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The developers needed to do one thing from the debut of the game to make it good and they screwed that up. Green gear needed to be the best sets to get in the game and rarest drops. Right now the green gear rains without effort. Developer Are not smart as Div 1 was good because of these special gear sets and people played and farmed it.
over 5 years ago - Ubi-RealDude - Direct link
This is a topic I've seen talked about on he forums quite a bit. The relationship between high end gear and gear sets is drastically different from The Division to The Division 2, for sure.

Particularly post-level-30 and into the endgame, how has the build crafting process changed for you from when gear sets were the requirement vs. gear sets being the outlier niche-choices?