How To Get Nemesis Division 2

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Apr 20, 2019, 10:53am EDT |

'The Division 2': How To Get The Nemesis Exotic Sniper Rifle

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It's official: The Division 2 has what seems to b its first truly OP weapon. The Nemesis Sniper Rifle is making waves as a high-DPS brute that has a way of making even the signature weapons superfluous. Nemesis has a special talent that marks an enemy as your "nemesis", increasing damage against them 5% a second for up to 50%, which can combine with other damage boosters to do more than 1.5m in a headshot, shredding bosses for those with the requisite aim. Whether or not it needs a nerf is a matter for another piece, but for right now we're concerned about how to get it.

The Nemesis Sniper Rifle requires a series of components and a blueprint to unlock. This might not seem like a lot, but the real trick is that you get the components in invaded missions, which rotate each week.

The first thing you need to do is clear the Tidal Basin stronghold a single time at World Tier 4. Then you've got to clear invaded missions until it's unlocked again for its second run. This is where you're going to start.

Relatively early in this run-through, you'll encounter a building to the right of a gate that has a satellite dish on top. Go in and you'll find a Black Tusk Keycard on one of the bunk-beds: don't worry, this is The Division and items are pretty clearly signposted once you're near them.

Here's a good video that shows off the locations:

That keycard will unlock a secret door on the left-hand side of the cargo hold of the Black Tusk hovercraft, later in the mission. The game will ask you to go right, and you'll go left. You'll open a door with a keypad in it, and inside you'll find a weapons crate. Open that crate to find the Adrestia SR1 Sniper Rifle. This isn't the weapon!

Those that are familiar with mythology will know that Adrestia is associated with Nemesis in a mixed up world of ancient stories where certain characters overlap with others. So that's the true identity of this sniper rifle, but you'll need to do some work to get it. Start by dismantling that to get a Marksman Rifle Scope called the Tally, which will send you on your way.

After this, you'll need to defeat the bosses of the other invaded strongholds: Klutz, Shorty and Prime, from the Captiol Building, Roosevelt Island and District Union Area. The problem here is that you can only clear one invaded stronghold a week, and they'll rotate. So you won't be able to grind this all out immediately: you'll need to wait for the strongholds you need to become unlocked. You'll need to kill Klutz, Shorty and Prime to get all of those components.

Once you've got all the components, you'll need the blueprint. This comes from the Grand Washington Hotel, where you need to kill Puck for the blueprint: you might need to do this more than once.

With all the components and the blueprint in hand, you've just got to go to your workbench and make the thing. Congratulations, you've got a boss-destroying exotic so long as you can land your shots.