The beginning 5-or-so minutes sounded like a Boss Ross video. Very relaxed instruction tutorial on how to turn your character into the (near)perfect death-machine 😇
Its worth noting that you can also use the armour limitations section to restrict mod costs. If you don't want expensive mods like resilience recovery or intellect use the bars to show that your armour already had 7 energy used, that way it can only apply mods that cost 3 or less energy. That section isn't just for limiting armour to raid armour.
With the new mod system I have even limited some armour to only 1 energy for stat mods so that I can use the new armour charge mods. It's worth it when some of the armour charge mods give +30 stats while active
Datto, I just listened to your video while I was in the shower. I couldn't really make out what you were saying over the sound of the water, but I just liked hearing your voice while I cleaned myself. Made me feel like I was doing it right.
just FYI for anyone wondering, at 13:46 "usually as you tend to go down the list, the mods get less energy efficient" that's because he has it sorted at the top as "Used Mods" which sorts the builds based on overall mod cost.
Here’s a tip as well: for the in game load out system, if you want to be flexible with your weapons, grab random blues from collections, make the load out with them, and then dismantle them afterwards.
To expand on this and explain what this does: Basically, if Destiny 2 doesn't find that specific item (like it was deleted) then it'll say "Item cannot be found" for that slot. So, when applying the loadout it will not do anything for those slots that are empty and keep whatever you have currently equipped in that slot.
Likewise, you can also set up hotswaps for mods in your armour, like reserves in your chest, with blue legs that youll delete so that it wont mess with your surge mods if youve already set them up beforehand The way i have it is a raid loadout with missing legs and weapons, which i would then swap to another loadout that has a reserves chest and surge legs with matching heavy weapon. Change heavy if necessary then rally, then switch back to the raid loadout, which will now give you back your original chest, whilst keeping your heavy as well as the surge mods
This is a really great tip! So we can make loadouts with "gaps" on certain slots where the loadout system will not touch that slot at all, by filling in a blue piece, and then deleting it? I guess I can also make loadouts that swap specific armor pieces (and mods on them) without touching my weapons by putting in blue weapons and deleting them too?
I would like to thank you for: - Introducing a fantastic tool - Laying things 'as they are' in your videos, you are hilarious and straight forward Thank you for your time in making us better at this game
Most reliable way is with focusing emgrams for high-stat armor at the seasonal vendors in the helm. If Pit of Heresy is on rotation that week, farm the final boss checkpoint, the armor is guaranteed to have 2 large spikes which you need for triple or quad hundred builds. For artifice armor, you'll want to farm Caiatl on master during the week it's in rotation. Don't forget to use a ghost mod that forces some stats to go where you want them (discipline is generally the best one) and happy farming!
@Bidniss Just a heads up at least for the new war table armour. As far as I've seen through using close to 30 engrams trying to roll a better arms for my warlock to get triple 100s the new war table armour is absolutely atrocious. I've got plenty of sub 60 Stat totals, and I actually don't think the discipline mod is working correctly with it bc the stat distribution has seemed extremely spread out. Yeah I do get at least 10 in discipline, but I haven't seen a single piece drop with a single Stat even in the 20s yet so just a heads up for people before they spend all their engrams that the new war table armour might not be the move.
I have been playing destiny 2 for 4 years now. Have thousands of hours in the game. I know all of this information but I still watch the whole thing. I really appreciate you making this easier for new lights to join this wonderful universe. Thank you datto
I personally don't have a lot of high rolling armor, and for anyone else in that boat, I would make sure to account for the fact that the new font of something armor mods will grant 30+ of whatever stat it's associated with when you have an armor charge. It's helped me get 100s in stats when pretty much any armor combination wouldn't get me that high
@@Divine-General-Mahoraga You seem to be forgetting that stats affect more than just ability regeneration. For me it's nice for making up for shortfalls in my "best" armor sets (my highest stat hunter set has shite mobility, my highest stat warlock armor has shite intelect - being able to set those at max by picking up an orb of power is kinda nice.) You might also want to use them when "build crafting", as it's easier to slot the "font of X" to hit 100 in the stat you're testing (for just under 2 minutes at a time) than it is to farm up an entire set of gear focused on that stat. (I'm still deciding which stat I want as the tertiary focus for
@Tyler Johnson - keep an eye on the seasonal reward track armor, last season gave out full sets of 60+ stat gear (Hunter version needs font of mobility - it's REALLY bad without it)
@@muninrob putting on ashes to assets remove the entire need for intellect, you can also run 3 armor mods for whatever weapon to create orbs, ashes and whatever else. still doesnt change that getting your armor to 100 using that mod isnt worth when the normal mods do the same thing but dont eat your orbs for surges or kickstarters
I love these technical, end game videos. Your demeanor and tone are also very soothing so it is calming and inviting to players from different skill levels and dedication to the game. Keep it up!
Datto this video was perfect. The explanation was very easy to understand. The trouble I go through to get good stats, and you just made my day. Thank you and keep up the great work.
I'm pretty sure the creator of this tool isn't a RUclipsr. Don't be afraid to hit the "Buy me a Coffee" button and throw some cash their way. This tool was a staggering amount of work for a "free" side project.
I don’t pay to much attention to builds like I did in D1. But I will say some of the exotic weapon+armor combos can effectively negate having to put anything in a stat. For example, Monty Carlo + Insurrmountable Skullfort on arc titans means you don’t need to worry about melee. Actium War Rig + Sweet business and 3 kinetic siphon makes intellect not needed as you can get 40+ orbs in a strike.
I really gotta get on DIM and make some builds! Thanks for the informative and clear video Datto and good luck on Friday! I’ll be watching your stream on and off while I work!
I prioritize strength over discipline due to how easy it is to generate grenades via other means. Impact induction is a notable mod. It generates grenade energy off of dealing melee damage, be it a melee ability, unpowered melee hit, or glaive.
Good to see D2AP getting some spotlight. And really solid video on giving a decent overview of the whole system. Definitely going to send this new players. (.... Too bad the API went down a few hours after this went up)
"Resilience is 4 Energy for 10 Resilience, it only used to cost 3. So thats a pretty increase now, we're losing 1 energy to...inflation" the Jez effect on Datto right there
Thanks for this, very easy to understand breakdown of what I can see is an amazing tool to quickly sort out my gear, rather than spending 30 minutes mixing my armour slots to hit the break points.
DIM does exactly the same thing. I could never understand why I need another tool when DIM does it in-house and I can even have it calculate that with all of the mods while simultaneously completing said build and saving it. D2AP does a great job, it just does the same job I do in DIM with Optimizer. The reason for the preference is that your mod setup can change the armor based on what's available. If you need to use 9 of your spots on mods before a stat mod, you want it to try and find an artifice armor for that slot so you can at least get a +3 and that opens up options. D2AP doesn't take into account the armor and weapon mods which can greatly affect the armor pieces you need for an optimal build.
Perfect walkthrough for how to use D2AP. I still fully expect to see people refuse to engage with buildcrafting and then complain about the game being too hard, though. D2 players will be d2 players lmao.
I love the UI for D2 Armor Picker, but one thing that DIM has that it doesn't is the ability to lock down any legendary slots. As a more casual player, I don't have as much freedom to MW tons of gear, so for example, my first builds tried to optimize by picking an exotic, and then trying to get builds where I can use a different exotic and just one other armor piece, meaning that I only needed to MW two exotics and 4 legendaries (plus class item). IIRC, I had two leg pieces that were either disc or str-focused, while the head and chest had even disc/str stats (FYI, I had three arm-exotics that I used regularly and no others, so this worked out well). This was much easier to do in DIM.
Can you make a video that goes along the lines of "what I'm bringing into the day one raid?". I know you already made a video last year about the subject, but I have the feeling things have changed enough to warrant a sequel.
I know you said this in your new mod menu video, but if you or a teammate can reliably generate orbs of power, the "font of (stat)" mods give you +30 in the stat, so if you have the capacity to spare, going for the mods that give resilience, recovery, and/or intelligent can be more beneficial than spending x3 +10 of the stat mods, along with using armor charge mods to increase the time.
This season is a massive jackpot for double or even triple 100s. Defiant and Deep engrams both drop high stat spiky armor, which is the key to your T10 dreams!
I need to rebuild my Eye of Another World warlock. In WQ I had 60-70+ in all my stats depending on the subclass. Probably gonna have to go for that artifice armor now
You missed the best part of the Mod Limiter section. You can limit which armor pieces can hold mods. So if you know that you'll have your class item totally full of combat mods, you can block that out, and it'll only recommend builds that use 4 stat mods.
I'm watching this bcuz I want to do it but I'm so overwhelmed by all of it & also these r the things in destiny that put me to sleep. Mind u once they're done, it's fabulous but it stresses me out. Plus I really need builds that don't require me to have so many steps (once I pick my armor) cuz I'm not always good at maintaining all that whilst playing game & staying alive. Thx for the tutorial tho.
Duality weekly is next week and I am curious how master farm will turn out. I think we'll find a way to still one phase Caitl. I NEED THOSE ARTIFICE ARMORS!!!!
Especially with being able to potentially farming first boss by leading him to jump off the edge with strand grapple nonsense. Not sure if that was patched yet or not though.
Hey this might be a dumb/redundant question so apologies in advance! haha. Coming back to Destiny after a couple yrs this site is gonna be a lifesaver. Im just wondering- I have a pretty limited Vault. Is there another resource to use where you can set the stats you want and it will show viable options that ARENT in your collection? So you can target them in the grind. Maybe its even poss with this site and I missed it? again apologies if theres a really obvi answer here
This is gonna be brilliant for me. I feel like I fight with DIM a bit too much, so I'm looking forward to messing with this and getting things dialed in better.
Using both has been handy for me. DIM will let me toss together a "quick and dirty" loadout, and if I like the playstyle associated with it, I'll head to armorpicker to fine tune things.
interesting, I was focusing on resilience, disciple and intellect 100s but you are focusing on strength now I'm thinking I need to learn more about the meaning of the stats
For those wondering the pinicle of armour is 30 on 3 and 90 in the others without the class subclass bonuses and stat mod increases attached on all 5 armours I like a 100 rec, res and int as my target 🎯
@@hughjass1976 maybe so i run it with volitile void weapon bonuses in the pyramid rescue with void shields popping everywhere i was getting my super back every 30 second from power orb drops
I’ve been gone for a few years… I’m coming back to a daunting number of changes in a game that refuses to share information with the player in the actual game. I’ve been hunting around the current build videos and one thing seems to be missing in most of them… stats in the game are… hard to follow. So my question is what total value of stats is considered a good piece? At this point I’ve seen anything from 46 points on some gear I’ve gotten up to 67 points. That’s without a stat boosting mod. I guess I’m just wondering what a good value actually is? Is 67 bad if it’s only around 12-15 points in every stat? Am I hunting for pieces with even higher than the 67 I’ve found so far?? And how do I get high stat gear? I’ve invested into a war table upgrade that allows me to get high stat seasonal gear, and that’s the only place I see anything higher than 62 points. How much of a single stat is good? My friend said he heard 24 is the max base value of any singular stat, but I have no idea if that’s accurate.
One thing to note, you may need more than 1 version of an exotic due to Class fragments now. So don't always throw away every other exotic! My Heart of Innermost Light builds all use different versions between Void etc!!
@@dojyr3130 Some fragments in the subclass system have Positive, and Negative stats. For example Void has a Fragment that is "Your void grenades Weaken enemies. Also -20 Discipline (grenade stat)" So you might want 100 Discipline, but that doesn't mean your 1 exotic will make for ending at 100.
@@dojyr3130 Do note you only really need to do this sort of thing for the "neutral" exotic armors. Something like Hallowfire chest piece would be a 1 and done build since its Solar only anyways.
discipline mod. idk the specifics but res/rec/mob affect dis/str/int. so lets say i focus an armor with disc mod on, id get a spike in disc and another spike in res/rec/mob. i got a shit ton of higj stat armor back in haunted focusing, idk if this season's focusing will result in the same
‘oh just make the build?’ sounds like the sort of insight mrs TRV would give 😆😁 btw you’re always really laid back, but lately you seem almost zen in vids
I always ignore Recovery to prioritize Mob and Res for Hunter. Can't have it all and since Mob is useless for other classes than Hunter but the other two are amazing for all classes you have to choose. Hope for a mobility buff soon.
Datto can you make a video about what armour mods effect what ability. Like with Strand, does something like impact induction or momentum transfer work with grapple/grapple melee? Strand has made mods confusing because of how indirect a lot of the killing is, like consuming your grenade to suspend enemies or having your threadlings get the kill.
Tysm. I had no idea ANY of these (optimization tools specifically) existed. They really need to add optimizers in the game, or the game itself should just be called "D2 item manager".
I know that third part clients for some games is pretty touch and go. I’m mostly thinking as someone who played a lot of OSRS. It’s probably not the same though right? Just curious.
So I've got a question about armor rolls to help builds. Should I be looking for armor with moderate spikes (say 15-20 res, 10 recov, and a similar split in dis/str) or heavy spikes (30 res, 30 dis, with 2 in all other stats)?
It varies. All depends on whether or not your other armor pieces have enough stats to make up for the spikes, or whether the build you're going for has need of the stats that are spiking more than other stats. If you've got armor with huge RES spike, you don't necessarily need as much on your other pieces. But if your other pieces also have huge RES spikes, you're going to have some wasted stats. I tend to hold on to the huge spike pieces just for the novelty, but if I'm not using them in a build, I think about tossing them towards the end of a season - if only to make room for the new season's stuff.
Resilience is only stat you should have maxed out , in all circumstances . Everything else can be debatable , but resilience can't as T7 and T10 can mean difference between life and death, as you don't always have wowen mail or armour charge ready to go
What I do once I get a build on armor picker is not use the loadout link on DIM but copy the DIM ids to the search bar on dim and fish them out ingame, then build it out ingame and add the loadout using the ingame loadouts.
I wish there was an option to not include masterwork armor or armor already being used in builds so I could work with the high stat armor that I do have that aren’t being used.
Im starting to feel like datto is a good place to learn how to be a good d2 influencer but a the same time teaching you how to be humble and deal with learning the most taxing parts of the game. Build crafting. Edit: I cut my self off.. hahaha... build crafing is the best thing, but can be difficult. And should be something that you should figure out yourself. I find influencing us as the community is super beneficial but I just wanted to remind people to find their own way. Before spending to much time listening to mainstream.... And to end off that this a good video.
Every build recommendation vid I ever watch says "Hunter need to care about mobility", and nothing more on the topic. What does that translate to for actual stats? I usually try for around 70, unless I have something giving me lots of mobility/dodge energy like arc amplification. Is that enough, too much, too little? It feels like this is something I am just expected to know, but never really learned.
I have a question about the new loadout system. Do you need to have multiple sets of armor for each load out or can you just use one set and just swap the mods to fit solar, void, raid, pvp etc.? AND can you also change the ornaments/shaders on the armor without causing any problems?
It works like you think it does. Keep in mind the fragment bonuses or penalties. All mod setups and even cosmetics save to the loadout slot. It’s not one setup per armor piece. I have three different builds with hoimol. They all have different mods and cosmetics but share the same armor.
Which app is better for what use? Are they pretty much equal for everything? Is one easier to use? Does one offer features the other can't replicate? To me, Armor Picker just seems like a more PITA, compliated version of DIM.
d2armorpicker lets you have more control on maximizing stats. With DIM, you have to add in stat mods manually to hit tiers. d2armorpicker will automatically take stat mods into account when showing you the totals. You can tell DIM to show you armor with 100 RES/100 DIS and it initially won't show you the optimum. You'd have to add in the stat mods without knowing what combination would be "best". d2armorpicker will show you exactly what stat mods you'd need to slot for a given armor set. With RES/REC costing 4, you'd have more flexibility with combat mods by choosing and armor set that uses fewer RES/REC mods. d2armorpicker is best used in addition to DIM, it's not a replacement. It's like a much more specialized version of DIM's loadout optimizer.
Ik this video is kinda older now but I hope some people see this comment as they're passing by. If you are building heavily into a stat for a build and don't know if you want to go 100 or not to get the most out of cooldown effects, remember that your abilities are going to cooldown mostly from your perks rather than your stats. But also, do your own research and testing to see if the effects you're making use of even scale off of your stats! I'll list some examples. HOIL for instance, cares alot about your base stats because it's a decrease to the cooldown time. Just as so, anything that says "reduces your cooldown" scales off of your cooldown stat. But then you have effects like melee Kickstart or ionic traces, that give flat amounts. They give a percentage amount of energy to your abilities, and thus are not affected by your stats. And another thing, in terms of your class stats, I would not suggest that you go 100 in any stat like resilience, recovery, or mobility unless your build is going to make use of the stat for multiple effects. So for instance if you're a warlock playing broodweaver with a threadling build, your rift is valuable because it creates and launches threadlings. It's also your only source of survivability. And while you do want resilience, a lack of constant healing makes your health mean less overall. So you want a healthy amount like 70 resilience to get that 20% DR, and 100 recovery to maximize natural health regen and rift uptime. For my main build, which is a stormcaller fallen sunstar build, I went for 30 mobility, 70 resilience, 100 recovery, then 60 for the other 3 stats. My reasons were that amplified makes you move and jump at a flat amount regardless of your mobility so the stat matters very little. 70 resilience because, like broodweaver, I have very few sources of health regen that doesn't get interrupted by enemy fire. I also already have one source of damage resistance, being spark of resistance. So 20% is a good place to sit at. 100 recovery for MANY reasons. While yes I do get flat percentile regen from ionic traces, I also get regen that scales off of my stat from my arc soul aspect. That aspect also makes my rift invaluable to give me arc souls, which keep a constant flow of traces coming from killing trash mobs. I also use orbs to keep myself alive while on the move. Primarily with the better already mod which activates your natural health regen, scaling off of your recovery stat. For my other 3 stats, I didn't care too much about strength and discipline because of the fact that traces are how I'm going to get them. And they get the same energy regardless of my stats. However I did want them to have decent cooldowns in the event that I hit an enemy drought, or am in a situation with harder targets and no trash mobs. For intellect, I went for 60 because while stormcaller's supers are weak, they won't always be. And, a little known fact, jolt gives super energy when damaging targets in the same way as weapon fire. So jolting an enemy creates a steady stream of super energy. This scales off of your intellect stat, so I wanted a decent intellect stat. This is also helpful because my primary doesn't give much super energy for damage. Since I use a bow.
This is one of the features I was hoping Bungie would self integrate. This may be an ignorant question but do these sites work for console players or do you need to be on PC?
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Wont lie, the whole feel of a calm walkthrough through the process was both calming and insightful. Thanks Daddo
The beginning 5-or-so minutes sounded like a Boss Ross video. Very relaxed instruction tutorial on how to turn your character into the (near)perfect death-machine 😇
Gave me old datto vibes
Its worth noting that you can also use the armour limitations section to restrict mod costs. If you don't want expensive mods like resilience recovery or intellect use the bars to show that your armour already had 7 energy used, that way it can only apply mods that cost 3 or less energy. That section isn't just for limiting armour to raid armour.
Yup, good for when I know what (expensive) mods I want, and have less space for stat mods
With the new mod system I have even limited some armour to only 1 energy for stat mods so that I can use the new armour charge mods. It's worth it when some of the armour charge mods give +30 stats while active
The solution for bungie is to make all stat mods cost 3 energy.
That is very true especially last statement
The limitation section is currently disabled unfortunately. Only good for raid slot currently
Datto, I just listened to your video while I was in the shower. I couldn't really make out what you were saying over the sound of the water, but I just liked hearing your voice while I cleaned myself. Made me feel like I was doing it right.
just FYI for anyone wondering, at 13:46 "usually as you tend to go down the list, the mods get less energy efficient" that's because he has it sorted at the top as "Used Mods" which sorts the builds based on overall mod cost.
Here’s a tip as well: for the in game load out system, if you want to be flexible with your weapons, grab random blues from collections, make the load out with them, and then dismantle them afterwards.
To expand on this and explain what this does:
Basically, if Destiny 2 doesn't find that specific item (like it was deleted) then it'll say "Item cannot be found" for that slot. So, when applying the loadout it will not do anything for those slots that are empty and keep whatever you have currently equipped in that slot.
bigbrain move now i can actually be bothered using loadouts
Likewise, you can also set up hotswaps for mods in your armour, like reserves in your chest, with blue legs that youll delete so that it wont mess with your surge mods if youve already set them up beforehand
The way i have it is a raid loadout with missing legs and weapons, which i would then swap to another loadout that has a reserves chest and surge legs with matching heavy weapon. Change heavy if necessary then rally, then switch back to the raid loadout, which will now give you back your original chest, whilst keeping your heavy as well as the surge mods
This is a really great tip!
So we can make loadouts with "gaps" on certain slots where the loadout system will not touch that slot at all, by filling in a blue piece, and then deleting it?
I guess I can also make loadouts that swap specific armor pieces (and mods on them) without touching my weapons by putting in blue weapons and deleting them too?
@@SirCamWAoh that’s actually a super nice suggestion, thanks
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When Datto said “I don’t really set limits for myself,” I felt that.
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I feel like a video showing how to obtain and farm high stat armor would go really good with this one.
Most reliable way is with focusing emgrams for high-stat armor at the seasonal vendors in the helm.
If Pit of Heresy is on rotation that week, farm the final boss checkpoint, the armor is guaranteed to have 2 large spikes which you need for triple or quad hundred builds.
For artifice armor, you'll want to farm Caiatl on master during the week it's in rotation.
Don't forget to use a ghost mod that forces some stats to go where you want them (discipline is generally the best one) and happy farming!
@@Bidniss. I checked for the ghost mod, but I don’t see focusing, and I have my ghost maxed out. Is it bugged? Thank you!
@@kuonish They're in the 3rd mod slot from the left on your ghost, called "X armourer" where X is replaced with the stat you want.
@Bidniss Just a heads up at least for the new war table armour. As far as I've seen through using close to 30 engrams trying to roll a better arms for my warlock to get triple 100s the new war table armour is absolutely atrocious. I've got plenty of sub 60 Stat totals, and I actually don't think the discipline mod is working correctly with it bc the stat distribution has seemed extremely spread out. Yeah I do get at least 10 in discipline, but I haven't seen a single piece drop with a single Stat even in the 20s yet so just a heads up for people before they spend all their engrams that the new war table armour might not be the move.
Check out aztecross he has good farm guides up already
Perfect. Just what I needed. I’m so overwhelmed right now. Thank you Mr. Trv!
I have been playing destiny 2 for 4 years now. Have thousands of hours in the game. I know all of this information but I still watch the whole thing.
I really appreciate you making this easier for new lights to join this wonderful universe. Thank you datto
@@trickyBasterd very constructive chief
I personally don't have a lot of high rolling armor, and for anyone else in that boat, I would make sure to account for the fact that the new font of something armor mods will grant 30+ of whatever stat it's associated with when you have an armor charge. It's helped me get 100s in stats when pretty much any armor combination wouldn't get me that high
yeah but those mods are basically useless as running the normal mods ends up giving more of a benefit OR theres just much more valuable mods to put on
@@Divine-General-Mahoraga I do see what you're saying, but I think it just allows people to experiment with different builds while having viable stats
@@Divine-General-Mahoraga You seem to be forgetting that stats affect more than just ability regeneration. For me it's nice for making up for shortfalls in my "best" armor sets (my highest stat hunter set has shite mobility, my highest stat warlock armor has shite intelect - being able to set those at max by picking up an orb of power is kinda nice.)
You might also want to use them when "build crafting", as it's easier to slot the "font of X" to hit 100 in the stat you're testing (for just under 2 minutes at a time) than it is to farm up an entire set of gear focused on that stat. (I'm still deciding which stat I want as the tertiary focus for
@Tyler Johnson - keep an eye on the seasonal reward track armor, last season gave out full sets of 60+ stat gear (Hunter version needs font of mobility - it's REALLY bad without it)
@@muninrob putting on ashes to assets remove the entire need for intellect, you can also run 3 armor mods for whatever weapon to create orbs, ashes and whatever else. still doesnt change that getting your armor to 100 using that mod isnt worth when the normal mods do the same thing but dont eat your orbs for surges or kickstarters
I love these technical, end game videos. Your demeanor and tone are also very soothing so it is calming and inviting to players from different skill levels and dedication to the game. Keep it up!
Datto, your cadence, tempo and tone is straight up giving me Bob Ross vibes. Happy Little Builds with Datto. Nicely done, thank you!
Ah, this video is missing one thing that the other armor optimization video had. The Brim cam. Still a pretty solid video
Datto this video was perfect. The explanation was very easy to understand. The trouble I go through to get good stats, and you just made my day. Thank you and keep up the great work.
I'm pretty sure the creator of this tool isn't a RUclipsr. Don't be afraid to hit the "Buy me a Coffee" button and throw some cash their way. This tool was a staggering amount of work for a "free" side project.
I don’t pay to much attention to builds like I did in D1. But I will say some of the exotic weapon+armor combos can effectively negate having to put anything in a stat.
For example, Monty Carlo + Insurrmountable Skullfort on arc titans means you don’t need to worry about melee.
Actium War Rig + Sweet business and 3 kinetic siphon makes intellect not needed as you can get 40+ orbs in a strike.
Coming back to say thank you for this video. I have now optimized all my builds and it feels great
I really gotta get on DIM and make some builds! Thanks for the informative and clear video Datto and good luck on Friday! I’ll be watching your stream on and off while I work!
I prioritize strength over discipline due to how easy it is to generate grenades via other means. Impact induction is a notable mod. It generates grenade energy off of dealing melee damage, be it a melee ability, unpowered melee hit, or glaive.
Thread of Generation is too good on Strand.
Good to see D2AP getting some spotlight. And really solid video on giving a decent overview of the whole system. Definitely going to send this new players.
(.... Too bad the API went down a few hours after this went up)
"Resilience is 4 Energy for 10 Resilience, it only used to cost 3. So thats a pretty increase now, we're losing 1 energy to...inflation" the Jez effect on Datto right there
Thanks for this, very easy to understand breakdown of what I can see is an amazing tool to quickly sort out my gear, rather than spending 30 minutes mixing my armour slots to hit the break points.
This looks lovely. I didn’t play for like eight years so I don’t have any armor. But this audio was crispy af so I enjoyed watching.
Thank you so much man. I literally never paid attention to builds, but this helps a lot with me just finding some armor that's good.
Great video, didnt need this personally but I'm happy this walkthrough resource exists for people now :)
DIM does exactly the same thing. I could never understand why I need another tool when DIM does it in-house and I can even have it calculate that with all of the mods while simultaneously completing said build and saving it.
D2AP does a great job, it just does the same job I do in DIM with Optimizer.
The reason for the preference is that your mod setup can change the armor based on what's available. If you need to use 9 of your spots on mods before a stat mod, you want it to try and find an artifice armor for that slot so you can at least get a +3 and that opens up options. D2AP doesn't take into account the armor and weapon mods which can greatly affect the armor pieces you need for an optimal build.
I was planning on doing this today! Thanks a million datto
Perfect walkthrough for how to use D2AP. I still fully expect to see people refuse to engage with buildcrafting and then complain about the game being too hard, though. D2 players will be d2 players lmao.
This is probably your most chill video and I'm all in thanks Datto!
This is by far the most useful Destiny Video I have seen in a very long time!
I was just wondering about this right before it was posted perfect timing for me great video as always
I love the UI for D2 Armor Picker, but one thing that DIM has that it doesn't is the ability to lock down any legendary slots. As a more casual player, I don't have as much freedom to MW tons of gear, so for example, my first builds tried to optimize by picking an exotic, and then trying to get builds where I can use a different exotic and just one other armor piece, meaning that I only needed to MW two exotics and 4 legendaries (plus class item). IIRC, I had two leg pieces that were either disc or str-focused, while the head and chest had even disc/str stats (FYI, I had three arm-exotics that I used regularly and no others, so this worked out well). This was much easier to do in DIM.
this is singlehandedly the most useful video I have seen in ages. Thanks.
Love the audio quality on this video. More like this Daddo.
Posting this updated version to clan again Datto. Thanks for making it.
17:26 I'm glad to see you also the Osteo/ Suspend combo.
Great vid! GGs to the armor picker team for getting the new updates done so quickly.
Can you make a video that goes along the lines of "what I'm bringing into the day one raid?". I know you already made a video last year about the subject, but I have the feeling things have changed enough to warrant a sequel.
Yes Datto. I really needed this video. Because Armor picker is kinda confusing for me.
I know you said this in your new mod menu video, but if you or a teammate can reliably generate orbs of power, the "font of (stat)" mods give you +30 in the stat, so if you have the capacity to spare, going for the mods that give resilience, recovery, and/or intelligent can be more beneficial than spending x3 +10 of the stat mods, along with using armor charge mods to increase the time.
This season is a massive jackpot for double or even triple 100s. Defiant and Deep engrams both drop high stat spiky armor, which is the key to your T10 dreams!
These are my favorite D2 Nerd videos to watch! Crunch those numbers baby! Show me the way to maximize my gear.😊
I need to rebuild my Eye of Another World warlock. In WQ I had 60-70+ in all my stats depending on the subclass. Probably gonna have to go for that artifice armor now
Datto, I believe. You shall be the world's first this time FR. Good luck man, you deserve it
I love how this video gets made then Bungie turns off the API. Definitely will use after it comes back though.
I have supporting this dev for a while - what a killer tool!
datto does build asmr goes hard make this a series bossman
You missed the best part of the Mod Limiter section. You can limit which armor pieces can hold mods. So if you know that you'll have your class item totally full of combat mods, you can block that out, and it'll only recommend builds that use 4 stat mods.
Thanks for the walkthrough Datto and all the best for the upcoming raid ! 👍 😊
Also, you can hover over the different tiers to show what the effect is of having specific tiers in each stat
I dont even play destiny anymore its just nice to listen to datto being optimal
I'm watching this bcuz I want to do it but I'm so overwhelmed by all of it & also these r the things in destiny that put me to sleep. Mind u once they're done, it's fabulous but it stresses me out. Plus I really need builds that don't require me to have so many steps (once I pick my armor) cuz I'm not always good at maintaining all that whilst playing game & staying alive. Thx for the tutorial tho.
I wish I knew about something like this sooner. Thanks for the walkthrough!
Duality weekly is next week and I am curious how master farm will turn out. I think we'll find a way to still one phase Caitl. I NEED THOSE ARTIFICE ARMORS!!!!
same
Especially with being able to potentially farming first boss by leading him to jump off the edge with strand grapple nonsense. Not sure if that was patched yet or not though.
Hey this might be a dumb/redundant question so apologies in advance! haha. Coming back to Destiny after a couple yrs this site is gonna be a lifesaver. Im just wondering- I have a pretty limited Vault. Is there another resource to use where you can set the stats you want and it will show viable options that ARENT in your collection? So you can target them in the grind. Maybe its even poss with this site and I missed it? again apologies if theres a really obvi answer here
Thanks for making this Datto.
Love your calm voice in this one. Datto ASMR when?
Yeah...I definitely need to send the dev another tip. This site has made my life much easier for a year
This is gonna be brilliant for me. I feel like I fight with DIM a bit too much, so I'm looking forward to messing with this and getting things dialed in better.
Using both has been handy for me. DIM will let me toss together a "quick and dirty" loadout, and if I like the playstyle associated with it, I'll head to armorpicker to fine tune things.
interesting, I was focusing on resilience, disciple and intellect 100s
but you are focusing on strength now I'm thinking I need to learn more about the meaning of the stats
For those wondering the pinicle of armour is 30 on 3 and 90 in the others without the class subclass bonuses and stat mod increases attached on all 5 armours
I like a 100 rec, res and int as my target 🎯
Intellect got nerfed, you're better off going for discipline
@@hughjass1976 maybe so i run it with volitile void weapon bonuses in the pyramid rescue with void shields popping everywhere i was getting my super back every 30 second from power orb drops
@Chris Hill exactly, so int isnt helping there. you're getting it back from combat and orbs, not passive regen
I’ve been gone for a few years… I’m coming back to a daunting number of changes in a game that refuses to share information with the player in the actual game. I’ve been hunting around the current build videos and one thing seems to be missing in most of them… stats in the game are… hard to follow. So my question is what total value of stats is considered a good piece? At this point I’ve seen anything from 46 points on some gear I’ve gotten up to 67 points. That’s without a stat boosting mod. I guess I’m just wondering what a good value actually is? Is 67 bad if it’s only around 12-15 points in every stat? Am I hunting for pieces with even higher than the 67 I’ve found so far?? And how do I get high stat gear? I’ve invested into a war table upgrade that allows me to get high stat seasonal gear, and that’s the only place I see anything higher than 62 points. How much of a single stat is good? My friend said he heard 24 is the max base value of any singular stat, but I have no idea if that’s accurate.
This helped me so much for my void build!
One thing to note, you may need more than 1 version of an exotic due to Class fragments now. So don't always throw away every other exotic! My Heart of Innermost Light builds all use different versions between Void etc!!
why?
@@dojyr3130 Some fragments in the subclass system have Positive, and Negative stats. For example Void has a Fragment that is "Your void grenades Weaken enemies. Also -20 Discipline (grenade stat)" So you might want 100 Discipline, but that doesn't mean your 1 exotic will make for ending at 100.
@@TehWafflebob thanks!
@@dojyr3130 Do note you only really need to do this sort of thing for the "neutral" exotic armors. Something like Hallowfire chest piece would be a 1 and done build since its Solar only anyways.
Good video! Appreciate all your help and advice!
@@trickyBasterd yeah I know that but it’s still helpful 🤣
What’s the best way to get high stat armour right now? Also if I wanted high resilience and discipline, which stat mod would I use on my ghost shell?
discipline mod. idk the specifics but res/rec/mob affect dis/str/int. so lets say i focus an armor with disc mod on, id get a spike in disc and another spike in res/rec/mob. i got a shit ton of higj stat armor back in haunted focusing, idk if this season's focusing will result in the same
‘oh just make the build?’ sounds like the sort of insight mrs TRV would give 😆😁 btw you’re always really laid back, but lately you seem almost zen in vids
“I don’t really set limits for myself” way to be, man
I always ignore Recovery to prioritize Mob and Res for Hunter. Can't have it all and since Mob is useless for other classes than Hunter but the other two are amazing for all classes you have to choose. Hope for a mobility buff soon.
This is great! Thanks for the video.
How do you get the armor focusing mod. My ghost doesn't have it.
So question, 1. whats the BEST source of high stat armor then? 2. How do you get, artifice armor? the stuff with extra mods for stats ya?
Master dungeons for artifice armore. The original spot for high stat regular armor was the helm and season of the risen location there
Datto can you make a video about what armour mods effect what ability. Like with Strand, does something like impact induction or momentum transfer work with grapple/grapple melee? Strand has made mods confusing because of how indirect a lot of the killing is, like consuming your grenade to suspend enemies or having your threadlings get the kill.
Great video man , thanks , will be using this for sure
Just what I needed. Thank you!
Tysm. I had no idea ANY of these (optimization tools specifically) existed. They really need to add optimizers in the game, or the game itself should just be called "D2 item manager".
I know that third part clients for some games is pretty touch and go. I’m mostly thinking as someone who played a lot of OSRS. It’s probably not the same though right? Just curious.
So I've got a question about armor rolls to help builds. Should I be looking for armor with moderate spikes (say 15-20 res, 10 recov, and a similar split in dis/str) or heavy spikes (30 res, 30 dis, with 2 in all other stats)?
It varies. All depends on whether or not your other armor pieces have enough stats to make up for the spikes, or whether the build you're going for has need of the stats that are spiking more than other stats. If you've got armor with huge RES spike, you don't necessarily need as much on your other pieces. But if your other pieces also have huge RES spikes, you're going to have some wasted stats.
I tend to hold on to the huge spike pieces just for the novelty, but if I'm not using them in a build, I think about tossing them towards the end of a season - if only to make room for the new season's stuff.
Bro your room is dope.
Great info...thanks for the hard work!
Resilience is only stat you should have maxed out , in all circumstances . Everything else can be debatable , but resilience can't as T7 and T10 can mean difference between life and death, as you don't always have wowen mail or armour charge ready to go
This video is awesome man.
Holy balls how did I not know this existed?
What I do once I get a build on armor picker is not use the loadout link on DIM but copy the DIM ids to the search bar on dim and fish them out ingame, then build it out ingame and add the loadout using the ingame loadouts.
Why?
Nothing makes this guy happy. I swear
I wish there was an option to not include masterwork armor or armor already being used in builds so I could work with the high stat armor that I do have that aren’t being used.
Does this apply if I don’t own Lightfall? Too poor right now so still doing witch queen stuff
Yes
Im starting to feel like datto is a good place to learn how to be a good d2 influencer but a the same time teaching you how to be humble and deal with learning the most taxing parts of the game. Build crafting.
Edit: I cut my self off.. hahaha... build crafing is the best thing, but can be difficult. And should be something that you should figure out yourself. I find influencing us as the community is super beneficial but I just wanted to remind people to find their own way. Before spending to much time listening to mainstream....
And to end off that this a good video.
Every build recommendation vid I ever watch says "Hunter need to care about mobility", and nothing more on the topic. What does that translate to for actual stats? I usually try for around 70, unless I have something giving me lots of mobility/dodge energy like arc amplification. Is that enough, too much, too little? It feels like this is something I am just expected to know, but never really learned.
I have a question about the new loadout system. Do you need to have multiple sets of armor for each load out or can you just use one set and just swap the mods to fit solar, void, raid, pvp etc.? AND can you also change the ornaments/shaders on the armor without causing any problems?
It works like you think it does. Keep in mind the fragment bonuses or penalties. All mod setups and even cosmetics save to the loadout slot. It’s not one setup per armor piece. I have three different builds with hoimol. They all have different mods and cosmetics but share the same armor.
Which app is better for what use? Are they pretty much equal for everything? Is one easier to use? Does one offer features the other can't replicate? To me, Armor Picker just seems like a more PITA, compliated version of DIM.
d2armorpicker lets you have more control on maximizing stats. With DIM, you have to add in stat mods manually to hit tiers. d2armorpicker will automatically take stat mods into account when showing you the totals.
You can tell DIM to show you armor with 100 RES/100 DIS and it initially won't show you the optimum. You'd have to add in the stat mods without knowing what combination would be "best". d2armorpicker will show you exactly what stat mods you'd need to slot for a given armor set. With RES/REC costing 4, you'd have more flexibility with combat mods by choosing and armor set that uses fewer RES/REC mods.
d2armorpicker is best used in addition to DIM, it's not a replacement. It's like a much more specialized version of DIM's loadout optimizer.
Best of luck in the day 1 raid. I'm rooting for you.
how do people still not know about this? there are tons of videos about this
Been using this for tier builds then modify it in game and save the builds in the new left section on the character screen
Can you make a vid on how to get high stat armor ?
Ik this video is kinda older now but I hope some people see this comment as they're passing by.
If you are building heavily into a stat for a build and don't know if you want to go 100 or not to get the most out of cooldown effects, remember that your abilities are going to cooldown mostly from your perks rather than your stats.
But also, do your own research and testing to see if the effects you're making use of even scale off of your stats! I'll list some examples. HOIL for instance, cares alot about your base stats because it's a decrease to the cooldown time. Just as so, anything that says "reduces your cooldown" scales off of your cooldown stat.
But then you have effects like melee Kickstart or ionic traces, that give flat amounts. They give a percentage amount of energy to your abilities, and thus are not affected by your stats.
And another thing, in terms of your class stats, I would not suggest that you go 100 in any stat like resilience, recovery, or mobility unless your build is going to make use of the stat for multiple effects. So for instance if you're a warlock playing broodweaver with a threadling build, your rift is valuable because it creates and launches threadlings. It's also your only source of survivability. And while you do want resilience, a lack of constant healing makes your health mean less overall. So you want a healthy amount like 70 resilience to get that 20% DR, and 100 recovery to maximize natural health regen and rift uptime.
For my main build, which is a stormcaller fallen sunstar build, I went for 30 mobility, 70 resilience, 100 recovery, then 60 for the other 3 stats. My reasons were that amplified makes you move and jump at a flat amount regardless of your mobility so the stat matters very little. 70 resilience because, like broodweaver, I have very few sources of health regen that doesn't get interrupted by enemy fire. I also already have one source of damage resistance, being spark of resistance. So 20% is a good place to sit at. 100 recovery for MANY reasons. While yes I do get flat percentile regen from ionic traces, I also get regen that scales off of my stat from my arc soul aspect. That aspect also makes my rift invaluable to give me arc souls, which keep a constant flow of traces coming from killing trash mobs. I also use orbs to keep myself alive while on the move. Primarily with the better already mod which activates your natural health regen, scaling off of your recovery stat.
For my other 3 stats, I didn't care too much about strength and discipline because of the fact that traces are how I'm going to get them. And they get the same energy regardless of my stats. However I did want them to have decent cooldowns in the event that I hit an enemy drought, or am in a situation with harder targets and no trash mobs. For intellect, I went for 60 because while stormcaller's supers are weak, they won't always be. And, a little known fact, jolt gives super energy when damaging targets in the same way as weapon fire. So jolting an enemy creates a steady stream of super energy. This scales off of your intellect stat, so I wanted a decent intellect stat. This is also helpful because my primary doesn't give much super energy for damage. Since I use a bow.
This is one of the features I was hoping Bungie would self integrate. This may be an ignorant question but do these sites work for console players or do you need to be on PC?
If you re still interested, i started playing recently on ps5, you just have to link your bungee account to armorpicker and it sees your stuff.