Note I am playing solo all the time when farming, groups waste time.
I’ve been getting around 10 exotic components per hour in the Toxic DZ. Once you get a decent build with some extra armor but with good damage it is not very hard at all. I would recommend the Liquid Engineer backpack for this it’s S Tier for the PVE mode DZ. Below a simple build with 3 Unit Alloy pieces: Mask Equalizer Salvo, Liquid Engineer backpack, Fenris gloves with blue core, and new Nurse exotic kneepads. So the build has 2 blue cores and 4 red with CHC at 56% and around 100% CHD. Using the Caduceus AR as main gun but use whatever AR you like, the healing is decent even with this nerfed build with the blue cores, armor is 1.5 million.
I’m using Reviver and Striker drone for more of a distraction and a little damage. An alternative for the kneepads is the Emperor’s Guard that will give you more armor regen 2% total and make drone stronger if you keep the +1 skill tier on it, roll CHC as attribute. Armor regen can really help you out even in the PVE mode if you need to hide in cover when overwhelmed by tough landmark boss or extraction hunter. Even with the heals of the Caduceus you will be suppressed often and the armor regen is helping. The bonus armor after around 3 kills from the backpack can help you play more aggressively when you need to chase an enemy down who won’t move. Most of the time my bonus armor is 3/4 of the bar all blue.
CHC above 50% is very important for this build due to Equalizer and Caduceus needing crits.
Play style is non stop Landmarks, I don’t care about the difficulty just pickup all loot and deconstruct for DZ resources. While running around pickup loot from caches and the small DZ resource boxes too. After getting 2-3 canister caches I go to the extraction area and kill hunter for more loot lots of times they drop exotics, then extract canister caches, dz resources, and exotics. Immediately run to next landmark rinse and repeat. When engaging a Challenging and Heroic landmark I will usually send the drone in and find a nice position mid to long range and deal with them that way.
After getting around 160 DZ resources go to DZ vendor outside front door and get the cache for 4 exotic components. So with those and the exotics that drop during DZ runs it’s pretty easy to hit 10 exotic components if you waste no time. The Toxic stuff does not matter my bar is maxed most of the time, it resets when I go to vendor or spend in DC for the munitions. Think the most in 1 hour was 12-13 exotic components this was when multiple Hunters popped out. The DZ resources to 160 take around an hour of steady playing, could probably improve on this part.
After doing this for a few runs you will start learning all the enemy spawn patterns and this is really the key to making this easier. Good positioning is generally the key in this game. Make sure you set your modifiers correctly, go with ones that help you stay safe in the Toxic DZ.
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