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Exotic Sword Info/Farming Tue 29 Sep 2015, 3:09 pm
walldoggy
Farming Tips!
For those who are unaware, you should always use a ghost shell that gives you the location of the material you are farming and a sniper rifle. This combo will highlight the nodes across the entire zone by using your scope.
1. Look for empty zones. If you arrive in a zone and find that there are no guardians and no material spawns up, WAIT! This means that the zone has been empty and the materials will begin to spawn within 1-2 minutes. These are the best places to farm because you can generally get between 5-8 materials. Also, because they are spawning as you are gathering they tend to be very easy to find and farm quickly.
The best zones that I found for this are Mothyards, Hellmouth and Buried City. These zones are the best for two reasons. First, they are large zones with a good number of material spawns. Second and more importantly, they are almost always empty. Some zones have spawn points for particular quests and strikes that result in them having guardians entering and exiting regularly (Forgotten Shore and Hollows for example). These zones tend to have material nodes that have already spawned when you enter and you will usually see other guardians farming here. The same goes for starting patrol zones.
2. Stick and Move. Speed is king when trying to complete this process quickly. If you spawn into a zone that has three nodes available, grab those three and move on. Don't wait around for more nodes to spawn.
3. Don't be afraid to reset. If I started a patrol on the Moon and found that there were three guardians running around Archers Line I would check the spawns, grab what I could, and restart the patrol. I almost always found that when I left a crowded instance and restarted my patrol, I would end up on an empty planet.
4. Take time to enjoy the game. Getting tired of farming? Stop and do a public or taken event. I found that even spending 2-3 minutes to do a Warsat or Taken Zealot could be very refreshing. Shooting monsters is fun.
5. If you find a good node, abuse it! You can open the same node multiple times by grabbing a material, leaving the zone and then coming back. A particular node at Anchor of Light on the Moon comes to mind. When I saw that this node was up, I knew that I could grab it and make it back from the Hellmouth 3-4 times before it would disappear. If you are paying attention, there are plenty of opportunities to grab a good node multiple times. Take advantage!
6. Remember the spawns. As you make your way around a planet multiple times, you will become familiar with where the common material spawns are located. By the third time around a planet I almost never used my sniper rifle to locate nodes. Instead, I would blast around a zone on my sparrow checking the spots where I knew they had spawned previously. This allowed me to avoid pulling out my sniper rifle after each node to check locations and definitely saved lots time.
7. Give yourself time limits. I would tell myself that I had 30 minutes or an hour to farm for materials and regardless of how many I found, when I ran out of time I would stop. This helped to break up the monotony and helped to speed up my farming. As the clock ran down, I almost always moved faster in an effort to get one more material before I ran out of time.
Good luck to all the guardians searching for that last node. Now the wait for Armsday begins!
TL;DR Look for empty zones, don't wait around, leave a crowded instance, stop and shoot the monsters, abuse good spawns, use your brains, and race against the clock.
Edit: For those wondering about completing the quest multiple times on the same character, see this post (https://np.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3mbjxo/when_levelling_your_legendary_sword_for_the/). It is possible to complete the quest for all three swords on the same character. You can also skip parts of the quest (Crucible portion and Regicide mission) on your 2nd and 3rd swords.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3mutn0/this_weekend_i_farmed_the_materials_for_all_three/
For those who are unaware, you should always use a ghost shell that gives you the location of the material you are farming and a sniper rifle. This combo will highlight the nodes across the entire zone by using your scope.
1. Look for empty zones. If you arrive in a zone and find that there are no guardians and no material spawns up, WAIT! This means that the zone has been empty and the materials will begin to spawn within 1-2 minutes. These are the best places to farm because you can generally get between 5-8 materials. Also, because they are spawning as you are gathering they tend to be very easy to find and farm quickly.
The best zones that I found for this are Mothyards, Hellmouth and Buried City. These zones are the best for two reasons. First, they are large zones with a good number of material spawns. Second and more importantly, they are almost always empty. Some zones have spawn points for particular quests and strikes that result in them having guardians entering and exiting regularly (Forgotten Shore and Hollows for example). These zones tend to have material nodes that have already spawned when you enter and you will usually see other guardians farming here. The same goes for starting patrol zones.
2. Stick and Move. Speed is king when trying to complete this process quickly. If you spawn into a zone that has three nodes available, grab those three and move on. Don't wait around for more nodes to spawn.
3. Don't be afraid to reset. If I started a patrol on the Moon and found that there were three guardians running around Archers Line I would check the spawns, grab what I could, and restart the patrol. I almost always found that when I left a crowded instance and restarted my patrol, I would end up on an empty planet.
4. Take time to enjoy the game. Getting tired of farming? Stop and do a public or taken event. I found that even spending 2-3 minutes to do a Warsat or Taken Zealot could be very refreshing. Shooting monsters is fun.
5. If you find a good node, abuse it! You can open the same node multiple times by grabbing a material, leaving the zone and then coming back. A particular node at Anchor of Light on the Moon comes to mind. When I saw that this node was up, I knew that I could grab it and make it back from the Hellmouth 3-4 times before it would disappear. If you are paying attention, there are plenty of opportunities to grab a good node multiple times. Take advantage!
6. Remember the spawns. As you make your way around a planet multiple times, you will become familiar with where the common material spawns are located. By the third time around a planet I almost never used my sniper rifle to locate nodes. Instead, I would blast around a zone on my sparrow checking the spots where I knew they had spawned previously. This allowed me to avoid pulling out my sniper rifle after each node to check locations and definitely saved lots time.
7. Give yourself time limits. I would tell myself that I had 30 minutes or an hour to farm for materials and regardless of how many I found, when I ran out of time I would stop. This helped to break up the monotony and helped to speed up my farming. As the clock ran down, I almost always moved faster in an effort to get one more material before I ran out of time.
Good luck to all the guardians searching for that last node. Now the wait for Armsday begins!
TL;DR Look for empty zones, don't wait around, leave a crowded instance, stop and shoot the monsters, abuse good spawns, use your brains, and race against the clock.
Edit: For those wondering about completing the quest multiple times on the same character, see this post (https://np.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3mbjxo/when_levelling_your_legendary_sword_for_the/). It is possible to complete the quest for all three swords on the same character. You can also skip parts of the quest (Crucible portion and Regicide mission) on your 2nd and 3rd swords.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3mutn0/this_weekend_i_farmed_the_materials_for_all_three/
Last edited by walldoggy on Tue 06 Oct 2015, 10:04 am; edited 2 times in total
