The Fastest Ways To Farm Destiny 2’s Exotic Class Items

Destiny 2 has unleashed its Prismatic-focused exotic class items into the wild, which first sparked controversy about its duo-required, comms-required mission, but moving past that for a moment, it’s time to talk about farming.

I’ve said I think the process needs to improve, but if you simply want to know what’s fastest, I’ll give you three options.

• The best, and most fun option is running the actual very excellent mission. It is a guaranteed class item per run, but if that wasn’t good enough, there is currently a glitch to get double drops at the end, though we don’t know when Bungie might fix that. In terms of timing here, if you have no clue what you’re doing, the first time may be 45 minutes. But after that, it’s easy to get down to 30 minutes, or 25, or even 20 if you’re lightning fast. I’ve seen speedrunners at 15. Though the obvious caveat here is to farm this way you will always need a second person on comms, which will not always be easily accessible to most players. But this is the best, fastest way currently, especially with double drops available.

• The second-fastest way, but easily the most dull, is chest farming in patrol. As in area chests, not the Overthrow/puzzle chest/miniboss chests on the map. Rather, these are the ones that just show up on the map. There is a bad luck system where harder-to-get chests contribute more, but the overall situation here is that you can farm low-level patrol chests so fast that it outweighs that. It takes about 30 minutes or so to farm class items from racing around opening chests. You need to have Combo Detector on, and the best way to do this is equip a sniper rifle, which can zoom and find new, distant chests, and you just race your sparrow over that. Reportedly The Landing takes the least time, and you just have to reload the zone after, wait 10 seconds and farm again.
• The longest way is what I’ve been doing, though it comes with added bonuses. That is running actual full clears of Overthrow in each zone, which includes all types of chests as you play, including at the end of minigames and zone bosses. This is slower. On average, it takes about 2.5-3.5 full Overthrow clears, which I’d peg at closer to 45 minutes to an hour. You can get lucky, of course, but that’s rare. While this is slower, you can benefit from additional things you may also want to be farming like Ergo Sum swords or red border Pale Heart weapons, which you won’t be getting elsewhere.

So, that’s sort of it. You have chances at the items in the raid or the campaign or co-op missions but those are not really viable to “farm” in the traditional sense, given how much space you’ll have between chests. Good luck, you’ll need it.

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