If you missed last weeks lore quest that Xur was selling, don’t fret. It’s still there alongside the quest item for the next step.
This quest gives a piece of powerful gear, but also some much appreciated backstory on The Nine. There won’t be a cut scene every week, but there will be a lore entry of some kind and a powerful upgrade.
So I urge all Guardians to complete these bounties. I haven’t been this excited for Xur since my kinder-guardian days back in D1.
Let’s find this Agent of the Nine and learn more about his masters.
Location
EDZ – You will want to spawn into Winding Cove down toward the South-West of the map. Once spawned in, you’ll want to head straight up a small hill where you see a fair amount of Fallen equipment on the ground and some hanging from the cliffside.
A few Fallen should be roaming around here and will attack you. It’s up to you on if you want to spare them. On the cliff to your left, there will be a large fallen ship attached to the wall of the cliff. Toward the right of that, in the wall of the rock, you will see a small cave-like entrance that will wrap around and up to a ledge where Xûr is waiting. This week he has the following items:
The Goods
Weapons
The Huckleberry
Submachine Gun
- Ride the Bull
- Increased rate of fire and recoil while you’re holding down the trigger. Kills with this weapon reload a portion of the magazine.
- Fluted Barrel
- Greatly increases handling speed
- Slightly increases stability
- Ricochet Rounds
- Increases stability
- Slightly Increases range
- Rampage
- Kills with this weapon temporarily grant increased damage. Stacks x3
- Short-Action Stock
- Greatly increases handling speed
Gear
Hunter
Gemini Jester
Intrinsic Perk
- Misdirection Dodging
- Disorients and removes enemy radars.
Tier 1
- Mobility Enhancement Mod
- Increased Mobility
- Plasteel Reinforcement Mod
- Increased Resilience
Tire 2
- Fusion Rifle Targeting
- Increases target acquisition, accuracy, and aim-down-sights speed of Fusion Rifles
- Hand Cannon Targeting
- Increased target acquisition, accuracy, and aim-down-sights speed of Hand Cannons
- Outreach
- Reduces melee cooldown when using your class ability.
Tier 3 Perk:
- Scout Rifle Reserves
- Increase the amount of Scout Rifle ammo you can carry.
- Special Ammo Finder
- Increase the drop of Special ammo on kill.
Titan
Mask of the Quiet One
Intrinsic Perk
- Dreaded Visage
- Gain ability energy when you’re damaged. When critical, heal on kills.
Tier 1
- Mobility Enhancement Mod
- Increased Mobility
- Restorative Mod
- Increased Health Recover
Tier 2
- Fusion Rifle Loader
- Increase reload speed of Fusion Rifles
- Handconnon Reloader
- Increase reload speed for Handcannons
- Hands-On
- Gain bonus Super energy on kills.
Tier 3
- Sniper Rifle Reserves
- Increase the amount of Sniper Rifle ammo you can carry.
- Machine Gun Reserves
- Increase the amount of Machine Gun ammo you can carry.
Warlock
Contraverse Hold
Intrinsic Perk
- Chaotic Exchanger
- Resist incoming damage while charging your Void grenade with Chaos Accerant, Freed the Void, or Handheld Supernova. Charged Void grenades return a random amounts of grenade energy on a hit.
Tier 1
- Mobility Enhancement Mod
- Increased Mobility
- Plasteel Reinforcement Mod
- Increased Resilience
Tire 2
- Fusion Rifle Loader
- Increases reload speed of Fusion Rifles
- Hand Cannon Loader
- Increased reload speed of Hand Cannons
- Impact Induction
- Causing damage with a melee attack reduces grenade cooldown.
Tier 3
- Sniper Rifle Scavenger
- Sniper Rifles get bonus reserves when you pick up Special ammo.
- Machine Gun Scavenger
- Machine Guns get bonus reserves when you pick up ammo.
Miscellaneous
Fated Engram
Fated Engrams are exotic engrams that award you exotics that Xûr has the ability to sell, however, you haven’t acquired yet. The best strategy for these is to buy any exotics you have not yet acquired from Xûr while he is selling them. This is to eliminate the chance of the Fated Engram giving you something that you could have just purchased. Once you have all the Exotics that Xûr can sell, then Fated Engrams are no longer worth the purchase.
Five of Swords
Five of Swords are used for Nightfalls. You only need to purchase them once, unless you accidentally dismantle it. Five of Swords allows you to set modifiers to the Nightfall to make it easier with a lower Nightfall score or to make it harder with a multiplier to the Nightfall score. There are many different combinations and the modifiers can be changes endlessly.
The Invitation
The World
Collect metaphysical samples from defeated combatants in the European Dead Zone. Complete strike “Lake of Shadows”
- Strike Complete
- Cabal samples 0/9
- Fallen samples 0/9
- Taken samples 0/9
Justice
Collect metaphysical samples from defeated combatants on Titan. Complete strike “Savathûn’s Song.”
- Stike Complete
- Fallen Samples 0/9
- Hive Samples 0/9