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Our NEW T10 Escalation squad strategy in The Division 2 is absolutely INSANE! In this video, we're breaking down our full squad setup, showcasing the builds we're using and demonstrating how they work together in T10 Escalation gameplay!

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Transcript
00:00We are finally smashing through tier 10 escalation again and I've been working on this video for you all season
00:06Every single season on the division 2 we're going to show you our current tier 10 strategy because it changes
00:12Things like the mutators change gear changes and all of that stuff and this season we actually found it incredibly
00:19Difficult at the start because of the last season or modifiers being removed and us having no extra damage or
00:26anything like that
00:26So we have to reinvest into our strategy to make it real good and comfortable again
00:33So it's taken quite a few weeks we're midway through the season now
00:35We've had a lot going on haven't we but we're there i've got a new tier 10 strategy that we
00:40use with build synergy within a team of four
00:42We're going to talk you through those builds explain why i'm doing it and why we're doing it
00:46And i'm going to give you a full gameplay of a mission we did earlier in stream federal emergency bunker
00:53We did a personal best time on it and you can see just how this strategy works in a team
00:58of four before we get into the build
00:59There's a disclaimer because every time I do these sort of build videos a lot of you question them how
01:05they don't work in matchmaking
01:06It's all for a team and I don't hide that the comp the title of the video does not say
01:11This is the only strategy you need to use in escalation or anything like that. It's our
01:16Team composition. It's our team strategy on how we take on tier 10s
01:21And the reason we do it is because you see us do it all day in stream every day and
01:26you ask us what we're doing
01:27So we've got a video to share with you. So let's get in to the builds
01:31There are three builds i'm going to show you we use two support builds and two dps
01:36You only need to see one dps so so many different dps builds that you can do and if you've
01:40been following along our
01:42Escalation journey, you'll know all about our banshee build
01:46It's the first build we put together for banshee the fi banshee build
01:50That has been replaced in our new strategy and format with this
01:54So we're going to start with this one because I think this is the one where people got most excited
01:58about when they've been watching
01:59Us in the streams and it's probably the most requested build when when you've been talking to me
02:04So this takes over the fi banshee instead of banshee build and we're using ongoing directive
02:08The idea was we need more dps for the dps. We need more damage. We need to increase more damage
02:14How can we do that? Well, od does it very well. We go four piece od these well ongoing directive
02:20These can be difficult to farm because on every single piece you're going to want
02:24If you're trying to replicate what we're doing, you're going to want status effects
02:28Um, which means we want skill tier as well for the banshee
02:32So we've got to get status effects on the roll to roll off weapon damage to skill tier and then
02:37we've got to upgrade them
02:38These can't be farmed currently in escalation. So if ongoing directive is on you can't do that
02:43You've got to farm the normal pieces and then upgrade them
02:45It's going to be a very expensive build to make if you want to replicate it
02:49But the mask gloves knees and holster are all exactly the same
02:53Uh, they are status effects and skill tier
02:56And then we've got the chess piece as the new named rushdown chess piece
03:02One thing I really liked recently in our strategy is that some people were using a hardwired banshee build instead
03:08I love the hardwired banshee, but I wanted uh, something else
03:11How could we bring hardwired into the banshee build without using hardwired?
03:15Well, this is the answer the rushdown comes with perfect tag team
03:20And how this works is the last enemy you have damage with a skill is marked dealing weapon damage
03:24So that enemy consumes the mark to reduce the active cooldowns by 12 seconds
03:29You can do this every four seconds. You can see on here. We've got skill haste status effects and skill
03:34tier
03:34And um, yeah, this works very very well
03:38And then finally again if you've been watching along and seeing our fi build that we had
03:43We use the acosta's go bag
03:45We are keeping it on this build as well because as a team
03:48The utility of the acosta's go bag with the overcharge banshees at the start of every area
03:53Is brilliant and it adds a little bit extra onto this build from the old fi version
03:59Uh, you'll see in a moment. We'll talk about the oxidizer
04:02We take advantage of the oxidizer and this as well with overcharging at the start of every area
04:07So it's very very good and the banshee overcharge been improved too, which we'll talk about
04:12So your acosta's go bag basically you throw a grenade you have overcharge and that lasts for 15 seconds
04:17And we use it at the start of every area and then some encounters if they last long enough
04:20We can do it again because the cooldowns about if you have a quick look at it. I think the
04:24cooldown
04:25Is 60 seconds. So once you throw the grenade it gets refunded 60 seconds later
04:29You can throw another grenade to overcharge yourself again, and it'll get refunded
04:32The first thing you're going to say to me on this build is it's all yellow
04:36It doesn't need to be that you could have blue or red on the build 100% agree with you
04:40if you want to go on the chest piece
04:41Uh get a blue core there get a red core there personally don't think that's going to do much
04:46Which is why I didn't really farm for that. I got this piece. I made a roll on it
04:50I'm happy with it being all skill tiers even though it is over the amount that I need
04:55Because I don't think blue or red will do anything and second
04:58Secondly on the od pieces. I wouldn't do that because
05:03If I have red or blue on any of these pieces and I upgrade them like we spoke about I
05:07Potentially get a max upgrade on the blue or the red
05:10Whereas when it's a skill tier i'm guaranteed the max upgrade on the status effect
05:14And that's what I want and as for augments i've gone for trapper on every piece here
05:20But we've actually been discussing this because of diminishing returns
05:24There is something else that could work very well on this build instead of trapper or something to combine with
05:29trapper
05:29I'm actually going to go free trapper I think and max them out and I think it's symphesthesia
05:35Where when you shoot enemies you reduce your cooldown we're going to go two of them as well and give
05:40that a go
05:40So currently all trapper
05:42But that's what we're thinking and we do have a member of the team trying that it works very well
05:47As for the weapons now the gameplay loop of this is doing your banshee and then getting your tag team
05:52The new vertigo is brilliant for this because you're going to give your dps some more dps if you get
05:58it, right?
05:59So we're going to be using the vertigo if i'm using that and I manage to suppress an enemy
06:04I'm giving my team 30 damage at all uh target our cover
06:08the 15 seconds, which is
06:10Awesome. Another good option is the stack broker. You could use this to shoot at enemies to try and get
06:16your tag team
06:16And with perpetuation on if you get a headshot while you're doing that
06:20It'll increase the next status effect by 75 percent the duration of it that can happen every 20 seconds both
06:26are really good
06:27But the gameplay loop is banshee and
06:30Find your tag team but the banshee doesn't get that use a secondary skill to make sure you're doing damage
06:35To the targets to get the tag team shoot the tag team banshee again
06:39Because as soon as you shoot the tag team enemy you'll have your banshee back instantly and that's where like
06:43the hardwired comes in
06:45Now we use a oxidizer for that and oxidizer is great
06:49At the start of every area you could overcharge with the acosta's go bag do the banshee throw out an
06:54oxy
06:54You'll get tag team instantly it keeps on ticking to give the chance of tag team proccing on enemies
06:59Shoot the target go again
07:01An oxidizer is a great way of doing it some members of a team are using
07:05Assault turret or even a striker drone
07:07You need a secondary skill that's going to do damage to proc tag team
07:10But the main thing here is bansheeing as much as you can
07:13So that's one of our support builds we're using and here is the next support build again
07:18If you've been following along our journey in escalation, you'll notice that we don't have refactor no more
07:23We started with refactor
07:24We try taking refactor out of our strategy so many times and i've always gone back to it because of
07:30what refactor does
07:31However, when we got od I felt like let's let's go fi how can we make fi work?
07:36Where still does everything refactor did in many ways and plays the same and this is what we came up
07:42with and it worked in absolute treat
07:43So we made an fi build it is
07:46A healer build it is going to be healing, but it's not invested into healing
07:49So, let me show you we've got four piece future initiative the mask
07:53We got the gloves. We got the knees and we got the holster
07:58All four of them there are going to have skill tier and status effects on them
08:02So you can see we're not going repair skills status effects on all four same reason with the od
08:07Why we've kept them as skill tiers because we want the max status effect rolls and the chest piece stays
08:13the same
08:13Pretty much as as what we had on the refactor build it is the benefactor
08:18This comes with repair skills and we've got skill tier status effects skill hasten repair skills mod on this perfect
08:24empathic resolve
08:25So when i'm healing the team i'm giving them a 20 buff in damage for 20 seconds
08:30So we're going to have the future initiative 15 when I heal them. They'll turn into 35 of this on
08:35top
08:35You could go future initiative chest for the 25 if you wanted to bring in another piece
08:39I was debating that but we kept this on instead because we are healing people quite regular
08:44um with this
08:47We are keeping the birdies backpack. So on the refactor build we took out of a strategy
08:51We have the birdies backpack for very quick pickups. We are keeping that on this
08:56So this person is going to be healing the team. They're going to be giving the team a ton of
08:59damage
09:00They're going to be picking up team members very very quickly with the birdies backpack
09:04Now there's another key point to this build what the refactor was doing as well, which we've carried over as
09:09well
09:09And that is the augments on this we want the augments to all be atomized which increases the grenade radius
09:15and damage
09:16By 13.5 percent
09:17We've got that on all of the pieces there and also on a lefty this has atomized on it as
09:23well
09:23And we're really investing into that the grenade radius is going to be huge
09:27We've done this with the survivalist and the incendiary grenade
09:31So they will be throwing out grenades very regular
09:34And they'll have the lefty in the hand when they do that to proc sledgehammer for us and just more
09:39crowd control of everybody being on fire
09:41It's very very good. We love that strategy. That's going to be happening quite a lot
09:45The secondary is the scorpio for obvious reasons
09:48You can shoot some tankier enemies to add some more debuffs to them and give your team some more damage
09:53I didn't touch on the mods. I think on this build as well. Make sure you throw repair
09:58Skills mods on the free slot to backpack the mask and the chest because we're not investing in the repair
10:03skills
10:03When you're using your reinforce uh chem launcher or hive depending what you want to do
10:07We prefer the chem launcher you are giving your team some heals that will match in with the natural
10:13Repair skills future initiative gives as well to give some okay
10:16Heels are not the best hills in the world, but they are good enough if you're used to dealing with
10:20refactor heals
10:21They are very very good and then the final uh skill that we use on this build to give the
10:26dps even more damage is the precision
10:29Smart cover we're going to be putting this down
10:32The dps are going to be taking cover if they want to for extra damage target cover and weapon handling
10:37Really giving a ton of damage boost to the dps on top of ongoing directive with this the damage is
10:43absolutely insane
10:45And yeah, you will see in the gameplay how good it is
10:49We are causing a lot of damage no modifiers whatsoever
10:52I can only imagine the amount of damage the dps are going to do if we get a season where
10:57we actually get given more damage again
10:59And that does bring us on to my new tier 10 dps build which is built for this strategy
11:04Now I wouldn't take this build in any random matchmaking
11:08But with the strategy i've just discussed with you in the builds i've just shown you this build is incredible
11:12And this is what i'm currently using as dps, but like I said at the start any dps build can
11:17use
11:17I can be using this strategy you can you can run all sorts of we've had people running negotiated dilemma
11:22Builds we've had their aces build we've had that you can run anything sheriff builds i'm using this right now
11:29And i'm enjoying it a ton. So i've got a specialization on my dps build
11:33I've got a decoy got a revive hive and we've got the tinkerer mask with four striker and fox's prayer
11:39So tinkerer mask we've got crit damage mod on that
11:43Uh, we've got the backpack with striker
11:45It's going to be weapon damage crit damage crit damage mod
11:48Chest piece of striker weapon damage crit damage crit damage mod
11:52And then the gloves and holster weapon damage crit damage fox's prayer. I wouldn't change these with how this build
11:58is set up now
11:59I'll explain why
12:00Uh, but yeah fox's prayer damage target out of cover credit chance
12:03Is the role I want on that and my primary is an mk-46
12:09With uh, this this primary one has got sadist on it and crit chance on it
12:16Lady rock dropped me this the other day and this is what made me put the build together
12:19I'm, so glad that it dropped and this is perfect for this build
12:22I wouldn't change a thing apart from getting these max rolls
12:25Hopefully one day and obviously leveling up the augment which i've seemed to forgotten about
12:29Uh, but yeah, this is brilliant say this is going to amplify weapon damage by 30% of bleeding enemies
12:34when I get od rounds
12:36I get 40% amplified damage when I get od rounds and putting enemies on bleed which will then up
12:42to
12:4270% amplified damage and then how the mutators work
12:47Currently when I do damage to a status affected target they lose the status effect
12:51But if i've still got bleed rounds left with hollow point ammo i'll automatically reapply it again
12:57This is really really good and with the tanker mask my secondary is my military mk-46 the old one
13:03that I used to use
13:04Uh, this has again crit chance on um, and it's also got frenzy
13:09So we've got frenzy and say this that we're using with the jester that pops up
13:13I quite often will use my primary when I notice I'm max max jester
13:18I'll switch to the secondary i'd fire it to make sure again assist or and or kill
13:22I'll make sure once i've got the assist or the kill I leave this mag empty when I switch back
13:27to the primary
13:27I also leave that empty so when i'm switching back i'll get a frenzy straight away
13:31Then once it's max jester again, I know when I switch to my secondary
13:34It's got a frenzy ready to go to get another very quick killer assist
13:38To then keep on switching back into when i've got the max jester on the primary
13:43It takes a little bit of thought while you're playing
13:44I don't always do it but when i'm really sweating i'll try and do that and it makes a huge
13:49difference and the damage numbers I think of the maximum i've seen so far is 4.8 mil on the
13:55frenzy
13:56Remembering we've got no damage modifiers this season 4.8 mil on the frenzy lmg is pretty sick
14:03Um, I see 2 mil plus very often 3 mil plus quite often the 4 mil plus aren't that often
14:09You've got to remember all the different things going on the sledging
14:12Uh, the hollow point ammo potential scorpio
14:15Uh, whether i've had a heal for empathic resolve there's so many different aspects of damage coming in whether i'm
14:20sitting in the smart cover
14:22Um, yeah, if everything came together it'd probably get over 5 mil. I'm not sure i've seen it
14:27I'm, not uh, i've seen it yet
14:30Uh, probably gonna see it though
14:32The more we play and the more rng with all the damage buffs that we can have at once
14:37But absolute incredible build having a ton of fun and why I wouldn't change anything about this build right now
14:42Is because of the stats on my dps build it's 52.5 percent credit chance 160 credit damage
14:49I'm closing in on cap there. I'd leave it like that. I've been searching
14:53For a damage to armor mk46 for ages
14:57But if I got that now and lost that 13 chance going below 40
15:02Like i'm quite happy a 40 chance to be honest with you. I would be tempted
15:06But no, this is this is absolutely perfect where it is
15:09I've also been searching for fox's prayer of crit damage for so long as well
15:12If I lost the two crit chance off that would be very low on crit chance
15:15So i'm actually very happy with where this build is at within the strategy we're doing and that's what we're
15:21doing guys
15:21I'm going to show you gameplay now of me running this build with everything we just talked about
15:26This is our current strategy for the rest of this season
15:28So if you watch us in streams, we're going to be running this strategy running these builds
15:32There might be some tweaks here and there
15:33But uh, yeah, it's a strategy we're using and what i'm going to do going forward if you follow me
15:38on gc rock extra
15:39Each week i'm going to try and get perspectives from all the other builds
15:42So you'll see dps you'll see the fi
15:45Um support building you also see the od support bill coming by watch the stream see us do it
15:50I'll be running it but on the extra channel i'll upload highlights so you can see the other perspectives as
15:54well
15:55This clip now is a brilliant one. It's a new pb on federal emergency bunker for us
15:59We absolutely smash it and uh, yeah, I hope you've enjoyed the video enjoy the rest of the video
16:05Thank you for watching
16:06Don't forget to like as always and comment support on the algorithm subscribe if you're new around here and definitely
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16:11So watch us take on these tier 10s and have a chance of running with us as well until next
16:16time take care
16:16We gotta go are we go? Oh
16:18I said I wasn't ready. I know
16:24I'm so behind now. Oh, I haven't yet. Oh see like I haven't got my drone out
16:28I'm not ready
16:28I can't refresh because I haven't got the right skill
16:43My bad you didn't say you weren't ready but I'm in speed mode now
16:48My bad
17:00Thank you
17:02Sorry
17:06Oh
17:07I can't
17:08I can't
17:09I can't
17:28Why are you not Bansheed, man?
17:31I just...
17:32That was weird.
17:41Go.
17:42I think we've done that in less than a minute, it's already like 30, 40 seconds behind.
17:50That's gonna be like that there.
17:51We're so fast there because of the invincibility, I'm not sure where we can really gain time
17:57there.
17:57Gaining time in areas like this next one, though.
18:01Because we are invincible there, we just went invincible and ran up to the door.
18:05Yeah, and you just stay on the door now.
18:07We can't really do that like we could, but the likelihood is we're taking down.
18:55That reload's so good.
18:58It's...
18:58Yeah.
18:59It's just so good.
19:17Oh, not that there was a musketeer.
19:20Yeah, I was kinda hoping for that.
19:48The flame grenade space.
19:53and he finished cause his trouble up top thank y'all
19:58yeah i've just done it
20:01i know
20:07oh come on die please man
20:29i think i got both of them
20:39up there's a musketeer he's gonna die for sure
20:43nice go that was quick yeah
20:48thankfully one of them up top was a musketeer so the other one was just one
20:52shot
21:22oh what the
21:25he's never
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25:39this ain't bad time
25:41yeah this is really good
25:43this is really good
25:51please don't be musketeer boss
25:56i have to move someone's trying to break in
26:24can we build
26:26i'm not sure where your thing is but can you cover the first two pillars as well
26:29it is it is it's good that's perfect i'm gonna go here
26:32yeah
26:42musketeer chunga run right yeah i'm shooting him
26:50behind rick
26:53what
26:55what's going on
26:56is someone looking that way is
26:59there
26:59no i think it is because we've pushed forward
27:02we've always pushed forward we've just got to keep the eyes this way and they spawn over
27:07here
27:09is anyone like just having a quick look that way or something
27:13no i'm getting up
27:17this mission's always been eyes on over here they spawn this way it's weird
27:23it's quick though it's quick though
27:32oh
27:33oh
27:33sounds from behind us again
27:35i got him i got him i got him i got him
27:37you focus our side i focus
27:39this side yeah
27:40i'm good yeah we can do that
27:43i'll look at me i'm really down
27:45this side if not
27:46i focus right yes
27:48you focus the side
27:49the side we don't normally focus
27:52ok come
27:54and they split
28:00oh
28:01ok i got you i got you okay i know what to mean
28:05and i'll keep focus where we normally keep focus so we've released
28:10oh musketeer's right
28:11and they're gonna kill me
28:15and they're gonna
28:16go
28:18not
28:21dead that stays
28:22agent killed
28:27nice
28:28gunner's dead
28:28behind us
28:29oh behind us again
28:30i'll get
28:31i'll get him behind us
28:33oh i'm off the
28:34move this i'm dead that stays
28:36any second oh no oh no
28:39survived
28:40target's musketeer nice boss now okay okay okay this is too bad this is very good
28:54get him gone get he's gone explodey james
29:08there's a musketeer behind him yeah the one behind i'll get the other one there you go
29:12instead it's just a chunga guys we've done it we've done it we've done it get it finished
29:19we're gonna switch we haven't just done it we smashed it it wasn't even clean
29:25come on rick wasn't even ready
29:3714 10 was the best that was 13 something oh that's awesome first try first right
29:45we handled it well though that wasn't too bad having one on each side like
29:50uh alongside the musketeer hmm 13 11 we knocked a minute off of it
29:57oh damn

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