In The Division, you can acquire certain items only after reaching a DZ rank of 75 or 90. We will show you how to efficiently increase your DZ rank.
The Dark Zone weapon dealer has stylish items and blueprints in stock every week, which you can purchase with DZ currency. However, there is a catch: You need to have reached at least rank 75 or even 90 in the Dark Zone to get the most desirable items. How do you achieve such a high rank?
Basically, there are two ways to achieve this goal: Either you play relaxed with your buddies for a few hours over several weeks with the motto “Eventually, it will work out with rank 75,” or you make a brutal push in the shortest time possible, which might turn into a lot of work.
Currently, the DZ weapon dealer at rank 75 offers the blueprint for the M1A – First Wave with a value of 204, which is currently considered the best sniper in the game. To rush quickly to rank 75 within this week, some agents would likely prefer the “brutal push.”
How to prepare for an efficient DZ rank increase
The following three aspects will make your rank progress easier:
- Focus on Stamina: One thing you definitely want to avoid is dying! If you go down, you will lose part of your hard-earned DZ experience. Therefore, you should rely on a build that increases your health, allowing you to take more damage before going down. Especially when you are out alone, caution is advisable in the Dark Zone.
- Play as a Team: If you take too much damage, it is beneficial to have allies with you. They can heal you before you lose valuable experience. Additionally, you can defeat enemies more efficiently in a group and defend against rogues. And playing with good friends is much more fun!
- Use Equipment that Increases DZ Experience: You can significantly accelerate your rank progress with the right gear. Some items offer experience bonuses that you should keep an eye out for. You can see how high your XP bonuses are under the character data in the “Exploration” category.
Find a Farm Route for Dark Zone Experience
Now, you need to eliminate as many enemies as possible in the shortest time to efficiently gain DZ experience. You can create your own farm route, for which there are even specific tools available on the internet. Or you can follow already known farm routes that you can find on YouTube and in the forums.
We will show you a video of the agent “DreadTheDarkZone“, who promotes a rank increase from 1-99 in under 4 days. On this route, you should earn over 10,000 DZ experience every five minutes.
You can find the exact directions best in the video. The most important points are as follows:
- Start at the extraction zone in DZ03 north of the safe room. Call in the helicopter there and defeat the boss and the remaining NPCs. Due to the activated extraction, more enemies will spawn that you can kill.
- Next, head to the underground entrance in the north of the extraction zone, where you also eliminate the NPCs.
- Stay underground and head west. It’s best to see how to move underground in the video. You will encounter enemies here as well.
- Exit the underground through one of the two exits in the north and run to the landmark north of the extraction zone. On the way there, a strike team member can sprint to the extraction zone, call in the heli, and then return to the team.
- Kill the boss at the landmark and then defeat the enemies at the extraction zone.
- Now the fun starts all over again. If there are no NPCs at the extraction zone, you can go to an optional landmark, defeat the enemies there, and then return. By then, the XP-generating NPCs should be available again.
For this route, the user has also drawn a nice map:
- Red: Routes in the open.
- Yellow: Routes underground.
- Blue: You will encounter strong enemies here.
- Black: This line indicates the path of the member who should call for extraction.
- White: This leads to the optional landmark.
What tips do you have for efficiently leveling up in DZ rank?
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