The Division | Best Solo Player Loot Farming Method | Patch 1.5

[@Trepanation21]

Hands down, you are the best contributor to the Division community. Your information is spot on, your videos are very well edited and narrated, your demonstrations are clear and concise, and your information is oriented for the broader community without being an overwhelming Min/Max build -very accessible. P4P GOAT Community Member. Thank you!

[@GluttonyIsMySin]

Excellent video! Thanks for the farming method Marco.

[@yaboieddie6582]

Some say that the Legend27 was the first Game of War player

[@namelessgosu6156]

YaBoiEddie Some say he can fling a rock further then a catapult

[@ALittleRainandWind]

YaBoiEddie Hey what are you guys playing ?

[@yaboieddie6582]

Eng Boonkwang I'm supposed to be playing game of war but this one player keeps kicking my ass.

[@bluna5869]

+YaBoiEddie the legend 27

[@twonictv2312]

is it the legend27?

[@azeriusfrost]

0:51 Aaron Keener: Left the group Colonel Bliss: *In menu*

[@gregoryvinson9299]

This truly is one of your best videos ever! I am going to try this today.

[@shiftyshuffler7592]

Nice vid! Ferro's monologue was driving me crazy :P Will definitely give this a try.

[@shiftyshuffler7592]

Well after trying this out, I have to say this was a frustrating experience!! This kinda highlighted the what was either really bad hit detection, hit boxes out of sync with enemies or lag, maybe a combination of all 3.

[@GR8Trollio]

A lot of complainers talking about not having the gear shown: keep farming resistance, named bosses and try Amherst Apartments with a high XP + Accomplished knee pads build. Same idea - farming for XP and Field Proficiency Caches. Anyhow tyvm for the video, going to try it out once I have some good snipers for AlphaBridge

[@inflatable2]

All these farming methodes are boring as hell and feel like work.. The game will turn into groundhog day so fast that way.. So I could not care less about how much drops or items I get, I just play the game for fun..

[@camila_costa12]

inflatable2 same here, these methods are really boring

[@genemathis9562]

AMEN, I too JUST play for FUN. I do farm once in awhile, but only when I really need something. Other wise 99% of the time I just PLAY the game, and never get bored. It seems when I make my FOCUS of trying to be the big-shot and/or follow what everyone is doing I get pissed off and start hating the game. Also following EVERYONE'S advice involves to MUCH WORK and then it isn;t fun any more. DO IT just for fun...

[@CQ2019]

inflatable2 5

[@mtbrev1107]

inflatable2 I really enjoy the vids Marco and company make, however I agree with you it is more fun just to play! It is a game afterall! Some people will want to know these methods though and so it is useful.

[@genemathis9562]

Well I TRIED it but... I have Alpha Bridge for BackPac, Gloves, Holster and Kneepads but NOT for a Vest or for the Mask?? SOOoo IF I want to use FOUR Alpha Bridge pieces then I cannot use the necessary KneePads. If I do then I am only using three Alpha Bridge pieces. Also I could NOT get the Commanding talent to roll. I spent like 1100 Phoenix Points on five rolls and never got the Commanding talent! In fact in five rolls everything I got was garbage. The original was better so the 1100 points was TOTALLY WASTED... That has been the MAIN PROBLEM with this game ALL ALONG! We do NOT get good rewards. The LOOT was certainly INCREASED with Updates 1.4 and 1.5 but but too often we just get the SAME STUFF over and over, and OVER. They need to give us MUCH MORE diversity. Then grinding and farming would be worth it. But when you get the SAME LoneStar or same holsters and holsters and HOLSTERS, over and over it really becomes a work of futility!!! I have like 25 holsters and have already got rid of at least another 25 since they came out with Survival and 1.5!! Love Survival though. That IS one REASON I am still enjoying and playing the game...

[@vekien]

This is awesome, some other good points: You die? It just resets, your loot isn't gone. Don't have the best loot? Just do as much as you can then grab the drops and gear up as you're doing it, very quickly. And you can do it on a lower WT if you havent played for a few patches (my gear is from 1.3 :D)

[@Taymn85]

As a solo player coming back, this will be my farm outside of random underground runs to get House. Well done and thank you.

[@danjf1]

Just fyi the tunnel mission on challenging right from the start is a no respawn zone, so...yeah...love your videos, hope to see the solo medic one you were talking about soon! thanks Marco!

[@glansberry]

I recently bought the Division and discovered your videos over Christmas break. I just want to say that your work is extremely professional and very informative (sub'd). Thanks for the thorough videos. I just hit level 30 | 230 and running mostly PVE (not a big PVP guy). I'm having a lot of success using this Lincoln Tunnel farm method... \m/ Keep plugging away sir!

[@MrShdow1]

you are the man im building this for farming now im so tired of lexington and the vest never dropping THANK YOU!!!

[@ItzKamo]

shawn evans i got the vest and got it also from daily assignment, crazy lol

[@DawnOfDaybreak]

As someone who is currently sitting in Afhganistan, I only get a few hours to play each week, and I appreciate the time and effort you're putting into the videos! If you did more videos for solo players, that would be awesome! (Especially since I haven't played since 1.3.... so I just started last week, and I am waaaaayyyyyyy behind everyone else.)

[@2Dimples4U]

Great video. Thank you for making this. Not too many videos or at all for that matter for casual players who just are too busy to really dedicate so much time for an awesome game like this.

[@equalizir1]

Great video @MarcoStyle gonna try this today

[@TheDessel]

@MarcoStyle, great, great tip. Being doing this since 1.4 myself as well. Just as a heads : Do try to squeeze a DISCIPLINED talent into this build. Since you will be one shooting a lot of NPCs, having a 100% crit chance virtually every time you squeeze that trigger is the biggest buff (and help) you can get while doing this. Adds as much CHD as you can (but yes, always prioritize XP bonus over ANYTHING while doing this), and this becomes much easier, imho. Thx for the video and kudos. Peace!

[@tomvanbockrijck2541]

ik vind alles wat jij uploade zo handing en luek om te kijken thx

[@renanviana87]

Very nice video man, glad I saw this. Keep the good work up!

[@MotoNuks]

Now this I gotta do! The biggest hurdle here for casuals is the frustration on the first few runs. Even if you explicitly stated it in your video that it will take a few runs to master, casuals will have a hard time shaking that frustration off.

[@Bear-wn2bq]

THANKS MAN! That's something I've been looking for! Finally a way to farm that's my style! :D

[@RiomaWF]

haven't played this game in like 6 months but watch a video every now and then. kinda glad i don't play when i see that you guys are still grinding the same content as day 1.

[@honestdude]

I hate when you need a build to farm gear for a build..wtf?

[@genemathis9562]

YEAH, why spend ALL THIS TIME to farm. JUST go PLAY, and HAVE FUN. I was thinking how Massive SAID they changed 1.5 so that we can get the gear we need for the NEXT LEVEL, WITHOUT having to play the NEXT level to GET THE GEAR you need to PLAY the next level. Sounds LIKE double-talk, right? WHICH of course IS SO DUMB, but I am not so sure they FIXED IT. They have some guys at Massive that DO NOT want us to get to much loot, and be bored! WOW, get bored, so they are stingy! And it just shows how little confidence they have in their own game!! IF it is good we won't get bored. Then, also IF something actually WORKS GOOD, then they have to NERF it!!! No wonder the game is dying. Its like Massive is AGAINST the players, THEIR CUSTOMERS. What other business tries to screw their customers by RUINING their own product???

[@genemathis9562]

Yeah I know that. But they had to spend the last 3 months to fix it. When the boys get bored they will be GONE AGAIN. Who said I HATED THE DIVISION, you are reading something into it that I DID NOT SAY! I love the game, and I have played OVER 1,100, that should say something? But I am NOT a fan boy!! I believe in telling the truth, not floating my hoorah for what is wrong with the game. They still have LOTS of issues with XBox, PS4 and the PC too. However, I will say that Massive did a get job with fixing the game, but I can remember when games used to come out ready to go, with little or NO BUGS. But it seem since about 2007 they all come out bugged, really bad. Battlefield 3 and 4 was broken for the FIRST 4-6 months, and unplayable for most people. My grandson had a brand NEW, HIGH END PC that he had just built and could not play BF4 for the first 6 months. I think that Game Companies should be ashamed of the junk that they put out. HOORAH that they FIXED most of the issue BUT if they had coded everything right the first time, they might still have some MINOR issues but NOT the massive problems that Massive had in the first SEVEN months. So go blow your FAN BOY horn some place else..................

[@MattSmith-il4tc]

lol...This game isn't dying. It's got more players than ever before...Go check the steam charts.

[@spandellakissexley9261]

They should also take into account people who love a good story and great graphics, but kind of suck at figuring out complex "builds" and "mods" etc. I get bored after being killed 40 times on my first big mission, and having to start at the beginning, instead of spawning where I went down.

[@el-low6663]

Hi I'm from the futur and now in the division we've got classified and exotic stuff and they are EXTREMELY RARE sooooo you still have to farm the game to get the good build for PVE and PVP

[@harrysynnott2379]

Brilliant. Thanks, Marco and BOT_Potato.

[@TravieTrav]

thank you for this birthday gift, Marco!

[@groovestreet4783]

wow I am so happy that i found a channel about the division.everybody was saying that this game is dead

[@ValkyrieLightwing]

Thanks for this Marco. I was starting to lose my mind doing Lexington over and over again trying to get Barrett's chest piece. I'll do this farm for a while since I still have a chance at her Chest

[@thewu910]

Marco brought the wood on this one. Great stuff!

[@Spandle76]

Thank you Marco! I'm mostly solo, I have 1 friend that plays every now and then but I only play an hour, 2 max a day.

[@J0AO]

Hi Marco! Congrats for your videos, I really appreciate your content. I would like to suggest only one thing, create a summary/condensation sheet at the end of the video. You usually put a lot of info in your video and I use to watch between my commuting, so would be really cool to get a short seconds of screen with all talents/build/mods necessary to try reproduce the tutorial in a second time (yeah, I'm lazy to rush all video again :D). Cheers!

[@JohnyMargaritis]

wtf i remember Bot_Potato that guy has so much hs accuracy that kept one shooting me and my friends on dz while he was lone wolfing arround ! gj mate happy to see you on that video !

[@Soulmourne]

Thanks MarcoStyle, thats a great solo loot farm method. :D

[@DerGeistDesKriegers]

If Anyone is interested, the kneepads are currently(11. dec) available at the gear vendor in camp hudson.

[@studychef2756]

Insane tip, gonna try it out. Started playing div 1 because of the experience of NY in snow and i really want to pvp, love you're and widdz pvp Videos there are awesome. Play div 2 aswell but i dont like the dark zone at all there. Pvp in div1 looks so more fun.

[@AlvynP]

Thanks for the info mate! This is such a cool and clever farm method.

[@ItsSailcat]

here's some thoughts on improvements. I'm 1 shotting (almost) everything and I got 100% uptime on Tactical link. 2x M44 Custom Commanding Skilled Predatory Coolheaded & the Secret Sauce Deadly + Disciplined = OWNAGE! I run a Robust chest instead of Reckless at 7805 Firearms. the Disciplined + deadly allows me to 1shot almost all the mobs as long as I don't miss, which I can do fairly well with the right positioning. The Robust gives me more survivability while in mobile cover This works amazingly well :) Thanks BOT_Potato & MarcoStyle for this video :)

[@ItsSailcat]

I've started to run an Imunizer with healing speed mods now as well. instead of selfheal. makes me able to completely disregard the annoying molotovs. If you run it with Tech Support you can keep it up inevitably. Talents so far are thus: Precision Tech Support Strikeback One is None.

[@alvinthecrazy]

good video Marco, you explain things the best for this game, skill up a close second, keep it up,

[@lemuel370378]

Good video bro, appreciate your guidance in this game

[@patriley936]

Great vid Marco

[@LaurenTWilson]

Thank you! I needed this!

[@DavidHathaway]

If nothing else, switching to purple mods to increase kill xp is brilliant. I've got 2 proficiency caches just 5 bosses into my farming loop. Thanks!

[@DavidHathaway]

And just like that, I got the Skull MC gloves from my next proficiency cache.

[@kiraexpx10a]

Thanks for the loot cave! Needed it. What are some of the other setups you mentioned? Since it can get boring if we farm the same map over and over. A change of map farming would be nice

[@H0m3yB97]

Awesome! Gonna try and set this up right now!

[@simpleanddelicious7081]

Tried this out - spent good time getting the skilled / determined weapon - had 82% XP, as much EAD as I could, DtE, 6 active dps talents on my sniper - perfect. But it's not really perfect. The first problem is that the mobile cover is difficult to place on the top of the truck. Managed to do that and start taking down the bruisers. Great, until the heavy gunner appears and demolishes my cover which goes in to cooldown so that's the end of that. I respawn down by the ammo cache, then you run up jump on top of the truck again and try to place your cover down but you dont have time as the bruisers are already upon you - end of that one. Respawn at ammo cache again - going to try it down here as I dont have time to run up to truck. Place cover down and start sniping as they appear. This is better. However, the cover soon goes down from the heavy gunner, you're set on fire by multiple incendiaries and that's the end. rinse and repeat and this gave me a field cache in 15 minutes. Oh well!!!

[@MousaDose]

Your character style looks nice, i thought i could change mine!

[@SirDeKer]

Great video bro!!

[@SpragginsDesigns]

I work nearly 60 hours a week now. Have a pregnant wife and our son, I play casually since launch, and since 1.4 and 1.5, I have 3 Alts that are completely min maxed with Alpha Bridge, Predators Mark and Strikers. Just from playing the daily missions and weekly HVTs etc. I.e playing the game. Great farming method, but if you can wait a week or two and just play on the weekends or at night after work, you'll get there.

[@LA6507a]

Thank you Marcostyle, I'm going to try this tomorrow night! But, attempting to headshot guys with a sniper rifle with an Xbox controller will certainly be a challenge for me, though.

[@mrbipbop9175]

To think that some one thought of this amazing farm, good job BOT_potato and thanks for the awesome vid Marco :D

[@metislord4904]

Cool video man. I prefer to farm all named bosses or do an incursion if im looking for specific pieces. Iget burnt out if I do something like that over and over. But this would be really good for the casual like you said.

[@lolioliol360]

Shout out to me, been rolling this build since 1.4 lol, except now I have barretts chestpiece, as soon as I used Accomplished I knew they'd be a permanent armour piece for my build. All i have to do for this farm is swap out one stamina piece for firearms lmao. Even tried out a one shot AB sniper xp farm method at the beginning of clear sky and it worked pretty well.

[@NateMac89]

Awesome! Thanks for info and tips!

[@santosmares94]

Awesome strategy man, thanks.

[@SirMac27]

INTERESTING! Will try it sometime, maybe tonight.

[@neckrolls4life]

Great as always. Thanks!

[@yveslepape29]

Hi Marco ! Thanks to you, I build a good AlphaBridge Set. It will be a pleasure to meet you an DZ. Your videos are great. regards. Tenzin.

[@forfinkly]

Man your videos are always very informative and very detail I play solo and I am tired of farming for stuff or having to go into the DZ don't know why it has to be this complicated to get named gear and weapons going to leave this game alone for a while, bored of the farming

[@Hempknight79]

Awesome video man. Great to see a farm that people can do without exploiting the game and to top it off one thats better. :D To those that are using the exploit dont forget your account is at risk if you use it.

[@NickTew]

Great vid man :) but casuals cant land headshots like that kappa

[@chivo_gaming]

Disturbed Gaming don't doubt casual DG...

[@stonecrazy3]

Disturbed Gaming or console players

[@RobertHoefig]

+stonecrazy3 Console players have autoaim ^^

[@SteelCity14]

Disturbed Gaming more like console players can't. Definitely much easier to land more HS with a mouse

[@SteelCity14]

MrHonsel even with auto aim it doesn't auto aim to the head hahaha

[@dosey2kp562]

Absolutely brilliant.......if your on pc. Good luck aiming like that with a controller. Bahahha

[@TacoShuriken]

W

[@InvntdXNEWROMAN]

Jason Pritchard that's why consoles have auto aim for their controllers.

[@bumbled]

Kyle Gruber I don't know man, even with auto-aim, the aim in this game is really clunky. I'd move to PC in a heartbeat if I could.

[@TacoShuriken]

***** At least you aren't one of the ones who thinks they joystick offers more precision.

[@bumbled]

Taco Shuriken While I do argue certain games play much better on controllers/consoles than PC games do, I certainly don't give 'precision' for being a valid reason as to how. That being said, you can be precise in this game if you're good with control sticks. I wish they made the aiming smooth and snappy like Gears of War.

[@ej6_caleb]

You earned a new subscriber from this video 👍🏼

[@Avalon304]

The talent that gives you a 50% chance of returning a bullet on a headshot would be helpful for this farm... a 1 in 2 chance for each bullet to return to the mag is pretty good. Infact just looking at talents I woudl run Precision (Headshot hostile to pulse them, for those enemies that may survive a headshot), One is None (50% chance to not consume a bullet on headshot), Tech Support (Kills with a deployed skill extends active skills by 10%) and Police Up (kill a hostile with any skill to have a 10% chance to refill all ammo types to capacity).

[@jimrox74]

Not sure if you'll get this message but this vid showed up in my recommended videos. Watched it again for giggles and thought maybe you should do a division hilight video captioning all the things (or some) we went through during the life of the game. Couldn't believe we did stuff like this.

[@joeblack9797]

Thx for all the help on update info.

[@1ricekake]

Legit, profitable and some skill training!! Thank you Marco!!!!!

[@shayneisthegod]

Great video : what is your thought on savage gloves now?

[@ksinju9758]

My friend still Farms every day from morning to night The DZ landMarks

[@IonoTheFanatics]

Oh no... Marco... told all of them, now they r gonna nerf my kneepads

[@TinyT0ny]

thats indeed a really nice farming method!

[@thesir8028]

Nices vids MS. Did the barret chest pcs drop doing this farming method.

[@jasper7003]

thanks dude will give it a go tonight!

[@powdernitz]

he's become the best youtuber for the division. no longer skillup.

[@beng2675]

Very helpful will definitely try out.

[@Hempknight79]

Just as a heads up guys. There is a SOCOM Mk20 blueprint on this weeks vendors. 370 pheonix creds. Its a 204 ilvl one but the requirements are low enough that commanding and skilled will work easily.

[@blackflytr]

you need ammo? get the talent with ammo reproduce chance per kill. firecrest set with lmg is also a killing floor method ;)) try it.

[@TechDoneRight1]

I've been running this build for weeks!!!!

[@matiassanso8808]

Markie R same here. loooong time

[@sage0ne619]

Accomplished knee pads are at Hudson Camp equipment vendor.

[@flaviodiaz2678]

great vid, could you do an updated solo farming method since ive been trying this one and the NPCs didnt drop so much stuff and also the experience didnt go as fast, maybe was my gear, but I would like you to do an updated version please!

[@kareemkez]

Great video!

[@Mrepicfail21]

Can you make a tip video while setting this up or a quick list of things you did to nail it.

[@furyRender]

You know I never thought of this in Lincoln. So I thought I would try it: Lincoln farm vs the Bullet King farm. ARE YOU KIDDING!!!!!!?!!! More efficient!?! I just did a farming session with your suggested build. Head-shot after head-shot kill, 47 min: 13 GOLD DROPS/4 PURPLE. Surely someone is pulling my leg about this being efficient. I can get more drops by completing the damn thing on solo/challenging a few times. Crap you get 3 for the boss + 2 for finishing and the many drops in between plus 80 phoenix. The chance for drops favors who? Not me. When I did the Bullet king loot cave I got that down to runs of 21secs. 21 secs guaranteed - 2 drops from the king. Lincoln may be considered a gray area for being considered an exploit but as for being more efficient - no way. If you have terrible luck with drop rates don't even try this.

[@mattias2792]

For anyone coming to this video today, or this week, and if you even see this, the Cavern (safehouse vendor) is selling the firearms with kill xp mod

[@nyxsuke]

I found out that Shotguns with a Striker gear set is beastly, I would highly suggest using the Showstopper if you have it

[@jarnodejong3016]

dacht al aan je engels accent dat je nl was en aan het einde van je vid kreeg ik gelijk thnx for the tips tough

[@WaywardEko]

How are you pulling off Commanding (3833 electronics requirement) and Skilled (4791 electronics requirement) with only 2800 electronics?

[@bigdave1029]

Eko 182 custom m44 on the alpha bridge low requirements that way works the same without the work

[@xxBigDazxx]

Great vid, will try that myself. Not sure how easy it will be on xbone though!!

[@EvanX86]

I would be more than happy doing this, instead of running around hunting live world bosses, but i'm on PS4, PLEASE Marco, tell massive to fix the zooming-in/out frame rate drop on consoles, we can't play with MMR's rifles any more with this bug

[@sonpacho]

I got lost and confused somewhere... @6:54 what "caches" is he talking about? "Sealed caches?" Where do they come from? In order to get them do you have to finish the mission a certain way?

[@mattias2792]

sonpacho He means field caches (the ones you get from essentially levelling up again, bar in the top right corner when playing) it's his strong European (Netherlands more specifically) accent

[@sonpacho]

Mattias "the ones you get from essentially levelling up again..." So I'll repeat the question, what are you talking about? I could understand the word he was using but I still don't know what a "sealed cache" is. Is this something ONLY available after reaching level 30? It seems like EVERYTHING discussed about this game is ONLY about AFTER reaching level 30...

[@mattias2792]

sonpacho my apologies, I assumed you were over level 30. yes this is all required for you to be level 30, otherwise you could not wear the gear set (or likely even find the pieces if you were below lvl 30). also, like I said, it's Field Caches, as in Field Proficiency Caches, theyre gained for essentially levelling up again once you've reached lvl 30.

[@sonpacho]

Mattias Oh, I think I understand now... After reaching a certain level the number stops increasing and instead you're rewarded the "sealed caches?" Is it just added to your inventory or stash? I'm just wondering if I leveled up from helping a civilian would they give me a sealed cache instead of the normal clothes/weapon rewards?

[@mattias2792]

sonpacho 1. 'Sealed Caches' can only be found in the DZ. The ones we are talking about (the levelling up one) are Field Proficiency Caches or Field Caches. 2. Otherwise Yes you are correct. 3. They are added to you inventory or if you do not have enough inventory space they are placed in you stash. 4. When you help civilians you will still receive they same rewards - item either consumable, gear or weapon, and you will also receive a small amount of XP. If that XP is enough to 'level you up again past level 30' then you will also see a banner at the top of the screen saying 'Field Proficiency 'Gamertag/PSN'' then it will fade and state 'Rewards' and below it will show a Proficiency Cache. The animation is the same as mission complete banners (if that makes more sense) except the words and rewards are different. 5. It's not the full animation but hopefully you get the idea - ubistatic9-a.akamaihd.net/resource/en-GB/game/tomclancy-thedivision/game/Field_Proficiency_2_272790.gif 6. If you have anymore Division related questions of any kind, feel free to reply to the thread. Hope this all helps Good luck with getting to level 30 Mattias

[@A_Wüten]

perfect timing on this vid. I just scraped all my items. stash and all.

[@jamesperper3244]

Your aim is pretty legit man! I caught myself thinking, is this an aim bot? Do you drop your DPI or something?

[@arzxielzi]

been doing this except i didnt use that purple mods. thanks for the extra info :D

[@ComicsLamar]

UNDERGROUND is the best farm area, imo. The matchmaking in this game is really nice.

[@matiassanso8808]

try also last part of hudson camp. headshots are super easy in that part. the axe npcs are super week. dont even net ulty to 1 shot them.

[@juanmoran2664]

Thanks for the video that you made it really helpful

[@sl08urn]

MarcoStyle, what about coolheaded? Does it not work with signature skills?

[@korocka]

Pffff best. And without using any bugs... Nice, from tomorrow will start to get this build!

[@ababyduck717]

Hey Marco, how do you think this method will perform with the upcoming nerfs to AB and headshot damage? Still possible to one-shot?

[@EyacuaTV]

Marco, if you roll Disciplined on your sniper you will get pretty much always a crit shot making it easier to reach the 800k+ dmg you need to oneshot npcs. Also, you don't really need Skilled talent as you kill so much NPC's per round that you must really fuck it up to no have tact link ready to use every time your timer runs, if it runs.

[@NeblessOblige]

running this during the double XP weekend :)

[@Eagles_Eye]

thanks bro, im mostly solo in the division so this... yup, well i need a little bit better gear before im able to do this but.. thanks for it.