On the topic of being bored, I figured I'd throw my thoughts in here. So currently we've been running as my wife, my father-in-law, my brother-in-law, and myself. We probably all have a 240 piece of everything technically pre-1.3, so in theory we could probably hit the 228 Gear Score if we ran all of our 240 pieces. Obviously, though; not all of our 240's are the best things to run so we have sporadic gear to accomplish certain Gear Sets and etc. Also due to this, we're definitely not min/maxed even for pre-1.3 as far as DPS/Toughness/Skill Power goes. All that said, the wall we're currently running into is the fact that we're on PS4, so there's no Underground... Since there's no Underground for us, our options become Incursions, HVT, Main Missions, or Dark Zone. That all seems like a lot of options until you try to do all of them. To start.. Dark Zone, some of us are 231+ and some of us are below 231.. so in order to play together we have to all phase into the 231+ Bracket. That also unfortunately means that, while we can handle the NPC's in the lower brackets... the Tanktician Rogues are able to demolish us even as a 4 on 1, all focus firing. I literally ran around a truck last night to avoid the single Rogue that had demolished us, throwing my shock turret to slow him down and keep the truck between him and I until eventually I just had to give up instead of keep running around that truck. I'm very understanding of the fact that the Dark Zone is meant to have Rogues, and it's meant to be difficult because of that. I enjoy the concept of the Dark Zone. Can I do the Dark Zone by myself? Definitely not. Can I do the Dark Zone with my group? Unfortunately, 95% of the time it probably won't be a place where we can actually get loot extracted. So... for all intents and purposes, the Dark Zone isn't really an option for us.
Incursions. Well, we're able to complete both Falcon Lost and Clear Sky on Hard Mode for sure. However.. Falcon Lost is definitely not something we always have the time for, as even if it's not overly difficult anymore on Hard Mode, it still takes a certain portion of time. Clear Sky; we don't have the ability to do the whole 10-minute run, but it's also not an impossible feat for our group. Still.. that's just one area where a possible 240, so we're still not entering 268 territory. And yes... that's just Hard Mode. Challenge Mode has demolished us on both Incursions, so quite obviously we still have a lot of maneuvering to do with our Gear. Still.. the theory would stand that the more 240 pieces of your type of gear you have, the easier the Challenge Modes will become for your team (sort of), but getting 240 gear regularly is a difficult task.
This brings us to HVT's... As everyone knows, it's mostly Lone Star. I can acknowledge that I've definitely received other drops from HVT's, and some of my better drops have come from there.. but it's still mostly Lone Star. Dailies have consistently not dropped anything over 214.. and more often than not are strictly 182's or 191's. The Weekly's have dropped 240's pretty consistently, so I'm happy with that. But that's only 4 per week.
And finally, main missions. I was telling my group that we were going to need to try Heroic Main Missions so that we could get some 268 gear.. but then I've read pretty consistently that it's dropping nowhere near that even though I was under the impression from Hamish and them that Heroic Main Missions would be dropping 268 gear. Basically that Heroic anything = 268 drops. We're able to do Challenge Modes even as just my wife and I, so that's nice... so as a group, we do quite well on Challenge Mode main missions.. So again; I was hoping that Heroic mode would be a nice challenge for our group, but something that we'd ultimately be able to do and also be well-rewarded for it. If what everyone's saying is correct and it only drops 214's.. well that sucks.
So, in conclusion: we all get on last night, and I'm trying to decide what we can do that will actually for sure reward us with good stuff... and, well; it's the Dark Zone which we just don't feel geared enough for. All four of us love the game, but I can definitely acknowledge where boredom could become a thing if there's not enough places to get the gear that can progress you to the next level of difficulty.
