Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 (PC/PS4/XB1/STD)

[Malithar]

Finally hit cap last night. I get the point of world tiers now, but I still think it's a little on the wasted side. Two invaded missions + a stronghold progresses you a world tier each. Finish the six missions and three strongholds and you're sitting at tier 4, waiting for the raid to hit for tier 5. The difficulty definitely spikes a good bit til your gear catches up at each world tier. Typically I got the gear I needed to hit the item level requirement for the strongholds from the two missions. Tier 2 > 3 I had some bad RNG and my drops were like five bags. I ran a couple of side missions I hadn't completed and crafted a pistol and that finished me up.

The endgame world is a tad more involved. Control points dynamically change control, with NPCs fighting over them. I'm not entirely sure if you can win back the world, but I don't think so. A major end game activity at world tier 4 is to grind control point fights. At tier 4, they have alert levels. Default is 1, and each control point has randomish other world events tied to it, like executions, propaganda broadcasts, etc. You can see them tied to it via a red line. As you complete these, the alert level of the control point increases. Doing this causes additional rewards, some unique, to drop. For example, there are a ton of attachment blueprints that come from these, but they only drop at alert level 3 and 4. I haven't found much info on alert level 4, most seem to write it off as too hard.

For an endgame, I'm enjoying what they've got. My only complaint is pretty much shared with every looter shooter ever; you end up with subprime gear in order to increase your item level. That evens out as you play more though, so I'm not really worried. I am a big fan that seemingly every activity, even every mob, can drop relevant high end gear. Funny enough though, it's kind of annoying. In Jim Sterling's review, he described it as loot fatigue. Fairly accurate description. It's weird to consider that you get too much, when most games problem is they aren't rewarding enough. I think the fatigue will wear off as I come to know what a good roll is. I spend a bit too long looking at drops right now to figure out if it's worth keeping.

Big tip for anyone just starting or at mid game though: Save your skill slot mods. Skill power requirements spike very high, but so do the skill power rolls on your gear. A good example is the holster I have, it has like 1700 skill power. However, high level mods require upwards of 2800+. That 2800+ could be for, for example, +10% damage on a skill. But a low level blue that gives +5% damage may only require 400-600 skill. Keeping some of those around can allow you to mod your skills decently, instead of not at all.

[theshun]

Make sure to collect BG Clan rewards from the White House clan stash.

[Wulfgang]

Nice post Mal; helpful. The Reddit post below has a pretty great overview of current endgame activities:

https://www.reddit.com/r/thedivision...ax_gear_score/

I hit LV25 last night; I'm in Tahoe this weekend skiing, so I probably won't hit 30 until next week.

[Abandon]

nice flex

[Gadritan]

Leveling is going really fast for me so far. Teamed up with a buddy and we're at 18/19 with maybe a few hours played. DZ is kinda boring atm because no one at lower levels seems to want to go in. We did one run before maint last night and hit like rank 15 iirc.

Just trying to burn to cap as fast as possible now so we can roll 4man squads in there.

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[Cail]

Leveling is going really fast for me so far. Teamed up with a buddy and we're at 18/19 with maybe a few hours played. DZ is kinda boring atm because no one at lower levels seems to want to go in. We did one run before maint last night and hit like rank 15 iirc.

Just trying to burn to cap as fast as possible now so we can roll 4man squads in there.

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Ill fucking be there

[Gadritan]

Wife and daughter going to NY Saturday. Ya, I gotta work, but I'll be vegging out on this every hour I'm home.

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[Cail]

Wife and daughter going to NY Saturday. Ya, I gotta work, but I'll be vegging out on this every hour I'm home.

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All I have to do from sat 1a-tue 11p is sleep, and a dentist appointment on Monday morning

[Malithar]

I've got work 8-6PM Saturday and 10:30-5:30PM EST Sunday. Outside of that, I'm down for whatever, DZ, helping get people to 30, world tiers, etc. I made up my slack on the guild leader board the first week, was like 4x the CXP of the next guy.

[Koul]

I'll be playing pretty much all day Sunday~ still only lvl 13 tho lol

[Wulfgang]

Likely kicking ski trip to next w/e given work and weather. Should be on most of the w/e if so. LV27 with one stronghold down right now.

[Fiye]

Finally in WT1 on PC.

[Kalmado]

For any type of review I only watched Jim Sterling's. This morning I went from the WH to the next first stop in the story and roamed around a little. What Sterling said was true. Enemies don't sit still and it really makes the combat more like a strategy game because you truly do have to be on your toes. Had a bit of fun with it before heading into work.

[Cail]

Skill up put up his review today. I'm excited to watch it

[6souls]

Skill up put up his review today. I'm excited to watch it

[Malithar]

How's the PS4 Pro doing for you Cail? Wednesday when I played for the majority of the day, my PS4 just kinda said nope at some point. Pretty sure the game has a memory leak that hits hard at some point, models pretty much devolved into PS1 era models. Spoiler for big.

Spoiler: show

Skill up put up his review today. I'm excited to watch it

Watching/listening to it now. Love his content. He hit on some fair points but overall he seemed to love it.

[6souls]

My internet keeps dropping out when playing the game since the last patch.

[Daydreamer]

Do we have enough total people playing on PC to hit the 4 member minimum for the clan to do the weekly clan stuff?

[Kalmado]

Do we have enough total people playing on PC to hit the 4 member minimum for the clan to do the weekly clan stuff?

I'd have to get off my ass and actually level........

Seriously though it's just been a busy week for me so I haven't given this game more than an hour but it does seem like a bit of fun. I have a dinner guest tonight and work around the house before but tomorrow I'm def going to get some time in.

[Cail]

You really need more than 4 for a clan. You'll level up very slowly and probably never hit cache rewards