Destiny 2
It’s that time again folks… time to go traipsing through otherwise dangerous areas in search of Xur. I am very quickly going to run out of original things to say since the limited pool of exotics seems to be generating a bunch of repeat weeks. This was a huge problem with Destiny 1 as well and made worse by the fact that they do not seem to put the exotics on a rotation of any sort. There were several that we never actually saw sold by Xur in Destiny 1 and thusfar there is a whole slew that we have yet to see sold by him in Destiny 2. You can find Xur in the Watcher’s Grave area of Nessus where he is up in a tree. You can either hop up on the ledge and hop across or run a narrow path up the side of the tree. He brought a few gems so lets check out his stock.
There are two exotic grenade launchers… one of which is good and the other is likely the worst weapon in the game. Thankfully the Prospector is the good one and probably well worth picking up. It is a bit of a weird weapon to get used to because of the Excavation exotic perk, which keeps your grenades from detonating while you are holding down the fire trigger. This has a bizarre interaction with the fact that this weapon has auto fire… allowing you to pump out an entire magazine of eight grenades without actually detonating them and then detonating them all at once. The only problem with this is that these are not sticky grenades so there is a bit of bounce when you fire them out without instantly detonating them. The blast radius is rather small as well which again leads this to be a weird option because each grenade is not going to damage a very large area. As a result this is really good when you can fire them down into some sort of enclosed area and then detonate all of them at once for a massive explosion. More often than not I simply use this as a decent single fire grenade launcher which gives me more predictable results. If you are wanting a work horse rather than a gimmick… I highly suggest checking out Berenger’s Memory or Play of the Game legendary grenade launchers instead.
I actually had yet to get an insurmountable skullfort on the PC side yet so I was happy to see this item show up. This is one of those situationally good items that allows for a slightly degenerate build. The primary interaction is between Transfusion Matrix the exotic perk and Code of the Earthshaker path for the striker titan. The perk causes kills with arc melee abilities to trigger health regeneration… which is actually the reversal trait from Code of the Juggernaut. This becomes a great farming build because Seismic Strike and the AOE damage it deals… means you are going to be getting back lots of melee energy from the second part of this perk, allowing you to maintain damned near 100% up time. On the battlefield what this means is that you can zoom around slamming into things rather than actually firing any weapons. There are a few things that you could do to improve the reliability like slotting two arc melee recharge time mods, but when it works… it is insanely fun. This is mostly a PVE build concept and every time I have tried to shoulder charge in the crucible I have paid a hefty price for it.
I’ve talked about this item at length several different times, so I am not sure what else I can really add. The Eye of Another World is one of those items that passively all of your abilities work better. This is the sort of set it and forget it always on item that I tend to favor, because it requires zero attention to detail. Unless you are going for a specific gimmick build… this is probably your best all purpose warlock item. If you don’t already have it I highly suggest picking it up. If you want more dialog from me on this check out one of the many other Xur posts where I have talked about it.
Similarly the Foetracer is a generally good item and I have started running it lately because it tends to help finish off mobs in Nightfalls. Relentless Tracker perk visually marks your enemies after targeting them for a short period of time and causes you to deal extra damage when they reach low health. That last bit helps and it is just enough of a change to make killing things seem faster which is always the name of the game in a Nightfall. I do however miss my constant tracking radar while using this item, but I am trying really hard to learn to live without it. Again I highly suggest picking this up, and also once again I have talked at length about this item in the past in any one of the many other times Xur has offered it.
Destiny 1
This week in Destiny 1 Xur is located in the Tower directly across from Lord Shaxx. He finally restocked his inventory and is no longer bringing the Jade Rabbit, so hopefully you Xbox players picked that up while it was still available. Interestingly Xur in Destiny 1 seems to be taking a queue from his personal in Destiny 2 because they both brought the Insurmountable Skullfort. Let’s check out his items this week.
- Legacy Arm Engram – 29 Strange Coins
- An Insurmountable Skullfort – Titan Helm – 13 Strange Coins
- Radiant Dance Machines – Hunter Boots – 13 Strange Coins
- Claws of Ahamkara – Warlock Arms – 13 Strange Coins
- The Last Word – Hand Cannon – 23 Strange Coins
- Dragon’s Breath and Tigershark Ornament – 30 Strange Coins 25 Silver Dust
- Zhalo Supercell with Not A Toy Ornament – 30 Strange Coins 25 Silver Dust