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systemwave

Gear Sets - General Topic

General Discussion

Agents,

I just wanted to talk about gear sets in general and my experience with them so far.

Prior to 1.2 i had a tough time obtaining the gearsets be it Dark Zone or incursions. After 1.2 gearsets were much easier to obtain, obviously due to changes of how they were attainable. Since the patch i have been able to collect Gear Sets at challenge missions, HVT's, Incursions, DZ enemy drops and Caches.

On a side note, since the availability of gearsets is abundant, i do hope that in the future 'new' drops that are actually better than gearsets do have the opportunity to be created and released into the public..... I can't help but think about diablo 2....can anyone say "runewords" or "enigma" lol...

Anyway i havent been able to get all of the sets but the ones that i have tested turned out to be pretty cool. I don't in anyway follow 'the meta' and i try to obtain gearsets purley for their 4 piece perk. Of the sets obtained they are as follows:

Striker's, Tactician's, Predator's, & either Final Measure or Hunter's faith (forgot which one)

I havent had the chance to test out FM/HF but the other 3 sets seem to operate well.

Strikers is great to gain DPS as well as obtain higher damage. This is my first set obtained and naturally on my first character who is based on that gearset. I use this set to go into DZ and run both incursions.

Tacticians is a great set which i use mostly as a support class to run FL and Challenge mode missions. This set is a great change of pace if you want to act as a support/heal boost/buff role.

Lastly, Predator's mark is a great set that i recently picked up with my third character. She is still new and early in her build but is receiving excellent perks from PM in PVE. I'm looking forward to more testing of this set.

Out of 3 that i have tested, i have to say that all of the sets have really caught me by surprise and I am pleased with the way they perform.

I do feel that these sets are great and honestly i didnt expect them to return they way they do.

Just venting my thoughts are Gear sets.

What were your experiences like?

Wave out!

Posted Jun 6, 2016, 6:55 PM UTC

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bubbrubb22Xbox•

Worth giving up savage gloves to go from 3pc strikers to 4?

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systemwaveOPSHD•

I havent had the opportunity do a savage set up yet...

i think that if i can get a strikers holster, it would free my gloves up and i could replace it with a savage gloves....just waiting on that holster to give me a boost.

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A_Tangh snap!•

I don't feel like it is.

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nsinsinsi•

I say yes. With a 4 piece striker you can run up to an enemy's face and if you unload a fast gun in their face without missing you will do tons of damage.

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knight526806•

Lol, try that in DZ 5/6. Get back to me.

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nsinsinsi•

I do it every day. It works.

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nsinsinsi•

I think most (not all) of the gear sets are underpowered and need buffs or adjustments to be real game changers.

  • Striker's is awesome, but I do think they should adjust the bonus so you lose 1% instead of 2% when you miss a shot to make it more viable.
  • Sentry is fantastic even with the 1.2 nerf.
  • Tactician's is fantastic as well and provides a beefy bonus.
  • Final Measure's 2-set bonus is awesome (50% Exotic Damage Mitigation). 3-set is ok for PVE, and the 4-set bonus is pretty much useless since player's grenades aren't that useful in the first place.
  • Predator: It's cool and fun to use, but the damage inflicted by the gear set bonus is just not high enough. Should be at least twice as much to be comparable to Striker's or Sentry. Also damage points on AR and Pistol should be higher - 1000+ damage points on AR is a pretty small buff when your damage base is 12K or so.
  • Hunter's Faith: 2-set bonus is great (20%+ crit damage for MMRs), 3-set is nice for PVE, but 4-set is weird and hard to use. You need more armor the closer you are, not the farthest, for one. And the fact that the armor depletes after one bullet makes it extremely impractical.
  • Lone Star: Needless to say my best gear in this game is Lone Star because 240 Lone Star gear drops like rain everywhere now, but even then, I can't get a good damage profile on it. 2-set: 100% ammo: Big whoop, I can do that by changing to other gear temporarily. 3-set: +1000 damage to LMGs and Shotguns: really not enough for two underpowered gun classes. Give me +3000 and maybe we have something. 4-set: really cool and fun to use but with damage being so low, it's only good for bringing some variation to PVE if you're bored.
  • Nomad: The biggest joke in the game. Drops CONSTANTLY and it's all but useless. 100% of mystery "scavenging" that doesn't work, and then 20% health on kill which is easily trumped by any weapon with Predatory on it, and the final bonus which just makes you die twice if you're in a real dangerous situation.

Ultimately, in my opinion, no other gear sets can beat the effectiveness of Sentry, Striker and Tactician across the board, but they can make ok additions to existing combos (i.e. Final Measure 2-set). If they buffed some of the bonuses / buffs, they could be very viable.

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Sticky_Agent•

Just too much RNG. To get the roll you want on a piece you want can take forever if unlucky. As a tac build and not someone whose looking to change, it can take forever to find what you really want. I have to hope that 1 piece out of 8 gear sets drop and then hope it has good rolls. Not to mention that a HE item can drop instead of a green.

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