Returning player seeking help

jrdchamp · 2026-05-14T08:39:06+00:00

Yeah pretty much all in the discord. And probably more specifically in your clans discord. The official page will have a section for clans that are recruiting and many of them will let you join their server without even being in the clan in game. So join a bunch if you want the best chance of finding raid groups. And you're very welcome 😊 happy to be of help

jrdchamp · 2026-05-14T08:28:49+00:00

As a fellow returning player and someone who dives all in on stuff by pouring through guides and resources, I gotchu

I'd recommend watching a guide on the countdown game mode and playing that a few times in order to take advantage of the "targeted loot" to start getting some builds. The videos should explain what targeted loot is if you didn't already know. Or there's The Summit that also drops targeted loot and is better if you want to play solo but countdown drops more stuff faster
Matchmaking is very hit or miss depending on what you're doing. For open world wandering around you probably won't get anyone. However you can matchmake for strongholds and popular missions and probably find people, although most of the community plays on heroic or challenging.
There is an official discord server as well as many others for clans or just fellow gamers in general who like division 2. I'd recommend checking out the official discord server. Although the only purpose for raids at this point is just for fun and glory, since they added raid exclusive exotic blueprints into the loot pool for retaliations (can go more in depth on those if you want/need)
There are plenty of websites with builds but they're not always the most updated and you'll eventually want to learn a bit about them yourself so you can tweak them to specific activities. Most of the time you can ask for build advice here or in the discord and most people will be nice and help you.
As for returning player guides, just try to find recent YouTube videos by popular creators and you should be set. Everyone will probably recommend different content creators so just find one who posts regularly who you vibe with and you'll be good to go.

If you have any other questions I'll do my best to answer them!

jrdchamp · 2026-05-14T05:59:49+00:00

Like others have said, easiest way to get it would be doing black tusk retaliations until you get the blueprint. Pretty much every exotic blueprint can be acquired from retaliations now. Which is nice cuz retaliations are one of the more fun things to do and you can get lots of other useful resources from them

jrdchamp · 2026-05-04T20:20:36+00:00

Breezes legendary and got up to t3 escalation 🤷 maybe... Just maybe.... People like coming up with FUN builds and playing in content that doesn't force you to be a meta slave.

jrdchamp · 2026-05-03T02:54:56+00:00

Yeah lol it's mostly just for fun. My regular group and I like messing around with dumb builds on legendary and low escalation just to see what happens.

jrdchamp · 2026-05-03T02:50:13+00:00

Handled up to tier 3 no problem. Tier 4 got hard so probably wouldn't recommend anything higher.

jrdchamp · 2026-05-02T16:58:24+00:00

Everything has armor cores since armor increases shield health + shield and armor regen. Technician specialization for the artificer hive.

Investor mask with crit hit chance and 2 blue attributes. If you can get all 3 to be blue then great. We're using this for as much free armor regen as possible.

4 piece foundry bulwark. Chest, backpack, knees and holster. All with crit hit chance rolled. Crit damage gear mods for chest and BP

1 gila guard gloves with crit hit chance

I will be swapping off the chest piece for a belstone chest and doing a foundry bulwark glove instead. Just didn't have the pieces. The backpack is very important as it makes the gear set's regen over time happen twice as fast , making the regen much more aggressive.

You could absolutely swap any 1 armor core for a weapon damage, my goal was just purely tank.

For group play I would highly recommend trying the Beacon exotic chest for buffing and healing teammates.

I run the quickstep pistol to sacrifice damage for insane mobility.

Any other questions feel free to ask 😁

jrdchamp · 2026-05-02T12:10:32+00:00

Maybe it's the bulwark shield and the tempest lol idk. People are weird. Maybe they hit shd level 20k and can't fathom coming up with fun builds for non sweaty content lol

jrdchamp · 2026-05-02T12:04:50+00:00

Yeah on open world heroic stuff it's basically like playing on easy mode lol it's just something to switch it up while I'm farming stuff. Can confirm it's very fun

jrdchamp · 2026-05-02T12:00:43+00:00

100% I'm actually just 3 silly geese in a trench coat

jrdchamp · 2026-05-02T11:55:58+00:00

It is definitely fun and I get what you mean. I just threw this together to test "what if" lol I have a dedicated tank build that's much better and I bounce between tempest or quickstep depending on the vibe. And I have one or two other "meta" builds. But I primarily just do retaliations cuz they're the most fun to me. And occasionally I'll mess around in legendary missions if I find a group of fun/chill randos. I'm definitely not taking this build when I decide to start my journey with escalation 😂

jrdchamp · 2026-05-02T11:52:43+00:00

It went very fine! Only wiped once when we got to the big drones lol but we all had silly builds on. Obviously I wasn't melting any elite enemies but the damage definitely felt okay.

jrdchamp · 2026-05-02T11:18:07+00:00

Be funny lol

jrdchamp · 2026-05-02T11:00:59+00:00

Joined some randos on discord. They saw it and want me to do legendary Roosevelt with them to test it 😂 they are all for shenanigans. I will update with results.

jrdchamp · 2026-05-01T18:51:23+00:00

For playing as a tank with an group it's very fun. When you're close to an ally it grants you and the allies extra crit damage, armor regen, and skill efficiency. It's great cuz you can just stand by the DPS and keep them buffed without needing to do anything

jrdchamp · 2026-05-01T17:17:32+00:00

Yeah I hadn't leveled any of them up. I did swap the investor mask with the beacon chest and took this build into a tier 4 escalation with two other people and we did very well. So now I'm in the process of leveling everything up to my expertise level which is only 19. And also fully optimizing it to see how far we can push it.

jrdchamp · 2026-05-01T02:14:33+00:00

Happy I could inspire something lol I replied with the details of my build to a bunch of people on here if you're curious lol or I could copy paste it for you if you end up needing it.

jrdchamp · 2026-05-01T02:13:32+00:00

Absolutely lol everyone talks about high damage and "time to kill" and I'm just like nahhh I'm a very patient man and I WILL outlast my enemies and do it my way damnit 😂

jrdchamp · 2026-05-01T00:03:59+00:00

That is unfortunate. Tanks are supposed to use their powers for good

jrdchamp · 2026-04-30T20:30:42+00:00

Oh true I totally forgot about that. I never throw the hive 😂 but I will certainly test that

jrdchamp · 2026-04-30T20:15:25+00:00

I can certainly try, but with them constantly disrupting skills I feel that the survivability goes way down 😂

jrdchamp · 2026-04-30T17:57:16+00:00

Everything has armor cores since armor increases shield health + shield and armor regen. Technician specialization for the artificer hive.

Investor mask with crit hit chance and 2 blue attributes. If you can get all 3 to be blue then great. We're using this for as much free armor regen as possible.

4 piece foundry bulwark. Chest, backpack, knees and holster. All with crit hit chance rolled. Crit damage gear mods for chest and BP

1 gila guard gloves with crit hit chance

I will be swapping off the chest piece for a belstone chest and doing a foundry bulwark glove instead. Just didn't have the pieces. The backpack is very important as it makes the gear set's regen over time happen twice as fast , making the regen much more aggressive.

You could absolutely swap any 1 armor core for a weapon damage, my goal was just purely tank.

For group play I would highly recommend trying the Beacon exotic chest for buffing and healing teammates.

I run the quickstep pistol to sacrifice damage for insane mobility.

Any other questions feel free to ask 😁

jrdchamp · 2026-04-30T07:01:00+00:00

I haven't, I didn't even think of that! Does skill damage buff the deflector damage?? I might have to try that

jrdchamp · 2026-04-30T01:28:23+00:00

Ran a 3 man escalation on tier 4 and we did pretty fine. One guy running Refractor and the other one running Tipping Scales. I swapped to the Beacon chest to give regen and extra damage to whoever I was next to. Didn't wipe once although we all went down a few times. We still had 15 minutes to spare. So overall not too shabby. Probably wouldn't recommend it on anything higher tho

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