Exotic decoding
The Destiny 2 economy/farming system is changing in some pretty weird ways when The Final Shape hits, and will require a different sort of prep this time around.
Some things will remain the same. It appears that bounty stacking ahead of The Final Shape will still be necessary with Bungie keeping the artifact power system in place, in addition to grinding out new power caps through gear when the content itself launches. But bounties will give you an XP boost, as ever.
But now you can prep to more or less instantly get the new exotic armor The Final Shape launches with, given changes to that system which sound dull, as I’ve opined, but ultimately seem like a path to get that gear faster.
The new system relies on ranking up Rahool through focusing or decrypting engrams. High cost exotic engram focusing gives you the most XP, normal exotics give you some, and Prime engrams give you the least. Bungie says a “full collection” of exotic engrams, ie. taking up all your slots, should be enough to get you to max him out in order to start the new level of focusing to get the new Final Shape/Echoes exotics (we do not know how many there are yet, probably at least six, two per class).
So, you need a full inventory of exotic engrams, but also other things. But to start:
Exotic Engram Sources
Ascendant Shard Sources – Bungie also recommends you stock up on these as they are used in focusing exotics which will get you more XP.
Exotic Ciphers – You also need these to focus the new gear. These have a higher cap now of 5, but they have shockingly few sources.
Yeah that’s it, unless I’m missing something. Since you can only hold five at a time, if there are more exotics than that when The Final Shape hits, you cannot fully stock up to focus them.
So uh, enjoy. All of this sounds dreary to me, but it should get you the exotics in less time than Lost Sector RNG farming and waiting for the correct day.
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