Some of my themed/meme presets
After some years of Fashion League
u/Krayban88 — 11 days ago
▲ 14 r/RLFashionAdvice
Got an Uncle Sam hat as a random drop during the FIFA event
So I made another meme preset
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Car: TW Octane
Decal: USA (FIFA 26)
Wheels: Buckboard
Boost: Nitrous
Trail: Oil Slick
GE: Airstrike
Decal: Team USA
u/Krayban88 — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/thedivision
Probably a lukewarm take but other than host token balancing and optimization, Escalation could be fixed if exotic components dropped like Prototyped gear
A thread I saw earlier today reminded me that it is impossible or extremely hard for people to get certain unicorn builds or godrolls due to core attributes by farming Escalation. So people who expertise their rare weapons and gear and then prototype it are rewarded for their grind. New players can still get a taste of that expertise reward by getting prototyped drops just like they can now, but it's limited outside of Strikers or a few gearsets where the core aligns with the type of build (counterexamples: Refactor has blue cores for a healing skill build, iirc Habsburg also rolls blue for a sniper build). But the newer players can take that Strikers build and kickstart their expertise grind by going through the other content in the game with it and eventually branching off into other builds.
Only problem is that the exotic component farming in this game has always been the most time consuming grind. I even became a regular in the Dark Zone for a few years (as someone who doesn't really care about pvp other than it being a slight change of pace) to farm them from SHD caches and also to get Conflict level 100 for the cosmetics. It's why people resorted to making and deleting mule characters for the two free exotic components which sounds like an extremely dull grind.
So other than Escalation hosts not being the only ones screwed over for a mission failure and optimizing Prototype gear, if you added exotic components as something NPCs could drop with the same drop rate that honestly would solve all Escalation problems for me. It still leaves in some gatekeeping by motivating people to inspect builds before launching, but I personally don't think that's unreasonable since Escalation is probably the second hardest content after the two raids.
This is probably an old take because I usually only check this subreddit after work and there are a lot of Escalation complaint posts (+1) so likely has been mentioned before.
Edit: Or even easier, just add a conversion for prototype cores -> exotic components. Like one core for two or three components (please don't tell me this already exists and I completely missed it). Also for "kickstart expertise grind" I really mean either SHD leveling to use watch points for printer filament or farming drops to dismantle through Countdown or directives
u/Krayban88 — 3 months ago