u/Firm_Employer_8463

I was the leader of that team today and, what would you have done?

- me, 7.4K + (5K, 10K, 2K)

We start DUA tier 5, easy peasy... after the first 5 seconds, Mr 10K gets downed and... quits

we went though 3 rooms of Mr 5K running front and dying like 12 times... to the point where I let him sit next to me, the whole room, and did not revive. Next room, he does the same, sprints forward to his death.... and just yelled something in Chinese and left.

In the meantime, Mr 2K kept disconnecting, and disconnecting, and disconnecting... out of respect I did not kick him, but he eventually came back and just stayed there, wasn't moving so I kicked him and finished solo.

Would you have done anything different?

I used to play Heroic with 4 directives, and have fun, but since escalation:

Heroic feels like HARD mode 😔 enemies drop way too fast... I have to always remove my escalation builds and put regular gear and weapons (read:non-proto)

It's getting boring out there... I wish now I could choose Escalation MAP... where it would apply to the whole map... without the Proto drops, i'll be ok with that

Matchmake for Tier5, join a group leader (SHD15K) and 2 others join (2K and 1K)... I'm 7K by the way.

DUA, first minute, the 2 lower level guys go down, then the 2K leaves.... The leader leaves and I hear the "you are now group leader"

Me (7K) and the other guy (1K) finished DUA Tier5.... what happened to my tokens? Does the leader get the rewards as well?

I think people starting Escalation and leaving (unless wipe) should pay prorata of investment tokens.

Is it costs 100 and there are 4 people, if one leaves, he has to pay the leader ¼(25% = 25 tokens)

So the devs came out with some new cool stuff (PVE DZ) but I’m not sure why they felt the need to NERF weapons, gear and talents?

Why focus on this instead of working on all the bugs?

Sadly, regular gear no longer matter much, forget Expertise, now you have just about everyone doing escalation... because, why grind and kill myself to expertise anything if I can just do escalation and get my whole build via Prototype?

You have level 200's wanting to matchmake escalation 7+... and have a full prototype build already...

What is the point to do anything else then?

Well, I guess these ******* had to fix it sooner or later...

I just converted a gear item to Prototype and the outcome was very disappointing.

Now comes the question: Do I have to farm that piece, bring it to 30 (45 exo components) and try again?

I understand we can't improve the pieces, but what if we could? what if it would cost in prototype components? so at least, I can try to improve on my shitty roll?

I am running a Striker/Unit Alloy build (yes with NBP, I know) and for the longest time kept switching between St Elmo's and Lexington (Prototype version)...

BUT

Yesterday I was in a tier 5 escalation and tried the Huntsman (76 rounds mag) only level 20 and the perfect Frenzy on this thing made it so much better than I thought, can't wait to prototype it...

I've tried a bunch and just keep going back to Streamline.... that +42% damage is just too good to pass up (I rarely use skills... )

Am I missing on a good talent?

I have a week left and haven't really started, if I were to have only 20 keys total... what would be the event thing I really need to get?

I had a brief encounter with some Kitsunebi but there was no Boss? or do I need to do something for it to appear?