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Best bang for your buck war bond? (piefed.social)
submitted 5 hours ago by leoj@piefed.social to c/helldivers2@lemmy.ca
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Hello

I have been playing helldivers 2 since shortly after launch, but have not really bought many war bonds due to a lack of funding.

I have almost saved up enough super earth credits to buy one, and I was going to buy one with cash as well.

Which 2 would you guys recommend?

I play a lot of solo, but have been grouping with randos recently to play the higher difficulties and to get the pink samples.

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[-] Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Democratic detonation's definitely the top dawg. In addition to it though, it really depends on what you want to do, every warbond kinda has its own theme. All I can say is stay away from the crossovers, because they really don't add much to the game. I personally love viper commando for the armor and booster, but I like to be in the thick of it with enemies.

For solo play, urban legends has the antitank enplacement, which is really fun on bot missions. Control group has the warp pack which lets you access bunkers on your own. Chemical agents has the gas grenades, which is good for crowd control. Struggling to think of more solo play warbonds, maybe the stealth one that came out recently?

[-] leoj@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

Oooooooh thank you for Control group suggestion, I see people zipping around with the Warp Pack and it looks pretty sick, I might have to grab that.

Thinking about siege breakers for the leveler cause it looks pretty OP and would be good for high difficulty solo.

Do you have any thoughts on either of the warbond back pack support items? IE Dog Breath or the ARC dog? I run Rover (laser dog) and the machine gun dog fairly often, but rarely see the chemical/electric dogs.

[-] Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Siege breakers has alot of fun stuff. The leveler's alright, I don't use it but I've seen an uptick in it getting used because of the vox engines on bot side (it'll almost oneshot them). It's also nice for clearing bases, like a 500kg. The trident's also an amazing primary.

For backpack items, alot of the good ones are free, just gotta level up. Dog breath's pretty good, as well as hot dog. Your teammates will hate you if you run the Arc one, get used to putting it away whenever you're near them. Portable hellbomb is goated, but does have somewhat of a long cooldown.

[-] Kathmandu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Playing since launch and you don't have enough super credits to buy a warbond? I've purchased five warbonds without paying any money. Do you just not farm super credits? Even without farming, if you've been playing for a year, picking up random points of interest loot should have gotten you the 1000 SC?

How have you not purchased a single warbond? I guess YMMV...

Anyway, I bought steeled veterans for my first warbond for the grenade, the senator pistol, and of course the shotgun.

[-] leoj@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago

nah, I find em when I find them, I typically play solo and play for about 40 mins a day.

I have 1x unlocked, 134 hours playtime, about to collect enough for my second!

[-] Kathmandu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

Difficulty 3 has a good amount of points of interest with SC. That's how I usually farm them.

[-] leoj@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

interesting, I might have to do some SC farming then, I play pretty much 5 and up exclusively, never really put much thought into it besides how many robots I get to shoot lol.

I would probably have more time to search on a lower difficulty! Will start putting some 3's into my rotation!

[-] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago

Democratic detonation has been one of the best for a long time. Gives you lots of different options in terms of loadouts. Not sure if it's still considered best compared to the newer options though.

[-] Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Yep, it's been king ever since they buffed the hell out of the crossbow and eruptor. Thermites are amazing. Grenade pistol lets you have alot of loadout variety. Adjudicator's still a solid rifle, just mind the recoil.

All the newer warbonds are kinda niche, or just for fun/style, and they have less content which is annoying

[-] leoj@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

Yup I've been running the grenade pistol since that one dropped, its such a great side arm.

I saw someone with a laser pistol as a side arm the other day (I think?) which seems kind of cool, I run the Scythe cause I hate managing my ammo, but if I had an unlimited side arm I think it might open up new options.

[-] Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

The dagger's (laser pistol) alright, it's not very high damage but it can set stuff on fire I think.

If you want unlimited sidearm, the talon's amazing for that, in the borderline justice warbond. You can almost use it as a primary weapon.

For higher difficulties, I usually roll with ultimatum. It's nice having a pocket orbital strike for when big stuff gets in your way.

[-] leoj@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

Shockingly that is the only one I already unlocked with collected warbonds from the drop ships and caves!

I am thinking Siege Breakers currently since I have seen tons of people using the Leveler at higher levels of difficulty.

Still stuck on the second one though, wouldn't mind another fun primary weapon as I usually run the Scythe, Slugger, or Punisher.

I like playing against Illuminate and Bots, don't really find bugs that enjoyable yet.

[-] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

For me the must-have are:

  • Democratic Detonation (everything)
  • Freedom's Flame (fire resist armors and cookout)
  • Servants of Freedom (ultimatum and hellbomb)

Then optionally:

  • Dust Devils (elemental resist armors, coyote and harpoon)
  • Control Group (warp pack, epoch)
  • Urban Legend (siege-ready armors, AT emplacement)
[-] Starfighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Can't play any other armor since putting on the dust devils extra throw range armor.

Throwing stratagems further is just too good.

Also missile silo!

[-] leoj@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

yoo thank you for this list, i feel like I might have to buy more than 2.... I really need the fire resistant armour cause incineration core is so hard, especially the devastators!

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