Checking out the best new feature in The Division 2
The recalibration station in The Division 2 allows you to strip perks from some weapons and apply them to some better weapons, all in the neverending pursuit of getting as close to the “god roll” as you can. While it’s a useful feature, it’s been pretty clunky to use so far because it required keeping the weapons you wanted to strip in your inventory or stash until you needed them.
With the release of Title Update 8 alongside the Warlords of New York expansion, Massive has made significant changes to the recalibration station and introduced the recalibration library. No longer do you need to keep the weapons, you can simply strip what you need and store that instead.
How to use the recalibration library
But, you’re still stripping attributes or talents from one piece of gear and re-using them on another compatible piece of gear. That part hasn’t changed, but what has changed is that you no longer need to keep hold of the gear it’s currently attached to. You can simply strip it off, dismantle the piece of gear and add it to your recalibration library.
To get started, head to your recalibration station, you’ll find a new one in Haven as well if you’ve acquired the Warlords of New York expansion. You’ll now be presented with both the recalibration station and the recalibration library. It’s the latter you need to use if you’re going to strip down your gear.
You then simply extract the internal attribute or talent and it will be added into your recalibration library for later use.
One additional note that applies to Warlords of New York players is that there are two tiers on the recalibration library, one for level 0-30 gear and one for level 31-40 gear. And it doesn’t look like you can transfer stats between the tiers, so essentially, if you’re going off to the expansion you’re starting your gear, attribute and talent hunt from scratch.
It’s probably the best new feature in the game, open to all players regardless of their presence in the New York-based expansion or not. The gear grind is firmly back on, but at least with this change, you’re able to ditch the gear you don’t want but keep those attributes you do.