Is this the best solo build in The Division 1.8? This will keep you alive longer.
The Division is a shared-world shooter where you can face PvE enemies or PvP players together with your friends. However, if no one from your buddies is online or you prefer to go through the post-apocalypse as a lone wolf, you can also fight for justice and order on your own.
However, playing solo is significantly harder than when you’re in a strike team with four agents. You need a strong build that increases your “survivability” – one that keeps you on your feet longer. Since you have no teammates to quickly revive you.
Now YouTuber MarcoStyle introduces a solo build for 1.8, based on the “Secret Nomad Set” and in his opinion is the currently best solo build:
How to create the solo build in 1.8
This build is actually only recommended for solo agents, as it only provides benefits for oneself. In group play, you should choose other character setups that are much better suited for that.
The most important ingredient for the solo build is the secret version of the “Nomad” gear set. It has been in the game since Global Event 3. You need all six armor pieces of this secret set to gain the following benefits:
- 2-Set Bonus: +15% health on kill
- 3-Set Bonus: A constant, minimal healing effect occurs, allowing the user to regenerate all segments of the health bar in combat.
- 4-Set Bonus: Talent – If you receive a lethal hit, you regain all health. Usable every 4 minutes.
- 5-Set Bonus: +10% health on kill, you receive more healing from the talent that now grants you overheal.
- 6-Set Bonus: There is a 50% chance that the talent has no cooldown. You take 60% less damage for 10 seconds when the talent is triggered.
In particular, the 6-set bonus means that if you get a bit lucky and the talent doesn’t have a cooldown continuously, you become nearly invincible, as your health fully regenerates again and again. You will not be brought to your knees. But even if you are not lucky, this set greatly increases your chances of survival.
Since you already have high survivability from the Nomad set, you do not need to focus heavily on stamina. Around 5000 stamina is more than enough. Instead, focus on firearms (over 8000) to defeat enemies quickly and benefit from the “health on kill”.
The bonuses on the armor pieces:
- Body armor: health, skill haste (or health on kill) and ammunition capacity
- Mask: crit chance and burn resistance
- Kneepads: health and various resistances
- Backpack: health and any resistance
- Gloves: crit damage, assault rifle damage, and crit chance
- Holster: crit chance
For the mods, you can also increase the critical hit chance, as well as skill haste or health.
Overall, MarcoStyle has 8266 firearms, 4951 stamina, and 2961 electronics.
The weapons of the build
Use these weapons:
- LVOA-C (Assault Rifle) with Malicious (+10% crit chance when health has more than two segments), Deadly (+15% crit damage), and Competent (Using a skill increases weapon damage by 10% for 15 seconds).
- Warlord (exotic assault rifle) with Vengeful (Damage increases based on missing health), Responsive (Damage is increased by 15% at a distance of less than 10 meters from the target), and Play rough (While shooting, damage taken is reduced by 20%. When you stop shooting, the missing damage taken is added to you).
With the mods of the LVOA-C, you can increase crit damage and crit chance. This weapon is used at the start of battles where enemies are still further away. Therefore, you need neither mods for headshot damage, as headshots are hard to land from a distance, nor the Responsive talent.
For close range, use the Warlord. All the talents mentioned above are especially useful in PvP, allowing you to frequently emerge victorious from duels. The “Play rough” talent not only postpones your death – you take the remaining damage only after one to two seconds after you stop shooting, allowing you to use a first-aid kit beforehand and stay alive. The mods for the Warlord primarily increase headshot damage, crit damage, and crit chance.
The abilities
The Skills:
- Impulse with Disruptor
- Support Station with Immunizer
- Recovery Link
The Character Talents:
- Survival Medicine: Uses a first-aid kit at low health to increase damage resistance by 20% for 10 seconds
- Counter: At low health, the active cooldown time for skills is reduced by 20%
- On the Move: Killing an enemy while moving reduces damage taken by 15% for 10 seconds
- Precision: A headshot on an enemy triggers an Impulse effect for 10 seconds
How do you play solo in 1.8?
Here you can find another current build:
