The Division 2 Exotics & Loot Farming Guide: Countdown, Summit, Escalation & Prototype Gear

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This is a loot guide, not a leveling guide. It covers one thing — how exotics, Prototype Gear, and materials are earned in The Division 2 in November 2026 — and it covers it in depth. There is no 1–40 route here, no SHD Watch table, no Expertise walkthrough. If you need the road to 40 and the systems behind it, that is our The Division 2 Leveling Guide 1–40, which also carries the shorter loot overview this guide builds on. Two more honest things up front: Ubisoft has never published exotic drop rates, so every percentage in this guide is community-reported, not official — and where two sources disagree, this guide says so instead of picking a winner. And some exotics cannot be farmed at all, only earned from a specific activity on a weekly lockout. If you are burning Countdown runs hoping for an Eagle Bearer, stop. This guide tells you exactly which exotics those are and where they actually come from.

The Division 2’s loot game is a game of systems, not a game of luck — or rather, it is a game where understanding the systems is how you beat the luck. Targeted Loot lets you aim the slot machine. Weekly projects hand you exotic caches for doing things you would do anyway. Escalation hands you Prototype Gear for running missions you already know. The players with full exotic collections are not the luckiest players. They are the players who run the weekly loop, set their targeted loot before every session, and never waste a run on an exotic that cannot drop there. This guide walks the whole system in the order that matters: the pool first, so you know what exists; the drop rules second, so you know how the pool works; the locked exotics third, so you stop wasting time; then the farms, the Dark Zone, Escalation and Prototype Gear, the materials, and the weekly loop that ties it all together. If you only read three sections, read How Exotics Drop, Activity-Locked Exotics, and Best Farming Methods — those are the three places most players waste the most time.

The Exotic Pool Right Now

The exotic pool in Year 8 Season 3 is 78 exotics before The Ratel — 44 weapons and 34 armor — with The Ratel (Echoes of Central Park, November 3, 2026) as the 79th. That is the best-supported figure, from a tier list updated November 7, 2026. But be honest about it: a second count lists 79 standalone guides — 44 weapons, 35 armor — and says the Build Maker database tracks 81 exotic items. The discrepancy is unexplained. It may be The Ratel plus Prima Donna, or it may be counting differences. Treat “78 plus The Ratel” as the best-supported figure and note the disagreement rather than quoting a single number as settled.

Two rules govern the whole pool. First, you can equip only 1 exotic weapon and 1 exotic armor at a time. Your collection can be 79 deep; your loadout is two exotics and the rest is high-end, named, and gear set pieces — which is why the Prototype Gear chase in this guide matters as much as the exotics themselves. Second, the community consensus for a default PvE pair in Year 8 Season 3 is St. Elmo’s Engine (assault rifle) plus Memento (backpack). Other top picks: Capacitor for skill builds, Scorpio for crowd control, and Regulus as a pistol. If you are starting from zero exotics, those are the names to aim for first — and the Targeted Loot section below tells you how to aim.

How Exotics Drop: Targeted Loot

Targeted Loot is the core system of Division 2 farming, and it is the first thing to understand. Set a weapon type, gear slot, brand set, or gear set as Targeted Loot from the map screen or the Countdown menu, and the setting applies to Countdown and The Summit together. Any unlocked exotic in that pool can then drop from bosses and activities. You pick a slot or a class — not a specific item. There is no way to target one exotic directly; you target its slot and let the pool do the rest.

Two rules shape everything else. First, first unlock matters: complete an exotic’s quest, project, or activity once before it can enter the general targeted-loot pool. An exotic you have never earned cannot drop from targeted loot, no matter how many runs you do. Second, raid and incursion exotics never drop from targeted loot or generic exotic caches — with one claimed exception that is itself unresolved, covered in the next section.

Exotic sources in general, beyond targeted loot: weekly projects (Summit, SHD Requisition, Weekly Legendary Stronghold), exotic caches from Dark Zone, Global Event, Descent, and Countdown vendors, season tracks, Global Event challenges, raids, the incursion, random drops, and crafting from blueprints obtained through Retaliations. And one rule about caches that saves a lot of disappointment: opening an exotic cache guarantees an exotic item, but the item itself is random. A cache is a guaranteed exotic, never a guaranteed specific exotic. If you are opening caches hoping for one named item, you are playing the same slot machine with a guaranteed payout — better odds, same randomness.

Activity-Locked Exotics

Four exotics cannot be target-farmed. They come from one activity each, on a weekly lockout per character, and no amount of Countdown or Summit runs will ever drop them. This is the section that saves you the most wasted time in the game.

Regulus is the friendly one of the four: run Iron Horse 4–6 times to collect the pieces and craft it through its exotic project, and it is guaranteed — no RNG at all. The other three are rolls. Ouroboros is the one with numbers attached, and the numbers are worth a warning: the drop chance is stated as 1% from the boss and 10% from the weekly cache by multiple secondary sources, but Ubisoft has not published these numbers. Present them as community-reported, not official, and expect the grind to be long either way.

Unresolved: do raid exotics drop in the Dark Zone? One source says Eagle Bearer and Ravenous have a “rare Dark Zone roll”. Another says raid and incursion exotics “never drop from targeted loot or generic exotic caches”. Whether the Dark Zone roll is real — and at what rate — is unresolved. Do not farm the Dark Zone for an Eagle Bearer on the strength of one claim. Run the raid.

Season & Event Exotics

Every season adds exotics, and Year 8 Season 3 added three on the free track and the event calendar — plus one in the new DLC. Here they are, with exactly what is known about each.

Free on the Red Horizon season track

• Fafnir (exotic shotgun, talent Dragon’s Breath): 40% chance to apply Burn per shot; weapon damage amplified by 50% of your Status Effect bonus. Free Season Pass track, Y8S3.
• Iron Will (exotic chest, talent Resolved): Resolved makes your next body shot count as a headshot. Free Season Pass track, Y8S3.

Both are on the free track, which means no purchase is needed — play the season, earn Season XP, claim them. The season pass itself costs 1,000 Premium Credits for the paid track, and the free track also carries 2 Named Weapons, 4 Named Gear Items, 2 Exotic Caches, 18 Red Horizon Caches, and 3 Named Item Caches.

Event and DLC exotics

• Loaded for Bear (exotic gloves, talent Afterburn): the Manhunt Climax mission reward, guaranteed on first Master-difficulty clear (November 3, 2026). If you can clear Master, this one is a certainty, not a farm.
• The Ratel (exotic assault rifle): Echoes of Central Park, November 3, 2026. Earned in the DLC. Its talent is Voracious — more Amplified Damage the more armor and health the enemy has lost, with stacks from weapon hits — but that detail comes from datamine and creator coverage, not from Ubisoft’s own launch article, which confirms only that it is a new exotic weapon earned in the DLC. Treat the talent numbers as secondary-sourced.
• The Catalyst (exotic mask): Battle for Brooklyn DLC (May 27, 2025). Bonuses for dealing and receiving status-effect damage; useful against Cleaners.
• Vertigo (exotic GR9) and Sarru (exotic backpack): added with Title Update Y8S3.1 and the Red Moon Rising event. During the Red Moon Unleashed event (October 15 – November 3, 2026), the Necromancer dropped Sarru at a stated 20% and the Risen Hunter dropped Vertigo at 20%; “Necromancer Unleashed” dropped Ouroboros at 20% during the event. How Vertigo and Sarru are obtainable after the event ended on November 3 is not confirmed. Do not farm for them on the assumption of a known method until one is confirmed.
• Prima Donna (exotic): added to the Paradise Lost incursion in mid-July 2026; drops from incursion bosses and the end crate like Ouroboros. A blueprint to recalibrate it was added in late September 2026 but was actually a crafting blueprint, letting players craft unlimited copies until it was patched in the first week of October 2026. This is a single community-source claim, not corroborated by Ubisoft or a second guide — treat it with care.

Two new gear sets arrived with the season and the DLC. Ember Engine (talent Spontaneous Combustion) is the new gear set in Year 8 Season 3. Apex Protocol is the new gear set in Echoes of Central Park — per DivGaming, from game files, which is secondary sourcing. Neither set’s full bonus list is confirmed from Ubisoft’s own coverage in this pass, so check the in-game collection before building around either.

Best Farming Methods

There are two farms that matter, one rule of thumb that decides between them, and a half-dozen other sources that fill the gaps. Start with the rule of thumb, because it is the whole farming philosophy in one sentence: “Summit is where I go for quality. Countdown is where I go for quantity.”

Countdown — the volume farm

Countdown is 8-player PvE at the Pentco Fairview Power Plant. It is always open and matchmade: complete 2 of 3 objectives, then the main objective, then extract before the timer runs out. It has the highest boss density and loot volume of any activity in the game, and it earns Requisition tokens for exotic caches at the White House vendor. The best difficulties for matchmaking are Challenging or Heroic. Two details that catch people out: Countdown disables your Global Modifiers on entry and does not turn them back on automatically — check them after every run — and the loot volume is real but anecdotal: one reported run ended with 47 pieces of gear plus materials and a cache, which is a single-run anecdote, not an average. Expect a lot of loot. Do not expect 47 pieces every time.

The Summit — the quality and control farm

The Summit is slower than Countdown but solo-friendly, runs at your own pace, and shares the same targeted-loot setting. It is better for Capacitor challenges and controlled floors, and it is also a weekly project source. If Countdown is the slot machine at full speed, the Summit is the slot machine with the brakes on: fewer pulls per hour, but you choose every pull, you never wait on matchmaking, and you never carry a stranger’s mistakes. For a player who wants one specific slot and wants to farm it cleanly, the Summit is usually the better choice.

Everything else that pays

• Open world: control points, missions, and bounties also respect your targeted-loot slot on Heroic+ difficulty. Named bosses guarantee targeted-loot drops.
• Heroic and Legendary missions and strongholds: the weekly Legendary Stronghold project is an exotic-cache source, and Legendary difficulty is the top endgame mission tier.
• Conflict (PvP): now awards Conflict Commendation Currency (CCC), spendable at the Prometheus Terminal on caches and a daily rotation that can include Named, Exotic, and Prototype items.
• Retaliation: open-world faction events. Completing a full Retaliation gives a chance at blueprints for certain Raid and Dark Zone exclusive exotics. Retaliation is also tied to blueprint progression and faction materials. Black Tusk can participate, and Kill Squads can reward blueprints for rare exotics.
• Descent: a roguelite mode whose vendor sells the Vindicator exotic and exotic caches.

Dark Zone Farming

The Dark Zone is the Division 2’s oldest loot gamble and, in 2026, its most changed one. The rules are the same as they have always been at the core: Dark Zone loot must be extracted by helicopter, and named bosses guarantee targeted-loot drops. What changed in Year 8 is everything around that core — new zones, new rulesets, and a rotation that decides which Dark Zone you should be in on any given week.

The zones now

The Toxic Dark Zone is now a permanent PvE Dark Zone. Other factions including Black Tusk can appear, Sample Canisters and Surge have been removed, and extracting clears Toxicity. It is the Dark Zone for players who want Dark Zone loot without the PvP. The Blackout Dark Zone, new in Year 8 Season 3, is the opposite: a fully uncapped PvEvP zone with no stat normalization — your SHD Watch and Expertise are active, and the zone is permanently Invaded with Black Tusk as the main faction. Blackout is where the strongest players go, and where the strongest loot expectations live.

The rulesets rotate. Toxic and Balanced run every week; Blackout and Classic alternate week to week. Check the rotation before you plan a Dark Zone session, because the zone you want may not be the zone that is live.

Exotic Components in the Dark Zone

The Dark Zone is also the best source of Exotic Components — the material that fuels Expertise upgrades and crafting. Per Ubisoft’s Red Horizon notes, as quoted by Neonsect, the drop chances in PvP Dark Zones are:

Heroic landmarks are the play: 48% from bosses, 40% from crates, and the landmark loop is repeatable. If you are grinding Expertise and you are short on Exotic Components, the Dark Zone is where the deficit gets closed — and the Y8S1 cost reduction (50% off Exotic Components for Expertise upgrades) means every component you farm goes twice as far as it did a year ago.

Escalation & Prototype Gear

Escalation is the Year 8 endgame, and Prototype Gear is the Year 8 loot chase. They arrived together in Year 8 Season 1, “Rise Up” (April 1, 2026), and they are inseparable: Escalation is the main source of Prototype Gear, and Prototype Gear is the reason to run Escalation. Understand both, and you understand the current endgame.

How Escalation works

Escalation replays main missions and strongholds at increasing difficulty and rewards. It needs level 40 and the main campaign complete. The rotation refreshes weekly on Tuesdays with a new set of five missions, and there are 10 Tiers per mission. The lowest Tier is free; higher Tiers require Escalation Tokens, and the cost scales with Tier. Each run is a single attempt — no checkpoints — and a wipe or timer expiry fails the run.

The token rules changed, and the change matters. As of Title Update Y8S3.2, starting, failing, or disconnecting no longer consumes Tokens — Tokens are now a minimum-balance eligibility threshold, not an entry fee — and Tokens no longer reset at season end, a change that dates to Y8S1.3. In plain terms: you used to pay tokens to attempt a Tier and lose them if you failed. Now you need to hold enough tokens to be eligible, and you keep them. Tokens are also spendable at the Escalation Requisition Vendor on Prototype caches. The exact token balance thresholds per Tier (1–10) were not verified from a primary source in this pass, so this guide does not print a per-tier cost table — check the vendor in-game before you plan a push.

Completion rewards are the same for hosts and teammates, so there is no penalty for joining someone else’s run. And the loot scales with Tier in a way that is worth knowing: higher Tiers offer better chances and stronger rolls, with Heroic-level rolls applying at Tiers 0–4 and Legendary-level rolls from Tier 5 onward, per KeenGamer’s Y8S1.3 coverage. Tier 5 is the line where the loot genuinely improves.

What Prototype Gear is

Prototype Gear is a new item quality above High-End, Named, and Gear Set items — exotics excluded. The old maximum attribute value becomes the new minimum, and the new maximum can reach up to 1.5x higher. Every Prototype piece carries one Augment from a shared pool of nine: Quantum, Echo, Atomize, Amalgam, Trapper, Entropy, Anomaly, Paradox, and Synesthesia.

There are two ways to get it. The first is drops from Escalation runs — the main source. The second is upgrading an eligible High-End, Named, or Gear Set item at the Tinkering Station for 1 Prototype Core. Conversion requires the item to be at maximum Expertise — Expertise 30 — and the item can no longer be optimized or recalibrated after conversion, so rolls matter. Ubisoft warned against converting armor with a Skill Tier core until a future update addresses it. Prototype Gear is normalized to the lower end of the Prototype range in Raids, the Incursion, and PvP, with Augments disabled there — so it is an open-world and mission power spike, not a universal one.

Do not convert a bad roll. Conversion costs 1 Prototype Core and maximum Expertise, and the item is locked afterward — no more optimization, no more recalibration. The roll you convert is the roll you keep. Check the item’s attributes against the Recalibration Library first, and convert only items that are already close to what you want. The sources of Prototype Cores were not precisely verified in this pass, so do not assume a steady supply — treat each Core as expensive until you know your own farming rate.

Other Prototype sources exist, with weaker verification. Blackout Dark Zone enemies can drop Prototype Gear — community-quoted rates of 0.2% from normal enemies, 0.5% and 0.2% from elites, and 1% and 2% from bosses come from a boosting-service product page and are unverified, so this guide does not print them as fact. The Prometheus Terminal also sells a DZ Prototype Cache and a daily-rotation Prototype weapon or gear piece. Escalation remains the main source, and the one with the clearest rules.

Materials

Loot is the headline. Materials are the tax. Every system in this guide eats materials, and knowing which ones matter — and where they come from — is the difference between a smooth endgame and a stalled one.

Exotic Components deserve a strategy of their own. They come from dismantling exotics — which means every duplicate exotic you will never wear is not junk, it is Expertise fuel — and from Dark Zone landmark bosses and crates at the 33–48% rates in the Dark Zone section. If you are grinding Expertise, dismantle duplicates instead of selling them, and run Heroic Dark Zone landmarks when you need a top-up. The Y8S1 cost reduction made every component go further, but Expertise 30 still eats a lot of them.

Prototype Cores are the honest unknown in this guide. Ubisoft confirms 1 Prototype Core per conversion, but where Cores drop was not precisely verified from a primary source in this pass. Do not assume a farming route for them until one is confirmed — and do not spend your first Core on a mediocre item. One more claim this guide does not repeat: a community post claims a 9,999 cap per material. That comes from a single Reddit comment and is unverified, so it is not stated here as fact.

The Weekly Loot Loop

Farming in The Division 2 is a weekly loop, not a daily grind. The lockouts and the weekly projects decide the shape of your week; the daily play fills the gaps. Here is the loop, in priority order.

Every week, without fail

• Weekly SHD Requisition Project — 1 SHD Watch Level, an Exotic Cache, Season XP, and a Named Item Cache. The best weekly in the game, for leveling and for loot.
• Weekly Legendary Stronghold project — an exotic-cache source at the top mission tier.
• Summit weekly project — another exotic-cache source, and a reason to run The Summit even when you do not need the loot.
• Raid lockouts — Operation Dark Hours and Operation Iron Horse, one run each per character per week, for Eagle Bearer, The Ravenous, and the Regulus project pieces.
• Paradise Lost incursion — weekly boss and weekly cache, for Ouroboros (and Prima Donna, per the single-source claim).
• Escalation rotation — refreshes weekly on Tuesdays with five missions. The week’s Prototype Gear chances live here.
• Dark Zone rotation check — Toxic and Balanced run every week; Blackout and Classic alternate. Plan your Dark Zone sessions around what is live.

Every day, as time allows

• Countdown or Summit runs — set your Targeted Loot first, then run the farm that fits your mood: Countdown for volume, Summit for control.
• Seasonal objectives and activities — Season XP toward the season track, which is free exotics and caches.
• Control points, bounties, and open-world activities — steady targeted loot on Heroic+ difficulty, and named bosses guarantee targeted-loot drops.
• Conflict daily rotation — check the Prometheus Terminal for Named, Exotic, and Prototype items in the daily rotation, and spend CCC you have earned.

The long projects (always running in the background)

• First unlocks: every exotic needs its quest, project, or activity completed once before it can enter the targeted-loot pool. Work through unlocks deliberately — each one you complete widens the pool for every future run.
• Expertise 30: wear the items you want to be proficient with, donate duplicates and materials, and upgrade. Max Expertise is the gate to Prototype Gear conversion.
• Recalibration Library: extract every desirable attribute and talent you find. The library is permanent and it is what makes optimization worth doing.
• Exotic Components: dismantle duplicate exotics instead of selling them, and run Heroic Dark Zone landmarks when you need a top-up.

What Changed for Farming in 2026

The loot game moved a lot in 2026. Here is the timeline, so you can tell a current farming guide from a stale one at a glance.

Farming Traps

The mistakes that cost farmers the most time are not bad luck. They are systems misunderstood, and they are all avoidable.

• Farming Countdown for a raid exotic. Eagle Bearer, The Ravenous, Regulus, and Ouroboros never drop from targeted loot or generic exotic caches. Run the raid or the incursion, or do not farm for them at all.
• Forgetting to set Targeted Loot. The setting applies to Countdown and The Summit together, and it is the difference between farming one slot and farming the whole pool at random. Set it before every session.
• Opening exotic caches expecting a specific item. A cache guarantees an exotic, not a specific exotic. It is better odds, not a guarantee.
• Converting to Prototype Gear with a bad roll. Conversion needs max Expertise and 1 Prototype Core, and the item is locked afterward — no more optimization, no more recalibration. Ubisoft also warned against converting armor with a Skill Tier core until a future update addresses it.
• Forgetting Global Modifiers after Countdown. Countdown disables them on entry and does not turn them back on automatically. Check them after every run.
• Selling duplicate exotics. Dismantle them instead. Duplicates are Exotic Components, and Exotic Components are Expertise fuel.
• Farming Vertigo and Sarru on an assumption. Their event ended November 3, 2026, and no source confirms how they are obtained now. Do not farm for them until a method is confirmed.
• Trusting a drop rate Ubisoft never published. Ouroboros at 1% from the boss and 10% from the weekly cache is community-reported, not official. Blackout Dark Zone Prototype rates from a boosting-service page are unverified. Plan around the activity, not the percentage.
• Optimizing before recalibrating. Optimization re-rolls values; it cannot change attributes. Recalibrate first, optimize second.
• Chasing the “Survivors” mode. It appears in some low-quality 2026 roundups, but no Ubisoft source supports it. Treat it as an unverified rumor and do not include it in your plans.

Patch State (as of November 8, 2026)

Current season: Year 8 Season 3, “Red Horizon” (since August 27, 2026). Latest patch: Title Update Y8S3.3, live November 3, 2026 (console version 2.40). Newest DLC: Echoes of Central Park, launched November 3, 2026 ($19.99 Standard, $29.99 Deluxe). Crossplay: icons and menus live November 3; PC migration November 10; full crossplay November 17, 2026. Shepherd Event: November 17–26, 2026. Stretch Goals: paused for Red Horizon. Red Moon Rising and Red Moon Unleashed ended November 3, 2026.

Re-check triggers: November 10, 2026 (PC crossplay migration); November 17, 2026 (full crossplay live, Shepherd Event starts); Year 8 Season 4 (no announced date — when it is dated, the Expertise, Prototype Gear, and Escalation sections will need a rewrite); Vertigo and Sarru post-event availability (confirm how, or whether, they are obtainable after November 3); The Ratel and Apex Protocol exact stats and acquisition steps (only Ubisoft’s launch article plus datamine and creator coverage exist so far — confirm from in-game sources or the Division 2 wiki once documented); the Echoes of Central Park endgame and the “upcoming Incursion later in the season” (no name or date confirmed); any Title Update Y8S3.4 or hotfix after November 3, 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Every fact in this guide carries its source. Patch and system facts come from Ubisoft directly; loot figures come from current 2026 guides with their dates, and conflicts are flagged rather than settled silently. Last checked November 8, 2026.

• Ubisoft: The Division 2 — Red Horizon (Year 8 Season 3, August 27, 2026 — Blackout and Toxic Dark Zones, Exotic Component rates)
• Ubisoft: The Division 2 — Rise Up (Year 8 Season 1, April 1, 2026 — Escalation, Prototype Gear, Retaliation)
• Ubisoft: Intelligence Annex — Expertise (Proficiency Ranks, Expertise 30, Prototype conversion requirement)
• Ubisoft News: Play The Division 2 — Echoes of Central Park Today (November 3, 2026 — The Ratel, companions, skill variants)
• Ubisoft: Gamescom — Crossplay, Echoes of Central Park and Red Horizon / Season 4 tease
• Sportskeeda: The Division 2 Title Update Y8S3.3 patch notes — crossplay, Master Climax Mission (November 2, 2026)
• MP1st: The Division 2 Y8S3.3 update released November 3 as patch 2.40 (Shepherd Event, Stretch Goals paused)
• KeenGamer: The Division 2 Y8S3 Red Horizon full update guide (Fafnir, Iron Will, Ember Engine set, free-track loot)
• KeenGamer: The Division 2 Prototype Gear complete guide (Heroic rolls Tier 0–4, Legendary rolls Tier 5+)
• Proven Gamer: Echoes of Central Park launches November 3 (November 2, 2026 — Master Climax Mission, Loaded for Bear)
• Proven Gamer: Red Moon Unleashed (October 14, 2026 — Vertigo, Sarru, Ouroboros event rates)
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• LFCarry: Division 2 DLC in order (Battle for Brooklyn, Echoes of Central Park, The Catalyst)
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• LFCarry: Division 2 best builds, Year 8 Season 3 (Determined rework, rifle buffs)
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• Raigulus: Division 2 Exotics Guide (verified October 31, 2026 — exotic pool count, raid exotics)
• ItemLevel: The Division 2 Countdown PvE game mode 2026 guide (objectives, difficulties, Summit vs Countdown)
• KBoosting: Division 2 exotics guide 2026 (exotic sources, caches, Legendary Stronghold project)
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• CheatInfo: The Division 2 page (Targeted Loot rules, first unlock, Summit, open world)
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• OnlyFarms: Division 2 Prototype Gear page (Augment pool, Blackout Dark Zone Prototype rates — secondary, unverified)
• Maxi-Geek: Battle for Brooklyn revealed (April 24, 2025 — The Catalyst exotic mask)