Do you think stealth could play a role in future Division games?

For example, using a suppressed weapon to stealthily eliminate enemies at a Control Point (until someone witnessed a kill or found a body). Or stealthily dropping a few enemies at any location before things go loud?

Imagine you’ve got a few enemies standing around a radio broadcast and suddenly one of them drops from a sniper round… the rest of them run for cover but aren’t sure where the shooter is. 🙂

It could also be cool if you clear a room stealthily (without the enemies getting a shot off) and that means there’s no need to deal with subsequent waves of enemy reinforcements spawning in. In most cases, this would probably only be possible with a full coop team all using suppressed weapons.

I think it would require that unalerted enemies without helmets go down with one head shot.

Thoughts?

Do you think it's viable to build a Sniper/SMG build that keeps things as real/red as possible?

I got the Mantis SRS rifle recently, which looks cool and has an interesting buff to enemies not targeting you. I guess it's intended to be used with the holographic decoy skill. I tried that briefly, but the decoy didn't last very long to make it all that viable for anything other than the first few opening shots. So I'm thinking switching to an SMG and striker drone when enemies start to close in. I also have a ton of good Hunter's Fury gear from the season rewards that might make for an interesting SMG build.

Would a Hunter's Fury set, with my Glass Cannon chest and the Coyote mask, along with the decoy skill, a striker drone, the Mantis, and a good SMG be an effective combo?

I'm afraid that at closer ranges where the Hunter's Fury is effective I would be cut to pieces.

As the titles says...

I just recently had a rogue agent encounter within a group one of of them wentwas killed and the rogues disappeared has this always been the case

I recall having this discussion, which at some point turned to argument, about whether or not certain items are "weighted" to drop more often. Obviously the weighting factor is built-in to the game to account for targeted loot, so the mechanism is already in place, but some folks argued that (outside of TL) it's pure RNG and there is no such weighting involved.

So about a year later, exotic drops in the LZ are still running 92% toward the Chameleon. Yes, in the (almost) two years since I first noticed this I've had more than 9 out of 10 "random" drops in the LZ were a Chameleon.

Well, now that I've been farming the DZ a lot for optimization mats, I notice the same thing for Pestilence there. Since I went "back in" I've had 32 exotics drop, and 31 were a Pestilence. That's more like 97%.

So almost nothing but Chameleon in the LZ, and almost nothing but Pestilence in the DZ. Does anyone still believe this is pure RNG, and that the devs don't weight any particular item?

I am an avid user of the oxidizer chem launcher so this is a real problem for me. accidentally killing my self with my own skills is just the worst. And it's not even consistent, you can stand in front of your turret no problem and friendlies are completely unaffected. I shouldn't be able to melt myself faster than i can melt a normal red enemy on heroic. It does nothing but hurt the experience and makes the player not want to use certain skills in fear of accidentally killing them self.

I say only in PVE because spamming oxi in PVP would be kinda nuts.

I've a lot of fun using this build this past week:


4 pieces Negociator's Dilemma
2 pieces Providence Defense

Weapon : Capacitor

57% Critical Hit Chance
198,8% Critical Hit Damage

Talents : Spark + Vigilance

I have so much gear and weapon crafting materials that I'm nearly always maxed out to the point where all the crafting material crates I've gathered through season loot tracks are sitting in my inventory un-opened.

I don't craft anything. But then I don't really have any blueprints to craft things that would help me. I use a couple of exotics, several named items, and the Negotiator Dilemma gear set. I've done a bit of farming for better ND gear rolls and recalibrating what I have. The only weapon I'm using that I could craft, is the police M4, but I already have the talent I want and some decent rolls on it (weapon damage is max at +15).

What should I be crafting, if anything?

I notice I could buy blue-prints for the exotics that I have (Coyote mask, Scorpio Shotgun)... should I be crafting those to see if I can get better rolls? But my Scorpio is almost god-rolled already I think.

What I really need, are optimization resources. I'm constantly in short supply of Faction based optimization resources. What should I be doing to get more of that?

with Division 1 👀


The grind is real:


And not helped by the UI


And if you think RNG in Div 2 was a pain - I'd completed 381 missions before encountering this Underground tile

Rather than follow the normal meta builds, I kinda pieced this one together on my own, thinking about my particular play style.

All three green pieces are HF, rolled for max 170k armor and max 12% CHD for the attribute. All gear mods are CHD mods between 11-12% or the one CHC at 6% in the chest.

You can see the chest, backpack and holster stats below, and my build stats at bottom. With the Cold Relations I am running almost 54% CHC and 148% CHD, and with the Scorpio 43% and 138%, respectively.

All pieces (including weapons) are fully optimized with the sole exception of the backpack, which is a recent addition (and I ran out of optimization mats). Once it's done I'll have another 1.4% CHC on all weapons and 2M armor.

I am not certain about the Opportunistic talent. It works on shotgun-only kills but the 5 seconds is nearly half over by the time I swap to another weapon. Still, it slays for up-close kills.

I also have fully optimized Lady Death and The Mop to swap out on the two primary weapons. I go back and forth trying to decide which I like better.

Oh, skills are Defender drone and shield, of course. With 0 skill tier both are incredibly weak though...

I would easily drop some stone cold cash on the option to have the original hologram map UI from the first Division in Division 2. Like the black, dark layout of that theme. Would be a very cool add-on to the game.

In addition, would also drop some cold cash on a re-release of the original NY map in a summer setting with the original DZ with and continued story or even extended the WLNY map with a DZ.

Excited for the new DLC, been itching for some DLC for Division 2. Hope to see more DLC and content following later on in the game's life.

Placed in the BoO downstairs where the hunter masks are on the wall.

Signature weapon is a not a weapon now.
But it's a Support Station like Div 1.

4 charges no reload. (Or 8 charges for raid)
Each charge revives, heals and/or boosts.
- Pick up from unconscious, get full armor as well.
- Pick up from down, get full armor & overheal.
- Only healed, get overheal & armor kits restock.
- Allready full, get overheal,armor kits restock, and 30% weapon damage till overheal is gone.
- Everyone has 100% hazard protection for 30sec.

*Overheal is 3x the armor of the Combat medic.
*Overheal fades away after 30 seconds.
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Edit: Solo play.
If you go down:
It works as a revive hive, only picks you up once.
And that is only if it's fully charged.
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Group Signature ammo acquisition Passive talent.
Healing 2 team mates at the same time.
Adds 1 to the group members ammo bar

Support Station charges acquisition Passive talent.
Killing an enemy while at full armor.
Adds 3 to the ammo bar.
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Armor kit talent.
Repairs 100% of your armor.
Repairs 40% of teams armor.
And 15% weapon/skill dmg to team for 10sec.
In range of 15 meters.

Passive talent.
Manual picking up team mates is 50% faster.

Passive talent.
15% damage to elites.

Grenade.
Instead of grenades you have 5 extra armor kits.
You can throw them to your team mates.
Or use them yourself.
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Skill upgrade and (usefull) mods.
Overheal Chem launcher.
30% Duration mod.
20% Heal mod.

This overheal gives 1x the armor of the healer.

I wanted to say Defibrillator chemlauncher...
But I could already hear people cry so.
Or Revive drone but same thing and there would be an argument for the already existing scan drone. (that nobody uses)
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The 4 bottom right talents.
- Allies that are healed by you get 100% hazard protection for 10sec.
- Ignore disruptions, can only trigger once every 60sec
- 15% outgoing healing when in cover.
- 50% pulse resistance
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Weapons and special pistol.

15 points for 5% weapon damage. (Max 15%.)

Pistol: LMB Special (First wave X-45)
Special talent: Coolheaded
Headshots reduce heal skills cooldown by 5%.
Can only trigger once every 10sec.

When playing coop, we are currently all carrying a revive hive as we level up and my buds get use to the game.

Sometimes, someone will go down and get revived by their hive. Good times.

Sometimes they are killed and need to respawn. What’s the difference here? is there an injured state and a dead state? How do you get injured vs killed? Or more importantly how do you avoid getting killed and get injured instead?

Another odd situation… my friend went down, his revive give was out of charges I think, or failed to work… we’re not sure. So I threw my hive over to where he was. That didn’t revive him even though I don’t think I had used it. I had to go over to him and revive him. Does that make any sense? What happened there?

Thanks.