BUFFS to Pestilence Exotic: Now THE GO-TO LMG in The Division 2 Season 2 

let me know what you want me to review for Season 2.

I'm running mine with the Catharsis. I love it. Have you ever run the Pestilence with Ongoing Directive? Chest, mask, knees, holster, Contractor's, and a Walker Harris Wicked backpack. The OD chest gives you amped damage and Wicked is triggered by the Banshee pulse. I always thought the Pestilence was an exotic Negev. The top handle is folded down on the Carnage and Negev

Use Ongoing Directive. It has 30% reload speed. Stack it with status effects. Vile mask + Golan w/glass cannon. 700 to 900k ticks. But much quicker ticks. All you need to do is mow down elites to 1/3 of their armour left and watch them run into cover and die. Use crossbow specialization so you can get mender seeker. Play from cover and distance. They can’t rush you because of all the ticks going and how fast those ticks are eating into them This is a very common build. I might try Ongoing chest since it will be buffed to 50% amp next season.

pestilence at 850 rpm?? thats gonna fucking nasty

Just had an idea completely irrelevant to the video. Division 3 Specializations have a semi class like function. You’d still be able to run whatever the fuck you want, it’s not limiting what gear you can use. But It can cap certain stats. Like a heavy class that focuses on tanks builds. You have a higher base armor before gear and mods are taken in to effect. And a high base LMG damage. But your skill tier would be capped at say 4 rather than being able to go up to six. And your movement speed would be more heavy and chunky. Maybe they add explosive weapons that you can equip to your primary and secondary slots. And then the specialized versions would function more like exotic variants. Which doing that they could add a better skill tree to promote higher build versatility in specializations. You could respec into an explosive build as a tank, or focus on shotguns with better movement speed, or LMGs with higher mag capacity and base weapon accuracy. Maybe they finally add a functional bipod that would increase accuracy and stability by 200% when aiming from supported cover (aiming over cover not around it) The technician would have access to an extra skill tier locked only to that specialization, meaning they can reach a base 7+overcharge rather than 6+overcharge. With trees focusing on team buff skills, damage output skills, enemy nerf skills, etc. however their armor would be capped at say 1.2 million or something. And they would have an average movement speed. And they could add a new specialization. That focuses on speed and damage output. Maybe they could have some sort of stim specialization weapon, considering they would have capped health and armor. They would be able to heal themselves on the go in a tight spot. They’d have a higher movement speed and trees focused on additional speed and Smg damage/fire rate. A higher health/armor cap with shotgun damage. Or even some kind of grenadier tree where they can put an under barrel grenade launcher on their assault rifles that convert their grenade to explode on impact. With increased grenade capacity and grenade regen every 60 seconds. Feel free to call this stupid but I genuinely think it would be so much fun. You’d actually be able to feel how different each agent plays in a team dynamic. Everyone would be a unique piece to a puzzle.

I've always liked the Pestilence!

For Heroic or lower difficulty, especially when shooting REDS, you don't want the damage to be too high or you will never get 50 stacks on one NPC. When playing in a group, concentrate on GOLD, PURPLE, and heavies.

This was my First Exotic, with almost a perfect roll. Instantly fell in love with it.

Always love pest, specially when we found how to scale the tick last time I played we ticked at 1.8mil. lol been so long. Used 3piece of the one that ramps rpm, the exotic mask, scale explosion dmg with rest of gear, use oxidizer and riot foam it would absolutely melt. Everyone always tried effect and skill dmg which had no effect to pestilence. The exotic mask that buffs effect and spreads is the key scale that with boosting your frag damage, higher your frag dmg higher your tick

Ninja Bike Knee Pads for the instant reload when you can leave over cover, its little armor give away and that of umbra's too. Not an every reload thing but better than the extra bullets those gloves offer.

Pest is the best using it in gurdians at the moment tick hitting 1.4m love it :))

Love your insight and philosophy of use for the builds man, mucho appreciated Can’t wait to see all the rifle builds you come up with

1,200 RPM LMG @50k base dmg per hit, LMG is the new Vector?

I would love to see a big horn build used mainly as assault but high dmg on scope. I like that weapon a lot started running that on raids when teaching. It would melt boomer.

found that momento helps with the moveing around and surviving

Ill definitely try out this gun next update. I believe the Bullet King is also getting a buff next week. Time to make some lmg builds

Oh? The umbra is getting a buff. That’s actually my new strongest build actually I have a new build called the Saint Elmo‘s build umbra build , it’s a combination of Fenris Group AB gear pieces and umbra gear pieces along with the rugged gauntlets that build hits hard and it’s gonna hit even harder once I unlock the Strega

Was thinking aces & eights or hotshot with a ACR or a LVOAC as they're going to be full auto similar to division 1

They doing anything with bulletking/striker?

Who remembers the fart cloud ☁️🤣

I've built a true patriot pesty build with status effects; i have 1.1 million in armor with bloodsucker when they die from the pesty stacks

Sokan lenézik pedig az egyik legjobb lmg:)4000 feletti shd-nál járok és majdnem az elejétől pestilencel apritok:)Mostani szettemmel 1,608 millio/stack😂Szóval jöhet még rá ez a buff aztán még jobb lesz:)

Pestilence, the real king of battle ❤

@TuxedoBandido i use Contractors + Fox's Prayer's + Ninja Bike... Unbreakable Chest PC ( can be anything like Walker Harris. or Ceska/. or similar. anything CHD or CHC or Wpn DMG or a 2pc Providence defense and 1pc ceska or Walker// (1pc walker is 2pc cuz of Ninjabike backpack.. hmmm 😝 😑 oh or grupo pcs ( and u can run 1 pc of each for Vest , mask and holster ( unbreakable on chest) that is what i run , any combo of these, (obv. no 3pc Prov or Ceska, or walker or Grupo, because of the ninja bike backpack... so a 1pc + 2pc of 2 sets ( the 2pc will get 3pc from NBBP... or just run 1pc x3 ( of 3 different gear brand's)

Why do you have Vigilance if you keep getting damage?

Definitely going to clean the dust off my Pestilence if they’re buffing the RPM to 850.

That's not a nerf on the 249, DPS goes way up overall w the rof increase.

There’s no way they are going to keep the Pestilence the way it was in the PTS. It’s game breaking overpowered. It was a lot of fun testing it out but I think we need to keep the expectations reasonable. Pestilence historically has never had the exact same base damage as the M249 because of the talent.

I would run contractors gloves for more damage 👍👍

"Stack it with status effects" doesn't work... ( i think it used to in Early game) but not anymore unless they allow this again but i doubt it Why? its doesn't help POTO Talent? so.. Why??? i use Contractors + Fox's Prayer's + Ninja Bike... Unbreakable Chest PC ( can be anything like Walker Harris. or Ceska/. or similar. anything CHD or CHC or Wpn DMG or a 2pc Providence defense and 1pc ceska or Walker// (1pc walker is 2pc cuz of Ninjabike backpack.. hmmm 😝 😑 oh or grupo pcs ( and u can run 1 pc of each for Vest , mask and holster ( unbreakable on chest) that is what i run , any combo of these, (obv. no 3pc Prov or Ceska, or walker or Grupo, because of the ninja bike backpack... so a 1pc + 2pc of 2 sets ( the 2pc will get 3pc from NBBP... or just run 1pc x3 ( of 3 different gear brand's)

I dont use anything but the pestilence lol and on 7+ accounts

Not sure this is a good thing. Trying to stay upbeat here.

Omg that’s so broken 😂

These changes won't save the game.