Hey guys,

I recently returned after a long hiatus (last achievement was in 2021), and after having spent time in Division 1 (Both XBOX Series X).

I’m trying to transition to dps from skills, and I think I need some tips, as I’m being torn to pieces (4p striker w obliterate). Can you recommend things in terms of transition builds? And “learn to play” tips are all welcome?

My old turret/drone build handles heroic open world fine but gets wrecked (countered) in Summit and is highly ineffective in bad weather.

My DoT/CC builds seem ineffective in general, especially solo. And after having gong the sticky bomb/seeker way in division 1 I’m having a hard time abandoning skills. Ease my frustration if you can, please :-)

Only recently started playing and wanted to grab all the Exotics to play around with, was wondering if it was still possible to get the older exotics like the tinkerer on repeat runs of the mission that aren't on master

Posting the daily targeted loot of escalation of DIVISION 2 here to help anyone who is away from their home or get to know if there is anything good to farm at that day.

Also Posting the brand set bonuses with their NAMED items & Gear set Bonus to help new players what they do.

Pathway Park - Česká Výroba s.r.o. (Brand Set) [Red Offensive Core Attribute] {CLEANERS NPC}

Camp White Oak- Shiny Monkey Gear (Brand Set) [Yellow Skill Tier Core Attribute] {BLACK TUSK NPC}

Grand Washington Hotel - Fenris Group AB (Brand Set) [Red Offensive Core Attribute] {HYENAS NPC}

Jefferson Trade Center- Shotgun (Weapon item) {HYENAS NPC}

Federal Emergency Bunker - Legatus S.p.A. (Brand Set) [Red Offensive Core Attribute] {OUTCAST NPC}

INFO -

1. Česká Výroba s.r.o. (Brand Set) [Red Offensive Core Attribute]

1-piece bonus: +8% Critical Hit Chance

2-piece bonus: +20% Hazard Protection

3-piece bonus: +90% Health

Named Items -

Devil's Due Backpack (DZ Exclusive)

Perfect Clutch - If you are below 20% armor, critical hits repair 2.5% missing armor. Kills allow you to repair up to 100% armor for 4-10 seconds, based on your number of Weapon core attributes.

Turmoil Kneepads (Cannot drop from any loot source, its Seasonal event exclusive only)

Bewildered - When dealing Weapon Damage to an enemy, 50% of the damage will be dealt to another enemy within 30m instead. When there are no enemies nearby, deal damage normally. Does not apply to Armor Plates.

2. Shiny Monkey Gear (Brand Set) [Yellow Skill Tier Core Attribute]

1-piece bonus: +15% Skill Duration

2-piece bonus: +5% Skill Efficiency

3-piece bonus: +52% Repair Skills

NAMED ITEMS -

Axel Backpack

Perfect Energize - Using an armor kit grants +1 skill tier for 15 seconds, if already at skill tier 6, grants overcharge. Cooldown: 30 seconds.

Grease Kneepads - 16% Status Effects (Special attribute)

3. Fenris Group AB (Brand Set) [Red Offensive Core Attribute]

1-piece bonus: +10% AR Damage

2-piece bonus: +30% Reload Speed

3-piece bonus: +50% Weapon Stability

NAMED ITEMS -

Ferocious Calm Chest (DZ Exclusive)

Perfect Overwatch - After staying in cover for 8 seconds, increases you and your allies' total weapon and skill damage by 14% as long as you remain in cover or in a cover-to-cover move.

4. Any Random Non Exotic SHOTGUN can drop as Prototype Version.

5. Legatus S.p.A. (Brand Set) [Red Offensive Core Attribute]

1-piece bonus: +30% Swap Speed

2-piece bonus: +70% Optimal Range

3-piece bonus: +15% Weapon Damage

Named ITEMS -

Vigil Backpack

Perfect Versatile - Amplifies total weapon damage for 10 seconds when swapping between your primary and secondary weapons if they are different. 45% to enemies within 15 meters for Shotguns and SMGs. 40% to enemies further than 25 meters for Rifles and Marksman Rifles. 15% to enemies between 15-25 meters for LMGs and Assault Rifles. At most once per 5 seconds per weapon type.

Visionario Mask - 50% Optimal Range (Special Attribute)

ESCALATION VENDOR CACHE ITEMS -

PROTOTYPE RANDOM CACHE

PROTOTYPE MASK CACHE

PROTOTYPE ASSAULT RIFLE CACHE

DZ TARGETED LOOT -

DZ WEST (PVE DZ) - Ortiz: Reficere (Gear Set) {Yellow Skill Tier Core Attribute}

DZ South (BALANCE DZ) - Striker's Battlegear (Gear Set) [Red Offensive Core Attribute]

DZ EAST (CLASSIC DZ) - Negotiate Dilemma (Gear Set) [Red Offensive Core Attribute]

DZ LOOT DETAILS -

1. Ortiz: Reficere (Gear Set) {Yellow Skill Tier Core Attribute}

• 2-piece bonus: +8% Skill Efficiency
• 3-piece bonus: +60% Repair Skills
• 4-piece bonus: Ortiz Rapid Application Nanite Prototype Talent
  • Healing Skills' Duration and Range are decreased by 90%, but their Healing Efficiency is increased by 150%.
  • Healing an Ally with a Skill will provide them 30% Hazard Protection for 10s. Cooldown per ally: 10s.
• Backpack talent: Improved Dampeners - Decrease the Duration and Range reduction from 90% to 25%.
• Chest talent: Overcharged Nanites - Increase the Healing Efficiency bonus from 150% to 225%.

2. Striker's Battlegear (Gear Set) [Red Offensive Core Attribute]

• 2-piece bonus: +15% Weapon Handling
• 3-piece bonus: +15% Rate of Fire
• 4-piece bonus: Striker's Gamble - Weapon hits increase total weapon damage by 0.65%, stacking up to 100 times.
  • 1 stack lost per second between 0 to 50 stacks
  • 2 stacks lost per second between 50 and 100 stacks
• Backpack talent: Risk Management - Increases total weapon damage gained per stack of Striker's Gamble from 0.65% to 0.90%.
• Chest talent: Press the Advantage - Increases max stacks for Striker’s Gamble from 100 to 200. 3 stacks lost per second between 100 and 200 stacks.

3. Negotiator's Dilemma (Gear Set) [Red Offensive Core Attribute]

• 2-piece bonus: +15% Critical Hit Chance
• 3-piece bonus: +20% Critical Hit Damage
• 4-piece bonus: Hostile Negotiations - Critical hits mark enemies for 20 seconds, up to 3 marks total. When you critically hit a marked enemy, all other marked enemies take 60% of the damage dealt. Whenever a marked enemy dies, gain +2% critical hit damage, stacking up to 20 times, until combat ends.
• Backpack talent: Critical Measures - Increases Hostile Negotiations damage to additional marked enemies from 60% to 112%.
• Chest talent: Target Rich Environment - Increases Hostile Negotiations mark count from 3 to 5.

CURRENT SEASONAL EVENT -

BROKEN RAIN EVENT

August 12-25

The Broken Rain EVent will be available from August 11 to August 25, with new JTF-themed outfits & Premium Outfits

Golden Bullet Global Event

August 18-25

Our enemies have developed a new combat system lovingly called "The Golden Bullet". Hostiles in the field may construct these golden bullets to provide themselves a powerful offensive boost for a short period. However, defeating one of these foes will grant the Golden Bullet to yourself.

Unlike hostile Golden Bullets, Agents may extend the duration of their Golden Bullet boost by defeating enemies.

Season Pass XP x2

• August 18 – August 27
• During the event, Season Pass XP earned from Priority Objectives, the Seasonal Journey, Weekly Projects, Manhunt Scouts, and general world activities will be doubled.

Into The Dark Stretch Goals

• August 18 – August 27

The Into the Dark Stretch Goals track opens on August 18 and will remain available until the end of the season.

Once you reach Tier 100 of the Season Pass, you can continue progressing through the Stretch Goals track and earning additional rewards.

The track includes Standard and Prestige Caches. Prestige Caches appear at Tier 10 and are earned through the same progression, but guarantee some rewards that only have a chance to drop from Standard Caches and increase the chances of additional bonus drops.

THIS WEEK FREE CLASSIFIED MISSION IS "NSA SECURITY ALERT" LOCATED IN WASHINGTON DC MAP "EAST MALL" AREA (ENTRANCE IS FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF CRASH SITE CONTROL POINT OR NEAR THE CAPITOL BUILDING STRONGHOLD MISSION)

Did anyone else get all 92 stars just chillin in their account after logging in today??? I literally started it last night and didn’t even get one star, kept my Xbox on overnight(forgot to turn it off) I log back on about 20 min ago and boom all stars there without completing any objectives 🤩 incredible but maybe someone hacked some accounts? Any thoughts agents?

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The extended goals are running for another week, but I haven't seen any announcement about the new season starting next week. Also, we didn't get a 5x XP event this season—something I was waiting for to redeem the journey milestones I’d saved up.

I’ve looked around, and the info points to a September start, but there's no word on what will fill the gap between August 18th (when this season apparently actually ends) and the new season.

Does anyone have any info on the start date?

I understand that some people just have no patience, but for the love of all that is holy, please stop insulting other players and then leaving someone else's instance because of some absurd "holier than thou" complex you have. Not everyone is a streamer who plays 12 hours a day. Some of us work and finally got a full decent set of TS or strikers or FI, and finally got enough tokens to launch a T10, but just because we aren't playing to some insane standard you have about how fast a mission should go and how aggressive you should be, you just insult the other players and then leave... Fuck you if you do that. If they're your tokens, feel free to be an asshole and kick people, but when you matchmake with other players, try to remember that not everyone is a tryhard, and some people just play more reserved in an attempt to actually just finish the mission. Not everyone is trying to break fucking speed running records.

With the new season, the devs are tweaking gear; Shock Resistance, Health, Incoming Repairs and Swap Speed are being removed from gear attributes, and PfE is being added...

...and this had made me think about gear mods.

We've got a whole bunch of different gear mods that almost never get used, pretty much only in Backfire builds.

(Fire, Bleed, Shock & Disrupt, Blind & Deaf, Disorient & Ensnare)

Wouldn't it be nice if all of these were scrapped and we just got 'Status Resistance' instead...? Or even simpler, just lump it in with HazPro?

(Also, proto mods would be awesome, but that's another discussion...)

[Rant] I'm so tired of telling people this in the middle of Escalation and having them ignore me and continue to toss spit balls at enemies for the entire run!

There is a global modifier in Escalation called "Variety Pack." The modifier icon is a red jester that you can see in your HUD and your teammates can see over your head.

The modifier is that each time you kill an enemy with an equipped weapon after the first two kills, you gain a stacking -10% penalty to weapon damage up to a maximum of -50%. That means when the Variety Pack status bar is full, you are doing -50% total weapon damage.

You clear the modifier by equipping another weapon (weapon #2 or sidearm, or something else in your current inventory) and getting a kill. That resets the modifier and you are back to doing 100% damage with your first weapon but the cycle starts again--2 kills and then the penalty begins to stack.

Everyone needs to be switching weapons up in Escalations.

I didn't invent the modifier, I'm just the reporter so don't take this out on me.

Don't even get me started on the players in Escalation who ignore the Enemy Mutators and don't focus on the enemy with the "One For All" icon who is giving 40% damage resistance to all enemies within 20 meters.

The rules are right there at the Escalation station at the Base of Operations. Please read them.

Edited to clarify damage type modifier penalizes.