What is Division Tech? | Hints The Division Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
What is it?
Division Tech is, in general, the most exquisite crafting material available in the game - it is used mainly to crate weapons and pieces of gear from the blueprints acquired in the Dark Zone. Those items require regular crafting materials (like 5 Weapon Parts and 2 pieces of Electronics), but you will need a third component, which is the Division Tech itself (most of the times you need 2 "yellow-grade" ones for a blueprint). Division Tech has three ranks like any other crafting materials, but you should be mainly focused about the best one, the "yellow" one, as it is used to craft level 30 items.
A thing worth noting is the fact, that Division Tech can also be used to acquire any "regular" crafting material (of "blue" and "yellow" grade). For two pieces of this valuable material you will be given a single piece of a specific "regular" one: Weapon Part, Fabric, Electronics, Tools. However, you should not be using it for this purpose, as Division Tech will be required to craft items from the blueprints acquired in the Dark Zone, whereas "regular" crafting materials can be acquired from a variety of ways (more on the topic can be found in the "How to acquire crafting materials" chapter).
How to acquire Division Tech?
There are two main ways of acquiring Division Tech at the moment - killing enemies in the Dark Zone and opening special containers, also found in the Dark Zone. In the former case every enemy, regardless of the "rank" (whether it's a regular foe, or a unique named one) has a small chance to drop a single piece of Division Tech. You shouldn't focus on acquiring this crafting material using this method, rather treat it as a secondary, additional source of Division Tech acquisition - killing enemies will also grant you Dark Zone experience, DZ Funds and numerous items.
The second method is a lot faster when it comes to the amount of Division Tech crafting materials you can acquire - each opened container will always give you two pieces of this valuable resource. There are dozens of those containers in the Dark Zone, scattered literally around the whole area. The exact locations of each one of those containers can be found in the "Dark Zone - chests, containers and enemies" chapter - 6 maps can be found there, representing the whole area of the Dark Zone, and each one contains places in which you will be able to find the desired containers.
During your hunt for the Division Tech containers you should remember about one thing - you are not alone, and other players will try to do the exact same thing. No one will kill you for that (as Division Tech materials aren't dropped upon death from the hands of other players), but there's a big chance that the container you are looking for is already looted. When it happens you should just head to the next one and pray that this time you will have more luck.