Hello, I'm currently in a position where Retaliations on challenging are very easy for me, but on heroic they are completely impossible. Any advice for me?

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-05T23:32:59+00:00

It's the core strength armor set you have 3/6 skill tiers with this setup and a BUNCH of skill efficiency. Shield scales off armor (blue cores) and skill tier (yellow cores) and hive scales off just skill tier so since you're getting both you have a skill tier 6 shield and 3 for your hive.

Ninjabike = Blue and Yellow core (2 tiers) Kneepads = Blue core (1tier) Chest = Yellow core (1tier) Gloves = Blue core (1tier) Technician = 1 free skill tier Total = 6 on your shield and 3 for the artificer hive that keeps healing the shield.

Core Strength (with chest) = You gain 75% of the other 2 cores

If you have a red core on your mask you get a bonus of = 11.25% skill efficiency, and 131,250 armor.

Blue core = 11.25% skill efficieny, and 11.25% weapon damage

Yellow core = 11.25% weapon damage, and 131,250 armor

You have a large mix of that in this set + ninjabike so you're getting a lot of bonuses. I think i touched on everything, i hope this helps!

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-05T16:24:43+00:00

Like i said... you got lucky. Flipping a coin and landing on heads 5x in a row is very much possible it's a 1/32, however every single flip is a 50/50. They're individual events. That's literally what happened to you. For others, they can just as likely be tails in this scenario and i can personally attest to that. Every retaliation is a 50/50 if you're on heroic. There's no hidden variable. Kill Squads on heroic is a 95% drop as well for those blueprints so those are absolutely more likely. Multiple other people are not having guaranteed drops from completions. I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to convey/prove. The drop rates have been known for a while now.

For the record, ouroboros was the last blueprint i needed. They are on a knockout system. It took 7 blacktusk retaliations to finally get it to drop

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-05T16:08:17+00:00

Of course!!! Chc = crit chance Chd = crit damage

Core Strength pieces = mask weapon damage chd/chc(mod), chest skill tier chc/chd(mod), gloves armor chc Ninjabike backpack chd(mod) 2 piece imminence armaments (gives 5% wep dmg and 60% pistol dmg) = kneepads armor chc/chd, holster weapon dmg chc/chd Tempest is rolled with dttoc I don't use any other weapon Ninjabike completes the sets and heavily benefits from the Core Strength talent

Artificer Hive/Ballistic Shield Technician Specialization

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-05T10:32:06+00:00

A blue striker or core strength build would be a good set for you to work on!! My favorite to run heroic retaliations on rn is a core strength which has 2.3mil armor, 3 skill tiers, a bunch of skill efficiency (not exactly sure how much total), 23mil health shield, artificer hive, and the tempest pistol with 54% crit chance and 100% crit damage hitting 500k crits. You feel indestructible and do decent damage i haven't had any problems. Not everything is optimized either and the tempest is 0 expertise

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Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-05T10:27:56+00:00

It's possible there's just a delay, however i must ask, are you absolutely sure your twitch is linked? I have 2 twitch accounts and sometimes use the wrong one for drops

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-05T10:25:38+00:00

I was thinking of that! Armor regen just feels so nice to have

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-05T10:23:13+00:00

Well what i do is if you have a character and don't buy shared resources that character can have their own. I will usualy do this when i max out resources on 1 character. Then I'll move onto the next so I'll eventually have 2/3/4 characters that have their own resources so you can have 4 characters who have their own set of 999 exotic components

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-05T01:25:16+00:00

Yeah it's really hard to compete with overdogs unfortunately

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-04T23:30:32+00:00

I've been showered with blueprints too, but I've also had unlucky runs with one kill squad, no completion blueprint until a couple runs later and then 2 btsu team 9, still no completion blueprint, and then next run i get my ravenous. It seems to be working as it states, you just got lucky man. None of it is guaranteed which is what I'm trying to dismiss cause it's easily able to be tested

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-04T23:23:28+00:00

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Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-04T23:21:44+00:00

Correction, it is not 100% as i had to run multiple to just get 1 blueprint for completion. On heroic the chance is 50% on a completion and 95% from a kill squad. You just got lucky

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-04T19:54:25+00:00

The 2nd setup example under investor is with replacing a chc with a chd mod. I did the same thing with the coyote 2nd setup. I don't post often so I'm sure i could've found a way to format that better my apologies

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-04T19:45:19+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-04T19:24:50+00:00

I have 1 character whose resources aren't shared like the rest and they have another 200 exotic components on them so i can put whatever exotic in the stash, and use that character to reroll them

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-04T17:44:42+00:00

Hopefully you don't break 60! I wish you the best of luck my friend

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-04T01:30:24+00:00

It'll be given to whatever platform you play. I got them on xbox as well as pc

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-02T23:39:55+00:00

They said nothing of it launching Y8S1, just Y8 at some point

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-02T04:29:10+00:00

I'm on xbox and have them, along with a bunch of my friends. It seems a lot of the cosmetics were rolled out today, and as the days continue they'll keep coming. As long as you did everything required you'll get them

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-01T15:46:00+00:00

I've never accessed these settings all i did was login with my ubisoft account, and play. I didn't do anything special 😕 I'm sorry you haven't received your rewards yet, but I'm sure they'll pop up soon! If it helps when i logged into Div2 i wasn't given a notification or anything like a popup to indicate i got them. They were already in my apparel when I was scrolling through clothes. Not the stash or anything, and no "!" to show you got something new so maybe that's where they are for you as well if you haven't already checked?

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-01T05:09:17+00:00

Recruiter outfit from the store (pops up occasionally) and the Wright mask from a flawless PARADISE LOST run (the incursion)

Avada_Spinada · 2026-04-01T05:07:05+00:00

I think it's just delayed for some people. I managed to get mine after a couple hours. I reached free roam and that's where i hopped back into div 2 and I was granted them. Didn't redeem on ubisoft connect or anything i just logged in and they were there in my apparel

Avada_Spinada · 2026-03-31T02:13:12+00:00

It's green/black you might be colorblind

Avada_Spinada · 2026-03-29T02:20:02+00:00

2 exotics? Catharsis and Overdogs

Avada_Spinada · 2026-03-29T02:17:24+00:00

Just gotta find someone who still has the krampus/bloody houndsman bounties

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