The Division 2’s most recent update introduced a bevy of new features and endgame improvements. Two of those new features take the form of brand new weapons, new Exotic weapons to be exact. In this guide, we explain how to add the new Pestilence and Nemesis Exotic weapons to your Division 2 arsenal.
The Division 2 Pestilence and Nemesis Unlock Requirements
There are two very different processes for unlocking the Pestilence and Nemesis weapons. Nemesis provides a guaranteed (though lengthy) unlock method, whereas Pestilence relies more on pure luck.
Unlocking Pestilence
The means for unlocking Pestilence are simple and straightforward, though it can still take a while. Pestilence has a chance of dropping from named Elite (yellow bar) enemies in any of the game’s three Dark Zones. The most consistent method for finding Dark Zone Elites is to clear Landmarks.
Also, even if you get Pestilence to drop, it can drop as a contaminated item. This means you’ll have to first extract it (and risk getting ambushed) before you can equip and use it.
Unlocking Nemesis
For Nemesis, you’ll have to follow a somewhat-obscure series of steps and rely on weekly mission rotations a bit. First things first, you have to get up to World Tier 5 by completing the Tidal Basin stronghold. Next, you have to progress through World Tier 5 Invaded missions so that you unlock Tidal Basin a second time.
Head back into the Tidal Basin stronghold on any difficulty level (Normal is recommended) and proceed through as normal. After reaching the area where you patch ISAC into a laptop, head to the top of the large multi-floor building. Inside a bedroom on the top floor you’ll find a Black Tusk keycard. Now keep going through the mission until you’re inside the large hovercraft area.
Inside the hovercraft bay is a door that can be unlocked with the keycard. Through the door is a weapon crate containing a unique High-End weapon: the Adrestia SR1. If you deconstruct the Adrestia SR1 you’ll receive your first Nemesis weapon component, a scope called The Tally.
To get the remaining Nemesis components, you need to defeat the final bosses in the game’s other three strongholds. However, depending on which strongholds are part of the weekly rotation, it can take a while to complete all three. Each final stronghold boss you slay will drop another Nemesis component upon death. With all four components you can craft the Nemesis at your workbench.
Both Pestilence and Nemesis will be handy to have when The Division 2’s first raid launches on April 25.