so, everything has mitigation right? status builds have haz pro, skill builds have jammer, but what about weapon builds? well the only thing I can think of is skill builds. skill builds are the mitigation for weapon builds and that's the real reason most PVPers complain about them. Look at the Shrapnel trap for example, it directly combats the way weapon build players rush in at you, and they absolutely hate it because of that. skill builds force a more tactical and cover-based play-style. The meta weapon builds are the exact opposite, all they do is put up their shield and shoot. Then they complain when skill builds put them down and claim skill builds are OP. when in reality, it's weapon builds that are OP. Weapon builds can have tons of armor plus a shield and still melt people no prob, skill builds at the max can have 913k armor, excluding things like the kard and the memento. technically you could put more armor on a skill build but since skill tiers are more than just damage you basically need skill tier 6. skill builds can be mitigated with jammer or by destroying their skills. weapon builds can only be mitigated with distance and maybe riot foam or a blinder. but if someone with more than 1 mil armor goes rogue and pulls out a shield right by you and you're a skill build there's basically nothing you can do.

I did NY open world bosses yesterday… nothing. Is that the best way? What about SMG targeted loot? Any other tips? (Besides group play) 😉

Is this talent any good? I have a Devil's Due backpack with great attribute (type) rolls, but the levels are far from "god." in other words, it would take a considerable amount of resources to optimize it.

I know Clutch was nerfed some time ago. Is it bad enough now to not justify doing this?

Now, I know that Striker's Battlegear (SB) is not very popular in TD2 in general and stands in great contrast with what it was in TD1.
But, I have a bunch of god-rolled pieces and I wanted to give it a go.
The build is pretty basic (see below). It's made for automatic weapons, but can be used with Rifles or Shotguns (not sure is very good for MMRs).
This configuration is best for ARs and SMGs. Goes well with Carbine 7 modded for CHC, or any other AR with reasonable accuracy. SMGs for CQB... Dark Winter is a beast.
I would keep only 3 SB pieces for LMGs (accuracy is not great and you lose lots of SB stacks) and add Contractor's Gloves for that scenario. Imagine Bullet King with +15% handling and ROF, it's fun!
Speaking of which, this is not meant to be "the best" of anything, just a fun build.
Let me know what you think.

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This is my view on the DPS side of the game as i don't use and refuse to use skill builds so I have left the skill side of the game out of this OTHER than the absolute broken stuff.

I Know that chances are TU13 will add new things to the game, but these changes here are mostly what is already in the game that needs a good tweak.


General Changes.

Talent Changes

Exotic Weapons

New Skill

Just a few ideas. Feel free to add down below.

Make Legendary bosses drop their own (TA) Tactical Assessments.
So we don't get Black Tusk TA anymore.
Instead we get:
Legendary Tactical Assessments.
These Legendary TA count for every Faction.
So if we are short on/out of Cleaner TA, the Legendary TA fills in the rest/acts as Cleaner TA.

(A way better solution would be to give us Legendary enemy's of all factions, but I just don't see that happening).

The reason I ask for this is.
There are players (like me) that only play Legendary missions because everything else is too easy/boring.
And we are always full with Black Tusk TA
We just can't use them anymore.
But we still have other stuff that can use some optimising so...
We might be a small group in the community but if this could be sent to the team at least, we would really appreciate it.

I made this suggestion before only it was short mentioned in a list with other things.
But
Turn the settlement blokkade back to how it was.
Just make it bigger and with better rewards!!

How it was:
* You couldn't fast travel to the settlement that had a blokkade.
This was good but the rewards were trash, so it became really annoying.

* The blokkade was on 1 side of the settlement.
This didn't make sense at all !
(You couldn't enter a settlement from the South because there was a blokkade in the North...?)

* The blokkade was short and had no named boss(es).
Therefore it was boring and annoying as well.
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Improvements:

* that we can't fast travel to a settlement with a blokkade should come back.
But once a month instead of every week.

* People that still don't wanna do it can hold the fast travel button longer to skip the blokkade.
Now it will be checked as done and you can't get the rewards from it even if you help friends or others (back up call)

* The blokkade should surround the whole settlement.
This way you can start from any side.

* After you killed the couple waves of enemies infront of the gate, you can open the gate by destroying something infront of it.
By doing this Allies come out and help you defend it from incoming enemies. (Sort of like CP)

* Every side has a named boss in the end wave.
Example:
North 5 warhounds
East 3 big guys
South: 1 big drone
West: 2-5 Hunters.
Last side you do are always Hunters.

* Rewards
It's once a month so every named boss should have a big chance for exotic drop.
(If lucky you can end up with 4 exotic's)
And for completing it: 1 exotic cache, 3 named caches, 3 optimization caches, 3 material caches, 10 Tactical Assessments from every faction, and normal stuff guns, gear and/or mods.

***Skill vanity mod reward.
3 mods in total, 1 mod per blokkade.
100% drop rate but with a catch.
Let that weird Scavenger Guy use it on both you and the Hunters.
Now it's the question of who kills him first.
If you kill him you get the drop.
If the Hunters kill him you don't get the drop.
And now the Hunters will use the skill with that vanity mod as sort of toxic behavior. Lol

If not skill vanity mods then 3 new Hunter masks.
100% drop rate but 1 per blokkade.
You can wear these masks WITH hats/hoodys.

So, I did try PVP for a few days, with some weird results.

There are times when I go head to head with other players, I do damage, I take damage, I go down more than others, but I still get some kills.
And then I run into players that put me down in one second, while they don't seem to register much damage (or any damage in some cases) even though I shoot them at point-blank. I'm baffled re. how they do so much damage while not taking much, it's like their both armor AND dps are maxed out.
I tried several PVP builds, balanced, tank, System's Corruption, etc. No visible difference in the outcome.

What the F am I missing?!

I didn't use to have problems, but this week both The Division 1 and 2 (that are heavily dependent on the servers) are frequently crashing. And today is uniquely bad.

It stays out for a few seconds but of course it takes a long time to re-enter the game. It quite ruins the game experience, especially if you are playing solo when there is no real need to depend on *constant* server functionality.

I am wondering if Ubisoft made some of the infamous Russian hackers mad. It far worse now than even during the world event.

I am replaying Division 1 for the 2nd-3rd time. Really am enjoying this game. My question is, should i buy the expansion or the PS4 Plus or is the game gong to be discontinued on the servers. I am at level 30, world tier 4, playing solo, with no access to the Dark zone.

Just throwing this out there to see what you all think but the Optimization station requires way too much and you can hardly farm the Resources. Or am I missing something here? Whats your thoughts. any pointers on how I can get the resources faster and more of them. This is crazy.

While we have little to no comms from the devs, etc, I was wondering how many people are still experiencing the problem with the newest driver on pc where the image is all pixelated, grey, etc? My hope is that this is a much larger priority than "looking at you shrapnel trap" for the devs to fix. Rolling back my drivers for one company where I play other games that perform better with the most current driver is just ridiculous. Please fix this Ubisoft so if and when anything comes before summer 2022, we can utilize our graphics card full potential.

Thanks