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- Glimmer Farm #1: Farm Public Events
- Glimmer Farm #2: Farm Planetary Chests
Destiny 2 has a lot of resources you gotta manage. There are Legendary Shards, Enhancement Cores, Enhancement Prisms, Recon Data for Season of the Hunt, Herealways Pieces introduced in Beyond Light, and a specific resource for each of the game’s many destinations.
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But the thing you’ll always need is Glimmer. Glimmer is as close as Destiny 2 comes to cold, hard cash. You need Glimmer to buy bounties, Glimmer to slot mods, Glimmer to upgrade your arms and armor, and Glimmer to do just about anything. When you run out of Glimmer, your game grinds to a complete standstill.
Keeping up your Glimmer supplies is a necessary thing in Destiny 2, but not something you want to spend too much time on. Here’s every way you can earn Glimmer in Destiny 2 and some of the fastest Glimmer farms you can use.
Updated May 19, 20223, by Charles Burgar: Destiny 2: Lightfall has made Glimmer more important than ever. Now that buildcrafting is a central pillar of Destiny's progression, having the resources needed to upgrade your gear is essential to surviving the game's harder activities. We've updated this guide to include updated Glimmer sources, updated the resource exchange section to reflect economy changes, and added a Public Event farm that's currently the best Glimmer farm in the game.
How To Get Glimmer
Virtually everything you do in Destiny 2 will grant Glimmer. Defeating enemies, completing activities, and speaking to certain vendors will be your main sources of earning Glimmer. Notable methods of earning Glimmer is listed below:
Rainmaker Deprecation
Rainmaker consumables will also be deprecated in Season of the Deep, dismantling into 3,000 Glimmer each. If you need some emergency Glimmer and have played Destiny 2 in previous seasons, it's not a bad idea to dismantle these.
Method
Type
Glimmer Amount
Killing Enemies
Activity
Miniscule
Dismantling Rares And Vanity Items
Misc.
100
*Planetary Chests
Activity
400
**Lost Sector Chests
Activity
1,800
Playlist Match Completion
Activity
2,500
Public Events (Normal)
Activity
3,300 | 4,645
Rahool's Resource Exchange
Vendor
5,000
Public Events (Heroic)
Activity
10,000 | 12,500
Season Pass
Season Pass
250,000
*Chests taper your Glimmer rewards when farmed. You'll gain less Glimmer as you open chests in a short time span.
**Only grants 1,800 for the first five Lost Sector chests that session (excluding Dreaming City and Moon chests).
Credit to Pyro Gaming for most of the Glimmer values listed above.
Season Pass
Each Season Pass will grant Glimmer during certain ranks, both for the free and premium tracks. Assuming you own the current season, you can earn 250,000 Glimmer from the Season Pass. Glimmer bundles are given at the following ranks:
Rank
Track
Amount
Rank 3
Free
8,000
Rank 6
Free
8,000
Rank 9
Paid
10,000
Rank 12
Free
6,000
Rank 16
Free
6,000
Rank 17
Paid
10,000
Rank 23
Paid
12,000
Rank 29
Paid
25,000
Rank 37
Paid
30,000
Rank 49
Paid
40,000
Rank 74
Paid
45,000
Rank 82
Paid
50,000
New Lights can get up to 28,000 Glimmer from the Season Pass. Season owners get significantly more, up to 250,000 Glimmer upon reaching rank 82.
Public Events
It might be surprising to hear that Public Events are the best source of Glimmer in Destiny 2 currently. A change in Season 19 greatly improved Public Event Glimmer drops. Normal Public Events grant 3,300 Glimmer for easy ones and 4,645 for more lengthy events. If you make the event Heroic and complete it, you'll earn at least 10,000 Glimmer. Longer events will pay out 12,500 Glimmer instead.
Assuming you can make every event Heroic, you can easily earn a full stack of 250,000 Glimmer with an hour or two of Public Event farming. Excluding resource exchanges with Rahool, this is easily the best source of Glimmer.
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Boosting Glimmer Gains With Ghost Shells
Those planning to farm for Glimmer should consider modding their Ghost Shell for Glimmer mods. Ghost Shell Glimmer Boosts can increase your Glimmer gains by up to 65%. This includes all Glimmer sources that drop in the world, so virtually everything except bounties and the Season Pass.
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Related: Destiny 2: Tips For Farming Legendary Lost Sectors
Rahool's Resource Exchange
Before you decide to farm for Glimmer, head to the Tower and speak to Rahool. All planetary currencies can be exchanged for Glimmer. Since most planetary resources were all effectively deprecated, there's no reason to hold onto these items. You can exchange stacks of the same planetary resource for 10,000 Glimmer, reduced to 5,000 Glimmer if the resource is deprecated.
You may also exchange ten Legendary Shards for 10,000 Glimmer, although we don't recommend this due to the widespread use of Legendary Shards across all Destiny 2 vendors and upgrade systems.
You can exchange the following resources with Rahool:
Curios
Legendary Shards
World Loot
Dark Fragments
Dreaming City
Phantasmal Fragments
Moon
Herealways Pieces
Europa
Deprecated Resources
Microphasic Datalattice
Nessus
Dusklight Shards
EDZ
Baryon Bough
Dreaming City
Glacial Starwort
Europa
Spinmetal Leaves
Cosmodrome
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Glimmer Farm #1: Farm Public Events
If you need Glimmer and don't have any resources to exchange, farm Heroic Public Events. There's almost always a Public Event active on the EDZ and Nessus. Load into the destination, reach the Public Event, and make it Heroic as soon as possible. Complete the event to earn 10,000 Glimmer, boosted by Ghost Shell mods. With some luck, you'll get a short Public Event that only takes a couple of minutes to complete. Reload the instance to farm the same Public Event one or two more times, then join the next Public Event on the map.
With some luck, you'll be able to earn at least 100K Glimmer an hour. With a Ghost Shell specced for Glimmer gains and some good RNG, you can potentially earn a full stack of Glimmer in an hour. If you don't know how to make Public Events Heroic, check out this useful video guide from YouTuber JustCaptain.
As for the best Public Events to farm, keep an eye out for the events listed below. Most of these spawn in the EDZ and Nessus:
- Ether Resupply
- Ether Ritual
- Taken Blight
- Weapons Exchange
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Glimmer Farm #2: Farm Planetary Chests
Still not enough Glimmer? Here’s a quick combo to use with your Ghost’s Glimmer Booster Mod. In the second slot on your Ghost will be a mod called Expert Hunter, allowing you to scan chests up to 75 meters away from you. Apply it to your Ghost Shell, then head to your planet of choice. Most prefer the EDZ since it's jam-packed with chest spawn locations.
That’s not bad, but we can do a lot better. It’s unknown if this is a bug or a feature, but peering through the scope of a sniper rifle extends that 75-meter radius to basically the entire map. Suddenly, every treasure chest in your current area will be visible, with the only caveat being you have to now have to painstakingly correct your Sniper Rifle’s aim to be in the general direction of the chest to spot it.
Honestly, that doesn’t take very long, and you can easily whip out your Sniper Rifle, spot a chest, hop on your Sparrow, open that chest, and repeat for all remaining chests in the region until you’ve made a few thousand Glimmer in just a few minutes. Then all you need to do is speed off to the next area to repeat the whole process over again. Just keep in mind that these chests will stop granting Glimmer if you open too many of them in a short timeframe. If your Glimmer starts to taper off, consider farming public events or patrols for a few minutes.
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