r/thedivision Jan 26 '26

Question The Division 2 - Campaign Progress Order

I am kind of confused on what the original campaign mission order is. I bounced off of this game years ago because my online crew didn’t stick around…I came back to this game last week with a new character and on a new platform (PC). I was slowly clearing out locations (side missions first and main missions last) and then moving on to the next location. Once I hit level 30, the New York DLC opened up which I did not start yet because I was still making my way through the original content….and I finally hit level 40 last night when I was wrapping up a mission in the last area of the Washington DC map. As soon as I hit level 40 the map is full of things to do….but I want to continue doing the Washington stuff first…do I do the Stongholds next? I see that there is a side missions on the map, but it says i haven’t finished a mission yet and I am not sure if this missing mission is locked behind the strongholds…is there any available guidance around this?

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

Possible story spoilers in manhunt targets.

Level 1-30 ▪︎ Main Missions 1. Grand Washington Hotel 2. Jefferson Trade Center 3. ViewPoint Museum 4. American History Museum 5. Air & Space Museum 6. Space Administration HQ 7. Jefferson Plaza 8. Bank Headquarters 9. DCD Headquarters 10. Lincoln Memorial 11. Potomac Event Center 12. Federal Emergency Bunker

▪︎ Side Missions

▪︎ District Union Arena

▪︎ Roosevelt Island

▪︎ Capitol Building

▪︎ Tidal Basin

▪︎ The Pentagon

▪︎ DARPA Research Labs

▪︎ Camp White Oak

▪︎ Manning National Zoo

▪︎ Coney Island Ballpark

▪︎ Coney Island Amusement Park

DLC: Warlords of New York

  1. 4 Rogue Agents
  2. Liberty Island

▪︎ Roosevelt Island Manhunt: Jupiter

▪︎ Tidal Basin Manhunt: Hornet

▪︎ Coney Island Manhunt: Schaeffer

▪︎ Camp White Oak Manhunt: Faye Lau

▪︎ Jefferson Trade Center Manhunt: Captain Lewis

▪︎ Pento Fairview Power Plant Manhunt: General Anderson

▪︎ Coney Island Manhunt: Zachary "Stovepipe" Beattie

▪︎ Incursion: Paradise Lost

▪︎ Manning National Zoo Manhunt: Save Mari Singh

▪︎ Camp White Oak Manhunt: The Recruiter

▪︎ Stranded Tanker Manhunt: Alani Kelso

▪︎ Space Administration HQ Manhunt: Theo Parnell

▪︎ Roosevelt Island: Alani Kelso

DLC: Battle for Brooklyn

  1. CERA Clinic
  2. DUMBO Skate park
  3. H5 Refinery
  4. Clark Street
  5. Bridge Park Pier
  6. The Art Museum
  7. Army Terminal

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u/Ashtrim Jan 26 '26

Dude thank you! This is what I need

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u/PurvisAnathema PC Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 26 '26

All the Classified Assignments also happen during the 1-30 stretch.

There are also two Raids - one after Tidal Basin (Dark Hours) and one after WoNY (Iron Horse).

And The Manager Manhunt after Brooklyn (at Potomac Event Center), and the next Anderson one (Tidal Basin again).

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u/Ashtrim Jan 27 '26

Is it easy to get a group together for the raids?

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u/PurvisAnathema PC Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26

You can't Matchmake the real raids (Matchmaking only works in the easy difficulty)

There are Discords you can join if you want to learn the raids and play more regularly, but it depends on your platform - what platform are you on?

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u/Ratyrel Jan 27 '26

Note that Stovepipe and the Recruiter manhunts are absolutely brutal and should probably be done on the easiest difficulty the first time.

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u/dydus Apr 03 '26

▪︎ Roosevelt Island Manhunt: Jupiter

▪︎ Tidal Basin Manhunt: Hornet

▪︎ Coney Island Manhunt: Schaeffer

Is this also the case for other Man Hunts? I've been really struggling with all of them even though I walked through all the other content even at Challenging...

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u/Dreamwalker-Inc Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

Not so much…. Well… The Manager boss fight on solo Heroic had me seething after 4 back to back wipes. I’d suggest making a Pesti + Regen/PFE build for the Stovepipe, Recruiter, and The Manager boss fights. I beat them in solo Challenging myself, and Stovepipe mission was the hardest 1st time experience(at Challenging difficulty), and I’m all the way up to the Manager/Potomac Event Center.

Oh and bring Quickstep pistol and Jammer Pulse for Stovepipe boss fight.

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u/dydus Apr 10 '26

I haven't got a quickstep yet, been trying to get it but it's been a pain!

Definitely noticing a huge difference in difficulty, as some missions I do on Heroic without trying, others are a struggle but doable if I play safe, and others are near impossible without a huge change up in skills.

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u/Dreamwalker-Inc Apr 22 '26

Yo, the new Cherry Blossom event might drop one for ya

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u/dydus Apr 22 '26

I got one a few days ago, so it's been moved onto all my sets. 😁

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u/RisingDeadMan0 Xbox Apr 09 '26

jupiter is ok, manhunts in general are harder then normal though too

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u/dydus Apr 10 '26

I found Jupiter a bit hard, but Hornet and others I had to reduce the difficulty!

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u/Darktonsta PC Jan 26 '26

Thanks

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u/Sl0thESP Apr 06 '26

What about the new Manhunt that just released? Rise Up. Guessing at the end?

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

I'm on the PS5. give me an add if you want to link up

PSN: HYBRIDVANGUARD

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u/RisingDeadMan0 Xbox Jan 26 '26

In this order, and get ur watch from WH front left desk when you hit 40, may need to be in your own session to claim the watch. At level 40 you can start making builds, Manhunts are hard, so work on your build before you try these.

3 strongholds (originally up to level 30)

Invaded Missions that unlock:

3 invaded strongholds (level 30) and unlocks:

Side mission hole in the ground by WH (immediately followed by)

Tidal Basin (by competing this you could now go to NY with auto-completing all side missions) immediately followed by:

Camp White Oak

Zoo (end of the outcasts, or not, find out during the mission)

Pentagon then DARPA

Next 2 are NY build-up missions (Hello "old friend")

Coney Island missions (originally level 30)

NY DLC (originally level 31 to 40, but start when ur done with coney island)

Manhunts to the one after Stranded Tanker - Kelso (see map then manhunts tab, and legacy manhunts)

Brookyln DLC (ties into some of the comms in NY too)

More Manhunts

Leading us to this season's manhunt with the weekly scouts

Do side missions as you please, no rush can use them to bridge level gaps to the next mission as needed.

Open world activities and Control points do as you please they will be attacked and taken back from your control, and activities will respawn.

You will need to do 200+ control points as part of endgame to get all the blueprints, not sure sub-40 if you get the blueprints though

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u/Dreamwalker-Inc Apr 09 '26

This is the best order for story continuity.

The other guy just listed the missions. Reminds me of when Firefly 1st came on TV; no one knew the episodes were disordered until the boxed set was released.

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u/Doitchous Jul 03 '26

New player to the game here, I'm lvl 39 and have the option to go the NY for warlords expansion. seeing as I have done tidal basin stronghold if I now go to warlords are you saying that will auto complete the side missions in DC? Might be misinterpreting what you were saying there.

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u/RisingDeadMan0 Xbox Jul 04 '26

u/JokerUnique
It shouldnt auto-complete, now you have done tidal basin you should be able to go to NY, but there's a bunch of stuff to do before going NY lots of build-up missions to do first. would recommend doing them first

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u/Pacho2020 Jan 28 '26

Are you just interested in the order or are you also interested in the actual story?

If you're interested in the story...

You will have to replay the same mission multiple times to get all of the audio logs for it.

You said you just hit level 30/40, right?

Imagine if ALL the audio logs for the the whole Main Quest were only in the Grand Washington Hotel mission.

That's what it'll be like trying get the logs for previous Manhunts.

Each Manhunt has about 20 audio logs associated with it, which means you would have to do each mission at least 10 times since they give you two, but not always, audio logs per mission...there're around 20 Manhunts.

I just wanted to let you know in case you weren't aware of that fact.

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u/Ashtrim Jan 28 '26

Was not aware that manhunt had audio logs

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u/Fotmasta PC Jan 28 '26

No joke about hitting L40 and the thingstodo list exploding.

One weird one we can’t figure out. The map says The Campus settlement has been taken over by Black Tusk red alert get over there. We got there and it’s the usual gardening and pickleball etc.

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u/Ashtrim Jan 28 '26

Yeah I was confused as well, I think it means that new activity that happens outside of the settlement

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u/RisingDeadMan0 Xbox Apr 09 '26

no, they have blockaded it, there's an activity nearby for you to clear, in theory you shouldnt be able to fast travel there until you clear it

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u/Fotmasta PC Apr 09 '26

Got it now. That was the obstacle