Division 2: Expertise On Skills. 

Very informative. Thank you for making this!

So glad you made this video, wish it was sooner thow. I like running skills builds but I had to max out all skills just to see what I would like & what would benefit from the expertise table. Yes I have killed myself with the chem. launcher because of radius but most times it's because if I aim with the chem , while in cover , it would aim at my feet even thow I initially was aiming at the enemy. I'm on ps4 not sure you would have that issue on PC.

On the defender drone, it would never be my first choice in pve for the exact reason stated, but in pvp bud a whole fight may last only 8 second if I could be 2x more tanky for 5 of those 8 seconds. Well by golly I’ll take it. It’s actually incredibly powerful when used at the right time. And it has a wonderful interaction with the EB. IYKYK 😘 love the hard work you have done though in the pve space. Presenting this information that to some of us is common knowledge at this point, but in a way a new player can immediately implement, instead of fumbling around like we did for 2 years to figure out the ever changing mechanics.

Got that. Gonna grind artificer hive and decoy to +20, so I would have a pretty aggro tank friend in solo runs.

Lol, exact same thoughts on the defender and fixer drones... Despite that I quite like the fixer drone for my playstyle and it being a good boost of passive healing without having to think about it once deployed, once I saw its expertise was increased duration, well let's just say I havent specced at all into it, it lasts so long at base, it literally never runs out during and engagement. The defender drone bonus is nice enough but it's so short it almost seems like a mistake that the buffs aren't swapped on these

I maxed my balistic turret and drone as soon as I could rn im working on my explosive seeker and shrapnal trap.

Lots of snarky comments in here, lol. I'd say you should prioritize what skills you use first. If you use Turret Drone a lot then do them, extra damage is extra damage. Got all my skills to at least 10% expertise even the ones I dont use and will prioritize further cause the lack of exotics and exotic components dropping.

First time I’ve ever heard someone talk about tech efficiency and always wondered what it does exactly. Great job on the videos. Super helpful

I use the airburst to keep the flames going until my burn sticky comes back. I love eclipse now.

Hello, great video. I use the remote scanner pulse in Conflict. It lasts alot longer than the other scanner and has a much faster cooldown.

A lvl 20 tier 6 decoy with a lvl 20 tier 6 arti hive lets you snooze through Manning legendary with a sub 100 watch group with 0 optimization or group synergy. Sure it will take hours and hours (around 4 actually) but noone will die. It's hilarious as long as you don't step into melee range it breaks the AI.

EMP sticky part made me wonder how can skill that do no dmg kill a user. Even I with my luck never achieved that.

So what exactly does threat level do with npcs? I only use it with Mantis and constantly throw it out, but admittedly I have no idea what threat level does. Does more threat level mean they focus on it longer or is it based on distance from the decoy? Thanks in advance

It was nice to see you confirm my thoughts on these, and I didn't do any math! Artificer = God Tier Drone/Turret = Poop Tier

Funny how you said moving on from reviver hives +1% range. Im somewhat knowledgable about most skills but this one baffled me as to why the devs chose this over maybe a +1% cooldown or skill haste.

They're all useful but priorities and finite resources. (but some are poorly designed yes)

The demolisher firefly is the one that breaks chunga armour plating, and it will do so with 0 expertise on a full red build.

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I'm not a real skill player and have 4 builds that use the artificer hive.... Guess I know what I'm gonna be doing when I get home...

I want to know that sniper build you're running.

Got my drone at 18 only cuz of me running wony, witch reminds me I need to get better level 30 great

I created my own build last night using sticky bomb and seeker and it was fucking stuff up loads of haste with tag team it was plowing through countdown with roughly 600mill damage and then I got jumped in the dz and the sticky will one shot any rouge that wants a piece

You let me down, I was expecting to see a chart with each skill from level 0 to 21 and the percentile difference.. now chop chop on those resources! 😂😂😂😂 jk obviously

yeah if you only ever play one type of content and run a regulus build 90% of the time and rely heavily on a reviver hive, i can see how you don't see the point of other skills. you should try out your "meta" builds in pvp sometime.

Why the misinformation? You are just wrong about the artificer hive. Each skill tier gives +10% buff amount. Level 20 expertise will give only 2%! One fifth of a skill tier! Assault drone/turret gets a full skill tier worth of damage from expertise. Wow! Oxidizer gets 2 FULL SKILL TIERS worth of damage from expertise. Obviously worth using! Firestarter only boosts the initial damage, a fully expertised Firestarter will add only around 2-3% damage. Totally not worth! Stinger hive expertise boosts the initial damage, NOT THE BLEED. Full skill tier of damage here as well at expertise 20.