The Way You Get Destiny 2 Exotic Armor Is Changing For The Better

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Recent years have seen Bungie provide Destiny 2 players with an increasing number of ways to influence what type of rewards they obtain in-game. Now, Exotic armor drops are the next area to get this treatment, as Bungie is introducing Exotic armor focusing.

As detailed in a new blog post, beginning in Season 21, Rahool at the Tower will allow you to dictate what you get from an Exotic engram. You can still decrypt an engram for free as you currently can, but you'll also have two options to influence what you get. The first, Advanced Decryption, allows you to focus an engram into an Exotic from a particular expansion (and its corresponding seasons). Seemingly due to the sheer number of them, there will be four slot-specific options--helmets, gauntlets, chest armor, and leg armor--for Exotics from the original Red War campaign. Subsequent expansions, up through Lightfall, will have only a single focusing option. Regardless of which you choose, the cost will be 30,000 Glimmer and one Ascendant Shard, in addition to the required Exotic engram.

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Precision Decryption is the other option, and while it's more costly, it will allow you to specifically focus a piece of Exotic armor of your choice, though you'll need to have obtained the Exotic you want previously. As this is a particularly appealing option for ensuring you have a quality stat roll on a specific piece of gear, the cost is increased to 60,000 Glimmer, three Ascendant Shards, and one Exotic