Your Division 2 PvP build will “absolutely” matter despite normalised Dark Zones

The Division 2 brings some big changes to the Dark Zone. The PvP areas are now normalised, so your weapon and character stats will be adjusted up or down to put you on an even footing with other players. Despite that, creative director Julian Gerighty assures us that your character build will matter - and that you’ll be satisfied if you prefer your PvP a little more wild. Gerighty says your character build will “absolutely, 100%” matter in those normalised Dark Zones. “All that we're doing is squishing the peaks and troughs of that theory crafting and min-max building mentality, but your build is still really, really important and will make a difference.” As we saw at The Division 2 PvP reveal, you’ll also be able to get into an Occupied Dark Zone, “which is the Dark Zone with none of the normalisation applied, where friendly fire is on, and everything is high risk, high reward. The build tinkering in there is going to be incredible.” That’ll likely be the true test of endgame PvP, as Gerighty says these Occupied variations “only appear and rotate between the different DZs weekly once you hit max level.”

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