Destiny Xur: Agent of Nine Location And Items Revealed, Week 6 (Oct 17)

GP: "Xur The Agent of Nine has arrived in for the Sixth week in Destiny to sell exotic items and powers. He appears only on weekends at the Tower hub at 9:00 am every Friday and leaves at 9:00 am every Sunday. Xur has a very valuable collection of one-time exotics, items which increase the weapon progression speed for around half an hour for one strange coin or sparrow upgrades for thirteen strange coins and much more."

[bunt-custardly]

Those cold eyes, beckoning tentacle face and charming grunts. Xur Agent of the Nine pleases some, not all. That's his gig. Until next time my friend.

[Christopher]

Another hunter helmet? Are there no exotic leg pieces for hunters? Only one exotic chest piece (a crappy one at that) and 5 exotic helms...

[Lawboy2]

there are 3 hunter helmets, a hunter arm piece and hunter chest piece...which is more than enough given the fact that only one piece can be worn at one time...the legendary's are where its at if you are looking for variety...the only other class that may have more exotic pieces are warlocks

[ITPython]

Last week was pretty awesome, the Ice Breaker has been working out exceptionally well for me. Infinite ammo, crazy good range and is quite powerful = pure win. That thing has gotten me through stuff that I would never have considered before (such as beating the Nightfall strike solo, which I did last week thanks to the IB).

This week is Ok, I picked up the rocket launcher but now I am regretting it a bit. I already had a pretty awesome RL, The Unfriendly Giant, that has some awesome random drop stats/upgrades. But overall the stats of the Truth beat it out and the upgrades are certainly interesting (rockets that are homing, proximity detonation etc), so I figured why not. Maybe will work out better for PvP, can't wait to snipe somebody with a rocket that aggressively follows them, lol.

As for the Warlock armor, again the piece is clearly geared towards PvP and working in fireteams. The upgrades are pretty useless for solo play since a few of the upgrades get their use from dropped orbs, or dropping more orbs. And it only has strength and intellect with another upgrade that gives more melee energy. For a warlock strength is almost useless, discipline/intellect is where it's at. I have my strength currently sitting at 0 and it's always charged whenever I want to use it (except for in PvP, which is what this gear seems to be centered around).

Oh well, guess I'll wait till next week for some decent exotic armor. Hopefully he will have some leg armor with decent upgrades, as my leg armor is the only piece of armor I haven't used ascendant shards for yet. So getting an exotic in that slot would work out amazingly well. And I really hope he has some kind of hand cannon next week... maybe one that regenerates ammo with a 12+ capacity.

[OVOrizzy]

Yay! Santa has come again, lol

[kneon]

Santa needs a better selection of items. I think this is the 3rd or 4th week in a row that the hunter armor is a helmet.

[LAWSON72]

Yeah I still have not seen the badass chest or shoulder for the Hunter on any guardian. Everybody is just running around in the same helmets.

[cell989]

Good for us players that didn't buy it first day you selfish person.I'll be getting my chest piece this weekend, thank you

[Lawboy2]

@ Lawson

I have the hunter chest piece and two of the hunter helmets...im only missing the third eye...but ive seen one player with the gauntlets and its amazing...also you should note that all these ppl running around with the same helmet didn't get them from playing in like a nightfall or random drop they bought it from xur....

[GiggMan]

@Lawson I have the gauntlets Young Ahumkara(spelling) spine I got from a random drop.

They are definitely rare and people love them. I also have the raspberry what ever armor for hunters in my vault. Sucks I can't wear but one at a time.

[Gamer1982]

helmet for hunters again thats only 1 week hes NOT at helmets.. Helemts are probably the worst item as the abilitys aren't the best for exotics.

[Lawboy2]

what I have the two helmets he sold and there amazing...

one allows you 4 shots with the golden gun which comes in handy in pve and pvp

the other one he gave allows you to keep your radar when aiming down the sights which definitely comes in handy when you do things like solo the nightfall

[jollygoodchap8]

Nice launcher :)

Well time for the old "wah! everyone is gonna be running around with these items!!!"

[ShowGun901]

I know! no matter what, the only constant is that people here will always cry! RNG? cry! Exotic item Store? cry! raid gear too hard to get? cry! crucible rewards too easy to get? cry!

its really starting to make our "community" seem pathetic...

[Tex117]

Hehe, no joke!

Overall, Bungie is doing a pretty good job. Though, there does need more content and more rewards for doing something at a harder difficulty.

[cell989]

As long as I get mine,I do not mind at all lol

[BallsEye]

I'm one of those who has almost no time to play but I think Xur ruined Destiny. It doesn't feel special anymore to own an exotic. Last week when sniper rifle appeared in Xur's shop I saw literally everyone using it next day.

[LAWSON72]

I kind of agree, exotic armors are not rare however they really are not that meaningful when it is no better than raid armor just with a special little perk. In a way, I think they want everybody to get an exotic armor so everyone can get access to a special perk and at least have one really good light armor so the way to level 26-27 (for raid) is less taxing. I do wish they had armor bounties like the guns. IMO Xur should not be the only way to get exotic armor.

[Drekken]

And? You gain strange coins and motes of light all week. Xur lets you spend them. I think he is the saving grace of destiny. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't have any decent exotics and I have put in almost 200 hours. All MMO's have a reward system in place to make up for their crap RNG... Destiny is no different.

[metalmatters]

Check mate!

What would the point of strange coins be if not for these specific purpose. Your hard earned money pays off with Xur, I welcome these game mechanic decision

[ShowGun901]

people complain about RNG...

give them somewhere to spend hard earned currency?

people complain about "buying" the crap instead of "earning" it, regardless of the fact you earned the currency...

this is the problem with "gamers" now... no matter what, people cry about EVERYTHING...

[Christopher]

Yay, I would totally feel special right now where a lot of people are running around with a ton of exotics from raiding while I sit with my lucky Monte Carlo because I've gotten squat out of raiding other than material pieces and a useless ship.

Yeah, I can totally see this as a viable view point. The one where people who are luckier deserve more than those who aren't. Great concept.

[EnzoLuca]

I wonder what Xur does with all his strange coins

[metalmatters]

Vegas!!! baby, all week, when the casinos are empty and you can play on your favorite slot machine. The weekends are packed and full of drunks. He also gets to stay at the most luxurious hotels at the lowest rates, the weekend rates can be brutal.

[kneon]

Strange vending machines ;)

[xActionBasturdx]

The only rocket launcher needed is Gjallahorn...might look into getting the titan chest piece though

[Faunus]

What really annoys me is that a lot of players are bitching about the Pocket Infinity. Okay, in PvP it is a bit overpowered because you can shoot 3 in a row, but I earned that gun via the Exotic Bounty which completing was pretty hard. The whiners have to stop and act and do bounties so they can get the weapon. Bungie is nerfing to much and some weapons become useless like the Vex Mythoclast. I don't even want to clear the Raid on hard because the gun is worthless right now.

[The_KELRaTH]

The mote of light coins have been handy for my upcoming characters, Titan armour and hunter helmet. Skipped on the rocket launcher as I have a good legendary with VOG extra damage and 3 rockets.
The sniper rifle was a great purchase as was the auto rifle - shame you can't have both in the main slot :)

I'm currently upgrading the Ju Ju but it' just seems so weak, anybody else upgraded this weapon - worth the bother?