host of the session needs to have not done that Hunter Puzzle before in order to get them to spawn.

If you just need Hunter kills for a Project etc, Floor 100 of Summit's last room spawns them at group size +1.

[plucky mesa]

Yea deffo at first

[silk nova]

Returning player here, wondering what the current end-game activities are?

[cobalt fern]

Summit, Countdown, Raids, Legendary missions, Farming even more equipment, Sheparding players in need, Descent (?), Conflict, Dark zone is all i can think of rn

🫡

[wary aspen]

what about down the road

[inner tendon]

@earnest zealot You're looking for #td2-clan-recruitment

[trail oak]

@thorn hedge

[sudden matrix]

I wonder if they stealth fixed it in a patch.

[thorn hedge]

#ask-td2-community message

[trail oak]

Interesting never noticed it, guess it was patched

[hallow hamlet]

So I just bought the New York expansion for $19 and it came with the game I’m level 30 and I don’t know what I’m doing I’m currently in the New York part and Connor travel back to dc

[thorn hedge]

you cant go to dc until after the dlc is finished

[thorn hedge]

wasnt in any patch notes thats the weird part

[blazing timber]

they never mention anything useful in patch notes anyway

[plucky mesa]

Donating mats mostly

[earnest zealot]

so I was doing a countdown with my normal heartbreaker build that usually does 300k for crits but for some reason I was hitting for 3.8 m with the kingbreaker any ideas as to why I was hitting this hard?

[civic lily]

countermeasures bug probably

[earnest zealot]

I guess so

[earnest zealot]

there was also 5 hardcore players in the session, does that mean anything in terms of increasing my damage?

[carmine flicker]

You most likely had the close range damage buff from the countermeasures and maybe an extra damage buff such as coyotes or ongoing directive

[earnest zealot]

hmm interesting

[carmine flicker]

Hardcore players won’t increase the damage in any way

[earnest zealot]

I had both of those yes but the thing was I didn't have the long range buff and yet still hit that hard

[earnest zealot]

that's what I thought, just thought I'd ask anyway

[craggy nova]

Is there any important invaded missions that week?

For projects or something

Want to know more stuff like the invaded Grand Washington Hotel

[sudden matrix]

If you are talking about something similar to the nemesis project, no there isn't anything important mission wise like that.

[craggy nova]

Thanks god

[sudden matrix]

lol

[nova granite]

after creating a new characcter & finishing again NY expansion by killing keener, some people buy shared account blueprint

and does something with the printer filament.

can any1 explain that?

[foggy needle]

back in DC white house, there is a lady by the crafting table inside, that sells that to you

[nova granite]

i just bought it

but how can i move the 1336 shd points from my second character to main character?

[foggy needle]

it just makes your blueprints and resources account based instead of character based.

[nova granite]

i want it to be on my main character

[foggy needle]

shd points is account based by default

[nova granite]

Oh...

[rugged stratus]

you just use them on your alt. shared mats will be available to main and any alts

[rugged stratus]

the printer filament is for boosting expertise. you can use it as a donation material for individual items you may not have or dont want to use. but its 300shd = 3000pf= 1 proficient item.
much better use is converting some of the shd to cash and buying named items and weapons each week. cash method is 30shd= 300,000 credits= 20 named items (all same)= 1 proficient item

[nova granite]

How do i get receiver components?

By deconstructing what?

[nimble spruce]

weapons

[nova granite]

Can u be specific?
AR, MMR or pistols?

[civic lily]

are they weapons?

[nova granite]

Which category weapons give more reciever components?

[nimble spruce]

All non-exotic weapons will give them

[civic lily]

if they fire a bullet it gives you reciever

[nova granite]

Okkk

[rugged stratus]

purple or yellow, all weapon types. high end gives other mats as well

[nova granite]

If i buy a single named item 20 times & donate it to expertise, I will get what 1 proficient item?

[rugged stratus]

yeah. for named items and weapons its 20 each to proficient

buying them is the cheapest alternative for farming or using them. vendors change each week and remaking alts for shd is kinda standard for expertise at this point

[nova granite]

For exmaple, the expertise lvl for my White Death is 11 now.
So I need to donate 20 White Deaths to expertise tab to increase its expertise lvl to 12?

[rugged stratus]

no the donations are only to proficient an item

[nova granite]

Now I understand

[rugged stratus]

at 11 you already put upgrades so it proficient

but there is a lot of named items and weapons, and vendors change weekly

you probably already have a good amount partially proficient so some may only need 6-10 items to finish. its 2 items for each proficient rank

[nova granite]

All my gears r proficient now.
But my expertise lvl is 11.

[rugged stratus]

weapons are one of the biggest categories

pumping out countdown with weapons selected will help drive it up as well without costing the shd. lots of named items drop

spec weapons will be usage or PF donations. same with exotics

you should also craft 20 each of the improvised items and donate. its not something that drops and the crafting cost is way cheaper than shd proficient

[foggy needle]

it says right there proficient with only 121 out of 367, so missing tons of items.

[rugged stratus]

even bringing up the the proficiency a small amount on a lot of stuff will drive expertise level.
that 29/200 (under the big 11) is counting individual proficient levels on items.

theoretically, you could have 9/10 on every item and be really high expertise without being proficient in anything 😅

looking at your board you should target smg/lmg/pistols. alot of those will be able to donate.

[nova granite]

I'll set targeted loot on smg/lmg/pistol on Countdowns.

And after getting them I'll donate those junks to expertise

That's the fastest way to lvl up expertise I think.

[rugged stratus]

anything that doesnt, break down . youll end up with a lot of reciever components and protective fabric. i used to donate those as well but make sure you save like 1500-2k for your weekly shd

[nova granite]

So if I aim with my St. Elmo's Engine the enemy will be pulsed?

[wispy merlin]

it's an attachment you have to put on, and with elmo being an exotic you can't put that attachment on because exotics have fixed attachments

[nova granite]

it cant be modded! shit

[neon hare]

How do u find the Future Initiative build ? Thinking of doing one but not sure how strong can i dmg with it

[icy crystal]

Red FI or Skill FI?

[tiny stump]

thats around the kinda damage you can do with a red FI. its not much but its enough to help put in damage while buffing the team

[blazing timber]

mhhh i use red fi scorpio opportunistic

[tiny stump]

oh yeah i could put on my all red the setup w perfect opportunistic and use scorpio. gonna try that now, see if i can manage to get decent chc

[blazing timber]

need ceska mask for that

but you are giving enemies 20% and 15% debuff that is insane

[tiny stump]

yeah it works out perfect if i just put 3 chc mods on the geaar

first shot pellets crit 444k, after both buffs pellet crits are 615k

[blazing timber]

nice

38% increase

for the team

plus 25% from fi

[tiny stump]

crazy

[blazing timber]

yeah

[brazen mountain]

Just curious ... does your picture depict nose picking or giving the middle finger. Or, is it meant to be ambiguous. 🤔

[tiny stump]

its my finger in my nose yeah

[brazen mountain]

👍

[civic lily]

[humble tartan]

Hmm been thinking. Ik scary thought right.
What if there was a gearset that turned the bombardier drone into those BT suicide drones.
And to not make it broken make it so that each drone stack that can be used make it acts like the cem launcher and target like the firefly if that makes sense.
What do you guys think 🤔.

Just an idear that me and the guys have been cooking up for a few weeks to make in game things change or make uneque when paired with existing stuff in the game.

Would really like some thoughs.

[brazen mountain]

Kamikaze drone 👍

[humble tartan]

Yeah we brought this idea up because trying to level it up was a real slow process and boring in higher activity's. It couldn't really kill things.

[barren basalt]

to get Nemesis, what is the required difficulty?

[swift grail]

Any i think, its just the stronghold has to be invaded

[humble tartan]

I would say solo probably hard and if your gear is good challenging.
But in a group try heroic but only If you guys can if not challenging Would be good as well.

[calm venture]

So how do you build and make big number especially melting enemies in legendary

[humble tartan]

Personally I run with perfect opportunistic and scorpio.
With them and the future In. chest you can get up to 60-65% bonus damage to set target that you hit.
Still playing around with the exotics but still haven't found a good one to pair with it so I just run the BTSU gloves for the time being.

[tiny stump]

im using a svd with future perfect / a scalpel w perfecter future perfect to get up a few skill tiers and buff my heals

its not in the pic there tho

[tiny stump]

heres what im gonna try next chance i get

[narrow matrix]

Do you lose your expertise if you reconfigure an exotic

[tiny stump]

you used to but i think they changed that and you keep it now

but im not 100% sure thats happened yet

[narrow matrix]

Hopefully

Do you know if they’re planning to allow you to reconfigure the attribute in exotic weapons?

I had seen it with sacrum

[silk geyser]

I just recently came back to td2 and I'm looking for a good build for the dz I have a decent pve build but I'm looking to start a build for dz any ideas?

[tiny stump]

yeah every new exotic weapon has been able to be re rolled to random third attributes

[civic lily]

What would it do better then a cluster seeker?

[narrow matrix]

Think I had seen you did that to your st Elmo

[tiny stump]

yep

[narrow matrix]

I wanna do it to diamondback so badly

[civic lily]

besides manual targeting ig

[narrow matrix]

Need dttoc

[civic lily]

everything need dttoc

[tiny stump]

yeah i doubt theyre gonna make the old exotics changeable

[civic lily]

it should be the only third attribute in the game

[narrow matrix]

That’s sad

I don’t really use the new exotics

Especially since they focus on sniper rifles a lot

Haven’t touched any of them

[humble tartan]

Can go uninterrupted over terrain and attack things in the air.

[narrow matrix]

The few I do like are pestilence, bluescreen, diamondback, Scorpio, capacitor,

[civic lily]

I'm not killing no marauder with this thing. Cluster is pretty uninterrupted already as far as I'm concerned

[humble tartan]

Sometimes they blow up before they hit the target because of spaghetti code. Just was after something that could make the bombardier drone usable.

[civic lily]

if it works exactly like BT drones. That problem would definitely still exist lol

they start setting off their detonation pre maturely

I would assume the blast radius would be big enough or something to compensate for that possible error when skill tiers are in play tho

[humble tartan]

Sure. And withth each skill teir make blast radius and damage gets better.
And if overcharged is active sends 2 drones instead.

[civic lily]

it not 2 drones already?

damn this really be explosive seeker 2

[humble tartan]

Still trying to come up with something uneque for when it becomes overcharged.
Some think emp or fire on the ground for a bit.

[civic lily]

most overcharges are just big Stat boosts anyway

throw a giga radius on it for all we care

[humble tartan]

Yeah that's what I'm thinking 🤔. And yes just seekers with extra steps but I see it as just something to have fun with.
Like what they we're doing in division 1.
-D3 with the shield was fun and played off the shield skill.
-reclaimer with the healing station that makes healing station have all 4 active.
-firecrest with flame turret more spicy.
And a gearset to suck up granades for bonus affects for the group and could be procked by your own granades.

Just wish that they would do things like what they we're experimenting with div1 things that already existed in the game. And make them unique.

God what I would give to have lone star back.

[cedar yacht]

Alphabridge 😭

[humble tartan]

I think they could get away with a reclaimer in div2. Just make it act with all hives except damage hive.

[humble tartan]

Yeah was 🔥

[cedar yacht]

They probably can now but that would probably end up mostly a op group pvp set imo

[humble tartan]

Make it have 100% armour back when armour is gone and make the chances drop 10% for each time armour is gone over a set periodof time.
Chest or backpack make the 10% drop 5%. In pvp make it 20% and then 15%.

[cedar yacht]

Nomad?

[humble tartan]

Oops yes sorry about that

What was alphabridge again?

Aw yeah gave you a 3rd or 4th talent from your secondary.

God it was lit 🔥

God how would they do it in div 2

Wouldn't mind a gear set for turning all the turret into the warhounds.
Regular turret > into minigun wardog
Sniper turret > into sniper wardog
Morter turret > into bomber wardog
Flame turret > into flame wardog.

God I'm not looking forward to when they release the flame wardog in open world.

Was not ready when they realised the Buddy and Lucy wardogs in open world

[civic lily]

trying to beat sparkle without cheese was hard enough thx

[humble tartan]

Yeah on heroic it was like slamming your fingers in a car door.

But everyone said that they would not put Buddy and Lucy wardogs in open world back then and look at the hell that they give us now lol.
So I'm expecting sometime soon or when content releases for the game that the spicy + flaming boy will be in the open world. I can see that happening in the future and calling that out now.

[viscid root]

Well, it makes sense. It's really hard to nerf stuff: all the gear should have gotten say, a 10% armour nerf to compensate for the introduction of Expertise upgrades, but didn't. So the only other option is to keep adding harder enemies.

[keen pelican]

How to connect a PS5 controller to division 2 PC?

[heavy briar]

just buy xbox controller

[viscid root]

That's a generic PC question; you'll probably get better answers with a Google search than you'll get here. You'll also get creamed by other players using mice. :-)

[earnest scroll]

try using/starting the game via steam (yes you can do that for games that are not in your steam library) otherwise try ds4 windows tool

[keen pelican]

When will "the dark path" appeal event items unlockable with textiles?

[thorn hedge]

Shrug

[fallow inlet]

Hey Eevee

😆 Happy Rest Day Everyone😆

[spark crater]

We need marauder class drone as skill

[thorn hedge]

i can think of 501 reasons we dont

[narrow matrix]

List them

Cause our skills are severely underpowered compared to black tusk lol … they work good they just aren’t as efficient

Only two that do them Justice are the cluster mine and mortar turret which need to be built correctly

[brazen mountain]

Evidence- based responses ...
🤔

[narrow matrix]

Look at the warhound variants, heavily armored and mostly suffer to disruption, the sniper dog 1 shots most players, 2 shot at best, grenadier dog + mini tank force you back to the start of the mission if there’s a chunga

This if you ignore skill tiers because that means you need a build

[brazen mountain]

Of the 501 reasons, maybe just the top 5 ChampionEevee (Not a Dev) ... 🙂

[thorn hedge]

1. Too large
2. Too close to striker drone
3. Wouldn't serve any advantage
4. Would be impossible to balance
5. Chicken tenders

[narrow matrix]

Just do it like you do in cod, you manually fire the thing for a few seconds

[brazen mountain]

Thank you. 👍

[thorn hedge]

Idk why you asked me lol

[brazen mountain]

To deepen my understanding ...

[thorn hedge]

Btw I am 100% not a developer

That's not a joke I'm not

[amber snow]

What's the max fire rate the chatterbox can reach?

[rugged stratus]

Not sure original rof, but itll stack 20% increase per enemy on reload up to 5 times, so 100% increase...
Side note this rof also transfers to chem launcher where you can stack oxi faster than the reload animation 😎

[nova granite]

I think the DMG difference between Striker & full red Heartbreaker is very low.
In HB just the RPM is lower compared to Striker but armor is way more than Striker.
For my kind of play styles Full Red Heartbreaker is perfect.

[wispy merlin]

striker has a lot more damage than full HB actually. it's down to how you have a damage talent for the striker backpack slot compared to heartbreaker

[nova granite]

But HB also gives upto 100 stacks of DMG

[wispy merlin]

you get 50 stacks by default for HB compared to striker's 100, so you need to use the HB chest. but then for striker, you can use perfect focus which yields even more damage.

[nova granite]

I'm using HB chest

[wispy merlin]

the main argument for using HB is so that you get bonus armor, but that benefit is heavily diminished the less blues you have, and at that point you would rather go striker

[nova granite]

So its upto 100 stacks DMG

[wispy merlin]

yes, but it's less than perfect focus

[nova granite]

I've 2 blue cores & that is working fine 4 me.

& 5 red cores

What amount of DMG does perfect focus give?

[foggy needle]

+60 TWD

also strikers stacks decay way slower

[nova granite]

twd means?

[foggy needle]

like both are good but strikers has much higher dps ceiling and also higher dps on average

twd = total weapon damage

[wispy merlin]

no, perfect focus is on a named chest, not striker

[nova granite]

can it be on Fenris chest?

[foggy needle]

its a named talent,

[wispy merlin]

yes, but only normal focus, which is worse than perfect focus always

[foggy needle]

named talents are fixed to their specific item

[nova granite]

Which chests give perfect focus talent?

[foggy needle]

its the named airald chest (the sniper brand)

[earnest scroll]

Pristine example

[nova granite]

Thanks

[thorn hedge]

Old airaldi chest > new airaldi chest

[rain echo]

Best build is all white no argument

[thorn hedge]

Still have one

[rain echo]

I still have mine

[thorn hedge]

Just called a worse skill build

[thorn hedge]

I would be doing it but it's just a skill build

[rain echo]

I'm just messing around now im putting random peices on and seeing how the build dose in heroic content😂

I put on random pieces

[thorn hedge]

I met someone who said they were comfortable beating story missions 6 levels above

A lot of this game is skill and not gear

[rain echo]

My build rn is 2 empress 1 striker coyotes and some random knees

[thorn hedge]

I did iron horse with the worst build I could make

[rain echo]

I might do 1 striker 1 NEGO 1 HF and a couple random peices

[thorn hedge]

Very few issues

[nova granite]

Still Red HB is better than Striker build 4 me. Cz most of the time I play solo & I like to do rush attacks. So when no one's watching my back while rushing it'll give hell loads of armor.
But that's just my opinion.

[thorn hedge]

Or just use hunters fury

There's no back to watch if they're all dead

[nova granite]

The amount of rush attacks that I unleash definitely need some armors.

[rain echo]

Whats the worse build like I mean a build so bad nkt even trolls would touch it?

[thorn hedge]

Hunters fury is face blasting at 0-2m range

[rain echo]

So anyways I started blasting

[nova granite]

It can be but I prefer Red Heartbreaker.

[thorn hedge]

Super easy to solo heroic

[rain echo]

Soloing heroic doesn't feel as rewarding as it once did

[thorn hedge]

Definitely

Damage became too inflated

[nova granite]

'Doesn't feel' ?

[rain echo]

I can solo heroic with 4directives if I wanted to but it'd not rewarding anymore

[thorn hedge]

Too easy for us

Even legendary it's kinda meh

There's no difficulty in this game

Which is why I present operation grand finale

[nova granite]

Lol. Many times I do solo heroic with all 5 directives enabled & its not that hard.

[rain echo]

I remember when leg was hard when the white tusk were actually bullet sponges now they are squishy

[thorn hedge]

People whine too much and get enemies nerfed

[rain echo]

I hope this new incursion gives us the challenge we need

[thorn hedge]

I do too

I also wish that this game implemented my idea for a "finale" raid

[rain echo]

Your idea of a raid would make lootifcer proud 😂

[thorn hedge]

If only the devs had it planned for the dlc as the final stronghold

If only

[rain echo]

Your ideas would take time

[nova granite]

I think Leg on solo might be hard 4 me.

At this stage.

[thorn hedge]

But spice things up

[rain echo]

Leg solo is more easy then it ever was

[thorn hedge]

It really is

[nova granite]

???

[thorn hedge]

Hhf and done

[rain echo]

Yep

The enemies are nerfed

[nova granite]

HHF means?

[thorn hedge]

Headhunters fury

[nova granite]

Oh...

[thorn hedge]

It's a hunters fury build that uses the headhunter talent and an m870

It 1-2 taps everything

[nova granite]

perfect headhunter can make solo leg easy

[thorn hedge]

Yes

[rain echo]

Now 5 directive leg solo is near impossible

[wispy merlin]

HB actually would suffer a lot because of its interaction with minitanks

striker does not suffer from the same problem

[nova granite]

I've got used to it & I can manage

I think it depends on my play styles

[wispy merlin]

the thing is in legendary you play red HB exactly like you play striker anyway because enemies shred you regardless

[thorn hedge]

Heartbreaker is striker if you need more armour

[wispy merlin]

trust me when i say if you're good at playing red HB, you're somewhat good at playing striker, so you might as well switch

[thorn hedge]

You don't need more armour for legendary

You need damage through the roof and that's literally it

Gunner covers armour regen

[nova granite]

Yeah man.

[thorn hedge]

Bonus armour can also be covered by memento anyways

I only run heartbreaker on my hardcore character cuz I'd rather not die

[nova granite]

Idk why but dieing pisses me off big time.

[thorn hedge]

And only for heroic countdown for obvious reasons

[thorn hedge]

Meh get used to it

Will help you in the long run

[nova granite]

Yeah. Maybe u r right.

[thorn hedge]

Dying is a part of the game lol

[nova granite]

It is but it pisses me off.

[thorn hedge]

Idk why it would

[rain echo]

Dying is always fun

[thorn hedge]

Especially when you oxidizer yourself when faye lau farming on a hardcore character 👀

[rain echo]

Especially when you are on a HC character about to kill keener and your game crashes I log back in and im dead

[thorn hedge]

I only crashed once on hc

And I had task manager open so immediately forced it

No issues

[rain echo]

I was 1 shot away from beating keener 1 shot

[nova granite]

Thank the dear God that recently my game has stopped crashing. It has been a while since my game crashed last time.

[thorn hedge]

i barely ever crash

anyways yeah just get used to dying

[nova granite]

Yeah...

[rain echo]

The game hates me

[thorn hedge]

the game hates us all

but you know the saying

when life gives you lemons

[nova granite]

I'll eventually get used to it soon.

[thorn hedge]

you squeeze it into a water gun and shoot people in the eyes

[rain echo]

I remember 1 time I played a game called everytime I died I took a shot ended badly for me

[thorn hedge]

i hope some named or exotic item gets quoted from me from this 👀

[rain echo]

Well your ovb a dev in disguise

[thorn hedge]

lol

[rain echo]

Your undercover as 1 of us

[nova granite]

lol. That doesn't prove some1 as a dev.

[thorn hedge]

👀

[rain echo]

It's a joke it started a while ago

[nova granite]

Lol. I was not there.

Was busy that time in my university I think.

[thorn hedge]

idk what even started it

[thorn hedge]

people genuinely started thinking i was a dev

oh i remember now, its because people were bullying devs and i was saying fuck off

[nova granite]

Most people like to blame & not think in other's point of view.

That's the problem.

[thorn hedge]

100% people got so pissed off cuz i said the devs cant just flip a switch to fix things

or no, its cuz they all got banned during the banwave 🤣

[nova granite]

Hehe..

[thorn hedge]

@blazing timber sigh...

[wispy merlin]

give

[thorn hedge]

might deconstruct it

sigh out of mats

[thorn hedge]

its not rolled with handling

[wispy merlin]

i'd still take it

i don't have a headshot HH habsburg chest yet

[nova granite]

For White Death which 1 is better?
Hotshot or Hunter's Fury?

[thorn hedge]

why hunters fury

seriously why hunters fury lmaio

[nova granite]

Didn't know maybe thats why lol

[thorn hedge]

in all honesty what made you think hunters fury

[nova granite]

once heard HF can be used 4 sniper. lol

[thorn hedge]

whoever said that is dumb ngl

[nova granite]

Thank God that i didnt listen to that scum

[thorn hedge]

if youre watching youtube videos, dont

their builds are the shittiest shit that ever shat

[nova granite]

'shat' lol

[thorn hedge]

past tense of shit

[nova granite]

sounds funny a bit

[thorn hedge]

just like the builds

for hunters fury you need to be within like 10 meters for it to be usable

[nova granite]

few of the youtubers r fine though

[thorn hedge]

not the popular ones

[nova granite]

like kamikajevandoom?

[wispy merlin]

nah

[thorn hedge]

lmfao no

they are the actual worst, like the stereotypical "dont listen to these people"

like top of the list type of dogshit they post

also didnt he get kicked out of ETF

funniest shit

[nova granite]

what would u say about nothingbutskillz?

[thorn hedge]

need i say more

all his content is clickbaity misinformation

[nova granite]

Man. They just want views & subs.

[thorn hedge]

no shit

what should i do with this

[earnest zealot]

what is the best/ easiest way to destroy all of basilisks armor in roosevelt Island?

[thorn hedge]

oxidizer

or carefully

[earnest zealot]

just shoot the oxidizer at him?

[thorn hedge]

should work last i checked

[earnest zealot]

ok cool

thanks

[grim rose]

why is this game so addicting

[thorn hedge]

its not

once you hit endgame its super easy to not be addicted

[grim rose]

well im not there yet

[earnest zealot]

can I do field research work for 2 specializations ( what i mean by this is have my field research on firewall and also work on technician field research at the same time)?

sorry if that's confusing

[amber snow]

nope

[earnest zealot]

darn

thats annoying

[amber snow]

yeah its so you either buy them or grind a week for em

[earnest zealot]

ugh lol

[amber snow]

anyone know if its 2 weeks of golden bullet?

[earnest zealot]

I'm pretty sure it was last time yes but I could be wrong

[narrow kraken]

i cant find mari? I looked around the tree and the shops next to the tree in the center of the castle settelment but i cant find her to complete the manhunt? Where is she

[thorn hedge]

im gonna have to ask this, did you actually do the main mission

[narrow kraken]

yes i have

[narrow kraken]

the general anderson one

[thorn hedge]

thats........ not it

[thorn hedge]

why did you say general anderson

[narrow kraken]

IDK i though that was the name of the mission?

and theres nothing left to do expect find maria and i cant find her

[thorn hedge]

she is 100% in the center by the SAMs

[narrow kraken]

where are the SAMS? I only see a tree in the center

[thorn hedge]

they are by the center

[narrow kraken]

where lol theres a tree in the center and shops around it

[thorn hedge]

what settlement are you in

[narrow kraken]

castle

[thorn hedge]

pretty sure youre looking in the wrong area

[thorn hedge]

thats
not
castle

[narrow kraken]

this is the center of the settelment

[wraith flare]

thats the theatre CAMPUS

castle is bottom right of the map

[narrow kraken]

oh ok

[thorn hedge]

thats not theatre either 😭

[wraith flare]

oh right yeah thats campus

[thorn hedge]

thats campus

[narrow kraken]

well sorry nobody here grew up reading the divsion 2 wikipedia

lmao

[thorn hedge]

it shows you the name when you fast travel to it

[narrow kraken]

it never did to me

[thorn hedge]

it 100% did

[wraith flare]

I forgot the name cus I do not remember ever using campus

[thorn hedge]

lol

[narrow kraken]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[thorn hedge]

theres a cool backpack trophy hidden there

[narrow kraken]

thanks though and my only reward was XP

[viscid root]

Players cannot be one-shot. A shot can't kill you unless something first took you down to less than full health; at full health no amount of damage will do more than take away all your armour and reduce you to minimum health.

[thorn hedge]

theres a few places where this is wrong

specifically descent and iron horse

well and dz

[tiny stump]

my dude summons his phone with magic

[thorn hedge]

relatable

[viscid root]

Oops, sorry! I didn't know that.

[thorn hedge]

well all the raid wipe mechanics are insta kill to be fair lmao

but outside of those yeah iron horse the sniper room they one-shot, and if youre wearing glass cannon in descent floor hazards are insta-kill

[spiral ether]

Whats the best way to farm XP as a new player? id like to get exotic ar in season pass before season ends but don’t have builds suited for XP farms. I play on challenging difficulty btw

[thorn hedge]

Open world

[narrow matrix]

Put on directives such as fog of war and cool skills, I also run ragers and ammo hoarders for the challenge but they can stunt your build if you take more bullets than necessary to kill although the gunner specialization will help you get some ammo back

For ragers just take out the easier enemies first then deal with the tank / boss but try to break their weakpoints first especially if it’s some sort of medkit

If you’re not playing in a mission turn off ammo hoarders if it’s free roam or a bounty

[thorn hedge]

æ

[viscid root]

I am fine with Ammo Hoarders on all the time (on Challenging), including in the open world, so long as I take care to pick my weapons carefully. E.g., 550-750 RPM SMGs instead of 800-950 RPM SMGs.

[narrow matrix]

I mostly run rifles with it if I’m in open world

Unfortunately those smgs you mention don’t work well on heroic, more specifically with the builds I use because you need a shield and some sort of bonus armor + dmg buff

I use mp5, mpx, vector tac sbr, vector .45

[viscid root]

I'm using the SMGs as secondaries, often with Unwavering or similar.

[blazing timber]

use a shotgun with pummel for ammo hoarder

[viscid root]

What? Pummel reloads from ammo reserves, doesn't it? The description says nothing about generating ammo.

[blazing timber]

no if you get 3 kills you get free ammo 2 with perfect pummel and +40%wd

basically on 3 kill and you are at 1 round left mag will refill to full available on shotgun only

[viscid root]

Oh, it does generate ammo! I had no idea. (I just tested it in the firing range.)

[crude gyro]

can't click view donations

why

[blazing timber]

judt logout login

[crude gyro]

tried that

[blazing timber]

restarting the game?

press space bar

[crude gyro]

can't press space bar
it's greyed out

[blazing timber]

cause you don't have enough water

[viscid root]

Yeah, if you check your resources tab in the inventory menu you'll probably find that you have zero water.

[rain thorn]

Off the wall question. Running Acosta Go Bag backpack. On the top flap it has a name printed on it. Can't get close enough to get e real good look but it says "ShortBonc" near as I can tell. The first S may be a 5 and the last C may be a G, Also under the flap is a cylindrical object with the label "Kalkesse". Looks like it could be sleeping pad or something. Just curious, any significance to these labels or is it just some random thing the developers put in?

[tame basin]

Thank the crying community who were just after the loot, and didn't want a challenge. So ubisoft listened to them and nerfed legendary to the ground.

[blazing timber]

more like our gear got buffed so we are doing more

[tame basin]

Title Update 8.4 Balancing changes: Reduce NPC Damage output for all difficulties.

This applies to all NPCs and activities and enemies will do less damage to players compared to their current damage output.

[earnest scroll]

How does that matter? You basically still get oneshot (after oneshot protection) in legendary

[blazing timber]

let me

[inner tendon]

This is all feeling kind of pedantic, yeah? I mean who really cares if enemies do marginally less damage, this ain't Dark Souls where it's meant to be unfair.

[blazing timber]

Reduce NPC Damage output for all difficulties.

This applies to all NPCs and activities and enemies will do less damage to players compared to their current damage output.

Reduce NPC Health and Amor for group scaling.

Enemy Health and Armor scaling for 2-, 3- and 4-player groups based on Veterancy.

This means Red, Veteran, Elite and Named enemies will have their Health and Armor reduced compared to their current values.

Additionally, we are adjusting Health and Armor based on activity difficulty.

This applies to Hard and Challenging difficulties where enemies will have lower Health and Armor compared to their current values.

An exception are Heroic and Legendary difficulty enemies which will have their Health and Armor increased to compensate for the group scaling reductions to their values.

Developer Note: We still intend Heroic and Legendary to be very challenging. Therefore, we are increasing the base difficulty to account for the health reductions for co-op scaling. Compared to now this means Heroic and Legendary will be a bit harder for solo players and 2-player groups, 3-player difficulty will stay roughly the same, and 4-player difficulty will be easier.

[inner tendon]

Okay there we go, they take longer to kill, so it's all fine.

[tame basin]

and 4-player difficulty will be easier.

[blazing timber]

i play solo or duo mostly

[tame basin]

i play mostly 4 player

[blazing timber]

always kick one Player difficulty balanced

[inner tendon]

Remember to always wipe for damage at the end of a boss phase.

[blazing timber]

#5.11 Rocks

[tame basin]

Ubisoft would have the same approach as Swedish developer "10 Chambers" with their game GTFO , which I play a lot.

[blazing timber]

lol

[thorn hedge]

Just random

[tiny stump]

probably some artist's own personal easter egg

[narrow kraken]

the rate of fire seems good

but the other one has dmg out of cover

[wispy merlin]

use the left one

also, crafting will only get you that far (about 50% on the rolls)

so those are good starting points, but you should start farming for loot after this

[narrow kraken]

the other one the one with the fire rate has the flatline talent

[wispy merlin]

do you have a way to pulse constantly

[narrow kraken]

i used my Q to pulse and highlight enimies thast it

[blazing timber]

measured is pretty meh

[wispy merlin]

that's not constant so no

[blazing timber]

equip technician specialization and the tech pointer

[wispy merlin]

you want the laser pointer from technician. but since you don't have it yet don't use flatline

[narrow kraken]

okay then never mind IDK how u would have constant pulse without deploying a drone every time u walk in to a fight

[blazing timber]

might as well try different talent

[wispy merlin]

that pointer pulses anything you aim at for 100% uptime on flatline

yep, which is my point, use different talent

[narrow kraken]

but i really like the pulse ability but IDK how to use it without spamming Q

[blazing timber]

he can see through builds with his binoculars

[narrow kraken]

i use survival now maybe i should change

[blazing timber]

there are sometimes better alternative

[blazing timber]

yup should start unlocking others

[wispy merlin]

if you can't pulse the talent is useless. if you use other talents that still provide some damage that would be better

[blazing timber]

i would prefer gunner first

to unlock

[narrow kraken]

what talent do you recommend for the police m4

[wispy merlin]

but regardless, let's pay attention to the topic at hand. use the m4 with dttooc, and roll a different talent on it

[blazing timber]

or if you want to focus on skills technician

[wispy merlin]

strained or fast hands are top picks

[blazing timber]

can do preservation if you want survivability

[narrow kraken]

the armor it repairs over time u wont even notice it

and still have to use a healing kit

[blazing timber]

if you get kills than it is amazing

also hsd repair 20% over 5s

[narrow kraken]

what do you mean

[blazing timber]

20% armour over 5s with headshot kills

[wispy merlin]

it's very good if you're high enough damage to get kills consistently

[blazing timber]

should unlock new specialization first

[narrow kraken]

I Know but i never notice the amount of armor it repairs and i always have to use a healing kit

[blazing timber]

you get 3 for free with ultimate edition and 3 are unlocked but have to farm points

[blazing timber]

friend than gunner and hunter fury are your best friend

[wispy merlin]

it doesn't help you if you take too much damage, but rather if you want more comfort

[narrow kraken]

i have maxed out weapon handling on my gear should i replace it with something else? the police m4 already has very good handling

[plucky mesa]

Crit chance to 60,then stack crit damage

[narrow kraken]

but should i replace it? my cirt chance is 7.9%

[plucky mesa]

whats ur build?

what level are you?

it sounds like you're not at level 40 yet...

[narrow kraken]

shd lvl 111 lol

[narrow kraken]

striker

[plucky mesa]

so, use crit chance mods on your weapon, and put every offensive point from now on into crit chance as a priority.

Then get your crit chance to 60% (or around 50% if you have Coyotes Mask equipped).

Then stack as much crit damage as possible, lose the weapon handling.

[narrow kraken]

IDK what u mean though

i have wpn handling on my gear should i reove those and use something else because the handling on the police m4 is already good enough?

[plucky mesa]

yes, like I said, get your crit chance to 60% if possible, then any other rolls change to crit damage

[narrow kraken]

i changed the mods to crit chance and its at 17.9 now

[plucky mesa]

You have no room for Weapon Handling on a Gearset build - btw if you posted a screenshot of your build this would be a lot easier

[civic lily]

the one providence

[narrow kraken]

should i show all of them

it is going to take 10 screenshots?

[civic lily]

use the weapon attachments that give crit chance

[narrow kraken]

i have

but i was asking earlier if i should change out the wpn handling cores on gera sets when i use the police m4

[plucky mesa]

@narrow kraken you want coyotes mask and a Ceska chest with obliterate talent

[narrow kraken]

is that striker set

[plucky mesa]

No ceska

Use striker knees instead of chest

[narrow kraken]

so striker and ceska set?

[plucky mesa]

4 striker, coyotes mask, ceska obliterate chest @narrow kraken

Now go farm boooiiii

[narrow kraken]

but is ceska chest a piece of gear

[thorn hedge]

Yes

It's a brand set

[narrow kraken]

okay

thanks

[thorn hedge]

@plucky mesa I got a Lavoisier with status and haste what do I do with it

[plucky mesa]

Is that the perfect creeping death?

Roll to skill tier and slap it on your foam cc build... @thorn hedge

[thorn hedge]

Galvanized

I wish it was creeping death 😭

[plucky mesa]

Mmmmm, bin it?

[thorn hedge]

Thought so 😭

[civic lily]

keep it for a skill cc tank hybrid build

[thorn hedge]

True

I actually have one of those lol

[spark crater]

I have bluescreen with lmg dmg, dta, dtoc. Are these attributes fixed for all bluescreen drops?

[blazing timber]

yeah most exo before sacrum have fixed 3rd attribute

[spark crater]

So none of them can be recalibrated/optimised?

[blazing timber]

recalibration in terms of recradting and

[spark crater]

None of them(attributes of my bluescreen drop)

[blazing timber]

optimization

can be done

[spark crater]

Ok

[spark crater]

After sacrum imperium exotics can have swapable/recalibrated 3rd attribute?

[blazing timber]

yup look at elmos

[spark crater]

Anyone know best way to farm vile mask?

[civic lily]

countdown mask targeted loot and and half hourly rngesus prayers minimum

[low vortex]

Fairly new player, joined around two months ago. What’s going on with the bounties finishing, but not finishing? Like leaving the orange lines in the top left of your screen.

[wispy merlin]

they are actually finished, and the orange lines on the top right* are just notifications that they finished but for some reason don't display properly

[low vortex]

Gotcha. As long as they’re getting finished, I guess that’s what matters. Much appreciated!

[sudden matrix]

It's pretty funny when you are playing and all of a sudden all those notifications start to complete and it's just 2 minutes of stuff going across the top of your screen.

[wispy merlin]

tmw you can't view your legendary mission time because you did bounties before running it

[sudden matrix]

Legendary missions all take 1 hour minimum man. That's how we roll around here.

[tiny stump]

classic 3pc empress/2 pc hana u/1 pc wyvern skill build

• 2:08 drone duration with skill haste mods

• 10.5 seconds with skill haste mods

• 2:28 drone duration with skill duration mods

• 12.5 cooldown with skill duration mods

duration mods give you 20 more seconds of duration
haste mods save you 2 seconds of cooldown

which one is more valuable? im leaning toward duration mods

[plucky mesa]

Crit chance

Plus one red core cos technician

[tiny stump]

no it not a skill crit build

i do have the pieces for that tho

[plucky mesa]

Haste and duration is crap with drone and turret

[tiny stump]

but it doesnt even matter. it seems like you get a lot more off skill duration mods than skill haste mods

[tiny stump]

you were right, this is better.

[rugged stratus]

ninja is no backpack talent, so no total skill damage.

TSD is prety big and a huge loss not having

[tiny stump]

it can let you try some interesting stuff but memento is much more powerful on a skill build, you just have to worry about picking up the trophies

[rugged stratus]

only if you can double dip the efficiency with something like fire

otherwise pca is better

or tech support

used to use memento eclipse tho, and that basically charged itself with stuff dying behind spawn doors. 120% additive damage was pretty juicy , but a statdard ep with glass outburns it still

[tiny stump]

this should work nicely

4 red cores 6 yellow

future perfect on the pistol to proc an overcharge

[viscid root]

Yeah, but running around picking up trophies on Legendary can be...difficult, especially if you're wearing Perfect Glass Cannon.

[rugged stratus]

what are you hitting for crit numbers? and would ceska or grupo serve better than contractors?

[tiny stump]

yeah f*ck bringing memento in to legendary

445k with capacitor at 56% chc. (no memento stacks)

with memento stacks it should be very respectable

harmony is 593k at 55% chc

[tiny stump]

oh and probably yes about the grupo. im gonna try that if i have a piece. i might

[rugged stratus]

thats what i was thinking. i relly dont know which would be better. if contractors worked for turrets it would be a no brainer , or if using explosive or fire skills

[tiny stump]

i got one

[rugged stratus]

my turret build is way lazy. 😅

[tiny stump]

ok between the contractors and the grupo its 440,866 vs 440,143

yeah i do that too. im just putting together a weird one which will only work because memento is so powerful

[rugged stratus]

yeah very close

[narrow matrix]

So, are they going to rework picaros? They have 2 different posts on trello

[wraith flare]

2nd one is the correct one

[tiny stump]

heres what i come up with for the highest weapon damage ive gotten so far and reasonable skill damage (with zero memento stacks). once i get full stacks it'll have 30% more skill damage and skill haste, my short term weapon buff is gonna be where most of the real damage comes from

[hollow cape]

Can anyone help a noob like me with the raid …never attempted to do it before 😅

[low vortex]

Anyone wanna shoot shit in a call? SHD level in low 400’s and looking for some more people to chill with.

[rain echo]

#lfg-raid-pc

If your gonna attempt a raid do dakr hours it's the most forgiven and is the agent friendly 1 of the 2

Slap on a high end red build that's semi decent and listen to whoever is explaining

[worldly fjord]

can someone check the crafting bench and let me know if airaldi backpack can be crafted or not?

[viscid root]

According to my notes, Airaldi pack, gloves and kneepads can be crafted. (I don't have the game up at the moment, and those are from a couple of years ago, but would it have changed?)

[worldly fjord]

just checked for myself and yeah it can

[low vortex]

Anyone here have experience with going after the DC Hunters on Heroic? And what would be your recommended SHD level?

[worldly fjord]

why would you do the masks on heroic when you can do them on normal

[low vortex]

I’ve grown to enjoy smashing my head into a wall until I complete something difficult. But if it makes no difference in the loot, I’ll just do it normal

[worldly fjord]

speaking for masks only, theres no difference. shd level doesnt matter as long as you have a good dps build.
highly recommend a scorpio

[low vortex]

Much appreciated bro! I’ll go farm for Scorpio

[tame basin]

some want the challenge too.

[worldly fjord]

fair enough, but keep in mind some hunter puzzles are night-only or they take way too long to spawn. prepare to be fraustrated a lot.

[inner tendon]

The bulk of them are actually night-only, or at least "night completion" only.
the worst being Neurotic by far. Prepared for frustration.

[low vortex]

Heard a story from a couple friends that one of the WONY ones took them three weeks to complete. No idea which, but I can’t wait to encounter them

[worldly fjord]

gotta be the one where you spawn 4

took me 6 tries to get all 4 of them

[inner tendon]

Angel was by far my longest, the Eyes kept despawning and it was only by sheer luck that I managed to complete it at all.

"Lion Eyes", for those who forget which.

[blazing timber]

ahh such a drag

to get hunters sometimes you have yo do so much

just to spawn and than killing them

[earnest scroll]

cheska>groupo no?

[nova granite]

So if kill 2 enemies I'll get +20% armor or +10% armor?

[rugged stratus]

10% for every kill

[nova granite]

So +100% armor for 10 kills.

[rugged stratus]

yeah

[nova granite]

Where is the best place 2 farm Memento?

[rugged stratus]

some other items have aok as well. hunters fury, mop named shotgun

[rugged stratus]

probably countdown since you can get drops from kills and also 2 runs nets the credits to buy an exo cache

[nova granite]

I don't believe this shit! I've been playing 4 over 7 months & didn't get a single Memento.

I can't even remember if I've accidentally deconstructed it or not.

Bad fucking luck!

[rugged stratus]

too much praying to rngesus... shoulda been making the proper Lootcifer sacrifices. he likes god rolled carbine 7s and heroic countdown squad wipes from hacked stinger hives

[nova granite]

I hate RNG

[sudden matrix]

You play solo or with a group? More people to share in a group plus the weekly project and legendary exotic cache can be shared.

[nova granite]

solo mosatly

[limber whale]

Have you tried summit with bp targeted? I believe exo drop rate there is higher compared to cd…

[tiny stump]

probably. i didnt have any ceska pieces that would fit there. and i only needed 1 or 2 chd mods on the gear. there was still room for either going to 60% chc or give myself another 12% chd

[earnest scroll]

ceska is always better than groupo unless you naturally reach chc cap which you only do in high end builds where you go full crit on sub attributes or on gearsets with crit (so umbra and nego ) or with smgs i guess

[nova granite]

Need 2 do legendary weekly.

[sudden matrix]

It's rosevelt so pretty easy.

[tiny stump]

only way ceska isnt (almost always) necessary is with smgs or exotics with high chc. like i dont use ceska (or any providence pieces) on a high end red build when i run st elmo

[earnest scroll]

yea thats literally what i said?

[tiny stump]

oh yea. im repeating yourself. why did i bother to do that.

[sudden matrix]

lol

[tiny stump]

with memento stacks i had that capacitor hitting around 700k. it was pretty good

it almost became a run and gun thing even with PCG bc the memento trophies kept me up while taking damage

[tiny stump]

should i bother keeping these just for wony runs? just to help me kick ass on lvl 30 to mayybe lvl 33. when i got them on wony runs i was like alright sweet, ill save it for the next wony run but their usage is so limited

mostly valuable because the stats are better than typical lvl 30 gear which is at like 1.5% weapon dmg on everything you pick up

[rugged stratus]

nah, roll down a scorpio on your next run and that can carry you till ready for keener

[tiny stump]

oh yeahhh good thinkin

[rugged stratus]

cap also can roll to 30

[tiny stump]

how do you do it? bring it with you to a lvl 30 character and use that crafting bench to reconfigure?

[rugged stratus]

yeah you gotta do the very beginning and head to whitehouse normal.. then use the store> addons 30 boost to stay in dc and reconfig

i had crafted a skill build for my runs

[tiny stump]

yeah pretty easy crafting, unless youre library is empty i guess

[rugged stratus]

just have whatever you want to reconfig in stash and do the share blueprints stuff

[tiny stump]

right

[rugged stratus]

thats dc 30 boost thing is how you also farm components from weekly shd project

[tiny stump]

oh yeah. maybe ill make a new character soon. i just need to erase about 130 pieces of gear and weapons that are all god rolled

[humble tartan]

legendary manning national zoo what rewards do you get.

[frail wadi]

Doesn't summit save my progress when I die or tp away?

[thorn hedge]

To the nearest checkpoint

Which are 1,4,7,10 etc

[frail wadi]

Ohhhhhhh thank you for that, I had to go after the 2nd floor and I had to restart at 1 😔