Latest PTS news stream announced rotating DZ modifiers where 1 area is the DZ we know today, 1 area with "Normalized" stats meaning SHD watch level bonuses won't be applied nor Gear Expertise bonuses as well, and lastly a PvE only DZ Area for new season related activities. These modifiers rotate between the 3 DZ areas per week so it'll stay fresh.

Personally I'm exciting for it and I know it isn't for everyone but for the folks who mostly enjoy the PvE this is interesting news to say the least! At least until further details and adjustments are made over the matter. Correct me if I'm wrong with the details or missed anything here.

I can never play on those 2 levels. I play exclusively on Challenging only. Nothing higher nothing lower. It's not that I can't do those 2 levels, but I can't enjoy playing at those levels.

How is the experience on Heroic and Legendary like? Is it always 1 or 2 steps away from death? Always has to be on super high alert? Requires extremely fast and accurate reactions all the time? Always being a glass cannon?

I'm someone who likes healing and tanking much more than dps. That's the role I usually play in RPGs... healers, tanks, etc. So naturally I really dislike glass cannons. But in a game like Division, you ultimately have to kill all enemies to win, and I play solo most of the time so I'm the only one I can depend on to end all enemies.

Usually, I run this loadout...

• 4p Umbra
• Memento
• 1 Belstone
• 5 blue, 2 yellow, 1 red
• Mostly crit attributes
• Bulwark shield max tier
• Striker drone tier 2
• Diamondback
• Lexington (In-sync)
• KARD-45 (In-sync)

Or, even more defensively...

• 4p Foundry
• Memento
• 1 Belstone
• 5 blue, 2 yellow, 1 red
• Mostly crit attributes
• Bulwark shield max tier
• Striker drone tier 2
• Police Mk17 (Lucky shot)
• Lexington (In-sync)
• Liberty

As you can see, I have a very comfortable playstyle, but these loadouts aren't suitable to be used on Heroic and Legendary. When I check out other people's builds for Heroic and Legendary and Master, I thought... "Wow, that's pretty darn squishy." That's the issue. The higher the difficulty level, the more narrow your choices of viable builds. I can't enjoy the game playing what and how I like to play on those higher levels.

So, back to my question... How is it like to play on levels above Challenging? Thank you.

Edit:
Wow thanks for all the replies. Rest assured every comment will be read. Thanks.

Edit 2:
I understand the strategies and tricks to push forward aggressively in higher difficulty levels, but as I said, my preference for defensive play in games means I love the feeling of not being able to die no matter how enemies come at me. Lol. Like there's nothing they could do to kill me while I end them. My fun is derived from such a playstyle. But the tips and tricks you all mentioned are very helpful in many ways. I highly appreciate. Thanks to all of you. I play mostly solo, so if there's a need for me to go higher levels (like in order to get that specific exotic or something), then I would. Thank you.

Watching the Content reveal with DEVS

They haven't said what the new payout is, but the host will recieve more tokens, because they are taking all the risk.

And they are going to re-add proto drops to crates!!!

Now I have your attention some might know and some might not but I came across a good proto farm last night in a team playing DUA basically get to the boss as fast as you can and leave him alone is all I'm saying for those constant spawns and protos 🙏

With how Paradox works with chem launchers, could oxidizer be an option instead of using a drone?

If this was viable, what pieces would you use.

I was thinking of stacking paradox on 4 pieces and maybe an Investor mask but unsure of a backpack or chest. Combined arms only lasts 3s, shooting switching back and forth with a chem launcher and a gun seems clunky. Oxidizer also seems to not be a status effect so that knocks some stuff out too.

Just curious if this is something to look into or just stick with a drone.

With the intro of prototype gear and escalation it seems the only two game modes people are playing is escalation, and some retaliation and that's about it. The rewards for weekly legendary mission (one exotic cache) and the other weekly project (3 exo components) are no longer worth the time invested. No one seems to want to work on their projects for such limited rewards. You can also matchmake for hours to do the incursion.

Say what you want about destiny (I've played it and left along time ago be a use if the grind that never pays off even though I payed for the dlc and season pass etc) but at least they kept the content flowing, there value in doing your dailies, and weeklies each time you got on, and then running the raids on a regular basis.

In the division, it just seems there's no incentive to return to the content, or run your projects on a regular basis any more. Just retaliation and escalation, so if that's the case add projects for these game modes or increase the number of exos from existing projects or add a proto cache or something. The seasonal daily mission should also give exo components. Also escalation should reward a guaranteed proto at the end with increased chances at higher tiers or a core at least with increasing cores at higher tiers especially for the agent risking to tokens. If they don't fix the token issue, but this would encourage more people to host and risk tokens.

My last little but will be unpopular but I think it should be reverted back to non targeted drops, random, it was meant to be a longterm grind for veterans and its turned into a new player can get the best new gear. Or as I've seen mentioned before the proto gear shouldn't drop at lvl 30, and can only be equiped once it is, that way agents would still need to grind to use it which would at least make it somewhat fair to the grind veteran agents have but in to level up their gear in the past.

Error Delta C-1-200

Posting the daily targeted loot of escalation 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.

The Pentagon - Pistol (Weapon item) {BLACK TUSK NPC}

DARPA Research Labs - Breaking Point (Gear Set) {BLACK TUSK NPC}

District Union Arena - Core Strength (Gear Set) {HYENA'S NPC}

Roosevelt Island- Concentrated Company (Gear Set) {OUTCAST NPC}

Space Administrative HQ - Light Machine Gun or LMG (Weapon item) {TRUE SONS NPC}

INFO -

1. Any Random Non Exotic Pistol Can Drop in Prototype Version.

2. Breaking Point (Gear Set)

• 2-piece bonus: +25% Rifle Damage & +25% MMR Damage
• 3-piece bonus: +30% Headshot Damage & +15% Weapon Handling
• 4-piece bonus: On Point
  • Landing a shot using a Rifle or MMR grants a stack. Reloading will grant +2% Weapon Handling and 2% Weapon Damage per stack, for 10 seconds.
  • No stacks are acquired while the bonuses are active. The timer running out will refill your magazine.
  • Switching weapons while the bonuses are active will stop the effect and refill your magazine. Switching weapons while the bonuses are not active will remove all stacks and refill your magazine.
• Backpack talent: Point of Honor - Increase On Point Weapon Damage bonus from 2% to 3%.
• Chest talent: Point of no Return - Increase On Point bonuses timer from 10s to 15s.

3. Core Strength (Gear Set)

• 2-piece bonus: +10% Weapon Handling
• 3-piece bonus: +5% Weapon Damage; 5% Armor; 5% Skill Efficiency
• 4-piece bonus: Core Exercise Talent
  • For each Core attribute, receive 40% of the other two Core Attributes' bonuses.
  • Skill Tiers count as 15% Skill Efficiency when these attributes are applied.
  • All pieces from this Gear Set, apart from the Backpack, will feature random Core Attributes.
• Backpack talent: Outer Core - This Talent does not provide a direct change to the Core Exercise Talent. This Backpack features three Core Attributes.
• Chest talent: Inner Core - Increase the percentage of the bonuses you receive from the other Cores from 40% to 75%.

4. Concentrated Company (Gear Set)

• 2-piece bonus: +10% Weapon Damage
• 3-piece bonus: +30% Weapon Handling
• 4-piece bonus: Camaraderie Talent
  • Shooting an enemy marks them for 7s.
  • When a marked enemy dies, receive one stack of 3% Weapon Damage and 2% Critical Hit Damage for each Ally or Skill that has contributed to killing that enemy.
  • Max stacks is 35. Stacks decay every 10 seconds. Maximum amount of marks that can be placed is 4.
• Backpack talent: One for All - Increase the Weapon Damage bonus per stack from 3% to 5%.
• Chest talent: All for One - Increase the amount of marks that can be placed from 4 to 8.

5. Any Random Non Exotic Light Machine Gun Can Drop in Prototype Version.

ESCALATION VENDOR CACHE ITEMS -

PROTOTYPE RANDOM CACHE

PROTOTYPE CHEST PIECE CACHE

PROTOTYPE SUBMACHINE CACHE

The Brooklyn Celebration ist just the Event Pass? That’s basically it, or am I missing something?

been farming priority objectives across 4 characters prioritizing exotics for re rolls at SHD 5500 with a full proto striker build lvl 10 echo augments. heroic with 4 directives and event active for extra exo catches.. i’m averaging around 20/25 exotics in 6 hours of focused basically speed running gameplay. this seems so unrewarding and low. average gamer is prob getting half that?!

feels bad man..

anyone else been able to find a better way for components?

Why Brooklyn days have literally ZERO tasks in Brooklyn? There are no target activities in Brooklyn for this event at all. Only a new hunter who will not serve for mini-season progression. This is how DLCs become dead without further hope. Pity such a great potential is not used again, same as they burried WONY.

I know white is non crits damage and orange is crits damage. But what does this blue damage mean?

for example these Pestilence ticks get stronger when they are "Blue Damage"

https://preview.redd.it/xpffla3m7h2h1.png?width=1019&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee04b290f423565f3cfc7727f969f55084250fb4

Thought the event started 21st? Mine is locked and I can't buy the event pass? Anyone else experiencing this?

Thanks

Welcome to Q&A Thursday!

We all know that RPG's like The Division have a pretty steep learning curve, and for all the new players coming to the game it could be an aspect that many find deterring.

However, this thread is a place for any and all questions that are related to The Division. If there is something you want to know, ask it here and you'll find the help you need.

Whether you want to know what build to aim for, what guns to hunt down or how to beat a certain boss, you can hopefully find your answers here!

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Rules:

• Must be directly related to The Division. Off topic discussions are available in our Friday thread.

• No down talking, we are all noobs at some point, lets welcome all questions.

• All comments that derail conversation will be removed. This thread is a place of learning, so keep it civil and on track.

anyone having trouble connecting to the server i been getting the division services are not available at this time message for the last hour and idk what to do.

My mean, in Division 1, Agents have top tiers toys and strong like in the lore. Enemies can't detect or even know Agents are coming / sneaking behind, they even scare / scream / can't even see through wall and can't homing grenades.

Then come to Division 2, Agents feel like a joke...only 3 tap then bye bye. Enemies now can jam, wall hack, know where Agents are aiming at, have more armor and feel like real armor, no cool down skills, CBQ can stunt, able to stand while got headshot, minigun have no cooling down and even have unlimited special ammo....

When will Agents have new tech like robot dog, shoulder rockets...or at least able to change special ammo / consumables / grenade types like Division 1 ?

Darpa Research Labs/The Pentagon Missions won't start after paying the tokens because a group member hasn't completed the mission at base difficulty, and the mission only starts after said player leaves.

This is yet another reason why we need matchmaking, a refund option or to remove the buy-in token system all together.

Or maybe auto cancel invites as a host to players who are ineligible.

There's simply no excuse for issues like this and the countless amount of disconnects.

Fix your damn game Massive.