Let's talk about armor and Max Tiers

[FB_Destroyer_Rebecca]

I have playing now since a couple of years on and off but I seem to be stuck on a soft-cap of never exceeding with any of my builds more than 35 tiers.
Obviously I am talking about max tier in armorpicker which is not the most important thing, I know, and it does not tell if the build is good or the overall setup.
But that's not my point, I am struggling to find gear that has more than 70 total points, for starters. And I never seem to get better drops than I am having since years....!?
I know there are sometimes special event where super armor drops, but those items vanish after the event.
Also I know there is supposed to be a certain dungeon where you can farm high total armor but I think they nerved that one or it takes way too long.
I am not a regular player so I do content every now and then and dont farm like those hardcore veterans.
Any tips or is that all just normal for Destiny 2 ?

p.s.. and I try to get my "wasted points" as low as possible.

[EckyThump]

Originally posted by FanBoy_Destroyer_Rebecca:

But that's not my point, I am struggling to find gear that has more than 70 total points, for starters.

68 is the maximum for normal legendary gear.
'Artifice' pieces from Master Dungeons (and some can now drop from PvP, I think?) have an additional mod slot with a free +3 stat boost, making 71 the maximum for these.
If you're looking for 'more than 70', artifice gear is your only choice for legendaries. I figured you might mean you're looking for those already but you sounded unsure about dungeon farming so just thought I'd explain.

68 is the highest 'roll' on Exotics too but certain Y1 and Y2 get +1, +2 or +3 on top of this.
So you can get 70+ on an Exotic but only specific ones.

[^0[.SAS.]^4HunterCat]

Originally posted by EckyThump:

68 is the maximum for normal legendary gear.

i have one with 69 right now, too bad stats on it are utter trash

[DCR]

u need to buy season of the wish pass and use that to create armor, or get dungeon key to farm artifice armor. Game is p2w unfortunately. There's no free version of artifice afaik. It is possible to get 60 stat and typical low 60, 65-66 seems to be most common of the highest armor in open world areas - but very rare. However with season of wish pass, you can then spend 2 engrams per piece, and use your ghost mod to get rolls of whatever you like, nade, res, recovery etc. It's the easieast method right now i think. Made 2 new chars with it, and already have triple 100 builds for the 2 new characters. It's still hard to get exactly what you want tho so grind is needed.

[EckyThump]

Originally posted by ^0.SAS.^4HunterCat:

Originally posted by EckyThump:

68 is the maximum for normal legendary gear.

i have one with 69 right now, too bad stats on it are utter trash

Really? Mind taking a screenshot?
It either has a mod or it's an artifice piece.

[ld2950]

Actually Ecky I also have a cpl pieces at 70 exotics I think no i didn't get them in anything other than a lucky roll of a gold engram and legendary's at 68 and 69 no triple hundreds but it works for my build

[Titanica (MAGA) (MASA)]

I understand not a word of this, LOL.

[TheVoidSpirit]

Originally posted by ld2950:

Actually Ecky I also have a cpl pieces at 70 exotics I think and legendary's at 68 and 69 no triple hundreds but it works for my build

due to how stats on armor are calculated, it is impossible to get more than 68 total on legendary armor

[=RaggA=]

Originally posted by EckyThump:

(and some can now drop from PvP, I think?)

Yes, but only from the competitive playlist and requires a comp rank of Gold 3 or higher to be eligible.

[^0[.SAS.]^4HunterCat]

Originally posted by EckyThump:

Originally posted by ^0.SAS.^4HunterCat:

i have one with 69 right now, too bad stats on it are utter trash

Really? Mind taking a screenshot?
It either has a mod or it's an artifice piece.

yea sorry about that on the double cheking it was exotic armor peice

[FB_Destroyer_Rebecca]

Originally posted by DCR:

u need to buy season of the wish pass and use that to create armor, or get dungeon key to farm artifice armor. Game is p2w unfortunately. There's no free version of artifice afaik. It is possible to get 60 stat and typical low 60, 65-66 seems to be most common of the highest armor in open world areas - but very rare. However with season of wish pass, you can then spend 2 engrams per piece, and use your ghost mod to get rolls of whatever you like, nade, res, recovery etc. It's the easieast method right now i think. Made 2 new chars with it, and already have triple 100 builds for the 2 new characters. It's still hard to get exactly what you want tho so grind is needed.

ok thanks. had to read everything 3 times before my small brain understood it! ;)

Anyway, I do have most of my gear beeing between 60 and 65 stats but still I can not manage to get 3x100.
And I am sadly not in a Clan at the moment to do raiding for better gear with another mod slot.

[Rhulk, Div's Bitch]

To clarify, the extra mod slot comes from artifice armor. Which comes from dungeoning. Not from raiding. Raid armor have a dedicated mod slot that slots in raid dedicated mods which work exclusively in that raid. As for getting easy triple 100s, just focus 2 stats in the one half and 1 stat in the bottom half. Your armor stat distribution will be split 50/50 between the top three stats of Mobility, Resilience and Recovery, and the bottom three stats of Discipline, Intellect and Strength. You can use the +5 and +10 stat mods and if you get it, another +3 from artifice gear. Lastly, masterwork your gear, +10 to all stats assuming all 5 items are masterworked, if you don't have any good gear then at the very least get an artifice class item (Bond, Cape, Mark) and masterwork that.

[Rhulk, Div's Bitch]

You can also very easily use your subclass to gain additional stat bonuses, Solar and stasis Subclasses in general are very very free in granting additional stats due to how some of their fragments are insanely valuable and crucial to various builds.

[ld2950]

hmm funny my worm husk crown which was a random gold engram is 70 not sure how to show the screenshot here but i certainly didn't get it from raiding or any other such thing