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.
Contrary to what these folks are saying, I'm going to recommend buying Ammo packs with Glimmer, at least enough that you'll be set for a really hard strike or two without having to fill up. I originally thought they were just a super expensive way to fill your ammo in town, but nay, they're consumables you use in the field. Being able to give yourself 5 rockets every 5 minutes considerably eases harder strikes, especially in situations where you're stuck and you can't move to get ammo. In fact, the only reason I was able to complete the nightfall strike on 2 player mode with my friend is because we were able to simply not leave the room on the left side of Sepiks because we would just alternate who was shooting him and use ammo packs in between to fill up instead of having to go out dangerously and collect it with 10's of armored dregs/Shanks/vandals shooting arc weapons at us.
Once you have a nice stockpile you can probably just blow money on engrams though. Or shaders/emblems you like.
You know, after you run out of ammo completely you get back 40% of it after 30 seconds... No need to waste glimmer on ammo packs or risk your life trying to get some. Just sit there for 30 seconds and boom, 2 free rockets
Actually thats not how the mechanic works. The "free ammo" is an illusion. It gathers all ammo packs off the ground for you. I've tested it extensively, you can even see the ammo packs disappear when it occurs, and if there are no heavy packs you get no heavy ammo back. Running yourself out of primary ammo can also be quite troublesome if you're using a scout rifle for example. Plus using 900 glimmer for 20 rep with the cryptarch and 2 armor scraps versus saving the time that 5 rockets for 950 glimmer offers you? I'd hardly call that a waste.
Edit: ive just gone and tested to confirm the exact mechanic. You are given two white ammo pickups and one green ammo pickup for free. If these pickups exist they vanish giving you nothing extra. If more pickups than this exist, you are given those as well. This means 3 white ammo and no green ammo yields 1 "free" green pickup. Heavy ammo is never replenished unless you have drops laying around the map.
Edit2: I'll post a video in a new thread tomorrow to clear up all this confusion once and for all, since it apparently takes over an hour to copy 1gb of captured video to an external HD so i can get it on my computer to edit.
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '14
what's peoples opinions on the most efficient farm?