In The Division, the item bonus “Protection from Elites” is causing problems. It apparently has the exact opposite effect of what it should do.
Things are just not quiet around Ubisoft’s MMO shooter: Even though some exploits in The Division are being invented by users themselves, another bug has already appeared, contributing to the depressing atmosphere that one might have to believe. However, this time it is not an exploit that agents could profit from. Now a bug with an item bonus is causing discontent among players.
“Protection from Elites” faulty in The Division
As reddit user JaRrYc claims to have proven, the item bonus “Protection from Elites” does not provide increased protection from elite enemies at all. When agents equip items with this advantage, they instead take more damage than before. However, the description of this ability clearly states:
Additional reduction of damage dealt by named and elite enemies.
Various users have come across this annoying problem through analysis of the programming code and through self-experiments. Some screenshots have been uploaded to prove the situation. Below are two of them.
In this screenshot, the user had 11% protection from elites:
In this screenshot, the user had no 11% protection from elites: The comments on this post reinforce this discovery, which would explain a lot. Especially agents who had increased this value as tanks report that this issue troubled them. They were wondering why they looked so bad against elite enemies.
Therefore, the following advice: Better not rely on this talent for now to avoid hitting the virtual dust too soon.
So far, there has been no official statement from Massive. This reddit post was only published today. However, since it is spreading like wildfire, the developers will likely be able to resolve the issue soon.
Currently, there are still 150 Phoenix Credits to grab as compensation. What these are for and how you can obtain the Phoenix Credits in The Division, you can find out here.
