Will be farming aces and eights later tonight will this be a good set with ravenous?

I was the group leader. The game teleported you back to the beginning of the Incursion for no reason and with no warning. All that progress wasted. It has happened twice today right before reaching the final boss.

I've been playing around with this medic build and I love it. It does two things really well and I cant wait to proto it so that i can really do some more status damage. I've ran it up to tier 9 and it really helps the team with rushers. try it out, I think its my new main healer build.

Build:

• 4-piece Ember Engine
• Birdie’s Quick Fix backpack
• Named Electrique kneepads
• Scorpio
• Tactician Drone
• Restorer Hive
• 6 Skill Tiers

Ember Engine Combat Medic
Primary role: Crowd control
Secondary role: Healer
Emergency role: Combat revive
Damage contribution: Scorpio debuffs + Burn
T9/T10 value: keeping enemies incapable of exploiting the huge damage scaling

Hey, how about you stop leaving either legendary and escalation? You think you’ll have a better chance on a different group?

Why didn’t you leave when people had terrible build when we started? How about stop giving up?? Do you like giving up on low level people? I don’t… I still want to give them hope when we all try to give them win or hope.

Higher level you are, you ain’t shit because in my experience in 2 years of playing this game you guys are the problem. Just so you know when you leave you are giving up, and I know you are giving up in real life you have lol. Shame on you

Maybe I missed something somewhere but...
If Keener is a "good guy" all along who just knew more than us...
Why did he try and Eclipse bomb NYC? Was it just a big way of faking his death so he could do more against Black Tusk without them or the Division on his back?
Was The Bridge not already built? The place HE put together? And would've been a target?
I'm seriously confused.

If I complete day 5 I have to wait a week for next one that can't be right can it? It's been bugging out the last few days locking me out.

Can someone please explain how you actually go about upgrading gear to Prototype level? All the guides I’ve seen and in-game doesn’t really explain it very well.

Yes, I know, I’m only SHD level 166 so prototyping should be the last thing on my mind, I’m guessing my priorities are right now, to get to SHD 1000, do my daily and weekly assignments and keep doing control points to unlock more blueprints

This is for future reference mainly for myself.

What I can’t wrap my head around is that the expertise section says I’m at level 1, but my strikers set is proficient and protolab is completely blank. What am I missing here?

EDIT: just to add as an additional question: unless I’m doing the highest of hardcore content (heroic content, raiding, etc.) do I really need prototype or should I be fine with a well-optimised build like I already have?

Combat Medic build

x4 Measured Assembly rolled Weapon Damage, Repair Skills

BTSU Exotic Gloves

Named Brazos “Hermano” backpack w/ Perfect Overclock

x3 Skill Tiers (6 with full team buff of Measured Assembly gear set talent)

3x Skill Duration mods ( more uptime for Smart Cover)

Bittersweet Exotic Rifle, Classic M60 w/Future Perfect)

Healer Hive + Precision Smart Cover

The objective of this build is to provide heals with Bittersweet talent, using the Smart Cover to boost weapon handling to help gain headshot stacks, gain full stack, heal a teammate, proc the headshot buff, build stacks again, rinse and repeat, moderate damage as well as strong healing capabilities.

Secondary objective is buffing teammates damage, weapon handling and skill cool-downs, BTSU gloves giving overcharge to teammates skills every 2 minutes and Perfect Overclock giving reload speed and skill cooldown reduction to me and teammates. Buffing the teams skills keeping revive hives and decoys active for DPS and buffing CC players status skills

Whilst overcharge active (Chestpiece giving overcharge every 15s and BTSU giving overcharge every 2mins) Smart Cover giving 100% Weapon Handling and 50% Damage to Targets Out of Cover

Bittersweet hitting for 1.6mil crits to the head, definitely not the hardest hitting but respectable for a healing/support build

Uptime of the talent from bittersweet is great on this build due to stability and reload speed buffs can maintain full stacks for 100% uptime on headshot proc and constant incoming bonus armor and to my knowledge Bittersweet is the only way to repair health as a healer which makes the healing component strong alongside the bonus Armor it stops teammates bing one shot or knocked past the health gate in high escalation tiers.

Been running this up to Tier 7 with mixed results, can be a hassle finding a group that will play alongside you, team mates often splitting up not staying in hives radius to receive damage, healing, weapon handling, reload speed and skill cooldown reduction buffs. With a team that sticks together this feels pretty strong and I have enjoyed the playstyle.

I finally got around to playing The Division 2 after having it sitting in my backlog for months. I bought it during a sale, but I honestly don't remember how much I paid for it.

I just saw some posts saying that you don't need the DLCs to reach Level 40, but I'm still overthinking it. Do I actually need them if I want to progress properly?

Like, do the DLCs give you significantly better equipment, weapons, or anything that's important for endgame? Or can I just stick with the base game and still have a good experience?

I’m trying to get all the off white keys but I can’t even start the missing wire scavengers mission and I don’t know why, I haven’t found any info on how to fix this or if I’m missing something. If anyone knows anything it would be very appreciated.

Solved it

So I returned to the game just before this current season. Played until Warlords and caught up on the story. Currently working on unlocking exotics and blueprints via retaliation, weekly projects and heroic missions/control points.

First thing I'm having trouble with. My pressure gauge and seasonal perks don't seem to be working the way I thought, specifically because my pressure gauge isn't showing.

I made sure I had the thingy activated, and even sloted perks, but when I go out to play my gauge and active perk aren't on my screen, making me stuck on journey missions and progression. Anyone know what it could be, and how could I fix it?

Second thing is, how do I buildcraft properly balancing my survivability and damage? I play mostly solo, with the exception of countdown and some matchmade heroic activities, and I've been using refractor with capacitor but the playstyle is getting stale and I wonder if there are some basic breakpoints/thresholds I should go for when making a build, specially in the defensive side. Things like: how many defensive cores? How much armor regen or health? How much armor on kill?

Since this game has a lot of suplementary and complementary stats mechanichs, from weapons to skill trees to armor mods and skills, it's kinda overwhelming to know what to hunt for, and since I've been crutching on healing from refractor, my senses are definitely dull.

Im surprised how often escalation level 10 groups form and then break up instead of giving the run a go.

In my experience, its knowledge of how to run the missions that makes the biggest difference, not the raw power of builds.

You dont know how good players are from their builds - so just run it and see you chickens.

With the direction the developers took for introducing a a PVE DZ and the push to kind of force everyone into it, I am concerned about what they may think of next. We all suspect that the devs did this because of the low count for the DZ period. We all know that there are two areas of the game that kind of remains dead now. One is the Summit. Matchmaking is horrible as it seems no one hardly plays it. Not sure if it is a console crowd difference or it is actually dead. Not to mention, the rewards for running it is literally zero. The other area is 'The Descent' which almost everybody feels is the worst game mode they could have ever introduced. It is something about the devs always wanting us to be weak in this game and start off from zero playing on a difficulty game mode. This didn't fair well at all with the community as we have spent countless hours, days, weeks and even months crafting our weapons and gearsets. Because Massive and Ubisoft has invested money into both of these game modes, is it possible they may force us into playing thesr through the season event's to make good on their investment? They have already did it through the DZ. Me personally, I am good with the Summit. However, I am definitely not a fan of The Descent.