Division 2, Phoebe killed my hardcore. Was in DZ solo and almost had her which took awhile, finally two rapid missiles got me. So I tried again on low level character replacement lol, not happening couldn’t scratch Phoebe. The Toxic DZ is much much harder on low level, normal mode is much easier didn’t know this first hand until this morning. One good thing is earlier in the day a couple others saw me killing Phoebe and to my surprise joined in. That is surprising cause most hardcore players just pickup scraps from patrols and don’t even do landmarks. I think they need to adjust it a bit the difference is night and day, I’m thinking normal DZ is like Escalation 1, Toxic is like 6. Another thing is the Hunter doesn’t spawn on normal extractions low level, but in Toxic dood was spawning at level 18 for sure.
One tactic with Toxic DZ low level is you can farm the mobs at checkpoint and get some decent XP. Pick a Landmark close to checkpoint, you must shoot them to get credit of course. The mob will have a healer try not killing them, this was working decent but might be a tad slow not sure, I know 2 levels were gained off one Challenging landmark by checkpoint I did this way. That boss with the bombardier drone and explosive seeker is mega dangerous though, really the thing is after awhile of fighting the, their skills go silent. On hardcore this was pretty crazy fight again them solo.