Here’s where Xur is in Destiny 2 today, and what you should buy from him
Xûr appears every Friday at 17:00 GMT (09:00 Pacific), and will stick around until the Tuesday reset. We’ll update this guide shortly after he arrives, so if you’re reading this, you need only read on to learn where he is, and which are the best items he’s selling this week.
Ever since the Forsaken expansion, Xûr’s icon no longer appears on your director, so he’s not quite as easy to track down as he used to be. That said, his appearances in the EDZ, Titan, Nessus, Io, and The Tower have so far been in the same places he frequented in vanilla Destiny 2. When he appears in the Tangled Shore or Dreaming City (as he surely will) we’ll be sure to let you know exactly where.
Xûr is back at the EDZ this week, near Winding Cove. He is selling:
- Sunshot an Exotic energy hand cannon, for 29 legendary shards
- Lucky Raspberry, Exotic Hunter chest armour, for 23 legendary shards
- Actium War Rig, Exotic Titan chest armour, for 23 legendary shards
- Skull of Dire Ahamkara, an Exotic Warlock helmet, for 23 legendary shards
- A Fated Engram, which guarantees a non-duplicate Exotic, for 97 legendary shards.
Sunshot is an excellent hand cannon which you probably already have, because it’s available in the campaign and everyone has known how good it is for ages. It fires explosive rounds and will cause enemies it kills to explode. Together, these perks add up to enough splash damage to erase whole hordes of weak mobs, such as Hive Thrall and Cabal War Hounds, in just a couple of rounds. Magazine size isn’t great, but reload speed is fast enough to give plenty of uptime regardless. Pair with hand cannon reload perks for best results. If you somehow don’t have Sunshot, you should not only buy it if you have the shards, but you should probably grind for them if you don’t
Lucky Raspberry is a Hunter chest that will enhance your Arcbolt grenade’s chaining abilities, and grant them a chance to recharge whenever they deal damage. This means that the more targets you damage, the greater the chance of proccing the bonus grenade – chuck an Arcbolt into a pack of enemies, and you might be surprised how often your grenade regens, especially with the enhanced chaining abilities. Obviously this is best in PvE, making this chest piece a great pick for alien-hunting. In PvP it’s more of a clutch, but the bonus nade will still trigger occasionally. Recommended if you like Arcstrider.
Actium War Rig is a Titan chest piece that will feed ammo from your reserves into your magazine while firing an auto rifle. Effectively, it gives you a substantially bigger auto rifle magazine. All that extra uptime is helpful for many encounters in the raid – pair with Sweet Business and Rally Barricade for best results – and for hosing down enemies in PvE more generally. Like Knucklehead Radar, it’s hardly a flashy Exotic – it looks a bit bland, too – but it’s a good one. It’s one of three choices of Exotic armour offered to Titans during the main story, and probably the best of them. Recommended.
Skull of Dire Ahamkara is a Warlock helmet that provides additional damage resistance while casting Nova Bomb, and will cause Nova Bomb kills to grant super energy. Community testing suggests that each enemy killed will regen roughly 10% of your Super (here’s a video showing five kills equals half the bar), which is a pretty decent boost in PvE. Pair with the Bloom perk tree for extra explosions. It’s harder to recommend in PvP simply because you’ll be killing fewer enemies in each cast, but the extra damage resistance should at least guarantee you get it off. Overall it’s a nice boon for your Super in regular or solo PvE, but in the raid you shouldn’t need any extra help to get your Super up for damage phases and so on – your team should be making enough orbs for that. If you’ve got Nezarec’s Sin or even Eye of Another World, Skull of Dire Ahamkara falls more into the ‘nice to have’ category.
