I'm over 4500hrs played and done most the Raids and Farmed my gear to Min/Max it and None of it Matters... You'll still get owned by a bunch of Reds and Purples while trying to not get Pummeled by the Yellows/Bosses. Why even have SHD points and Expertise?!?!? It all Means NOTHING! The NPC's are not "Set level" and Always Scale to You & your Abilities, WHY?!?!

I'd like to feel a Modicum amount of Power from Wasting All the Time I did to Earn the SHD level I have and the Prestige level!!! What's really Dumb is for people with hardly Any SHD and Expertise can do the EXACT same content I do because of this Dumb Scaling System!

It's All nothing more than a Time Sink Mechanic because you get no "Real Extra Power" from any of it! If you want to PvP then yes the SHD and Expertise helps (but there is still a hidden scaling effect...). But if you mainly Solo PvE like me just to have some "Fun", then just forget it... go play Absolutely ANY other game and you can feel Powerful when you are at Endgame+!

So I guess I got my Money worth out of this game a Long while back, I just wish I would have had this knowledge when I started and I would not have bothered to waste 4000+ hrs.

Good Luck Anyone that stays with a game that Punishes you for spending time making Builds/doing content... I'm off to play Any of my Steam Games or maybe Diablo 3's Newest Season, where I already have 1500+ Paragon and solo 130 GR's and I actually Feel & I Am Powerful and Own most the Content! Funniest thing is I'm not even Fully geared out in Primal's and still Own Most Everything and I'm actually having Fun!!

Good Riddance Division 2! **laughs as he uninstalls the launcher**

Did you just get dropped by some red NPCs in hard Darpa and decided to come here and rant about the equipment not carrying you?

Quite funny that the enemies dont scale with your level here but they so with diablo 3 so i wonder what he's smoking on this one

I'm over 4500hrs played (...) and Farmed my gear to Min/Max it and None of it Matters... You'll still get owned by a bunch of Reds and Purples (...)

Yeah, you really shouldn't. And if you really have successfully played both raids, you should know that of course gear is important, that good builds are important, but that no build and no Expertise Level will magically carry you through the hardest content. So I guess you maybe just had a bad day and got [censored] off? If not... well... SHD Level do not say anything about the actual skill of an agent, after all... But I guess we will never know. And we probably don't care as well...

(...) It all Means NOTHING! The NPC's (...) Always Scale to You & your Abilities, WHY?!?! (...)

I don't know why you still believe this would be the case after over 4,500 hours in the game? This totally is not true. Enemies do not scale with neither your SHD Level nor your Expertise Level. Which sadly is quite an issue for hardcore veterans, since progression systems like Optimization or Expertise or new and evermore powerful gear makes the game overall easier and easier – and thus removes the real challenges for players actually seeking them.

(...) Good Riddance Division 2! **laughs as he uninstalls the launcher**

Goodbye random ranter.

You don’t understand, the SHD, the max gear, and all the time you have spent, didn’t mean nothing. Try go back story mode where your journey began, you will notice how much more powerful you had became.

@MLG_Totenstille Time to use other weapons other than the Scorpio. I don't know why when people get the Scorpio they think they can tackle everything in the game.

On Op's complaint,

I did test certain types of damage before Gear 2.0 came out. What I learned was the fact that Red and Purple enemies do damage based on a bit of a sliding scale. Yellow seems fixed but Red and Purples are a bit more flexible. If the OP is running protection from elites, then quite often it can seem that Reds and Purples scale with you while Yellows just stay the same. This isn't that unique for the Division 2, lots of other games have this too to prevent lower level enemies from completely destroying unprepared weaker characters. Sometimes though the math can be a bit off and well, you get Red NPC's that can completely destroy you while Elites are just not as nasty because they have fixed damage.

Also this recent Manhunt mission is a lot rougher than the previous ones. I am going to point that out. On Heroic almost every NPC, except for maybe 10, seemed to be a Yellow.

4500 hours is a lot. I know I had a period of burnout with this game, but this kind of play is just asking to burn out eventually. OP, there are lots of games out there. Try them for a while and then maybe a few things might get fixed in Div 2 and it can be time to come back.

Sounds like someone got carried for 4500 hours.