Who is Xur?
Xur Agent Of The Nine, works for the mysterious group, The Nine. While Guardians have never seen The Nine, it is said that their influence is vast. Xur, the moss-tentacle-faced vendor visits social spaces once a week, bringing with him a variety of exotic items, which Guardians can purchase with Strange Coins.
Xur’s Location
If you’re looking to get something out of the tentacle-faced servant of The Nine then you’re in luck, because he’s here today! Go to The Reef, head right from spawn and go all the way down the stairs. Xur is lurking off in the open doorway on the right hand side, you may not see him but that’s because his clothes are so dirty they blend into the dark surroundings.
Xur’s Inventory
Exotic Weapon: Hard Light (Exotic Auto Rifle) 17 Strange Coins
Hard Light is one of the few exotic weapons that you can tell someone is shooting at you in the Crucible. It’s exotic perk, Volatile Light, causes the rounds to have no damage falloff over distance. The perk also makes rounds overpenetrate targets, and ricochet off of nearby walls. This last part is how you tell it’s being used against you, the rounds are bright and often come out of nowhere to destroy your killstreak.
Check out our analysis of Hard Light to see if you’re interested.
Exotic Gauntlets: ACD/0 Feedback Fence (Titan class) 13 Strange Coins
In addition to looking awesome, these Guantlets allow you to deal damage to an area around you when you take melee damage thanks to its exotic perk, Wrath Conductors. If you buy them they’ll come with another perk, Rain Blows, that increases melee attack attack speed, perfect if you’re up for punching the living snot out of enemies of the Tower and other Guardians.
Exotic Chest Armour: Heart of the Praxic Fire (Warlock Class) 13 Strange Coins
Perfect for raiding, this Chest Armour completely upgrades your Warlock. The exotic perk, Praise the Sun, while being a little tip of the hat to the Dark Souls series, decreases all ability cooldowns while Radiance is active, as well as greatly increasing your agility. You also gain increased armour when using a Solar based Subclass, as if you wouldn’t with this though.
Exotic Leg Armour: Bones of Eao (Hunter Class) 13 Strange Coins
I really have to say that these are some of the best pieces of Leg Armour you can get for a Hunter, and with many needing decent gear to Raid with at the moment, they couldn’t come at a better time. The exotic perk, Not Bound By Law, upgrades the Hunter’s Double Jump with an additional jump. King’s Fall requires quite a log of jumping, so I have to say that for this week’s Raid these boots are the boots to be in.
Weapon Bundles
The Last Word and Addendum: (weapon Bundle) 30 Strange Coins and 25 Silver Dust
The Last Word is one of the best handguns in the game, focusing on firing from the hip and barely aiming. Of course the Ornament is perfect for that collection of yours, and it makes the weapon look pretty awesome as well.
Red Death and White Witch: (weapon Bundle) 30 Strange Coins and 25 Silver Dust
Red Death is a notorious Auto Rifle because it allows the user to regain health with every kill. You can’t deny that for everything in Destiny that sounds pretty damn great. The weapon is needed if you don’t have it in your collection already for Age of Triumph, and the Ornament is perfect for making it look incredible.
Legacy Engram: (Exotic Special Weapon) 29 Strange Coins – The Legacy Engram will decode for a Year 1 or 2 piece of armour to complete your collection. Some of these items can be infused to Year 3 Light Level.
Three Of Coins (Consumable) 7 Strange Coins
Plasma Drive (Consumable) 23 Strange Coins
Emerald Coil (Consumable) 23 Strange Coins
Heavy Ammo Sythesis Consumable) 3 Strange Coins
Glass Needles (Consumable) 3 Strange Coins, 3 Motes Of Light, and 1 Exotic Shard
Our Take
This week’s exotic weapon is great for PVP, but not necessarily for PVE. If you’re already on the way to Rank 5 of the Iron Banner, and don’t need it for your collection, then leave it. Any one of the armour pieces from this week will make for a great addition to your collection, and be really useful in Raids. This week with King’s Fall being the new 390 Raid, the Bones of Eao are going to be particularly useful.
