In The Division, the skills play an important role in your character development. We present all skills, talents, and perks clearly and compactly.
Ubisoft’s MMO shooter is much more than just a simple third-person shooter: Like an RPG, The Division offers numerous skills that allow you to customize and enhance your character. To not lose track of all these customization options, we present them as clearly as possible below.
What different skills are there?
First, one must be aware of what skills actually exist and how they can be categorized. The skills include skills, talents, and perks.
- Skills: The skills support you diligently in combat. However, you must use them yourself in order to benefit from the abilities. You can choose offensive or defensive skills, depending on your personal playstyle. Skills also have modifications that you can unlock to improve them. There are a total of 12 skills.
- Talents: These are passive abilities that activate automatically in certain situations and support your agent. You can select up to four talents at the same time once you have unlocked the slots for them. There are a total of 24 talents.
- Perks: Unlike skills and talents, perks are permanently available to you once they have been unlocked. So you don’t have to choose between them. This leads to a higher-level agent always having advantages over a lower-level agent. There are a total of 40 unlockable perks.
All these abilities can be assigned to specific areas: the Medical, Technology, and Security trees.
Now we want to present ALL skills sorted by these areas.
These are all skills in The Division
Medical Tree Skills
Pulse: You activate a scanning pulse that allows you to detect your enemies. Both friend and foe become visible even through walls.
First Aid: This is a first-aid kit that heals you and your allies within a small radius. Can also be thrown.
Support Station: You place a device that can heal and revive allies.
Recovery Link (Signature Skill): Heals you and your nearby allies. Revives downed allies within range. It can even restore more than the maximum health (“Overheal”).
Technology Tree Skills
Sticky Bomb: This is a sticky grenade that is detonated remotely.
Turret: You place a small turret that attacks nearby enemies autonomously. However, this turret has a time limit if it is destroyed beforehand.
Seeker Mine: This is a mobile mine that targets enemies and detonates near them.
Tactical Link (Signature Skill): Increases your agent’s damage and chance for critical hits. This also applies to your allies.
Security Tree Skills
Ballistic Shield: You activate a shield for defense. However, you can only use the sidearm while using it.
Smart Cover: The cover is reinforced. Increases the damage of the user while reducing the damage taken by all allies behind the cover.
Mobile Cover: You create a temporary cover that provides you with protection.
Survivor Link: Reduces damage taken and increases movement speed. Nearby allies also receive the same ability.
Here is an article where you can view all skill modifications.
These are all talents in The Division
Talents in the Medical Tree
Adrenaline: Use a medkit when you are not at full health to receive an “Overheal”. This temporarily increases your maximum health.
Shock and Awe: Suppresses an enemy to increase your speed by 25% for 10 seconds. This is useful for quickly escaping a fight.
Critical Save: Use a medkit when at low health to increase damage resistance by 40% for 10 seconds.
Combat Medic: When you use a medkit, you heal your teammates and other allies within 20 meters by 40%.
Strike Back: At low health, you reduce the active skill cooldown time by 20%.
Shrapnel: When you inflict “bleeding” on an enemy, there is a 30% chance to transfer that effect to all enemies within 10 meters (Bleeding Wound).
Battle Buddy: When you revive a teammate, the damage taken by both agents is reduced by 50% for 10 seconds.
Triage: When you heal an ally with a skill, skill cooldowns are reduced by 15%.
Talents in the Technology Tree
Tactical Advance: This talent activates when you perform a cover-to-cover move, i.e., a move from one cover to another. For 10 seconds, your weapon damage increases by 2% per meter. Therefore, the benefit is greater the further the cover-to-cover move is.
Police Up: Kill an enemy with any skill for a 25% chance to fully refill all ammunition types.
Evasive Action: While performing a cover-to-cover move, damage taken is reduced by 30%.
Wildfire: Similar to “Shrapnel,” there is a 30% chance to inflict an effect on all enemies within 10 meters when you cause the effect on an enemy. However, this is not “bleeding,” but rather “burning” (On Fire).
Death by Proxy: If you prevent a skill used by an enemy, your skill power is increased by 20% for 30 seconds.
Tech Support: Kill an enemy while an active skill is present to extend the skill’s duration by 10%.
Fear Tactics: Similar to “Shrapnel” and “Wildfire.” Only this time with the effect “Shock.”
Demolition Expert: Kill an enemy with an explosion to increase explosion damage by 40%. This lasts for 15 seconds.
Talents in the Security Tree
Steady Hands: When you go into cover, the recoil is reduced by 25% for 10 seconds.
Precision: With a headshot, your enemy is marked for 10 seconds.
Desperate Times: At low health, shooting accuracy when firing uncontrollably from cover, “blind fire,” is increased by 20%.
Repo Reaper: Kill an enemy with your sidearm (handgun) to receive a full magazine (or 30 rounds) for your primary weapon.
One is None: If you hit an enemy with a headshot, there is a 50% chance that the bullet will not be consumed. It effectively bounces back into your magazine.
Stopping Power: Suppresses an enemy (suppressive fire) to increase headshot damage by 25% for 10 seconds.
Chain Reaction: If you damage multiple enemies with an explosion, the explosion damage increases by 40%.
On The Move: If you kill an enemy while moving, damage taken is reduced by 30% for 10 seconds.
Below are all perks in The Division
The perks in the Medical Tree of The Division:
Medkits (3x): Expands the medkit inventory by one slot (starting at 2, max: 5).
Protective Measures (3x): Increases the virus protection by 1 (thus allowing you to enter areas of greater contamination. Without these perks, you would die over time in these areas).
Canned Food: Increases the duration of canned food by ten seconds (canned food increases your healing).
Supplier: Once per hour, you can collect canned food, energy bar, water, and soda at the base.
Contamination Intel: Reveals all contaminated areas on the map.
Hazardous Materials: Expands the Dark Zone inventory by one slot.
Rigger: Once per hour, you can collect “Fabrics” in the medical wing, a crafting material.
Credit: Increases credit income by ten percent.
Talents: Unlocks an additional talent slot.
These are the perks in the Tech Tree
Inventory: Expands your inventory by 10 slots.
Hazardous Materials: Expands the Dark Zone inventory by another slot (see Medical Tree).
Division Tech Materials: Transforms division tech crafting materials into other materials at the crafting station.
Engineer: Once per hour, you can collect “Electronics” in the technology wing, another crafting material.
Soda: Increases the duration of the effect by 10 seconds (reduces the cooldown time of skills by 30%).
Water: Increases the duration of the effect by 10 seconds (increases damage dealt to enemies).
Craftsman: Once per hour, you can collect “Tools” in the technology wing, a crafting material.
Energy Bar: Increases the duration of the effect by 5 seconds (heals all negative status effects and protects against further effects for 5 seconds; with this perk, it’s 10 seconds).
Resource Assessment: Reveals all division tech crafting nodes on the Dark Zone map.
Stat Switch: Allows swapping item stats at the improvement station. You can find out how the improvement station works here.
Dark Zone Funds: Increases the loot of Dark Zone currency by 10%.
Stash: Expands the stash by 10 slots.
All perks in the Security Tree:
Experienced Agent: Increases XP from all activities by 10% (best to unlock early in the game).
Grenades: An additional slot for grenades.
Advanced Weaponry: Unlocks a vendor for advanced weapons in the Security Wing.
Combat Veteran: Increases XP gain from awards by 25 percent.
Hazardous Materials: Expands the Dark Zone inventory by another slot (see above).
Black Market Vendor: Unlocks purchases with Dark Zone currency at the operations base.
Clothes Vendor: You get a clothing vendor at the operations base.
Explosive Bullets: Increases the duration of explosive bullets by 10 seconds.
Gunsmith: Allows you to collect weapon parts (crafting material) in the Security Wing once per hour.
Scavenger: Collect items from the Scavenger Box in the Security Wing every 12 hours.
Incendiary Bullets: Increases the duration of incendiary ammunition by 10 seconds.
Special Ammo: Collect incendiary and explosive ammunition in the Supply Line once per hour.
Shooting Range: Increases accuracy at greater distances.
Intel Discovery: Reveals all collectibles in a zone once all side missions and encounters have been completed.
Collector: Increases the loot rate by 15%.
The Division will be released on March 8, 2016. You can find all the information, news, and guides here.
