Liberty

At a Glance

Liberty is the original signature pistol of The Division 2 and the first exotic most players ever loot. It survived dozens of patches, a couple of full reworks, and a long stretch of mediocrity to land in TU22.1 as the premier skill-build sidearm. Its talent, "It's Mine!", turns headshots into damage amplifiers for your skills, which makes Liberty one of the few weapons in the game that meaningfully boosts a turret-and-drone build without taking up your primary slot.

If you main skill builds, Liberty is no longer optional. It is the cornerstone sidearm that ties weapon play and skill output together.

Last reviewed: 2026-04-25 · TU22.1 · Verified vs in-game

Stats

Liberty trades the magnum-class punch of Regulus for a high-RPM follow-up profile. Fourteen rounds and a 200 RPM cycle mean you can comfortably plant marks on multiple targets in a room without having to reload between them. It's the only pistol in the game where a mag dump can mark an entire wave.

Damage shape

The base body shot sits at 80k and the headshot multiplier of x1.5 puts headshots near 120k before modifiers. That's modest in isolation, but the point of Liberty isn't the round itself. The point is what your skills do once the target is marked.

Talent: It's Mine!

The mechanic has two clean steps:

1. Headshots from Liberty mark the hit target.
2. Marked targets take +50% damage from your skills.

That second number is the entire reason Liberty is in the meta. Skill builds in The Division 2 have always struggled to apply consistent damage modifiers, and a flat +50% on a target that you mark from across the room is enormous. Drone, turret, seeker mines, striker drone, sticky launcher, every skill type benefits.

The mark holds for a generous window after application, so the loop is: ADS, headshot a key target, swap back to your skill loadout, watch the drone or seekers land for amplified damage. Once you internalize it, you stop thinking about Liberty as a damage weapon at all. It's a marker tool, like a tactical pulse with a magazine.

Top Builds

In Sync Skill Carrier

• Brand: 4 In Sync, 2 Hana-U
• Chest: Calculated
• Backpack: Combined Arms
• Skills: Striker drone + Bulwark or Striker drone + Sticky launcher

This is the textbook 2026 skill build. In Sync amplifies the back-and-forth between weapon damage and skill damage. Calculated and Combined Arms keep your skills cycling. Liberty is the marker engine that ensures the most dangerous target in the room is taking +50% from every skill output.

Glass Cannon Skill Hybrid

• Brand: 3 Empress, 3 Hana-U
• Chest: Glass Cannon
• Backpack: Spotter

For solo high directives, Glass Cannon doubles down on the pistol's role as a force multiplier. You take more damage but you mark and erase priority targets faster than the room can adapt. Pair with a long-cooldown skill loadout like Bombardier turret + Striker drone for room clears.

Saint Elmo Hybrid Push

• Brand: 4 Sokolov, 2 Empress
• Chest: Vanguard
• Backpack: Spotter
• Primary: St. Elmo's Engine

A blended weapon and skill build where Liberty marks targets, Saint Elmo electrifies them, and the combined damage profile shreds anything that walks out of cover. Niche but a satisfying loop in Countdown.

PvE vs PvP

PvE

Liberty is a PvE staple. The mark mechanic carries across all PvE modes, and the +50% skill damage is in effect against every enemy type, including bosses. Late-game skill players keep Liberty equipped permanently and weapon-cycle their primary depending on content.

In raids it's exceptional because raid bosses tend to have long phases where the skill output is what carries the team's consistent damage. Marking the boss with Liberty before each turret refresh is a clean DPS uplift that doesn't require swapping brand sets.

PvP

In PvP, Liberty is more of a utility pick than a frontline pistol. The talent boosts skills, which in DZ play translate to drone and seeker pressure. The headshot mark requires you to land a clean hit first, which in fast-paced 4v4 isn't always realistic. Strong against players who hide behind cover; less reliable against highly mobile builds.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Only weapon that gives a flat +50% skill damage to a marked target
• Generous mark duration that allows mid-fight loadout shifts
• 14-round magazine and 200 RPM make it forgiving compared to magnum-class pistols
• Universally synergizes with every skill brand and talent in the game

Cons:

• Damage profile is mediocre when not paired with a skill build
• Marker requires a headshot, which can be inconsistent against mobile targets
• No effect when you have no active skill output
• Outclassed by Regulus for raw weapon damage

FAQ

Does the mark stack with other skill amplifiers? Yes. The +50% from Liberty is multiplicative with global skill damage scaling from gear, talents, and brand sets. Stacking with Combined Arms or In Sync produces the largest damage spikes.

Can I mark multiple targets? You can apply the mark to multiple targets across a room. There's no enforced single-mark limit, so a sustained sequence of headshots will mark a chain of priority targets at once.

Does the mark work for my teammates' skills? The mark is a personal effect. Your teammates' skills don't benefit from your Liberty marks. Each pistol owner marks for their own skill damage.

Does it work with Specialization weapons or grenades? The talent specifically reads "skill damage." Specialization weapons and grenades don't qualify. Skill-tagged abilities like turret, drone, hive, sticky launcher, seekers, and chem launcher all qualify.

Should I keep using it on a non-skill build? For a pure weapon build it's a passable sidearm with mediocre stats. The talent value is essentially zero without skill output. On a non-skill build, Regulus or D50 is the better pistol.

Does the mark fall off if the target enters cover? The mark persists through line-of-sight breaks. As long as the timer hasn't expired, your skill damage benefits whenever the target is exposed again.

Closing

Liberty is one of those exotics that crawled from "first exotic everyone gets" into "essential meta sidearm" purely on the back of skill build evolution. The TU22.1 skill landscape is the strongest it has ever been, and Liberty's role inside it is irreplaceable. If you run any version of an In Sync, Combined Arms, or skill-pulse build, this pistol earns its slot every fight. Land the mark, swap back to your primary or your skill loadout, watch the damage land. It's a quiet kind of power but the numbers don't lie. Keep this one calibrated and ready in your locker because skill meta isn't going anywhere.