Route to the 30th level | Character development The Division Guide

Getting to the 30th level will take a few days.

Now that you've learned the basics, it's time for the real deal. This guide will focus on two methods of gaining experience - completing main, story-related missions and side activities, completely ignoring the grind (farming experience by killing enemies). Your task will be to:

• Achieve the level which will allow you to take part in the "nearest" story-related mission. You will do so by completing side missions and encounters.
• Completing the aforementioned story-related missions (which will probably end in filling the entire progress bar of your character), as soon as you are a level or two below the recommended level of the mission. For instance, if you want to complete the mission with a recommended level being 16, do so when you are either 14 or 15.
• Repeat the whole process.

Side quests and encounters

Your first task on your route to complete side quests is to find a safe house in a given district - a safe house is always visible on the world map. After entering the safe house, interact with the JTF Officer and the Situation Board you can find inside - both of those points will be marked on your mini-map. As soon as you do that, a large amount of side quests and encounters will appear on the world map, specifically in the district you are currently in. You can, of course, complete those missions without revealing them with the said NPC and board, but you will have to find them on your own, as they are normally hidden.

Afterwards, complete all the side missions and events in a given district - you might think that it will be time-consuming, but each one of those lasts up to a few minutes, which allows you to complete them smoothly. When completing those missions, you should plan your route beforehand - check the distances to each point by clicking on them, and then choose them in a way that will reduce the amount of backtracking you have to do. The more efficiently you move between the points, the less time it will take to complete all of them.

By completing all of the side missions and events in a given district, you should be prepared for the next story-related mission (by having 1 or 2 levels below the recommended level of the mission itself). Additionally, doing all of them will reward you with decent items, blueprints and Credits.

Story-related missions will be described in separate chapters.