Rise Up Season, Xbox.
Today between Escalation and Retaliation had the most fun in The Division 2 in a very long time, could not stop.
Grand Washington Hotel, Escalation Tier 0, Global Modifier off.
- In DC will see list of Escalation missions available next to countdown vendor.
- Chose Grand Washington Hotel, literally first mission in game so yea.
- Used Hunter Killer Build that’s been buffed with more expertise on gear.
- Note I did not have the seasonal modifier on, haven’t even done season stuff yet.
- First run noticed new icon, no Heroic difficulty showing.
- Wasn’t sure I was even in some new mode at first, difficulty felt like Heroic.
- Maybe a tad tougher, the final barricaded door in mission is super buffed.
- Used the mounted gun and it took longer.
- This was actually Tier 0 Escalation, shows at end.
- Had my game set to ‘open group’ nobody joined.
- Think it works like Retaliation, once it starts group is locked maybe.
- End of mission has 30s counter then stats appear just like Retaliation.
- End shows Tier 1 now available, so yea mission grinding 101.
- Got two tokens, they are used to buy more Tiers?
- Normal gear drops nothing special, wasn’t expecting anything else.
- Expecting to grind many Tiers to get a prototype drop.
Tier 1, Seasonal Global Turned On, No Modifiers yet! (Much Harder)
- Tier 1 time, now I see you can use the tokens to do higher up tier.
- Token seems to be your access currency for Escalations.
- Ok so used a token and it activated Tier 1, reminds me of Diablo 3 greater rift keys.
- Turned on the season global modifier, I have no modules yet.
- My armor went from 2.2m to 2.3m with global turned on.
- Starting, got debuted by first mob of three.
- Playing tactically, slow and easy, bait and kite.
- Way tougher, is it the global or tier?
- Think it’s the global cause debuff causes enemies to take 1/3 armor off a shot.
- Better idea to get the season modifiers unlocked before doing Escalation.
- I like when this shit gets harder, bandages quick use double tap action.
- Hardest part so far was two story burned out section, turrets must go.
- On final part with Kelso to take on Saint the boss.
- Noticed before this there is a timer for the mission 41:17 left, timed missions.
- Woah took me like 10 minutes, ran out of Chameleon bullets once.
- Saint took a bit more to kill, the real danger again is turrets.
- Stay out of red zones on enemies, they shred you if hit.
- Back to the barricaded door, this time swapped shield to turret for help.
- Door took awhile to go down, enemies killed with mounted gun.
- Took 36:27 to complete, faster if wasn’t blogging details during.
Potomac Event Center Escalation Tier 2 Solo
- Was definitely tough, Legendary it felt like.
- The balcony room then final room for this Hunter killer build not optimal.
- We got those done, just being sneaky and used turret to aid a bit.
- Some of them will heal on damage output I think, was a pain.
- Have the blackout pulse to level 4, stun is great.
- Not sure how far this build can do solo Tier wise maybe 3, will try maxing.
- I can survive their damage with ease, but TTK is too slow.
- Was scrambling for ammo during fights, that’s a sign.
- Still have lots of modifiers to unlock, some have damage abilities.
So after those two runs I feel with the Global Season Modifier on I should go play normal stuff and get some modifiers activated. I really like the difficulty and see how the Tier 2+ will be tough as crap with Global on and no mods. Update Tier 2 is tough as crap.
Did a tier 3-5 in group using matchmaking, went pretty smooth. I will generally pull out and chase after enemies and higher damage members can kill if using Hunter Killer. Swapped to Red Refactor build and did a few more Tier 3-5 and the 5 wiped us halfway through when server restart was counting down. Ended up getting 3 prototype compnanents for the day. Wondering why Quickstep can’t be upgraded to Protoype.
I am thinking the Rambolita+ build will push this past Tier 3 solo or whatever the max is, this is an enhanced PVE damage variation of the build.
