This is an overview of Tom Clancy’s The Division. We’re going through the attributes, talents, appearance, and more.
Appearance
Pick and choose gear that alters how you look, without altering your stats.
Pouches
Storage for items that don’t go to main inventory, AKA backpack. This can include grenades, consumables, ammo, access keys, medkits, and crafting materials.
Grenades
· EMP Grenades
· Flashbang Grenades
· Fragmentation Grenades
· Incendiary Grenades
· Shock Grenades
· Tear Gas Grenades
Consumables
- Canned Food
- Increases healing by 40 % for 30 seconds
- Energy Bars
- Remove negative status effects; protection from status effects for 5 seconds
- Water
- Increases damage to elite by 20 % for 30 seconds
- Soda
- Reduces cooldown effects by 30 % for 30 seconds
- Incendiary Bullets
- Explosive Bullets
Ammunition
- Assault Rifle
- LMG
- Marksman Rifle
- Pistol
- Shotgun
- SMG
Access Keys
- Lock Picks
- Dark Zone Keys
Using access keys to open chests, especially in the Dark Zone, is an easy way to raise money quickly. However, if you die in a Dark Zone, you will lose some (not all) your keys.
Character
- Attributes
- Levels
- Attribute Distribution
- Summary
- This moves like a ticker, constantly updating with new details on what your character’s upgrade and added
Overview
Under the Overview tab, you’ll find some of the most important values, Attributes:
- Firearms – weapon damage
- Stamina – health
- Electronics – skill effects
And now, the most important thing to learn about Tom Clancy’s The Division, how you can customize your character to your liking. As we already know, there are no skill trees and no classes. The combination of gear pieces that you use affect your attribute points. Therefore, you change gear pieces to ‘change classes’. For example, you can prioritize Firearms to increase weapon damage, Stamina to increase health, and Electronics to improve how your skills work.
However, there is another factor that comes it, that definitely means you can’t just leave it at finding the best weapons. Weapons require talents, AKA specific attribute ratios. So, if your stamina attribute is high enough but your firearms attribute isn’t, you can’t equip the weapon that requires that much talent. The most high level weapons have talents that require as much as three attributes, at high levels as well.
Therefore, customizing characters is based on the combination of the right gear, attribute levels, and weapons. Optimizing your character to your playstyle will require you play smart. You will want to learn what playstyle suits you best, and which high level weapons fit that style. Finally, you need to raise the attributes and find the right gear to allow you to equip said weapons.
On the flipside, you’re encouraged to experiment at the earliest levels of the game, so you may expect to play for quite some time.
Tom Clancy’s The Division comes out on March 8 for the PC, Xbox One and PS4.
