Division 2: Character One, Build Showcase - Part 1 

I love the pestilence

Finally someone who understands the pestilence, I used to run it it in a crit build and would always say there's no point having big ticks if in between that your hardly doing much damage, with a crit build i was still hitting around 500-600k and ticking around 1.1/2 million if I remember.

Thanks for this!

Nice one Dod, thanks for that

love the content keep it coming!

I love Pesti as well, and I found a fun build using Umbra Initiative and Pesti, not the most damaging build but the increased rate of fire and handling for reloads makes it fun

For the umbra build, try switching the grupo to the holster or mask and using the umbra chest, it might lower the dps slightly but the added rpm will help with staggering enemies when you hit them in the head. Also chameleon with it and try to stay around 40 crit chance before it’s buff

Great explanations of the pluses and minuses of each of those builds, thanks. Also I know this goes against the grain, but you should drop the old "If you'd like to subscribe..." tag line in every video.

I use umbra, fenris GC and Grupo with companion /sharp shooter. Works great in solo or duos.

Try your negotiators with Pestilence. Instead of the Yellow-Purple-Red order, sweep enemies in the opposite order and lay into the Yellow.

When I was starting on the game I was using Negotiators for everything, it was good for event Speedruns back when I knew nothing about the game, I might come back to it to see how much better it is now that I’m a better player

Thougt about Umbra for Raids DPS as well. There is a lot of waiting and rather hectic bursty encounters when there are spawns. You should be able to utilise the former for charging the damage buff and healing and the latter, you know....

I use your nego's with (the dam autocorrect had me here)😅, bag and Coyotes. I was struggling to do anything to ads at the plane control point. I burnt through all AR ammo and the defence part of it hadn't even started! Why don't you do a NEGO tutorial? I don't have a pesti build, I'm going to try yours.

Thought I loved the eb when I got it. but when I got the big horn, I knew true love.

I think you should mention that the 700k pestilence bullet damage is contingent on higher expertise on the weapon. I haven't expertised mine but I replicated your build and really enjoyed it although my bullet damage on body crit was closer to 500k or a bit lower

First time I've heard a content creator slag there own build off 😂

I am currently running some tests on your Umbra build. I am using the Sacrifice and Providence/ Vigilance backpack with the Shield Spinterer. I'm missing something, though. The armor regen is very slow

With the umbra build when you get rushed use the M870 with preservation

Your mistake with the umbra is not using the bag and chest you definitely need them but adding Bellstone and foxes it hits hard

all you have to do is not get hit and you either stay in cover or don't ever stop moving

Deja Vu

Good stuff. You speak to whether a build is good for legendary or not. What is the diff, maths and mechanics, from heroic to legendary. Is it worth trying to play solo legendary ‘normally’? I have a few builds that can comfortably do heroic stuff, but legendary is a different beast! Or is it shield peeking or go home?

Hi Dod. I am only now collecting pieces for a nego build. I enjoy using my carbine 7 with dttooc and flatline paired with a full red spotter chest. Would coyotes plus the 4 piece be viable? I normally get about 900k hs crits with the build it’s in at the mo so interested to see how this compares using negotiators. I’d be using the bp so damage will surely drop.

I love the Pestilence. You're right, my build basically ignores the tic damage and yet it still can hit 1.1million/tic. I really like the passive damage if you use it well.

I'm trying negotiator build with St. Elmo's and i have 57% CHC and 208% CHD. Just put the build together and need to try it out.

I prefer DCH over CM cause I only need 25% chc & kill 1 enemy with the side arm & get 60% chc & more chd for 15 seconds then rinse & repeat. The only down side to me are the chungas & robots since I can't kill the with 1 shot but at least it does great dmg to their armor plate or health.

Hey Dod, quick question about my heartbreaker build. I run 4 pice heartbreaker (chest, gloves, mask, Knies, 3 blue one red) memento + picaro's holster and technician for the laser pointer for my carbine 7(flatline) . Is there a better backpack and holster to use for better results(dps)? thank you 😊 I'm asking this because, after seeing your memento Video and doing some testing of my own, I came to realize that this bag is not really that great(at least for this build) corect me If i'm wrong😬

Guess which one performs better...my one! Could be a new catch phrase?

Instead of umbra I use heartbreaker. Chest bp holster gloves all chc so I rolled core red. foxes and coyotes. The Closer maybe better but I do not have one yet.

Ha ha, I enjoy thinking I killed something, when their tick drops them instead.

Is the argument for 2 Heartbreaker, that i get some damage to LMG for long range and for AR for Mid/short range absolute nonsens?

for like a 'lazy' build hunters fury just seems better than umbra, the AoK of hunters fury+gunner, with passive regen momento stacks is pretty much as lazy as you can get lol; can even throw on the chatterbox

1st!

Part 2 will include the CC build (from the Leg runs yesterday) then?

Umbra is for those who have patience. We run a lot between fights, and the first thing we have to do before a gunfight is sit in cover for a few seconds. 😐⏱️ Hunters works better for pretty much every scenario that Umbra is just usable for.