Ok, I made it to level 30! I have literally 20% to finish the health part at the base. Finished the other 2. So, I'm at the base of Op. and the premium vender had some stuff for me. There where a few caches. Not sure if they gave them to me as part of buying the base game, but when I opened them, they had a full striker set and other various high end gear. I put the gear on and now have a gear score of 272 (don't even know what max is). It feels good! Not gonna lie. Went to the DZ and got killed in a group, got killed solo and was able to extract a cache, even though my DZ level was too low to open the crates. Someone got killed and the cache was dropped. I picked it up and made a successful extraction of one piece....lol! Now the dilemma, I'm feeling like I might be cheating myself out of the game. My though was to just stash all that stuff and earn it myself. Then again, I cranked it up to WT5 and been finishing the rest of the campaign. Its not easy, but I still have this thought that I'm doing it wrong. What do you guys think? Am I'm ok to keep going with the gear, or should go through the pain of earning my gear? Either way, the game is a blast! DZ was so cool and scary....lol Tldr: received unearned gear, should I just use it, or earn my own.