so, everything has mitigation right? status builds have haz pro, skill builds have jammer, but what about weapon builds? well the only thing I can think of is skill builds. skill builds are the mitigation for weapon builds and that's the real reason most PVPers complain about them. Look at the Shrapnel trap for example, it directly combats the way weapon build players rush in at you, and they absolutely hate it because of that. skill builds force a more tactical and cover-based play-style. The meta weapon builds are the exact opposite, all they do is put up their shield and shoot. Then they complain when skill builds put them down and claim skill builds are OP. when in reality, it's weapon builds that are OP. Weapon builds can have tons of armor plus a shield and still melt people no prob, skill builds at the max can have 913k armor, excluding things like the kard and the memento. technically you could put more armor on a skill build but since skill tiers are more than just damage you basically need skill tier 6. skill builds can be mitigated with jammer or by destroying their skills. weapon builds can only be mitigated with distance and maybe riot foam or a blinder. but if someone with more than 1 mil armor goes rogue and pulls out a shield right by you and you're a skill build there's basically nothing you can do.

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.

I am replaying Division 1 for the 2nd-3rd time. Really am enjoying this game. My question is, should i buy the expansion or the PS4 Plus or is the game gong to be discontinued on the servers. I am at level 30, world tier 4, playing solo, with no access to the Dark zone.

DARPA Research Labs
Warhound pack
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon & Zeta.

Zeta is a suicide Warhound and runs towards you.
(Normal sized warhound)
It activates in the middle of the area.
Jumps over the cover and runs straight towards you
Destroy it before it reaches you or everyone dies.

Delta & Epsilon jump down from the watch towers as soon as Zeta explodes.
they are like Buddy & Lucy. (Same size as well)
Both have a minigun and drop shock traps when they circle around you.
They get immunity when they are close together.
Separately they get sort of a glass cannon talent.
Only they take normal damage instead of 50%.
And they 1 hit kill you instead of 25% buff.

Alpha, Beta, Gamma get elevated from that hole in the middle.
(I don't know if it can be a platform that comes up with them on it.
or a quadcopter lifts them up and it drops 1 on the left, 1 on the right and 1 in the middle while it malfunctions and crashes after all 3 are dropped)

All 3 are bigger than Buddy & Lucy.
And Alpha is the biggest.

- Alpha has an EMP pulse and rocket launchers on each side. (Like the Technician's weapon)
And all 4 turrets on its back.
Normal, Sniper, Flame and Mortar turret.
But can only use 1 turret at the time.
Long range Sniper or Mortar.
Mid range: Mortar or Normal.
Close range: Normal or Flame.
Alpha is everywhere and nowhere, It can push or run.

- Beta has 3 snipers on its back and airburst seekermines on the sides.
- Gamma has a shock grenade launcher and Flamethrowers on the sides.

Beta and Gamma work together so if you get shocked you'll get (killed) sniped 3x right after.
Unless you are a tank or have vanguard with a big shield. (Beta has headshots only)

If Gamma "dies" first
Beta runs to the back and sends seekermines.
If Beta "dies" first
Gamma starts to push and uses Flamethrowers.

That's about it...

I tried to put pictures in here from imgur like others do, but I got links instead of the photos and the links didn't work so nevermind.
It was to explain the where and how stuff but doesn't matter.

Edit: if you have an idea for a boss battle put it in here as well.

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.

Came across Rogue Agents while doing GWH this morning, couldn't see any deflector drones above them but they had immunity at the start, the immunity came and went a couple of times. No announcements about it at all, only the usual things. Is this new or am I just not seeing it?

While I'm at it did the Manning Zoo invaded, whoever came up with the Mortars needs a good whipping, and don't get me started on how they copped out and just had us destroy all those generators, for the mortars and then turrets and then emp generators etc etc.

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.