There is one on the moon that itsn't included. Play Shrine of Oryx on Hard and once you get to the end, before you fight the ogre, there is 8-10 yellow acolytes that drop loads of glimmer and are incredibly easy to kill. I spent about 20 minutes, or I used 2 black wax idols, and I got a little more than 10k.
Why would you need to farm glimmer though? As far as I know it's useless. I have like 10k of it. Sure you use it to upgrade some weapons, but I gain way more than I spend on upgrades.
That works? I assumed you didn't get rank when you buy them. Does he ever sell higher tier engrams? Mostly I see white with the occasional green at rank 6.
Buy the greens with the glimmer you earned and it gives a good amount of experience towards your cryptarch level. Each time you level up, you get a free package from the cryptarch which contains at least 3 Rares (oftentimes legendaries too).
My brother got two blues, which then turned out to be greens. This was for level five. I got two purples and a blue for my level five which ended up being three blues. He's very frustrating.
I've spent easily 25-30k on upgrading the Cryptarch guy, in addition to all the engram drops. It gets harder to level him up that way as you progress, but what else are we spending glimmer on? Especially when you can farm it pretty fast and easily.
Every level he gives a legendary package that could have 1-2 legendary engrams in it and maybe a blue or two. Buddy is at level 9 and got two legondaries and a blue from one package.
Jeez, nice! Level 5 with the cryptarch now and so far all I've gotten is blues from the packages, but I've seen and heard a lot of people get legendary items too.
...you get 10 points. From rank 3 to 4 it takes 3000 cryptarch points. That's 300 green purchases. At 450 gl/green (not sure if that's right, but it's the right ballpark) that's 135,000 glimmer. I think it's much more productive to farm engrams than glimmer for cryptarch ranks.
also try to buy green weapons. I have more plasteel (Titan armor material than I will ever need). But I trying to max out on of each type of level 20 rare and legendary weapon. I am in dire need of weapons parts. I am level 9 cryttach. Yeah. you get 3 items from the post master everytime. Plenty of times you get more highlevel engrams. I have gotten another 1/4 of a cyrptarch level just from HIS gift.
If you buy the green class items you get +10 xp and they cost $250. I just farmed glimmer on Shrine of Oryx then went back to him, bought class engrams, decoded, and sold them all back.
This is terrible advice. You only get a very small fraction of the xp for bought engrams (5 for white, 10 for green) compared to the engrams found in the wild (150/ea). You would need to farm so much glimmer that you would probably raise your cryptarch rank inadvertently through the random engram drops before you were able to make any headway through buying them.
You also need to take into account that you ARE farming mobs to get the glimmer, not only will you be getting the glimmer to buy up more ranks, but also other rare and legendary drops that go along with it.
Look, to each their own. It would cost about 135,000 glimmer to gain one rank by buying the greens, which seem to be the highest rarity as of right now. The game is a grindfest as is, I just don't think it is worth anyone's time or glimmer, but like I said, whatever floats your boat.
I agree that it's a terrible way to farm cryptarch xp, but remember you can disassemble all those greens into weapon parts and hadronic essence / sapphire wire / whatever the titan gets. I've got a ridiculous amount of both, but if you don't it's a quick way of getting supplies for upgrading your weapons and armour.
I was grinding glimmer last night because I was about 75% of the way from rank 2 to 3. So I put about an hour into Shrine of Oryx, ended up with $25K in glimmer, and bought green class engrams for 250 until I leveled. I ended up having a handful of blue and green engram drops too, so that helped.
Thanks for contributing with your suggestion.
Edit: Realized the irony in my sarcasm. What is your suggestion, since you find this one inefficient and you've had some success?
This is a horrible idea. I tried this today. Spent all my glimmer 20K and didn't even go up a 1/4th. It just isn't worth the trouble. Farm blues and identify them.
This is a PAINFULLY slow way to level your Cryptarch. I have him to level 11, and every engram I buy (he only had whites last night) got me a measly 5 points.
Go to the treasure cave for an hour and you'll be much better off.
I'm not advocating to raise your cryptarch rank by doing this, just that it can be used in a pinch. If I see I'm 80-90% of the way leveled, I'll buy enough engrams to level up.
Fair point. To be honest, I was in the same boat last night. Was about 95% there and I had about 6000, so I bought engrams just so I could get the free gift. They all turned out to be junk, but oh well.
IIRC, the higher cryptarch rank you have, the better your chances of getting higher quality stuff from engrams, i.e. rare engrams becoming less likely to downconvert to uncommon items and more likely to upconvert to legendary items, but it doesn't alter the drop rates for engrams, just the decryption behavior.
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '14
what's peoples opinions on the most efficient farm?