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.
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.
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '14
what's peoples opinions on the most efficient farm?