PROFICIENCY & EXPERTISE Explained - The Division 2 Title Update 15 

Thank you for the kind words and the support. Much appreciated

Certainly, I concur. I appreciate the thoroughness of your explanation; it has prompted me to modify my approach.

@@androidoszpsz5873 this person is giving their opinion just like you are. You are complaining about someone complaining. Nice.

Lol 😂

@@androidoszpsz5873 I'm a week in playing and feel like you may not be one of the players that come through when you call for backup then carry you and destroy everyone for you and at the end of the mission drop you a bunch of high level gear and weapons for you to pickup....you more like "grind for it like everybody else bitch" 🤣🤣

I would beg to differ. Starting fresh now will help you gaining proficiency passively by just playing and not even realising yo uare already leveling it.

The game is a nightmare for a new solo player from level 5 - 30 you really need help from other players just to walk down the street till you gear level increases.

Appreciate the support. Glad it could help

Seeing as there’s probably dozens of expertise videos out there by now, it’s pretty cool to hear this. Much appreciated

The best EXPLANATION of this system so far!!!

Agreed, everyone else just throws out random info and talk around the topic.

Thanks for taking the time to write such a nice comment. Really do appreciate it

Glad it could help. Appreciate the support

An EB with more damage…. Gonna be Tenacity for days!

@@aBL1NDnoob we are in the big leagues now!😃💯

Glad I could help 👍

I think they fixed that now because Inuse the donate junk option all the time and all the proficient gear stays in the inventory marked as junk

@@Frvnklin Yep. Fixed now.

It’s better to equip as many unproficient items as possible. Each will gain XP irrespective of the rest of your build. Recently I’ve been running a lot of floor 10 on challenging with nearly all the directives. It’s very easy, so I can equip a build with random gear and skills that aren’t proficient, it’s fast, it drops a lot of gear that I can crush and donate the mats for providence, and I can levels fast - and since I have 4 characters, every level actually = 4 SHD points

@@aBL1NDnoob thanks for that. I'm on it. I must be missing something though, why do extra characters give you more shd points? The game has got to the point for me that getting to 20 is the only challenge.

Google User when you level up and gain an SHD point on one character, that point also goes to your other level 40 characters.

@@aBL1NDnoob Again, thanks. I didn't know that. I had one other simply to use as a store. 2 more characters coming up and then a lot of button pushing!

Google User oh god. The button pushing… 😭

Guns are hard to level up by using them. So for weapons you never use, I’d recommend donating materials, in particular, printer filament. An easy way to farm printer filament is by doing countdown and setting mods to your target loot. Break them down and they’ll give you 6 printer filament per mod

@@aBL1NDnoob Thanks for the quick response and pro tip 👍🏻

Personally, I’m not a big fan of HB, but I’ve heard it has issues with building stacks. When that happens, take off a piece of HB, then put it back on and it should work. There’s no requirement for the number of blue or red cores HB needs to build stacks

HB became good for pve only, assuming that you are a pvp player.

Ok, thanks guys, I’ll try that.

Definitely right for expertise. Armor isn’t worth maxing out past expertise 11. But you’ll need to level up the proficiency of all your gear to be able to increase your expertise. Also, some skills gain pretty significant boosts from expertise

Are you talking about completing the field research? I believe you get the blueprint for the named Sleipner LMG

For a brand set, or gear set, the second part doesn't matter. But, equipping two pieces of gear at the same time will level it up faster. Just keep in mind, named items do not count towards brand sets. they are unique and have to be leveled up on their own

Because when I was making Div content, I was focused on quality. Whereas the other creators are focused on quantity. Glad it was helpful

@@aBL1NDnoob it was perfect. Thank you

@@THUNDER52 these kind of comments really do help. Thanks for taking the time to share some positivity. Really appreciate it

Appreciate the kind words

Deconstructing and donating are different. With deconstructing, you just get materials. What you do with those materials is up to you. You can use them for recalibrating, crafting, projects, whatever. Donating can be done with gear that is not yet proficient. For example, if my Wyvern is not proficient and I pick up some wyvern loot that I don’t want, I can go to the optimization table and donate them (easiest if you mark them as junk and just select “donate all junk”. Donating the wyvern pieces will give me points towards my wyvern profile cut ranking. Does this make sense?

@@aBL1NDnoob thank you very much for your reply and such detail. I understand the differnce much better now - tho i think im going to have to practice it more to get it right but your explanation really helps

@@aBL1NDnoob My expertise level is only 3 so i guess theres not much i can do to increase that is there other than playing and grinding more ? or is there a faster way ? thank you

@@geoffbucks5803 a good way to increase your expertise, is every week, check all the vendors. If any of them are selling items that you don’t have proficient, buy as many as you need to donate and get proficient. This way verrrry effective for me until I got to level 14. Also, you can craft items and donate them if they aren’t proficient. It use to be half a proficiency level per donated item, but I think they may have nerfed it recently

@@aBL1NDnoob thanks. I will try this

Good idea. I’ll see if I can whip one up in the next few days

Unfortunately, epecially for weapons, it takes a while to get your gear proficient. It's the basis of this game. Grind, grind, grind. Really good game, but you've got to really enjoy repitition to fully enjoy it

You need to click on the honey badger then select a specific honey badger to level up. Also, what expertise level are you?

I think it was a cool idea. But at the same time, it’s flawed. PvE was already pretty easy, and with expertise, it’s only gonna get easier. They should’ve added more legendaries or harder content. Expertise has no place in pvp. There is already a huge gap between new players and experienced players in pvp. Expertise is only gonna widen that gap. But, if massive had disabled expertise in pvp ( which I think they should have), the PvP community probably would have cried because PvE got another big update with nothing for PvP. So I get why they had to put it in pvp as well. Just kinda sucks for the inexperienced/casual players

Haha ya, it’s quite deep

For me, I mostly use sharpshooter. So just having it equipped leveled it up for me. But if you use a variety of specializations, this will be harder. In that case, donating printer filament is never a bad idea.

@@aBL1NDnoob thanks bro

For proficiency, the entire set gets the points (gear set, brand set, weapon type, skill), but for expertise, it’s only individual pieces get leveled up. So I could have 2 FAMAS, if I level up the expertise for one, the other FAMAS will not get the points. Does this help?

@@aBL1NDnoob yes, thank you. It.s strange this game sometimes, it.s not explaining correctly, so everyone could understand! ✌️

Nicoleta Octavia it’s a very confusing game, that’s for sure

@@aBL1NDnoob sometime, it is!

Probably has to do with the incorrect amount of XP that was being rewarded for enemy kills. I was rolled back from expertise 8 to 5 after they fixed it

sorry about that. the whole point of leveling everything up is to become more powerful. Your guns will hit harder, you will get more armor (tankier), your specialization weapons will be stronger, and skills will become more effective

@@aBL1NDnoob thanx...it's cool but really sl-o-o-o-w.

@@aBL1NDnoob sorry but it makes no difference as the game levels up aswell so no real point 2 it all!!! example is when u play solo the game sets ncp`s to that ,when u play in a group the game hits harder!!!

You may need to donate them one at a time. I remember there used to be a glitch with the donate all button

@@aBL1NDnoob i did try to donate one item once, with no success. Should I try it again? Over and over? honest question.

@@PhoenixKing1611 May I ask what exactly you're donating?

@@aBL1NDnoob I play on Playstation which the button is Square for "Donate all Junk" which I would assume would be anything I would mark as "junk" in my inventory. I have held down the button and tapped i to be sure, and the items disappear from my inventory ,but no number changes anywhere. except for the number of items in my inventory.

@@PhoenixKing1611 that really sucks. Never heard of it before

I may be misunderstanding, but: make sure you’re checking the right section. For example, look under kneepads as opposed to overlord armaments for the named Fox’s prayers. Let me know if this isn’t the issue and I’ll try and help again

@@aBL1NDnoob first of all thanks. I just didn’t scroll far enough was looking for walker & harris. 😄

Maybe some in game tutorials to explain these things would be useful, so people didn’t need to come to RU-vid to learn how to use it

Appreciate the feedback 👍

Ya, I’ve had a lot of feedback on the background music and have decided to remove it completely from future videos. Appreciate the constructive criticism

@@aBL1NDnoob cool! Otherwise it’s probably the best instructional video on the expertise system. Filled in a lot of blanks for me. Thanks for taking the time to make it.

I hear ya. It’s far from straight forward. But tbh, it’s not required, so if you don’t wanna do it, nothing is forcing you to. In PvP, you’ll miss out a bit, but in PvE, you’ll be just fine.

It's pretty ridiculous, I agree. I know a lot of people who got a Cronus so they could literally afk farm this stuff

Sooo much resources to use !!!! Soon will be depleted