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originally posted in: Xûr or exotic shards farming
Edited by ADragonWithin: 5/14/2017 9:19:54 PM
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You can farm for shards in an extremely round-about way, much more easily if you've unlocked an exotic sword, as upgrading them costs no resources outside of either XP or Motes of LIght. Buy an exotic weapon from the exotic weapon kiosk. This will cost you 1 exotic shard and 2500 glimmer. Level the weapon up fully while activating all nodes (thus why it's better for the exotic swords as they don't cost things like helium filaments, etc.). Once you have activated all the nodes (not just unlocked them but actually activated them) dismantle it for 2 exotic shards. It's not as easy as just popping a Three of Coins and hoping RNG kicks in or opening raid chests for them, but it's a lot less time consuming. You end up just needing to farm for glimmer and motes of light, both of which can be gotten relatively easily at this point (with most people having a large amount of motes saved up), so this method might be your best bet if you just want shards when Xur isn't here. Otherwise, you need to farm for Strange Coins, which are still up to RNG for things. Glimmer and motes can be farmed with certainty (and extra motes from RNG) so it's really up to you.
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  • You do not need to fully activate the nodes before you dismantle the exotic to get the 2 shards. Just using the motes to unlock the nodes until it would be levelled up is enough. I always just brought a truth rocket launcher with one shard , popped a heavy telemetry and six motes later = 2 exotic shards, 2 motes returned and some glimmer.

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  • I had never tried it without activating the nodes as I vaguely remembered that if you didn't, then it was only a chance you'd get 1 or 2 instead of getting 2 for sure, but I do have a bad memory and there's no telling how long ago I'm remembering this from if it was even a thing. I just used the swords because they're easy and quick and no extra cost for the nodes to activate.

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  • nope, you just have to unlock ALL the nodes, but you do not have to activate them. trust me, I've done this many many many times. it works best with exotic heavy weapons, as they take the least amount of motes to upgrade. I have marks/bonds/cloaks with the perk of enhancing the rate at which rocket launchers are upgraded, so I would always grab a Truth launcher. without the mark/bond/cloak, it takes 8 motes to fully unlock every node. with the mark/bond/cloak, it takes 6 motes to fully unlock it. the same effect can be achieved by purchasing a heavy weapon upgrade booster from the gunsmith.

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  • There is another trick you can use while you are levelling up a weapon that way....put on everything that you need to upgrade...armour, ghosts and other guns. I don't know quite why but your motes of light will be almost supercharged. Instead of using 100's to do up a couple of pieces you will use way less and do up multiple items really fast.

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