The Division 2

For anyone knowledgeable about this game, is there a "best" specialization? Especially for a primarily solo player.

I assume you're asking about the 6 specializations? Not really a best one, it just depends on what build you're making for whatever play style. Sniper is good for mmr and rifle builds, Survivalist is good for healing/support, Demolitionist is good for explosive builds like seeker mines/explosive sticky/mortar turret, Gunner is good for most gun/tank type builds, Technician is good for all skill builds, Firewall is good for burn builds and some tanky builds as it provides buffs to those behind you.

There's viable builds for just about everything. Any type of build can be used for solo, even the cc ones if you hybrid built it for damage. Just a matter of what you want to use.

I don't pick specializations for the special weapon, but for the 4-6 unique talents in them that can help your build. But yes demo was a monster in the beginning, think it's been adjusted slightly down, but it should still do decent damage, tech rockets and gunner minigun should also be decent I think.

So what is the general progression for a fresh
40? I'm running Tactician to get skill points for it and I prefer Rifles and MMRs typically. I did a couple level 4 Control Points in NY and it was rough. Multiple deaths but beat them eventually. Got some set pieces but nothing I'm using yet. I'm running seeker mine/assault turret with +skill gear right now.

Brikker said:

So what is the general progression for a fresh
40? I'm running Tactician to get skill points for it and I prefer Rifles and MMRs typically. I did a couple level 4 Control Points in NY and it was rough. Multiple deaths but beat them eventually. Got some set pieces but nothing I'm using yet. I'm running seeker mine/assault turret with +skill gear right now.

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Personally, I always run the daily PvE quest. That usually involves running a mission, donating 50 supplies, and doing like 3 side quests in a certain zone. Also you have to kill named, but doing the mission usually takes care of that. I like doing bounties because they are fairly easy to solo except for heroic ones.

Progression at this point unfortunately is to just keep improving your gear and your SHD level. Eventually you will hit a wall as far as gear is concerned where you will no longer get upgrades except rarely. I don't think I have changed my main loadout in about a month.

Max out your recalibration station whenever you can. Try to keep anything with 2 or 3 perfect rolls instead of breaking those down, you never know if you will need it for some build. For yellow skill build obviously you want anything that has +1 skill tier and +skill damage, I think China Industry is something you want to look into.

I have been doing Season 1, it's a reasonable filler. I run timed missions to rank up, its pretty easy to get 60 levels because it resets after a week, so in reality you only need to get about 30 levels a week, which is not hard to do at all. The rewards are meh, but you do get 1 exotic cache.

You can go some different routes, there's a lot of options to use.

If you prefer rifle/mmr then you can just use the meta rifle build which is using bakers dozen/classic m1a rifle, which does the best damage right now but will be nerfed soon. They tried to nerf it last patch, but because it was left out of the notes they caught backlash for it and rolled it back, but they will nerf it. But you can build it for 60% crit chance(that's the cap) crit damage, head damage, fox'a prayer kneepads, contractor's gloves. providence pieces the rest.

MMR build can use 4 piece aces and eights gear set, pristine example airaldi holding chest for perfect focus. Or full set airaldi, 1 piece providence. For the mmr use the nemesis exotic, or white death for highest headshot damage(gets like 25% more than other mmr's. For skills on these builds typically something to heal and revive hive.

For a skill build running turret/seekers, can go different routes here, use the gold pieces to build for skill level, haste, power with technician. You can go bomber route with Demolitionist and use artillery turret in it with seekers. You can also go seekers with hardwire set which has the set bonus of resetting one skill when you use another every 20s, you can lower that to 10s with the hardwire backpiece talent, and basically you set out seekers, then drop either a hive or pop shield(these two you can quickly deploy and pack up) and reset the cooldown for seekers every 10s. You can also get skilled talent on chest piece and get the seekers to reset after every skill kill(this talent can go nuts in the art turret/seeker build).

As for progression... get shd levels, fill out the recal library, do the seasonal stuff, raid I guess, while constantly trying to upgrade gear.

New meta this week is going striker drone(it's survival got buffed last patch), with assault turret, build with tech, skill levels, power, haste.
A lot of other builds out there, this thread probably outdated now but has a lot of build examples in it
And the gear sheet is around if you want to put something together on your own.

Swapped to the drone to go with assault turret, seems pretty good. I've been just matchmaking bounties and missions at Challenging difficulty for the most part. Definitely mostly getting carried.

Thanks for the reddit guides, those are handy.

Infinite towers seem to be popular in games these days

This is probably a dumb question, but until recently I quit playing since around TU4. How in the hell does targeted loot work? I know you go to wherever the target drops are and farm events or whatever, but doesb higher stat stuff drop from the targeted loot in missions, or is it a crapshoot like it is with the world drops?

105 watch running on challenging if that means anything.

You're just targeting the slot, gear brand, or type of gun. Everything else is a crapshoot, and will be garbage 99% of the time. After a few days you have a base level of gear for a build that's at least 'functional' and that turns into 99.9+% garbage, and only the couple missions with an early boss that can be reset quickly (for that 1 guaranteed piece of targeted loot) are worth bothering with.

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You're just targeting the slot, gear brand, or type of gun. Everything else is a crapshoot, and will be garbage 99% of the time. After a few days you have a base level of gear for a build that's at least 'functional' and that turns into 99.9+% garbage, and only the couple missions with an early boss that can be reset quickly (for that 1 guaranteed piece of targeted loot) are worth bothering with.

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Yeah that's what I figured, same garbage as before once you get a few loadouts set up. Thanks man!