📄 VENDOR RESET – SHD INTEL REPORT

🛒 VENDOR RESET – SHD INTEL REPORT

TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2026

🔄 Reset Date: May 19, 2026

✅ Status: Active

🕒 Vendors Reset Every Tuesday @ 03:30 EST

📦 Cassie Opens Wednesdays — See Resources Below

📝 INTRO:

This week’s reset is significantly stronger than last week, with several excellent named items, strong crit-focused gear pieces, and multiple must-buy pickups for both DPS and hybrid builds. The standout item is definitely the Dark Winter SMG at DZ South, while The Dare LMG and Picaro’s Holster are also easy recommendations. Between the active 5x XP event and strong vendor stock, this is absolutely a full vendor run week.

🧩 FEATURED ITEMS THIS WEEK

🔶 Dark Winter — Perfect Killer SMG with massive PvE and PvP burst potential

🔶 The Dare — Named LMG with Perfect Flatline and Damage to Armor

🔶 Picaro’s Holster — Excellent hybrid holster with perfect weapon damage bonus

🔶 Combuster Chest Piece — Named Steelworks chest with Perfectly Explosive Delivery

🔶 Night Watcher — Scanner Pulse specialist mask with max pulse haste

🏬 VENDOR LOCATIONS & NOTABLES

🔹 COUNTDOWN VENDOR

Night Watcher — Max Scanner Pulse haste and strong utility for pulse builds

Boomstick — Perfect Pumped Up shotgun with Health Damage; fun niche pickup

Cherish Chest Piece — Perfect Trauma chest for status-focused builds

⚠️ Both Boomstick and Cherish will also appear at Cassie Mendoza tomorrow

🔹 HAVEN — MARCO & ROY

Marco:

Araldi Holster — “All red” piece with Weapon Damage, Crit Chance, and Crit Damage

Roy:

Born Great AR — Features DTOOC and Perfect Stabilized

Strong pickup for players wanting a stable AR setup

Roy’s overall stock is decent this week thanks to the Born Great and solid red-core gear

🔹 WHITE HOUSE VENDOR

Combuster Chest Piece — Named Steelworks chest with Crit Damage and Perfectly Explosive Delivery

Walker Harris Chest — Excellent chest with Crit Chance and Crit Damage; roll your preferred talent

Police T821 SMG — Max Crit Chance roll

Police M4 — Comes with Thunder Strike talent

Drone Mod — 6.3% Armor Repair

Turret Mod — 4.1% Damage

🔹 CLAN VENDOR

Mechanical Animal — Future Perfection AR with max Health Damage; swap Stability to DTOOC

Araldi Backpack — Double crit piece ideal for Vigilance sniper builds

10.8% Crit Hit Damage Mod — Excellent pickup for newer agents and Hardcore characters

Ceska Gloves — Solid crit utility option for DPS builds

🔹 THEATRE SETTLEMENT

Urban MDR — Comes with Crit Chance and Streamline talent

Military G36 — Decent weapon roll but overshadowed by stronger options this week

🔹 CAMPUS SETTLEMENT

🔥 Picaro’s Holster — Includes armor, explosive resistance, and the perfect 10% weapon damage

Healer Hive Mod — 4.5% Healing mod

Douglas & Harding Gloves — Usable but not a priority this week

🔹 CASTLE SETTLEMENT

🔥 The Dare — Perfect Flatline LMG with Damage to Armor

⚠️ Cannot equip the Technician linked laser pointer on this weapon

Petrov Chest Piece — Strong armor-focused option

Military MK46 — Decent secondary LMG pickup

🔹 DARK ZONE VENDORS

DC West:

Baker’s Dozen — Perfect Lucky Shot rifle

Sokolov Chest Piece — Good crit setup potential

Also available: Rifle Mods, Gear Dyes, Gear System Mods

DC South:

🔥 Dark Winter — Swap Reload Speed to DTOOC immediately

MP5 ST — Already comes with DTOOC rolled on

Military M870 — Average rolls overall

DC East:

Good Times — Named LMG with Perfect Fast Hands and max Stability

Providence Backpack — Serviceable crit option

Golan Gloves — Decent utility pickup

🔹 BROOKLYN BRIDGE SETTLEMENT VENDOR

Walker Harris Chest — Features Headshot Damage and Head Hunter talent

Excellent pickup for sniper and one-shot builds

All Mods Available — Useful week for filling missing utility and weapon mods

💰 DON’T FORGET DANNY WEAVER!

The hidden vendor is stocked as usual and sells caches for textiles:

🔹 1 × Exotic Cache

🔹 2 × Named Item Caches

🔹 5 × Field Proficiency Caches

Always worth a visit! 🧭🟧

🆕 NEW: ESCALATION REQUISITION VENDOR

Located beside the Countdown Vendor at the Base of Operations.

🔹 Random Prototype Cache — 5 Tokens

🔹 Prototype Kneepad Cache — 10 Tokens

🔹 Prototype Rifle Cache — 10 Tokens

⚠️ Daily cache categories rotate every 24 hours.

Community reports continue to show extremely high-quality drops from these caches, including triple max-roll items.

🧠 SHD TACTICAL NOTES

🔸 Crit-based DPS builds are eating well this week with multiple double-crit pieces available

🔸 The active 5x XP event makes this an excellent week to farm Ongoing Directive at DUA

🔸 Prototype Rifle caches are currently one of the strongest token investments available

📌 SUMMARY HIGHLIGHTS

Top Picks: 🔥

✅ Dark Winter (DZ South)

✅ The Dare (Castle Settlement)

✅ Picaro’s Holster (Campus Settlement)

✅ Walker Harris Chest (White House)

Special Mentions:

⭐ Night Watcher

⭐ Mechanical Animal

⭐ Araldi Backpack