Like other looter shooters, The Division 2 also has RPG elements; these include leveling your character up and unlocking skills. In this guide, we talk about those.

QUICKEST WAY TO LEVEL

The level cap in The Division 2 at launch is 30, and while that may seem simple to reach, it can actually be a bit of a grind. There’s no real “shortcut” to get there—just some activities that are more efficient than others, really. Every activity in The Division 2 gets you XP:

• Story Missions
• Side Missions
• Exploration
• Combat

There is a method to the madness, obviously—early on, the story missions are the best (often only) way of earning XP. Later on, sidequests and XP from incidental combat and exploration can supplement that very well. That said, the grinding nature can set in, so the easiest exploit is to use side missions in the late game:

• XP from side missions scales, which means you get more in the late game than in the early game
• Side quests also grant a percentage of the XP you need to level up (meaning it’s always best to undertake them early in a level, not when you are on the cusp of leveling up)

SKILLS GUIDE

There are, of course, multiple skills you can use in combat. Your can equip eight of them, and which one is the best one to use really comes down to the situation, your style of play, as well as your squad composition.

You can purchase the following skills from the Quartermaster:

Chem Launcher

• Firestarter
• Oxidizer
• Reinforcer
• Riot Foam

Drone 

• Bombardier
• Defender
• Fixer
• Striker

Firefly

• Blinder
• Burster
• Demolisher

Hive

• Booster
• Restorer
• Reviver
• Stinger

Pulse

• Jammer
• Remote
• Scanner

Seeker Mine

• Airburst
• Cluster
• Explosive

Shield

• Bulwark
• Crusader
• Deflector

Turret

• Assault
• Incinerator
• Sniper

Our Recommended/Best Skills:

• Chem Launcher Firestarter
• Pulse Scanner
• Explosive Seeker Mine
• Defender Drone

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The Division 2 Guide – How To Unlock Dark Zones, Find True Sons, Hyena, and Outcasts Keys

The Division 2 Guide – 15 Basic Tips And Tricks To Keep In Mind

The Division 2 is Ubisoft’s follow up to their incredibly successful shared world looter shooter. The new game features a whole lot of what the first game did—just done better, and done more times. All of which is to say, unlike other looter shooters, you won’t be found wanting for content or things to do. Things like the Dark Zones…

UNLOCKING THE DARK ZONES

There are three Dark Zones for you to unlock in The Division 2. Dark Zones, of course, represent a lawless area which is practically a free-for-all, a blend of PvP and PvE content. As for unlocking them:

• Continue through the story, until you unlock Senait Ezera in the Theater settlement.
• Once she is unlocked, you can find her on the ground level
• Accept her first quest, which leads you to the entrance of the east Dark Zone. This unlocks the East Dark Zone for you.
• Compleye the quest and then she then proceeds to give you two more quests in sequence, which unlock the South and North Dark Zones.

HOW TO UNLOCK SUITE 3 IN THE GRAND WASHINGTON HOTEL MISSION

When clearing the first room in the mission, you will find a corpse with a key card on your right. Inside the hotel, find the passage labelled “Suites 1-10” and unlock Suite 3 in there with the key card you found. You will find a lot of meaningful loot in there.

FIND THE OUTCAST, HYENA, AND TRUE SONS KEYS

You get a lot of loot and consumables in The Division 2, but to get a key, you need to find a file cabinet. A file cabinet in an encampment has a chance of giving you a key for the faction that encampment belongs to (e.g., a file cabinet in an Outcast encampment may give you an Outcast key, and the same for Hyena and True Sons).

The best places to find file cabinets that will spawn keys is the southern entrance to the underground in the White House lawn, and the underground tunnel towards in the Downtown East area, north east of the White House.

Update: We have added a video below that will help you to get factions keys faster.

How To Farm Faction Keys?