Gear Progression. What is the point?
Until recently, I have basically ignored EVERYTHING regarding Escalation. Both in-game and on forums.
Here and there I saw some rant topic about Escalation how it's bad, kills any meaningful progression etc etc.
At first I thought it's classy doomer crap and people complaining for sake of complaining and at times it even felt like people hates new content.
Currently, I'm at 900 Shd, full library, 14 expertise level. I really liked the steady grind and improvement of my gear via tinkering station.
Yesterday, I decided to give an Escalation a shit, since I needed some new thing to shake up the old Countdown/Retaliation/weeklies rotation.
And damn I was pissed royally when I found out that even the shittiest proti gear drop is literally better in every way than not just my expertise 14 gear, but also potential 30.
My question is, what is the actual incentive or point to bother with anything after the moment get your striker/TS/refactor/bulwark sets, when I can just hop onto Escalation <T4 and fairly steadily get my proto gear?
I did 8 runs yesterday and already replaced completely my old cherished expertise14, fully optimized Tipping Point load out with shittiest stat rolled proto TS?
what were devs actually thinking ?