Greetings Guardians!
So we've been hitting Destiny hard for the past Month now and if you've played even half as much as me I'm sure you're decked out in Legendaries and probably even have an alt starting up or are starting to clear Hard modes. What does that mean? [b]Lots of gear to level![/b]
One key component of upgrading your legendaries are [b]materials found in the open world[/b]. The only way to farm these materials is by farming their respective planets for those resources!
Well I've been farming this stuff for way too long, already have a few gear sets as well as a full alt, and from public opinion as well as personal opinion and extensive comparison testing - I am confident [i]these are the four fastest ways to farm the four respective materials on each planet[/i].
Not only that, but I'm also confident that these guides won't distract you from what [u]really matters here[/u] - the farming routes themselves! Lately there's been an abundance of [b]bulky guide videos that take 15 minutes to deliver 2 minutes of content[/b], so I tried to simplify the format for material farming route guides. (See NOTE below)
[url=http://youtu.be/Nh5xH3GTkIs]First, [u][b]Spinmetal![/b][/u] Earth's silvery shiney bundle of metallic foliage![/url]
- This spinmetal run features the Rocketyard chest run, it simply cannot be beaten on Spinmetal/Hour anywhere else on Earth!
[url=http://youtu.be/8z_oHLTE_40]Now, here comes my favorite farm spot, [u][b]Helium Coils![/b][/u] This NEW Moon chest run has yet to be popularized so hit it hard while you can![/url]
- This Moon run is an nJoi Gaming-found run that features a TON of chest coverage across a large area that respawns quickly by the time you're looping back around and I've seen tons of lucky double-spawns!
[url=http://youtu.be/9OayFBhos0A]And then there was [u][b]Spirit Bloom[/b][/u], the easiest sh!t to farm since the Loot Cave - this stuff is everywhere but here's the fastest run out there featuring the well-known Ember Caves[/url]
- This popular run is by far the fastest Spirit bloom farming route out there, so I did a quick showing of how the run works and how quick and easy it is to max out on Spirit Blooms.
- Some redditors pointed out that I missed a cave, I commented on the video to explain where it is and also put it in the description! But it's right above and to the right of where I go under the bridge past some Gregs to the Beaver Captain
[url=http://youtu.be/-Q4YaUBChK4]Last, let's talk [u][b]Relic Iron![/b][/u] My very own NEW run! Get to Mars and get this run going, you won't regret it![/url]
- This run took a popular but *small* chest run on Mars and expands upon it to create what I've found to be the fastest Relic Iron farming in the game, it doubles the number of chest spawns it covers from its original, smaller version and adds a ton of raw Relic Iron spawns as well.
[b]NOTE:[/b] Each video is broken down into three, well mostly two, [i]distinct parts[/i]. The [u]first[/u] is where I run the route [i]without gathering nodes and hunting through caves[/i], just trying to show you the fastest route you'll be running [b]without any distractions or disorienting movements.[/b] The [u]second[/u] part is the route in [b]full detail[/b] as if I were farming it myself. I've commented timestamps on each video to skip forward to these parts, the intro is similar for each video so feel free to skip it once you've heard it![u][/u]
[url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/73147133/0/0]Check out my new Hard Mode Templar strategy for a great way to get gear that you'll need to upgrade![/url]
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Thankyou, hopefully in time destiny gets a lot more chests to loot so we don't have to rely on one specific run to get mats
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Thanks dude! Awesome info
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Thanks for sharing! This will undoubtedly prove helpful to many!
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Thank you!
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Thanks for the guide!
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Materials ain't the problem, it's them ascendants!
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I CAN FINALLY MAKE A SPINMETAL PICKAXE SO I CAN MINE ALL THE RELIC IRON IN THE GLIMMER MINES!!!.........Hold on...Iv'e been playin' too much minecraft.
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Edited by loonigus: 10/14/2014 10:24:05 AMI usually do combine the usefull with the needed. Like I always run these material hunts with bounties each day I start playing or when the Vanguard resets. Why all you tutorial makers NEVER mention to combine the bounty mission with these farms? Example 1: Spin metal farm in the Cosmodrome where also a bunch of hive spawn for the Hive kill bounty AND 3 Fallen Majors near the locked down DLC entrance in the Cosmodrome. Not to mention doing all this together with the 6 patrol mission bounty or the 200 shards collecting mission one "yellow" Vandal gives 25 shards x3. More then one fly with one hit. Example 2: Relic Iron... Same as with the Spin metal there is the area in the Burried City part where two or three Vex Majors spawn for the 200 shard Vex mission, 10 Vex major kills, etc. The chest spawns there are much more tighter together with a ton of Relic iron aswell. There is like 10 fast respawn chest spots, 10 rare ones (aprox 1to 5 hour respawn windows). PS: In the spin metal one you forgot to mention two possible chest spawns in the huge "tubes", behind one of the trains. and on the small building near the room you forgot to check twice in the video.
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Thanks
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Thank you for the information. How do you do the recordings? and Do you know where the 3 golden chests are? I found one.Then there is the chest that has the bunny ear thing in it. From the start point, go left then past all buildings, turn rights as it is the only way to go, half way to the next the zone there is a crop of rocks, go left, then there will be a chest in those rocks. Hope you can video that better than me. Thanks again.
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awesome thanks for posting
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Thank you. I didn't know about the helium area. Will try this tomorrow.
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Thank you!
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Edited by elitebanana12: 10/14/2014 6:17:03 AMThank you
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Great guide, thank you OP. Collecting this stuff for upgrades is the most mind numbing thing I think I have ever had to do and all because Bungie does not want too see 1000 level 30's running around just yet. This is the only reason I am still LVL 26 and I see so many others rank 25-26 with all the upgrade defence slots not upgraded yet I just want to concentrate on actually finding people to do the VOG with, its the only thing I have not done yet. I'm also a Crucible fanboy. Sorry for that, don't know why but I just like it.
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Is there anything I can do to get more shards and energy? Those are my biggest limiting step. I run my dailies, events, weekly on 28 and Nightfall...and the raid. Is there anything else that I can do?
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Once I got from a chest was 10 relic iron, two rare engrams and an ascendent shard awesome
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Take this down now. We're going to receive a nerf from NERFgie as soon as they see this.
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Edited by Cozzaa89: 10/14/2014 5:20:16 AMThank you so much for telling everyone the moon run i use that n now there is going to be countless players running it thats if bungie doesnt nerf it
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Watch, Bungie is gonna nerf this shit next.....
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Saw it on Reddit :)
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Future use
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Instead of making us farm this sh-... Stuff ad nauseam, they really should make all the actual activities more rewarding. IE: You can find a mother-lode (as in a rich deposit) of planetary material (spinmetal, helium coils, etc.) in a Strike or a Heroic or Nightfall weekly.
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Great videos man! No nonsense just straight to the point.
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Hey whats up! Recruiting for my new clan, mainly on the xbox 360 but all others are welcome. If interested you can join here - http://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/Detail/374769 Then click "Set as Xbox Clan" and it will appear in game. Also need a few more for a core raid team to run VOG weekly, must be at least level 27. No prior experienced required just be able to listen and no die a lot. Happy Hunting!
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Commenting for future useeeeeee