Optimization Station | Tips for 1.8 patch The Division The Division Guide

Update 1.8 introduced Optimization Stations. They allow you to upgrade equipment by improving their randomly picked stats. If you have a piece of armor that has desirable stats but their values are far from what you want then you can simply go to an Optimization Station.

• Where can I find Optimization Stations?
• How to use Optimization Stations?
• Optimization Stations - tips

Where can I find Optimization Stations?

The Terminal's entrance. Here, you can find, e.g. an Optimization Station.

Optimization Stations can be found in two locations:

1. In the Terminal that you can reach via Base of Operations, the main hideout in the game. Go through the main entrance and head straight - run through the long corridor, ignore the doors on the sides and go down the stairs. The Terminal is at the end of the path.
2. In Camp Clinton. This is a new location that was added in update 1.8. The easiest way to reach that location is to activate "Investigate Camp Clinton" quest - later parts of this quest will lead you to that camp.

How to use Optimization Stations?

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.

Optimization Stations - tips

Sadly, you can't optimize your items endlessly.

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

1. 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.
2. 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.