So I've been playing exclusively solo since earlier this year, and now just passed SHD level 500 and I've tried several different builds... and here's my observation...

I started with an all RED DPS build using a rifle (Artist's Tool) and while it was effective, I can no longer play it... it's just not good.

My most powerful builds that make the game a lot easier are:

The key here is being able to eliminate a lot of enemies very quickly. Is that what you guys find as well?

Is there a build I've overlooked that also feels OP?

I've been running the following build for general purpose gameplay and would like to get some advice / feedback on it along with some proposed changes.

None of the online posts (Reddit/Ubi-Forums/etc) seem to have any suitable comparisons for me to use, as they all seem to run either all-Red DPS Crit builds focused on pure damage output with 3x Providence or PvP focused hybrid builds.

I play exclusively PvE (mainly solo) and my current build works well enough on Challenging but but suffers a little on Heroic, so I was wondering if some changes could be made while still retaining survivability.

Note that my SHD watch perks are maxed out (SHD 4100+) and the Critical Hit Chance and Damage (CHC / CHD) buffs from it are already included in my listed calculations, while all my Gear stats are maxed out.

All my guns have Damage to Targets Out of Cover (DtTOoC) in their stats due to its higher general utility compared to Damage to Health / Armor (DTH / DTA).

My guns also use mainly Accuracy and Stability mods in order to maximise the ability to sustain shots on target.

Please also note that I already have a pure Skill build (Turret / Drone) and Tank Build so please refrain from suggesting those.

Also, please note that:
> Red Core = Weapon Damage
> Yellow Core = Skill Tier
> Blue Core = Armor
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BASIC INFO

Class: Gunner (10% Ammo Regen / Armor on Kill; i.e AoK / Weapon Handling when immobile)

Chest Talent: Unbreakable (95% armor refill on breakage every 60 sec)

Backpack Talent: Composure (+15% Total Weapon Damage when firing from cover)

Gun 1: Pestilence LMG (Used for extra damage over time from its talent and the large magazine size)

Gun 2: Usually AR, may be Rifle (Talent = Ranger / Preservation / Optimist depending on situation)

Skill 1: Healer Drone (Reviver Hive cooldown takes too long)

Skill 2: Assault Turret

Cores Mix: 5 Red / 1 Yellow

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GEAR BRANDS:

1x Coyote's Mask (Red Core)

1x Ceska Vyroba (Red Core) - Note: 1x stat = 8% Weapon Handling

1x Grupo Sombra (Red Core) - Note: 1x stat = 8% Weapon Handling

1x Belstone Armory (Yellow Core)

1x Walker Harris (Red Core)

1x Fox's Prayer (Red Core)

Crit Stats without weapon mods (Includes Brand + SHD Watch bonuses): 50% CHC / 144% CHD

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GENERAL PLAYSTYLE

> General exploration until random / scripted enemy encounters.
> Staying in cover at Mid / Long range and hammering enemies with the Pestilence LMG while the AR / Rifle assist at Closer / Longer Ranges as needed.
> SMG / Shotgun (Scorpio) useage as needed for some CQC situations.

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PERSONAL COMMENTS:

This build tends give me sufficient raw firepower and versatility to hit targets at most ranges hard (5x Red Core + Walker Harris additive 5% to all guns + Composure Talent multiplicative bonus).

Concerning the 50% CHC, I compensate with a 5% CHC gun mod where possible while Coyote's Mask has the CHC/CHD distance-based bonus.

The 16% Weapon Handling also helps with reload time and ability to keep shots on target at longer ranges.

The 1x Yellow Core allows my Assault Turret to function as a distraction sentry while still damaging targets without going down too fast (1x Yellow Core = +25% Skill Dmg / 50% Skill HP).

The Healer Drone also helps to keep my armor up when paired with Belstone's 1% Armor Regen, the Gunner Class' 10% AoK and Unbreakable's 2nd chance armor refill, allowing me to sustain damage output for a longer time and the chance to reposition if flanked / rushed.

I've tried the standard DPS builds and they just seem too high risk / specialised for me, while the Hybrid DPS builds seem too dependant on getting up close with SMGs.

Overall I prefer a slower and steady approach to hitting targets, using cover and terrain advantages where I can to best synergise with my build.

HOWEVER, as I mentioned earlier, while my current build works fine for Challenging, it suffers more in Heroic due to the high bullet-spongieness of enemies, especially at closer ranges if they swarm.

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REQUEST FOR FEEDBACK / ADVICE:


Should I swap out my 1x Walker Harris holster for a Makeshift armor piece to get 12% more CHD from the additional gear mod slot (CHD Total: 144+12= 156%)?

Just how much does the Walker Harris 5% damage to all guns compare with the potential 12% CHD from the Makeshift armor piece?

Also, should I then swap out my Fox's Prayer for a Makeshift armor piece as well for the extra CHD as well given that all my guns already have DtTOoC (CHD Total w/above: 144+12+12 = 168%)?

Similarly, how does Fox's Prayer 8% DtTOoc compare with the additional potential CHD as well?

Lastly, are there any other potential changes I could make to the build without sacrificing too much versatility and survivability?

Any useful feedback / advice would be most welcome, and I am also willing to entertain questions concering my existing build.

My thanks to you all.

Hello,

this game's mechanics is obscure and very complicated. I have tried to search the net, but best results I got were two years old. And of course I assume they are no longer valid (after many game updates)...

Actual example - I have a two barrel shotgun in my sidearm slot. Its weapon talent is the Optimist. In theory, the second shot should do 15 % more damage. But in reality, the 2nd shot does only 7 % more damage, not 15.

Wether its a new game mode within Div 2, or Heartland, are any actions going to be taking against the cheating? I can’t speak for conflict, but the DZ has been taken over by hackers and that’s about all that’s left. The experience is ruined when you can’t step in there without getting blasted through a wall or beamed by somebody running scripts. What is going to be done to stop anything new from becoming the same way?

Hello,

first I would like to tell I have a very low stress tolerance due to severe life problems.

But this occurred yesterday:

I was enjoying the game when I played solo on story or normal difficulty in past. But I cannot progress further solo and I would like to avoid stress I mentioned. If it is possible at all. And I am unfortunately not in a coop clan.

We heard in 2020 that there wasn't going to be any new content for D2, but there will be presumably in time for Christmas 2021. Since this is Black Friday, was hoping to hear something but have heard nothing.

So according to some people creating videos we should be getting new content soon. But with the current state of the game is this actually going to be worth it. By this is mean, there are at the moment so many bugs and glitches (or intentional) within this game that I cannot understand why anyone would want to add more stuff that will inherit these issues.

Since few weeks I noticed that there are changes made (or as result of other actions) that directly influence the game play. I see NPCs running around erratically, as if they aren't sure where to go (for minutes) and only if you move close they get out of their infinite loops. Then there are those that seem to go into spasm the moment you start shooting, thus missing every shot. Or when walking past you they glitch just a little faster so you're aim is always trailing them. This surely wasn't the case in the past where I could easily take out running NPCs by moving in the same direction as they were. Which is another thing I noticed lately, it is much easier to step aside then to adjust your aim on targets, making sure you're keep hitting them.

Also today I noticed that my turret (33k) and drone (20k) aren't doing the same damage to NPCs. Even had my turret shooting (point blank) at an NPC standing in the middle of an ally without doing any damage at all, but the NPC was slowly chipping away health of my turret. The drone seems to be more effective then turret for killing NPCs that are out of cover, as if the damage stats were inverted. Not to mention that turret has a nag of picking NPCs that are impossible to hit, or still refusing to switch target on command.

Many times I see a few NPCs but when engaging them one or two others popup out of nowhere, so they were invisible at first. They also seem to be able to leave cover (invisible) and simply turn up in another location, dropping grenades when no grenadier is around. Radar isn't updated properly, sometimes you run into NPCs that don't show up on radar, other times you're in combat but there aren't any, even after waiting several minutes for them to come and fight. Which is another thing I noticed today, killing NPCs on the street in front of the CP, nobody cares, zero response from guards. Then after engaging with CP I'm also in combat with other enemies that are on other side of the building, it all doesn't make much sense to me.

And I can go on forever, when you're looking closely and pay attention to what happens you see many weird things going on. Because of this I really don't if it would be wise to release any new content without fixing a lot of the bugs first. For me personally this new content has to really good otherwise I can't be bothered knowing that it probably also contains many of the current issues at release. It would really be a major improvement to the game when they actually start fixing bugs and annoyances that reside in this game, some of them since day one.

Ubisoft is it really so hard to give us a 60 fps patch for ps5?
It will bring more players in...and if you think that it will not benefit division 2 trust me it will ( especially that you don't have nothing new now and later in feb it will be paid content)
So a 60 fps patch will be a smart move in order to bring and remember players of division.

Loving the game. I'm relatively new to it, but finished tiers 1-5 and close to finishing NY.

I know it's not seen a lot of content in the past year (any), but there are plans for the future, so I think it is worth noting that the game is too antisocial for a coop game. There's clans, but I have no idea what anyone in the clan is doing because there is no clan chat channel. Similarly, its great we can see other players in Safe Houses, but why, really? If there is no open chat channel, we can't hang out, visit, form a group, etc. Team/group channel as well.

These channels could have an optional toggle to hidden, and there wouldn't be a world chat, so I wouldn't think there's be any spam really. If you don't want conversation in the Safe Houses, just hide the channel. Same goes for clan and group chat(s).

The game would be so much better with this. Would feel more connected to the world and meeting other players. Also knowing what my clan is doing or organizing something. If this option exists, I have not found it on the PS5.

It's sad to see that every day things get worse in this game, whether with bugs that have been there since the release, whether with the increasingly constant crashes and also how the developers treat this game. One of the few things that's left for me is to play in Legendary as a team and explore the open world, there aren't always reasonable players to play in Legendary (understand by "reasonable" anyone who doesn't come out ahead shooting like that a "ret @rd", not waiting for the team to position themselves and arrange their skills for each area), finally I'm going to talk about the open world:

WHAT A DISGUSTING IDEA IS THIS OF STAYING ALL TIME NPCs SHOWING OUT OF NO THING ON THE BACKS OF PLAYERS?
Am I playing Doom, with a bunch of demons popping out of hell's portals?

Damn, the player does not walk 20 meters that NPCs appear and when the battle starts with them and tries to retreat, to reposition themselves, reload a weapon or even change the vest, out of nowhere behind him (or to the sides) another group of NPCs appears, this is annoying, besides all the bugs, you still have to put up with it, what made me like The Division and think it was a different game was the fact that I had to stop, think, reason, create builds and calculate my steps... but not now, it seems that more and more I'm playing one of these frantic FPS where a lot of enemies come up and I have to go shooting like a crazy, no time to position or even think.

If this The Division were what I knew from the beginning, I wouldn't have 300h out of the almost 3000h that I have, as it's too "commonplace" increasingly similar to most action games out there... ie , just the outdated formula of: "Shoot first ALWAYS ask later..." which translated to games is: Kill, kill, kill... and that's it.

Sorry for the long outburst, but The Division is much more than that, I'm not liking the path I see the game is taking as we'll probably have the successor in two years, and have one or two modes and a more "differentiated" game like they are. the raids, The Summit and Legendary quests (even with their ridiculous exaggerations I also think they should make more quests available in this mode as that's what most players have been playing since launch) I support these different modes, but make this a pattern by making the whole game like this, NO.

[censored] stupid [censored] head can you repair this [censored] [censored] games??????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3 time in 5 minutes remove me from games you stupid [censored]!!!!!!!!!!