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Looking for the fastest way to farm Printer Filament in The Division 2? In this video, I’ll show you an easy and efficient Printer Filament farming method to help you level up Proficiency and progress your Expertise faster.

Printer Filament is one of the most useful resources for donating towards Proficiency, especially when you're trying to get more weapons, gear and skills proficient without having to use them.

I'll show you the farming method, what you should be targeting and how to turn your unwanted loot into Printer Filament as efficiently as possible.

If you're working towards increasing your Expertise level, this is a great farm to add to your routine!

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00:00Today in stream I got asked what is the best way to form printer filament on a division 2
00:05and the reason for this is because the proficiency xp event we've done a couple of videos on this
00:09already and I've advised you to use as much printer filament as you can to spend in your
00:14expertise because right now it's going to be times three the value so what we're doing here
00:19is we're going to into our expertise menu we're going to expertise we're going through anything
00:24here that needs to be made proficient and when we do that it's worth times three the value in
00:29you donate printer filament so it's a great resource to farm because it's the most efficient
00:34way of doing it when you're donating material so you just want a lot of printer filament so what
00:37are the best ways of doing it it was a good discussion I don't really have the answer so
00:42what I want to do is make a video and test three things out that we know are great ways
00:46of farming
00:47it so we're going to we're going to do that now and we'll see what works best now one of
00:52the common
00:52ways of farming printer filaments is targeted loot on countdown we've got countdown and we've also got
00:58retaliation so if we go over to the countdown menu and go to set our targeted loot up we can
01:03set this
01:04up as mods now you can go gear system mods or you can go skill attachments it doesn't really matter
01:09I'm
01:09going to go gear system mods in this instance because there's a chance of getting a max mod that
01:13I'm actually wants as well and we'll target that we're then going to have a game of countdown see how
01:18many mods we get and see how many printer filament we get at the end by dismantling all of them
01:22in that one run of countdown I got 31 mods so when we dismantle these that's going to be six
01:28printer filaments per mod so we're going to dismantle them now and see the total for the one run
01:33was 186 printer filament that's not too bad that's about a 15 minute run I'm going to say but obviously
01:42with countdown it's not always going to be the same it's RNG based with what drops that you get
01:47but we'll just say 186 and sort of average give or take it might be lower sometimes it could be
01:52higher sometimes that's per 15 minutes now countdown is very easy to do as well you can
01:58matchmake with eight players it's not too difficult at all on challenging you can pretty much run
02:02whatever build you want it's a very nice and casual farm but retaliation also offers targeted loot so
02:09we head to the retaliation menu and if we select targeted loot we could do exactly the same again we
02:14can select gear system mods do a run of retaliation and pick up all the mods and see how many
02:19printer
02:20filament we get and how long a retaliation takes on average so after one run of retaliation I got 24
02:27mods it is worth mentioning I played retaliation on heroic and I only had two control points to take over
02:33on that run if I had three or four control points I could have got more than 24 mods but
02:39if I'm playing
02:39on lower difficulty then it may not be as fruitful so there's a lot of variables that go into retaliation
02:44and how many kill squads spawn and things like that I had one on that run but with the 24
02:49mods that
02:49I got I'm able to dismantle them down into 144 printer filament it did take me a little bit quicker
02:56of a time to do retaliation than it did count down though and I feel like they're kind of on
03:01par after
03:02just one run each they're both going to vary depending on RNG and other factors but in general I'd say
03:09if
03:09you're trying to decide between countdown or retaliation go with what you want and I'd think
03:14more about what else can you grind while you are doing them because with countdown obviously you can
03:19grind the mods and look for max rolls if you get some max rolls on your mods and fantastic you
03:24can keep
03:24them like I don't know 13% PFE mod say but with retaliation what you can also farm on retaliation
03:31is
03:32the blueprints so if you're looking for exotic blueprints you can farm different factions and you're also able to
03:39pick up exotic blueprints off the different factions if you're still grinding for them so then it kind of
03:43becomes like a multi-farm you're getting your printer filament and you're also working on your
03:47exotics whereas countdown you're basically just playing for chill and you're getting the printer
03:51filaments with a chance of some good mods as well but countdown is probably far easier to do than heroic
03:57retaliation so it's really up to you I'd say based off those two runs however there is a third option
04:03now in stream today when I got asked this question what they asked was
04:06is it worth farming countdown retaliation over national bond armory where you can get one level
04:12every single completion and you can complete it very quickly now the reason they're asking that
04:17is because printer filament if you go to your watch and go to scavenging long as you're over 1000 watch
04:22level every single watch level is going to turn into a scavenging point and one scavenging point is
04:27going to give you 45 printer filament so if you can level up very very quickly for every level you'll
04:33get
04:3345 printer filament so thinking of national bond armory if you have access to that this could
04:39actually be a very good play because when you get this down you can probably complete it in three to
04:44four minutes so if you judge the time of countdown and retaliation countdown is about a 15 minute run
04:51retaliation takes me up to about 10 minutes across three national bond armories I could have about
04:59135 printer filament but again thinking about how else I can kind of like tailor my grind not just for
05:05printer filaments if I'm playing national bond armory over and over what I can also do is work on my
05:11prototype builds and leveling them up as well because it's a great mission where at the end it gives me
05:16time to change my build to then get the xp on the build and guns that I want to try
05:20and level up
05:21augments so that sounds like for me a very very good farm but what we're going to go and test
05:26that
05:26now that's what we're going to do now to actually have national bond armory you do need to go into
05:32your store and you need to own the year one add-on the year one add-on will come with
05:39all of the
05:40original eight classified assignments it's this one here the divisions two's year one bundle comes with
05:46eight narrative missions classified assignments to fall of dc now if you own that you'll have access
05:51to national bond armory which is just up here on the map and you're able to replay this
05:56over and over again now this is a great xp farm and it's even better when there's like a times
06:02three xp event on or times five xp event on what you're going to want to do is set it
06:07on heroic and
06:08you're also going to set on all of the directives this is going to be important because this is going
06:13to up your xp by 125 percent and with that you should get a level every single run and it's
06:22so short
06:22you can see i'm getting over 1 million xp there with all directives on i believe it's 700 000 per
06:28level so actually getting more than a level's worth so if we keep on going over and over there'll be
06:34there'll be some runs we actually get two levels for a run depending on how many you do so we're
06:40going to do it this now we're going to go and earn those for uh 45 printer filament from one
06:45run
06:45and i'm going to show you what i mean about also working on your prototype build right now i'm working
06:49on this blue striker build that i made i'm currently up to augment level eight i've got a level needed
06:55this is going to be very nice uh but i want to show you a little trick at the end
06:58of this mission if
06:59you're working on different builds because some builds you might think well i'm not going to get
07:02through this mission with that build but what you want to do is put on a build that you're comfortable
07:05with start the mission and before you finish the mission you can change to whatever build that you
07:10want i'm going to show you how easy this mission is and how quick you can get through this mission
07:15now i am a little bit rusty i'm not going to be super super quick but it doesn't take long
07:21at all
07:21and i think we've got the pistol one on which means we're gonna have to start with a pistol get
07:26some
07:26kills to get some ammo but this build is going to make this mission very very easy so the first
07:34area
07:35we just run in here and kill a few adds
07:39hopefully drop us some ammo there we go now we got our backfire
07:46if you've got a nice blue striker build like this it makes it very very easy to do
07:54uh i seem to have lost some adzo there we go i hate not having a radar
08:09there you go there's the
08:19these are our last enemies then we'll go to the next area
08:26there we go
08:30this whole mission is just like three areas long
08:55so this second area we also just need to take out
09:01um these stockpiles i never know where you're going to shoot on these
09:08that worked
09:22stockpiles are harder than the mission itself
09:32uh
09:43so
09:55see how easy it is with this build as well this is a quantum blue striker build so not only
10:01is
10:01it blue striker i've got quantum everywhere so i have like damage immunity and you're practically
10:06invincible makes a lot of content easy that's two areas down we're about two to three minutes into
10:12this mission now we are going a little bit slow like i said when you when you get it down
10:17you can
10:17run through this very very quickly people say to get through this in like three minutes so it's a
10:22super quick mission we're into the last area now this is where we get the boss and where we can
10:26complete the mission
10:43active terminal detected
10:59you just lost someone
11:22i think that is it so that took us about four to five minutes you'll speed up if you keep
11:28on going
11:29over and over but what's so good about this farm you're only going to get 45 printer filament for
11:34that obviously when you complete the mission you get the xp you'll be able to invest in your watch
11:38and gain 45 printer filament now the best thing about it don't need to worry about picking up blue
11:42but at this point here before we run back to the start of mission this is where we can select
11:46our
11:46build now if i want to level up my blue striker build i can level up this i could switch
11:50to another
11:50build i want to level up that you can switch to whatever prototype build you're currently working
11:55on on organs for and you can level the build up while you're farming even if it's just swapping
12:01your weapons so for example here i got my stack broker at level one how i'll do is i'll make
12:05sure
12:05i find my stack broker on before i finish the mission so my blue striker build is going to get
12:10the xp it for completing this mission uh you're not in combat you're free to change anything you
12:14want you just run back to the start of the mission here this is where i'll give you the mission
12:17completion reward and your xp and your watch level it's at this point you are rewarded for your
12:23augments so that's a very good farm if you're looking for printer filaments and also leveling
12:28up prototype builds each farm that i've explained in this video has its advantages and disadvantages
12:34another big disadvantage to retaliation is although that on some retaliations you probably get a lot
12:40more than countdown you will without retaliations and you do need to charge them back up to then be
12:45able to do them again if i'm going to pick the absolute fastest farm for printer filament this week
12:51it's going to be countdown without a doubt uh the only thing here that could be a downside for
12:57you is the fact that if you can't matchmake you're going to be waiting a while to matchmake but so
13:01easy somehow what build you're running and you're probably going to pick up the most printer filament
13:06by running countdown over and over and over above retaliation and above national bond armory
13:13but they for me are the three fastest ways of getting printer filament and it heavily depends on
13:17what else you really want to grind with it as already mentioned if you still need exotic blueprints
13:22if you want to farm some augment levels as well there might be some better options and countdown
13:26but if your pure focus is printer filament just so you can invest it into your expertise and you just
13:31want as much printer filament as possible my advice is going to be go countdown i hope this video has
13:37been
13:37helpful if it has been as always give it a like give it a comment support on the algorithm
13:41don't forget to subscribe and until next time take care
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