So I am pretty sure this has already been stated, however I just wanted to tell the community a quick and easy way of farming Exotic Shards. They are among the rarest of materials to acquire in the world of Destiny at the moment, so can't hurt to know.
Here is what you will need, an Exotic Shard, 5 Weapon Parts, 10 Motes, 2,500 Glimmer. The conversion is basically 1 Exotic Shard + 5 Weapon Parts + 10 Motes + 2,500 Glimmer = 2 Exotic Shards.
Here is the process:
Step 1: Head to the Gunsmith, buy a Heavy Weapon Telemetry for 5 Weapon Parts.
Step 2: Head down to Exotic Weapon Blueprints by the Vanguard, purchase a year 1 Dragon's Breath.
Step 3: Apply the Heavy Weapon Telemetry, equip the year 1 Dragon's Breath, put 10 Motes into it, this will unlock all the upgrades.
Step 4: Dismantle it, the end result is 2 Exotic Shards + 7 Weapons Parts + 270-300 Glimmer.
When you unlock all the upgrades of a piece of armour or weapon in Destiny and dismantle it you get 2 exotic shards instead of 1, or for a Legendary you get 5 Legendary Marks instead of 3.
You can repeat the process as many times as you want , you are basically handing in Weapon Parts and Motes for Exotic Shards. Sure it is easier buying it from Xur *cough* Bungie please *cough*, however we don't have that luxury, so this is a little tip for all you people out there that may not know about this.
This works out well if you do it in bulk, I normally do it with 10 Dragon's Breath's at a time, totalling to a gain of 10 Exotic Shards. You will be needing alot of glimmer for this, a simple glimmer farm is to go to the mission "Exclusion Zone" on Mars, set it to heroic, pop a Resupply Codes buff for extra glimmer of Cabal, run out ignore the first ship, kill the 9 majors that spawn on the second ship, wipe, rinse and repeat.
Hope this helps, any questions, leave them in the comments I will try get back to you with an answer.
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What do you do with the notes to upgrade it??? Don’t you have to go use it and get it xp to lvl any gun?
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Truth is the best option. With a telemetry it requires 6 motes to fully level up. No other exotic levels as quickly.
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Edited by EARWAK3R: 8/15/2016 3:22:03 AMI just buy a a ton of 3ocs a week. Get exotics as i play = crush for shards. Never run out. No point wasting glimmer or grinding mars lol
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I don't know about you but buying Truth and using 8 motes fully levels it,no heavy telemetry needed(also no RL bonus on class item).
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Or you could've played in year one and not have gotten gjallarhorn until extremely late like me. In all serious though, just keep popping 3oC and you win.
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Or... You could just buy year 2 truth and not have to buy the heavy telementary.... 10 mol with fully upgrade it
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If you can wait till Xür swings by with a heavy weapon, you can buy a few of those (if you have the SC, of course) Stick an appropriate class item on and six Motes later it'll be fully ranked up (get 3 Motes back!) Dismantle, rinse and repeat!
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I have about 100 or so shards from yr 1 all I would ever get where chest of alpha poopie, universal remote, hawkmoon and thunder lord almost everytime I decrypted a engram
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Edited by Lava_Cooled: 8/15/2016 1:37:59 AMI buy a thunder lord from the kiosk and only use 6 motes