In The Division 1.7 you should be able to target Classified Gear more effectively. With the PTS Phase 3, this will be adjusted.
Since yesterday, since the 18th of July, the third phase of the public test server is live on PC. Massive has rolled out some adjustments and bug fixes. When this PTS phase will come to the consoles PS4 and Xbox One is unknown.
Loot Changes to Classified Gear
On the PTS, you can get the Classified Gear for free from the special equipment vendor in the Terminal – so you can test the new items directly. Once update 1.7 is released, you will have to painstakingly gather the Classified Gear through Global Events.
During an event, you collect tokens that you can use to open “Global Event” containers. These can contain Classified Gear.
So far, the drop rate has been too low, many users complained. With PTS Phase 3, there have now been changes:
- The Superior Caches now drop only one item: either a gear set piece, an exotic, or a classified set piece.
- The chances of this item being exotic or classified have been increased.
However:
- The price for a Superior Cache has been increased from 650 to 1500
- and the price for a Regular Cache has been increased from 350 to 900.
- In missions with Normal and Hard difficulty, the drop rates for the tokens have been increased to compensate for the price increases.
- Cosmetic rewards are now available through leaderboard caches.
Further Changes – Patch Notes PTS 3 for Update 1.7
- At the improvement station, you can now recalibrate the gear. This was previously disabled due to an issue. For testing purposes, recalibrating is currently completely free.
- The EMP sticky grenades no longer stagger enemies.
- All weapons now have a hard cap on fire rate. This cannot be exceeded.
- The healing effect from the Striker set (6-set bonus) is being further adjusted. If you want a lot of healing, you will now have to focus more on stamina.
- The Backup set now grants a significantly higher chance for the support station to be deployed again immediately if it has been destroyed by an enemy.
- Additionally, there are further adjustments and bug fixes that you can all view in the Ubi Forum.
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