I'm lvl 15
Whats better until lvl 20s?
Breaking down to craft or selling to buy?

This, I walk around a zone, do all the side missions and encounter then move to a different zones
Theres also a few ais that will give you exp when you feed em, phones, docments, missing agents etc

depends how many side missions you have done
thats how you unlock the crafting plans but if u only do low lvl ones u only got low lvl items to craft
crafting generally seems like the way to go though

Just sell all your items till you reach 470k or something to buy the Pahkan from the armory guy. It does 55k DPS and it's a good temp before finding better ones in the DZ

After 470k then start breaking everything down, especially the gun accessories, which will give you tools. Need tools for everything.

This post was edited by LenovoBae on Mar 15 2016 12:28pm

how long does it take for tool bixes to replenish on the map?

Never ever buy anything. It's pointless. Except for crafting plans

Do not sell your leftover items.
Do not buy any items.

Break-down everything you replace, and save it all up. It'll be worth it in the end.

Lvl 21 here.

they need to add matchmaking from the safehouse in dz ><

Well u can sell them too so once u hit 30 u can buy some gear ( they have some good gear to sell sometimes )
Thats what i did when i hit 30

After u got some decent gear u can do the daily missions easily and head to the dark zone to get even better gear. From that point it would be better to break most of the items imo

It takes while till u have good blueprints. The dz vendor sells them to u once u hit dz rank 50 so don't worry abour crafting too early

You're speaking on a topic you have no personal experience with. The ignorance is strong in this thread.