The Division | My Gear Set Balance Changes for Patch 1.8 

Very positive changes brought to the table here. I like that you didnt wonna nerf anything hard and had the viability of everything in mind. Lets just hope the devs are thinking along the same lines. Thanks for the video!

Good job as usual.

Another great job. Thanks for the insight Marco. I enjoy and appreciate your thoughts.

Great work! Agree with your thoughts on most of the bullets.

Keep up the awesome work Marco. Always appreciate the amount of work you do for your videos.

Keep the videos coming! As a newbie to the game I find your videos very helpful and informative.

I feel like when I finally kill a pred but I'm still on bleed BUT THERE DEAD IN THE CHECKPOINT but I'm still bleeding is dumb once I kill a pred the bleed should stop

Marco, Fan of the page dude. Always informative and the presentation is on point. Enjoying the channel.

Great vid! Exactly what we need in the next patch.

Marco, I'm confused what controls the frequency/damage of a crit bleed "tick". If in my 10 shots I hit 10 crits does that affect my crit bleed or does my players CHC/CHD somehow determine it? Help!

Awesome ideas Marco. I only would add that I would like a set geared towards solo DZ play. I am not sure how to do it, but maybe have Banshee give a solo player less extraction time along with the constant pulse.

Does anyone know if your gear score is tied to the score of loot you pick up? I feel like I was picking up mid-270's to high-280's loot all the time when my gear score was low-mid 280's. Now that I've dropped gear score to low-270's in favor of matching gear set I feel like I only ever get loot with high-260's to low-270's. Are the two connected, or have I just been unlucky with RNG?

Everything makes sense to me. Great video man!

Great stuff as usual Marco ... never stay silent ;)

Hello just a quick question, i just started farming gear for my first lvl 30 characther. is it still possible to get the classified striker set. Heard from someone that you arent abel anymore. Would love to find out. cheers

Just subbed after 4 videos!

When you respectively mentioned a slight change to your main which is striker! I respect this video!

I just bought the season pass what is the best way to do the dlc first? I feel like I'm not sure where to start lol any help would be good

Does anyone know why gun talents don't proc with sticky bomb or seeker mine kills any more. Is this a change I've missed

Great Video agree with everything in this video. Best video i have seen on balancing within the division.

Thank you for adding some commentary regarding consoles. I found a great amount of help in your video on your xbox one, 5min incursion video, which seemed to mimic real life. This video gave good insight on the sets, but i often feel like pvp is so very much different on the console. It would be good to see you stream a console DZ or Manhunt. Or any hints to assisting with the assault rifle jumping as well on consoles.

Good set of simple recommended changes that would help the current situation.

I completely agree with all your suggestions. Nice video!

Hey marco what do you think of a rework with alphabridge that gives you a unique ability depending on what weapon class you equip? For example, equiping 2 smgs will give you a 50 % crit hit damage on your 3rd crit

These are actually solid changes! awesome work!

In your 1.8.1 would there be more saved loadout slots?

Man I’m so happy you came back to The Division. I think you’re completely correct

I would love to see then applied. Again great vid Mark

Another quality video Marco! Think you missed out on non-gear set builds and shields outside of d3. Sentry shields was quite fun

How did you got (Farmed) yor sets?

Looks very good and well thought out

@MarcoStyle I think something else that they could do instead of the adrenaline talent is actually make the immunizer box reapply the immunity buff to the player thus clearing the predator bleed that way you don't have to dance in and out of the circle. This would force the Pred player to focus the box and make the opposing player decide whether to blow the box for the heal or not to help fight the bleed. Would also force focus around a Reclaimer station and force the nonrogue players to push or deal with it in other ways to drop the immunity. I also think that D3 is worthless against the current Striker since your getting SO much extra damage. Your getting sniper damage for 6/7k firearms and a heal on a non bolt action weapon. A D3 shield is paper to that and either it needs a resilience to the striker itself (would be very hard to code) or they do need to force the player to take more stamina to get the full effect of the 100 stack striker.

Anyone got a good way to eat the MDR I’ve been grinding months and since it was the BLIND battle rifle on end with nothing any help

pretty good definitely agree with the mainstat boost for skirmish and last stand.

What do you think about the alpha bridge 6 piece proccing when you reach the last third of your health? That way when you’re close to death you get a mini signature that can hopefully save you. Just a thought.

Good work again, just 2 things: -we need to be immune to status effects while down becuase of the predator bleed (no chance to revive) -give us your oppinion and changes to exotic weapons :)

As a returning player (not played since launch) I love these types of videos interesting to see what you have to say and love your content keep it up!

Hey @marco how about moving 6pc nomad from 50% chance to 25% or even 20% chance in a group? I think thats a fair compromise

marco do you think there should be some sort of debuff to groups who run multiple of the same sets?

What about everytime you proc your nomad, you get a dps decrease like 10% in additive way?

Good video, def agree in a lot of places. I do think that the shock turrets are much easier to manage now so that is nice.

Good job Marco, as always.

Thanks Marco for your videos. When it works really good The Division is such a satisfaction.

AWESOME work. I love the game where it is at the moment. Little changes or not

Hey marco, tell me please, did gear mods with "2% all resistance" reduce damage from predator's bleed?:)

Great vid...being on console my thoughts are similar but for striker I would only let the 870 stack until they resolve the chronos issue and nomad turn into 5 piece with a group

Well thought out and fair changes. I don't have a 6 piece yet so I can't really comment on balance since I get my ass kicked in pvp all the time anyways. One day though, I'll be able to possibly compete, but 1.9 will probably be out by then and I'll have to rework the build that took me months to get!

I want to use Lonestar. Is it a good build?

Aside from the 7-seconds immunity provided by Adrenaline, Bleed Resistance should shorten the duration of the Predator’s Mark bleed. As it should. Medkits are a very valuable asset for solo players, so using them exclusively to counter one gear set’s damage seems limiting, especially since they can make you bleed once the protection has worn off and your medkit is in cooldown.

Great video would be Nice if at least some of it will come but we will have to wait and see what they come up with them self but your changes is a good place to start keep up the good work Marco

Love that coat "salty" awesome bro.

Hey wondering if you would do a banshee build?

What about sentry is able to sort of nerf to other gear sets

Love the video. I agree with all bur the Nomad change. I would leave the damage meditation on but the six piece can only proc 2 max or 3, pending PTS testing.

Interesting video - thanks.

Marco! Will you take another look at destructive? Many people I know are touting it as "back". Can you analyze?

Hello, Thank you for your video ... I agree with many of the points you raised. On the other hand, the adrenaline talent works on the Predator. But it is true that it does not stop the effects but decreases them significantly.

I agree with the most of your suggestions and proposals. Good job.

Great Video!

When is 1.81 coming out?

Marco I think your vision is spot on!

Which you use gear set?

That heckin picture again, were you loaded or something when that was taken?

Hey marco i wanted to day thank you marco for your content of the division i am also building a channel so for as division build videos and still coming up for more ideas on builds as well some of your builds are a big help and i was also was able to come up with ideas of my own making some very op builds and soon show some gameplay i how to grow just as big as your channel is soon reach my goal to my Frist 1k subs and like to help out other players. Thank you marco and keep up the good work!

great job!

I lile your ideas. I feel some kind of change is really needed especially to help players who dont yet have the 6 pc striker or nomad. I appreciate the work you put in on these videos. I guess we just gotta wait and see what happens now.

Marco, once again another brilliant video. Have been playing the gamer since the alpha test phase and have to say you're the a single content creator that has stuck with the division since the start and the one who speaks the most sense. Really wish the devs would just give you a salary and have you quality control this game. It would be so cool. Well done, sir.

Marcostyle ..what is your pc info ?!i mean what is your vga and cpu and.....what resolution you are playing?! can you tell us?

I don’t have opinions, I just watch Marco’s videos

Loved your ideas. Also, maybe 6pc firecrest turret could get through immunity like predator...?

Honestly Marco you hit the nail right on the head. Those sets you mentioned really needed to be looked at

Do you think they should buff the Banshee's Shadow gear set a bit more?

Would you mind making the best non-classified/6 piece PVP build video?

I agree with mostly everything you said. The Fire Turret needs to be buffed again. The stamina buff was already an indirect nerf to turret damage it didn't need a 2nd nerf. Tactician 6 piece should allow teammates to build your stacks by .2% per bullet as well as increasing the cap to 60% all the time. I don't know if they will make this change, but I'd like to see Hunters Faith have the ability to instantly kill a player skipping the downed state when taking a fatal critical hit to the head at full stacks. Confirming the kill has always been the most annoying part of headshot sniping, this will fix that. The only thing about Firecrest burn immunity is that cleaner PvE content will be a joke but I've been saying firecrest should get fire immunity forever now, at least from your own fire. Also make it so when you detonate your turret manually the whole turret range radius engulfs in flames. This could give Firecrest some very useful area denial blowing up the turret in corridors and I think it would make firecrest a really fun set to run! As far as the sticky bomb, don't nerf it. I think it's already weak enough now. Yeah you one shot a player standing as close to the center of the explosion as possible grouped up with chain reaction. But if you're going to make that change, get rid of radial damage and make it do a flat damage if you are in the circle. With the movement the way it is. You never get the full damage from the sticky bomb.

Hey Marco nice video once again! I would also would like to see removed the ability to get Striker stacks from the shields in PVP. What do you think about it? Regarding your last point in gear normalisation, I totally agree with this on how it effects the classified builds in Last Stand and Skirmish. It only leaves me wondering, since the High End gear would also get the stats buff, how this will change the game right know. Would this bring the Exo-Builds back, would this make classified gear less important in the game? At least in this game mode.

Really good video. I think you did a really good job at balancing the sets in a right way without offending anyone or trashing any of the sets. It would be really awesome if you gave Massive this feedback although I know it's just an opinion. You're not just an average player Marco, you have been here since the beginning and have a better view of how things should be done. Sorry if this sounds cheesy but it's true.

I like it marco. Good job

When are you gona do a setup video

Perfect!

Hey Marco. I had another idea for Alphabridge. If the developers want to change our signature's effectiveness based on our mainstat distribution, there could be another way of going about it. How about this? The ratio of Firearms:Stamina:Electronics affects the power of the signatures in the ratio Tactical:Recovery:Survival. The duration condition is removed. So, you can speck into whichever stats suit your play-style, and still have a great experience with this set.

What was yesterdays divsion update for?

+1 like! Spot on, Marco!

Perfect Marco !

The Adrenaline thing was on my mind since I first realized that they had changed it to 7 second status immunity. One way they could tweak Alpha is instead of removing the scaling they could seek to encourage a more balanced build, and since 15% weapon damage from the 3 and 5 piece bonuses is already there they could have the 6 piece grant 15% Skill Power and 15% Armor (or even just 30% Health)

Thank you for making this video, we need this stuff the game needs to keep evolving so the division 2 is the best game it can be!

I absolutely love this list!

Hi Marco I like your ideas on the gear sets but got me thinking with all the sets we have and how you thought about tweaking them all to make them fair. So if we got 1 new set put in what would YOU make it like keeping in mined it's got to work with or against the gear sets we have in the game at the min and what would it be call???? I know it won't be easy to test or even impediment in at this moment in time as it would be your ideas of a new gear set but we all know you like a challenge and I'm sure we all would like to see what you come up with as you know the game inside out back to front.

Good job!. I think these changes would go a long way to make things better. My only concern is with sentry. It's already incredibly hard to land head shots on players on console. With your changes sentry would go just as unused as it is now. I would leave the 30 seconds maybe not refreshabble and would allow marks to jump up too 3 again it's really tough to run sentry as is I don't think it would make it any more dangerous than the 5 piece dead eye already is.

Love the vid

Marco i agree 100% with your opinion. I like the option of only pvp area like skirmish and last stand but i hate that i have to have 2 different builds, do you know if the developer wanna change that into 1401 or do they dont care/ dont think that its a problem?!

Insightfull sugestions Marco. I'm not sure how the Striker adjustment would work on console. I hope they listen to you.

Marco, we need video like this, u r the voice of the community.

Excellent suggestions and well thought out Marco, ignore the haters, and keep up the good work!

The 1 shot sticky bomb was around in 1.7 just was extremely rare to find them

6 marks for pvp with sentry? when will we have that much time?

Marco i need ideas for my banshee !!!!

I think Strikers utility makes it a good set to make it a basis of the buffs the other sets can have, also I like this Strikers change you introduced since this would mean that I have to trade out some of the weapon mods I have for stability therefore slightly reducing the overall dmg

I don't know what the fuss is all about with striker and nomad.. i don't have the complete set to try them.

Marco how about MPC's going after rogues as much as agents going after rogues every time I go after a rogue I have MPC city after me while they avoid a rogue..

I love the changes but quick question. Shouldn't there also be a soft cap increase to skill power? I mean the skill ability increase past 450k is so small right now even when you build to 650k.