The Division 1.8 Update Guide For Beginners | Crafting, Recalibration & Optimization Station

The Division | Guide For Beginners | Crafting, Recalibration & Optimization Station

Crafting Costs:
These will go up based on the quality of goods.

Green Gear: 5 "Green" materials depending on the item built. Eg a weapon will take 5 weapon parts

Blue Gear: Depending on the item, it will require 3 of the primary resource, and 1 of the secondary. Eg: A blue vest will cost 3 blue fabric, and 1 blue electronic

"Yellow / Gold Gear": This is where things start getting expensive. A Yellow Weapon will cost 5 primary, 3 secondary, and 3 "division tech"

Now as for actually crafting, I STRONGLY suggest you don't craft in the early game. Spending resources on level 8, 10, 15 gear is a complete waste when considering that a level 30 weapon will have the same cost as a level 5 weapon.

I recognize this takes patience, but every 5 greens you craft could have been a blue, and every 5 blues you craft could have been a gold. Hold onto your mats, and craft your heart out when you hit lvl 30

Getting Blue Prints:
Very simple. All side quests give blue prints. On the map it will even say which one if you hover over it. Do the mission, get the blue print.

Gold prints however will come from dark zone vendors ( you can have on at base if you have the right tech unlocked). The cost will either be dark zone currency, or "Phoenix currency" depending on the vendor.

(Phoenix currency comes from incursions / challenge mode missions)

Other than that, there isn't much to it. Find the blue prints, get the materials, click a button, DOMINATE THE ENTIRE F***ing WORLD WITH OP GUNS

Thanks for reading, hopefully it helped a bit, and if you have any questions, let me know!

How to Use the Recalibration Station

The Recalibration Station lets you re-roll the stats on your current gear for better bonus attributes, at the cost of in-game Credits.

Choose a gear item that you plan to have equipped, and decide whether its bonus attributes should be modified to better suit your play style. For example, if your gear has a Ballistic Shield bonus, but you tend not to use the Ballistic Shield, you may want to re-roll this attribute for a more useful stat.

How to use Optimization Stations?

Optimization allows you to greatly increase usefulness of your items. - Optimization Station | Tips for 1.8 patch The Division - Hints - Tom Clancys The Division Game Guide
Optimization allows you to greatly increase usefulness of your items.

Interact with an Optimization Station to optimize your equipment. Then, select an item that you want to optimize and start the process. This will cost you 250,000 Credits and 50 Division Tech. After each optimization you can notice that an item's level (displayed next to its name) goes up a few numbers because of improvement of stats of that particular piece of gear.

However, to make things more difficult, each piece of equipment has a limited number of possible optimizations - this is connected with a score of each and every item. For weapons and items from sets that score is 286 and for Classified Set items it's 296.

Remember about the following things when you are optimizing your equipment:

This is a powerful game mechanic that allows you to greatly increase value of your equipment. But remember that one optimization costs a lot and each item may require even a few upgrades - optimization of all your items may cost you several millions of Credits and a few thousands of Division Tech.

If you found an item with good stats but their values aren't to your liking, you can use Optimization Stations to create an ideal item.

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Fantastic advice, I'm a newly minted level 30, so this guide is superbly useful.

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[theuncanspan]

@Theesus Badger I'm trying to craft a high end item to get master craftsman trophy but i can't find any high end items all of them are either exotic or specialized. I've already finished the game am i fucked or does the crafting station recycle the weapons periodically.

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Crafting Costs:
These will go up based on the quality of goods.

Green Gear: 5 "Green" materials depending on the item built. Eg a weapon will take 5 weapon parts

Blue Gear: Depending on the item, it will require 3 of the primary resource, and 1 of the secondary. Eg: A blue vest will cost 3 blue fabric, and 1 blue electronic

"Yellow / Gold Gear": This is where things start getting expensive. A Yellow Weapon will cost 5 primary, 3 secondary, and 3 "division tech"

Now as for actually crafting, I STRONGLY suggest you don't craft in the early game. Spending resources on level 8, 10, 15 gear is a complete waste when considering that a level 30 weapon will have the same cost as a level 5 weapon.

I recognize this takes patience, but every 5 greens you craft could have been a blue, and every 5 blues you craft could have been a gold. Hold onto your mats, and craft your heart out when you hit lvl 30

Getting Blue Prints:
Very simple. All side quests give blue prints. On the map it will even say which one if you hover over it. Do the mission, get the blue print.

Gold prints however will come from dark zone vendors ( you can have on at base if you have the right tech unlocked). The cost will either be dark zone currency, or "Phoenix currency" depending on the vendor.

(Phoenix currency comes from incursions / challenge mode missions)

Other than that, there isn't much to it. Find the blue prints, get the materials, click a button, DOMINATE THE ENTIRE F***ing WORLD WITH OP GUNS

Thanks for reading, hopefully it helped a bit, and if you have any questions, let me know!

How to Use the Recalibration Station

The Recalibration Station lets you re-roll the stats on your current gear for better bonus attributes, at the cost of in-game Credits.

Choose a gear item that you plan to have equipped, and decide whether its bonus attributes should be modified to better suit your play style. For example, if your gear has a Ballistic Shield bonus, but you tend not to use the Ballistic Shield, you may want to re-roll this attribute for a more useful stat.

How to use Optimization Stations?

Optimization allows you to greatly increase usefulness of your items. - Optimization Station | Tips for 1.8 patch The Division - Hints - Tom Clancys The Division Game Guide
Optimization allows you to greatly increase usefulness of your items.

Interact with an Optimization Station to optimize your equipment. Then, select an item that you want to optimize and start the process. This will cost you 250, 000 Credits and 50 Division Tech. After each optimization you can notice that an item's level (displayed next to its name) goes up a few numbers because of improvement of stats of that particular piece of gear.

However, to make things more difficult, each piece of equipment has a limited number of possible optimizations - this is connected with a score of each and every item. For weapons and items from sets that score is 286 and for Classified Set items it's 296.

Remember about the following things when you are optimizing your equipment:

This is a powerful game mechanic that allows you to greatly increase value of your equipment. But remember that one optimization costs a lot and each item may require even a few upgrades - optimization of all your items may cost you several millions of Credits and a few thousands of Division Tech.

If you found an item with good stats but their values aren't to your liking, you can use Optimization Stations to create an ideal item.

[TheMilpitasguy]

What I really wanted to know was this ---> how do I change 1 major attribute (firearms, stamina, electronics) if the gear already has a different attribute. Meaning, it has electronics but if I need higher stamina in addition to the electronics, how would I go about doing this?

[NewDay.]

Thanks for the video and your time.
I learned a lot =)

[Zionson]

Appreciate the info tho. You're doing an awesome job. Question: After crafting anything, how doni apply it to my gear?

[ray-zsdf]

Where do you get the high the end blueprints

[Pitcher]

So if i roll one talent on my weapon or an attribute on my gear i’m not able to roll any other attribute of the same piece of gear/weapon?

[SeriousDragonify]

Should i recalibrate after upgrading the gun at bench?

[Lexxifyy]

I appreciate the information, I just don't know if I can still enjoy this game. I came back to it, and I might leave again..

[praisetheowl]

When can I craft, I am lv 7 and I got so many blueprints but I see no crafting stations in the safe zone.

[anredickerson]

are you on pc? my recalibration menu doesn't have that long list of options. I'm on ps4

[anredickerson]

the information in this game is massive. don't dumb it down write a manual

[JFRAC]

So if I can only roll only one stat of the 3 choices what’s the point in recalibration game if I can’t recalibrate every part of the gear???

[JaakB]

Great vid could you for the older folks slow down please lol as my brain can't keep up with the pace your explaining I said great vid to know the insides out of the recalibration please S L O W L Y...LOL....if you could do that be great cheers

[anredickerson]

trying to get through it as quick as possible. lol you have to be joking

[anredickerson]

lol Nobody looked at meticulous and thought it was good. even I knew that was trash

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