Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is one of the most popular third-person shooters on the market and has retained one of the most dedicated fan bases in the gaming community. Since the game's release, it has been flooded with content, adapted a new seasonal style of service, and continued to add new weapons and armor sets into the game. As the game has aged, more gameplay styles have become viable thanks to the addition of armor sets and new weapon perks.
There are many types of players who enjoy The Division 2 and each player's style is different. For players who enjoy controlling the combat zone, a sniper may be the best weapon in slot. For more versatile firefighters, an assault rifle or an SMG may get the job done. However, for the players who enjoy being in the fray and throwing caution to the wind, a shotgun can be an invaluable tool while taking on the content in Tom Clancy's The Division 2.
9 Lefty
The Lefty shotgun is a high-end named weapon that players can acquire multiple different ways. The combat abilities of the Lefty shotgun have recently seen a resurgence as it was tweaked and made more viable.
The Lefty is a bull-pup shotgun that has a twenty-round magazine and boosted stats for shotgun damage, damage to targets out of cover, and damage to armor. With an all around solid state block, the Lefty is a great weapon for run and gunning.
8 Rock'N'Roll
The Rock'N'Roll is a shotgun based off of the ACE-12 automatic model, also referred to as the AA12. Among automatic shotguns, the ACS-12 lacks in impact and doesn't do as much damage as other shotguns per shot, but is an excellent tool to shred enemy armor.
The Rock'N'Roll is a high-end named weapon that is a great addition to a frontline focused build. Thanks to the weapon's rate of fire and bonus stats, the Rock'N'Roll can cut down most enemies with little problem. The Rock'N'Roll drops with perfect Extra, which grants the weapon increased ammo capacity. Paired with its increased damage to enemy armor, players will cut right through anything in front of them.
7 Sweet Dreams
The Sweet Dreams shotgun is built for up-close and personal conflict. A great weapon to pair with a shield build or for clearing lower level content, the Sweet Dreams is a fun weapon to take on crowds of enemies and watch as they all hit the dirt one by one.
Sweet Dreams is an Exotic weapon that drops from Outcast enemies and rolls with the perk "Sandman." The Sandman perk allows melee strikes with the weapon to instantly down enemies that aren't of the Elite class. This perk is fun to use while running through mobs or clearing out control points.
6 The Lullaby
The Lullaby is a unique exotic weapon in The Division 2 as it is a modified version of the Sweet Dreams shotgun; players will need the latter in order to craft the Lullaby. The Lullaby comes with boosted stats and was originally a pre-order bonus for the game's launch.
The Lullaby shotgun is a great tank and support weapon thanks to its upgraded talents. When players melee enemies after swapping to this weapon, they can heavily debuff their target while receiving a boost in survivability. Striking an enemy with this weapon inflicts them with the Sandman debuff, restricting the enemy's healing. At the same time, players receive a large amount of bonus armor, which is reapplied if the player kills the enemy afflicted with the debuff.
5 Custom M870 MCS
The Custom M870 is a more than capable weapons in The Division 2, and is one of the hardest hitting shotguns in the game. As a normal high-end weapon, the Custom M870 MCS can drop with an assortment of talents and damage stats.
Fortunately, it won't be hard for players to find one that fits their play style. Paired with the right gear-set or selection of mods, the M870 can deal some of the highest damage numbers in the game, complementing the headhunter play style perfectly.
4 The Scorpio
The Scorpio is one of the most unique exotic shotguns in The Division 2, as it comes with a laundry list of effects that it can afflict targets with. Players who enjoy having a little utility in their play will appreciate this weapo. Thanks to its talent system, it is able to place several debuffs on a target per shot.
The Scorpio has a talent called Septic Shot: every shot inflicts a target with a venom stack that provides a set debuff. For every shot that a target takes, each different debuff stacks with the previous. The first three shots poison, disorient, and shock the target, while the final shot increases all incoming damage to the target until defeated.
3 The Cuelebre
The Cuelebre is a great head-hunting shotgun with some serious damage capabilities, especially when placed alongside the appropriate weapon mods and armor sets. The Cuelebre succeeds in dealing massive damage per shot as a single pump shotgun with a five-round magazine.
The perk that sends this weapon to the top is called Premeditated. This perk boosts the weapon's damage by a maximum of 35% for every shell reloaded into the weapon. In addition, the weapon rolls with the perk Jazz Hands, which increases the weapon's reload speed substantially.
2 The Tsunami
The Tsunami is overshadowed by many other weapons in the game, but with the right build and combination of perks, it can stand just as tall as most nail drivers on the list. The Tsunami is a high-end named weapon and has a standard magazine size of seven rounds, modeled after the Marine Super 90.
What makes the weapon special is that it rolls with the perk "Perfect Pummel." Perfect Pummel grants the weapon a 40% increase in damage and reloads the weapon upon killing two enemies back to back. This perk is great for mobile players who aren't afraid to get up close.
1 Super 90
The Super 90 shotgun is a go to for the majority of players in The Division 2, due to its consistent damage and easily farmable obtainability. It can roll with a number of different perks that can increase its lethality or compliments multiple types of builds such as status effects, amor shredding, or tank builds, making the Super 90 is a welcome addition to any armory.
As a normal high-end weapon, the Super 90 can go just about anywhere and hold its own in some of the most difficult content in the game without much of a problem. Hopefully this weapon makes it into the upcoming spinoff, Heartland.
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is available on Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC ia Steam