In a short time, the new expansion “Warlords of New York” will launch for The Division 2. How can one best prepare in terms of equipment? What should one pay attention to? And what should one do with all their previous equipment? You can find out here.
What is the new expansion about? Just recently, Episode 3 was released as the last content from Year 1, and already on March 3rd, the major expansion “Warlords of New York” will launch, followed by Season 1 on March 10th.
The new addon brings various changes and a lot of new content to the game. Among other things, there are
- a new open world in Lower Manhattan, New York
- new exotic weapons
- a new equipment system
- completely new gear
- changes to crafting
- new skills
- or even a new maximum level
This is what many players are currently asking: Since the maximum level is increasing, but also a lot is changing with equipment and crafting, many agents are now wondering what they should do with their existing gear.
What should one keep? What can be disassembled? What equipment should one start with in the new expansion? And what should one still pay attention to?
The following 5 tips will tell you everything you need to know – provided you get the new expansion.
What equipment should I start with in Warlords?
Just wear your currently best gear and stick with it. But even if you are wearing just junk, it doesn’t really matter. A short time later, it is completely irrelevant if you are wearing trash items or fully equipped with God Rolls from before Warlords.
Since the new maximum level in the Warlords expansion is raised from 30 to 40, your old equipment will only get you through the first 1-2 levels of the new content. Everything you find beyond that, even green weapons and equipment pieces, will already be better than your strongest God Rolls at level 30/Gear Score 500.
What should one do with equipment at Gearscore 500 and below?
It’s quite simple. Except for the items you want to take into the new expansion and with the exception of exotics, you can completely dismantle everything else without worry for materials and credits.
If you don’t do this, you are basically keeping stuff that you will never equip or use again due to the new level cap.
Moreover, the talents of the gear from level 1-30 (up to Gearscore 500) are stored in a different library than those from level 31-40. Therefore, you will not be able to transfer old talents to “Level 31+” gear from the addon through recalibration and vice versa. Your old God Roll talents and equipment will become absolutely useless.
There is, however, one exception. The mods at level 40 will only be slightly better than the current level 30 mods. According to the developers, it is worth keeping the best pieces here. However, since the system is being fundamentally changed, many of your currently best mods could ultimately become useless. So it might be better to wait with clearing out until after the expansion.
What should one do with their old exotics?
This is also relatively simple: Dismantle all your old exotics for crafting parts – except for your best rolls of the respective pieces (like with the Chameleon). You should definitely keep those for the Warlords as well.
Why? Later, an upgrade system is supposed to be implemented that will allow you to elevate your old exotics to level 40. Then even your previously strongest rolls may become important again. However, this is said to happen “sometime”; in other words, the feature will not be available at the launch of Warlords.
From level 40 onwards, you can then specifically hunt for your exotic favorites, as they will be available at the corresponding highest level.
When is the best time to craft exotics or finish exotic quests?
If you currently have enough materials and want to craft an exotic or are in the middle of an exotic quest and want to finish it? Wait until you reach the new maximum level of 40.
This way, there will be exotic blueprints at level 40 that will give you the chance to craft your exotics at maximum level.
The material requirements will remain unchanged, and as soon as the workbench has been upgraded accordingly, all exotics listed in the workbench menu can be obtained at level 40 when crafted anew. However, upgrades do not work that way yet.
What you should generally consider when crafting
By now, you should not craft anything before Warlords anymore. This will save you a lot of materials and quickly irrelevant gear.
Because a lot will change with crafting. For instance, the workbench in Warlords of New York will initially be reset to blue items and must be upgraded until you can craft equipment with the highest item quality and up to the maximum level.
Even in the fully upgraded state, the workbench will no longer produce items with guaranteed max level 40. The items will be in a random value range slightly below to the maximum level with randomly rolled stats. Crafting is only worthwhile from level 40 onwards.
But what you can already do is farm for materials and components for crafting, such as electronics, titanium, or carbon fiber parts, and fill your supplies as much as possible – especially if you generally make use of the crafting feature.
If you want to get into the mood for the new expansion, you should check out the new animated short film about Aaron Keener:
