I Ranked All Exotics in The Division 2 (2024) 

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I really wish they bring back the exploding effect for the pestilence. Even if they bring the effect back with out the damage, it was a cool effect.

Btsu datagloves are incredibly useful, being able to grant overcharge to the whole team, and resetting reviver hives. Cant tell you how many times I've been saved by that. Also, dodge city is amazing. Pair it with regulus, and the bonus damage from the holster scales the explosion of reg. Ec one tap doors.

I stand by the idea that the Memento and the Scorpio are definitely the best additions for a Hunters Fury DPS rushing build, for PVE that is.

To combat the chatterbox engagement issue in open world I keep one bullet out the chamber and reload before an assault it helps me keep the rate of fire high

The diamond back is hella amazing with negotator builds. Mark 5 enemy with the first all crits and then reactivate to kill 3 out of 5 enemy with only 1 to 2 bullets

I love running Ridgeway's pride with a full damage build and using the courier. It's really fun on countdown where I can just land one shot within 15 meters and then the bleed spreads to any targets within 10 meters. So I can easily get 5 bleeds near me for full armor regen. I call it the Alucard build.

Literally all of my exotics have been ranked to be some of the worst (6:32 - 10:56)

Ive been an avid ravy user for the past 2 years and while what you say is valid about the gun it has many unique traits that are like no other gun in the game which makes it hard to master but once you get the hang of it it can be deadly. The right should: the right shoulder proc or the explosive primers are very useful on single hard targets. What i mean by that is any level of right shoulder stack once proc'd causes your target to stagger which outside of the raid can be useful to by yourself a split second to regain control of the fight versus that particular enemy. And if you spam it you can permanently stun lock an enemy or halting aggressive which can save your life if you use it properly, also with a decent dps build the explosive can one shot many shielded enemies namely warhounds and shield carrying enemies hyenas and riker bosses. The left shoulder is a completely different beast which is overall way less involved than the right. Its proc is 2 fold armor and damage to armor plates. Damage to armor plates is situational especially since when i need to bust those plates i just use the right shoulder explosion. But what i love about the left shoulder is if you just focus on cutting down enemies it allows you to stack up bonus armor just like bloodsucker but a much more powerful version of it. Its hard to explain but if youve got a decent dps build and go crazy on the left shoulder you are unkillable. If youve made it this far its obvious i love this weapon, and ill gladly admit im a rav fanboy. But i will admit its not worth the grind if you dont have it your not missing out there are way more easy to us straight forward exotics that have way simpler talents. Hell no exotic has ever threatened my rav outta its slot in my primary loadout but the st elmos has made a damn good case. My point is for owners of the rav to take a second look at it with practice it is deadly. Its got a high barrier to entry but imo the highest skill ceiling of all of the exotics in the roster. Once you're comfortable with all aspects of its handling and talent you can really start bullying the npcs in all levels of content even legendary, plus raids its very useful in both IH and DH

Great vid! My default playing style is non-shield skill-based which makes use of cover (not generally in your face aggressive) so the Mantis / Decoy build you previewed is very appealing to me!!

This is why I love your videos. I know full well how hard it is to do that weapon swap edit. Quality work there.

Bloody knuckles are another item used for one shot some raid bosses or doing fast casual raids. I think they can still be utilized well outside of that for pve.

A quick and easy nemisis build is perfect chain killer-coyote mask-hotshot gear. Run it with the decoy and a turret and it turns the game into break the targets. Also works with the mantis

The nerfing that was done to the merciless was the worse thing Division 2 ever did. The beat that exoitic to the ground....and is that an arranged sweet child of mine in the background?

People talk bad about bluescreen, but personally, I love it. People just dont understand how you use it. Think of it like Scorpio and the fact its very much support based. Its talent specializes in target delay, distraction and lockdown in some cases. Scorpio is very linear, while with bluescreen, you unload on your target(s) and you get 2 options, purge stacks or mark more and then purge. One is immediate but only effects one target, one takes more time but is more effective for you and your team and effects multiple targets, allowing for a break in damage on you and your team. Also in the amount of time the status effect is up, most likely youll have half your stacks regained and ready to purge again. Its down side is that it really likes to chew threw your ammo if you dont have a gunner with you. I use it on my FI medic build and its what I prefer over Scorpio, Ive had it im my back pocket ever since the builds conception, and now used for different build, but still.

Have you tried the ravenous with umbra and catharsis? I’ve found this is the only viable build for the gun. The extra RPM’s and crit damage on offense and then the ability to completely heal makes it very usable IMO

17:50 You can't use repair skills with the catharsis, but I believe you can use incoming repairs to increase the buff of the catharsis healing.

Excellent video. Totally agree with your listing. Don't play Div 2 as much but I have the St Elmo's Engine on my striker build forever.

On my main build, the Ravenous is my secondary weapon. I bring it out to melt any armored enemies, (Just hit them to max out defense primers, switch to shoot one shot of offense, and switch to primary to do 1000% damage) and those pesky Hyena shield carriers.

I have a Mike Tyson build for global events that uses Claws Out, Bloody Knuckles and Lady Death. I use it ONLY to speed through the "Melee X targets 0/20" challenges. It hits for 1.5ish million, so it kills red in one punch on story difficulty. It's pretty funny while listening to the Benny Hill Show theme music...

Agreed so much with the godly tiers. Capacitor, Momento and Scorpio are my most used exotics. Momento being my favorite because when it comes to builds it’s just the most versatile and improves most build.

I agree with everything you just said! great video. AND I just realized that i was playing with Tx the other day! I thought was just someone from his "TUX" clan. But nope when he showed is gamer tag it confirmed. We had a couple of great DUA runs!

Pestilence with a chest piece that applies status effect within proximity combined with backpack that gives dmg when in cover. Combine that with fenris 2piece for 20% reload and a piece for additional 10% lmg dmg. Is my favourite build. It's just a nuke fest with armour on kill mods. Any other weapons with sync to turret and a +10 to pistol is godly

I dont necessarily agree with the merciless take because that recoil isn’t bad if you learn to control it, which is rather easy. But also it’s just 14 “hits” so shooting one boss and getting that explosion would just increase your damage. Plus add the fact that you can kill multiple rank and file enemies with that explosion alone.

St. Elmo + Memento changed my life. Also love that you gave Dread Edict respect. Underrated weapon that doesn't get enough love.

Really good breakdown. Making me think about scrapping a bunch that I will most likely never use. Guess I could just throw them on a different character.

Fantastic work, Tux. Great run down.

thanks alot, helped me understand whats what after not playing for 4 years

personally ruthless/merciless is one of my favorite weapon. Sure the kicks is bad, but the kicks fixed when used with "Braced" chest talent. It sacrifice one of most important slot, but the trade off is fair. The gun hits so hard, also with 3pcs striker it will ramp up fire rate into super fast shot. Chatterbox has interesting interaction with ninjabike kneepad where "reloading" with kneepad's parkour won't reset chatterbox's firerate buff, making you have technically infinite firerate buff as long you jump before ammo runs out. Need quite specific gear(and build to some extent) but the gameplay is totally fresh.

Damn awesome video. Thanks. I have a lot of the high end exotics listed here but did not know how to proc them.

Ridgeway pride, 4pc foundry, d&h backpack with wicked. Kard tdi pistol with sadist. Using incoming repair and status effect mods turns this into a take with crazy pistol damage and always in the range for armor regen

That was an awesome video dude it had me captivated thr hole time, Also leard a few things i didn't know thank you for that and thank you for the video and information very much appreciated.

Haven’t seen this, but you can get many of these exotics from buying exotic caches from the countdown vendor. That’s how I got most of my current exotics. I’m a newer player to the game and wish I could have known about this sooner. Super easy to do, just run a couple of successful countdowns and you have enough for a cache. Also, I got St. Elmo’s before I hit level 90 on the season pass. Didn’t think that was possible, but it dropped from countdown while I was targeting assault rifles when I was on level 63 on SHD and season pass.

Thanksfor a most valuable vid. It's not the ranking, per se, but more the rationales so you don't waste time trying to make a build around an exotic. BTW the BTSU is also invaluable in a skills build esp for statuseffects & run&gun support.

BTSU with stinger hive in PVE an unbelievable combo, one of the best combos in the game . Don't miss out on it , trust me

remember that a lot of these weapons gets a bad rating for their handling on console, so on pc where that's rarely is an issue they can actually be great

So if I didn't get it in tu18 can I still get the elmos engine or is it lost forever

This video was the greatest random find from my algorithm. I would like to add for the Sanctum Imperium that it shoots like Dead Man's Tale from Destiny 2. It's a MMR that is meant to be shot from the hip. I do not know why. I do not know how. But when shooting it from the hip the Headshot Perk procs so much more easier than if you ADS. Just my two cents when I was using it. Again, great video :-)

My main build is striker set with Ceska chest with obliterate and Picaro's holster. Cirt changes as high as posible. Weapons are Elmo because of it's insane accuracy at long ranges and a RPK with Dtoc and Dtoa It melts everyting.

I miss when the Imp holster first came out, it use to apply to burn to everything within range, no cool downs and or line of sight.

How do you rexommend grinning exotics ? Countdown ? Summit ? Target loot ?

Thanks for the vid! You can negate the Backfire's bleed effect by using the Ninjabike kneepads and vault over obstacles. It's a bit frantic, but it works... 😄 So you can create a build that doesn't require effect resistance.

Is the big horn still bugged? I seem to recall that there was a head shot bug a while back.

Great video you explained everything clearly the best video I've seen on this game 💪🏿

Bloody knuckles can be fun, you can also throw grenades, I’ve cleared heroic content using Bloody knuckles increases weapon damage, and is fun to try and. occasionally get those melee against weakened all red npcs , kind of like a fun challenge and fun to use with sweet dreams shotgun as a backup weapon.

Yo, I just started playing again after 4 years, I appreciate your content. Thank you.

Does anyone know what the music is during the lady death section?

Tux fine tunes builds for effectiveness every single stream. You can't beat testing and experimenting in real game play to really know what works and what doesn't and it shows. The build adjustment advice to make the most out of the Exotics is key evidence. Awesome video Tux.

I would like to argue ab the chameleon, i have homie running the st elmos, and i easily pump out the same if not more damage utilizing the buffs from chameleon, go for the reload buff then the chest shots then headshots, stack it on a striker build and put some crit chance and damage on it youll easily be hitting 700k to 1.2 mil crits, yes agreed takes a second to build the stacks but on something like countdown the hunters at the beginning and the named enemies in the encounters allow to to build most stacks just from emptying a few mags on them, combine it with the memento and put some armor on it and you have a pretty decent PVE build 👍

I've been considering redownloading this game for weeks now, haven't played for like over a year.. would you guys say it's really worth hopping back in right now?

Who was that character at the very beginning when the weapons were switching?

Only thing Im surprised about is Dread Edict. From what I see its not well liked by the masses. Its way better with hotshot IMO but still most dont like the sniping playstyle and if they do Mantis is easier to use across the board due to the decoy.

Great video again TUX

Great list. I've many times wondered what the 'ell all those exotics would work on and all that. I wish they'd do whay Bungie is doing in Destiny 2 and refreshing the lackluster exotics to be actually viable. In five years the game has changed enough to warrant that. If the collector in me would let me, I'd destroy most of my stash. And for the Backfire I finally got a build I love, but it's only for the incursion, as it's the only way to keep the 200 striker's stacks and the 200 stacks on the weapon itself. But it melts the enemies and 100% hazpro lets me not to worry about the fire.

Can you still get the Chatterbox? I been trying for it just for the low difficulty runs (cause its SO much more fun and when helping friends level up)

I played this game casually a long time ago, struggled quite a bit on legend, then got scorpio, started using a small shield and started flying through legendary content, beating rogue agents on legendary with multiple modifiers on like it was nothing. It's so OP, it's actually crazy it exists. Downside - made the game too easy and eventually boring, so I stopped playing lol

i just wanna knoww the song at 34 mins i been searching

2024. Inventory check. Got everything from GOOD TO GODLY. GOOD TO GO!!! thanks for the Update!

If you have the Stinger m249, pairing it with the ninja bike messenger pads is a fantastic synergy.

What are those black pants with red stripes that your character has when you introduce the exotics? They look nice.

Would sawyers knee pads work with a bulwark tank build? The stagger might be really helpful for legendary missions many times i just give team armor and revive them but there r certain scenarios where they go down and I’m constantly bombed while I revive them

Melee attacking an enemy does stun them, IF they are currently in a melee attack. Melee, therefore, is used to counter melee.

Great editing!!! 👍🏽

5:40 what backpack is that?

Believe it or not, but the first time I ran Summit with ARs as the focus, St. Elmo's Engine was the 2nd one that dropped for me. Been using it on my default skill build ever since.

My friend got the St. Elmo's Engine our first or second time running the tower. We started playing no longer than a week ago but every video I see says you have to complete stuff to get it. Did he get a bugged drop or was he just insanely lucky because its almost completely maxed attributes too.

The production and breakdown of the exotics in this video was god tier 👍

Love your "Tierlist" Series. Had so much fun watching. Epic Jokes Man :D On the Chatterbox if you pair it with Hunter's Fury this thing becomes a BEAST for Spawntrap Shredding. Neverending Bullets because if multiple Enemies spawn and that thing gets its DPS increase from being near up to 5 enemies after realod. Simply shoot one bullet. Get close to a Group of enemies - Reload - Shredd - Have Fun :D Of course we have much better weapons so putting it in the OKAY Tier is absolutely correct. Have a lovely Day Tux.

I must be new to the game and Sanctum MR, but there's no more scope, and the crosshair goes red when on target - perfect for not getting sneaked up on and using the sniper build with good hip shooting too (admittedly in lower ranks of pve), but it hauls some real ass when buffs stack. And it's an odd, but MR, so gotta pop, wait a second for accuracy to reset, pew again. Lands headshots off scope real well.

Lets not forget. If enemies are below surface, it still mark one of those target. Still quite fun and gun for me

I forgot melee attacks existed since I reached level 40. The damage seems to completely dissipate and no longer scale with the game. They really just had to add it to the Shocker Punch to make it seem useful with big number bonuses that don't do anything in reality. And then there's the Bloody Knuckles. We don't talk about those.

Every piece of gear on this list need can be on the top of your list like the diamond back, if you use it with an all red build with clutch and negotiator dilma, you can wreck people in the dz. Also that imperial holster you can run it with the named M4 and get 25% extra DMG to burning targets aside from the extra weapon DMG you get from expertise.All gear on this list can be reworked for greatness. I got rank 133 manhunt with the merciless and that weapon is at the bottom of your list. 🎉

Thank you for making a list that wont cause the devs to nerf my favorite exotics!

Nahhh bro Diamondback is goated

I was just thinking about new exotic weapons and we could use another SMG and shotgun. The MP7 is probably the most dog weapon in the game. I always liked the idea of the Valkyria set from the first game. Maybe we get an MP7 exotic and an m870 that have standalone talents (not a set) but they can interact.

First time playing summit, within 30 mins of each other I got memento amd Scorpio. Crazy lucky. How do you get St elmos now?

Did you mention the dynasty holster? Great vid and breakdown!

For my opinion on shocker punch considering you need weapons and stuff to shock targets and for all its buffs its ok since that second melee hit that applies shock can be good if a strong enemy is to close and you can just hit em and run and with st elmo's you can shock armies of enemies which can also be good when in a squad to save someone from getting jumped by enemies to close to them but then again this my opinion

Whoa, I glossed over the dread edict. Gonna try it out when I get home. I’m sure I have one or two in the stash

"Notorious thugs" track at the beginning of the video

I've farmed MMRs to get the Mantis for SO long now - am I missing something? Do I need to unlock it for the general loot pool or something? :)

My issue with momento is that I am a lazy player...I dont want to run around collecting things..No I choose Ninja bike bag as best exotic gear maybe im loosing some dmg but its allowed me to put together some really neat builds that would be impossible without it.

What's the helmet you are wearing in this video?

Well done my G

Brilliant informative video Tux 👍

I use the imperial holster with creeping death and status builds, mostly for a laugh especially with True Sons 😬

How to do get that hairstyle in 0:01 pls

This list was spot-on.

Wait the ravenous is a raid only drop? I've never even touched a raid and I have one in my inventory at level 30. Even have it's blueprint in the crafting station. Was it apart of the exotic cache loot pool as well, or did I get lucky with a bug somehow?

Scorpio is fun with an Eclipse Protocol build. May the effects spread in your favor~

Ravenous is one of my favourite weapons to use in PVE - works amazingly on ANY build.

Enjoyed your video Brought back some old exotics that are sitting in my cache Might have to revisit the chameleon again did I miss the dynasty holster? 😮

0:01 what outfit is that

One person should use BTSU in your group. Team overcharge is excellent, also using Hard Wired + glass cannon + cluster mines with any hive is crazy good.

I tried to comeback to the game but can’t I’m way too lost lol, I left when they destroyed the bench and took out damage to elites came back recently can’t do it idk what I’m supposed to be doing.

Dodge city is easily the best exotic armor piece in the game

My ravenous macs. Honestly imo best gun in the game for pvp. Absolutely shreds chungus and dogs. I run it with momento and basic dps brand sets. I'm on pc and have no trouble swapping shoulders at all.

Excellent video top tier content for sure man

When it comes to Shocker Punch, It's a trash in PVE, but it's decent when it comes to Dark zone where you may find players using St' elmo.

Great breakdown