Destiny - New Loot Farming Location, Infinite Chests and Spirit Blooms

Bill Lavoy (Prima Games): As fast as Bungie can Patch the Loot Farming Cave on Earth, players in the Destiny universe can find the next best thing, and that's exactly what RumoPlays (that's us) and Bug_Will have done. While we can't say for sure that we're the first to stumble upon it, we have yet to see a video or article pointing out this particular area or activity

[spoiky]

Me and a buddy headed here last night. I got two blue engrams and some spirit blooms after about 30 minutes. Never thought to check for chests though.

It goes crazy after about 15-20 minutes with tons of enemies meeting under the crashed space ship.

[NewMonday]

got all the Spirit Blooms I needed in one run, have enough marks from the crucible to buy another 2 pieces of legendary armor, with these Spirit Blooms I'm going from lvl24 to lvl26

[Buff1044]

Hopefully this is a welcome sight after they patched the loot cave.

[Menkyo]

This isnt new, people have been farming this area from day one. This is my spirit bloom go to place that unfortunately will now be worthless because of this article.

[christian hour]

I'm pretty sure this area was known long before the Loot cave, I'd been using it for a week before I heard of the cosmodrome loot cave. Very handy for bounties too, especially that queens bounty for 200 fallen headshots. Taking a much needed break from this game for a while, my days on it trying to reach lvl 26 for the raids got so repetitive I was starting to not enjoy the game anymore. I'll give it a few days and let the absence make me grow fonder. And hopefully by then I'll know 5 people or bungie will patch in matchmaking for the raids/queens missions etc.

[ramiuk1]

couldnt agree more.im stuck at lvl 25 and its doing my head in now

[KwietStorm_BLM]

"While we can't say for sure that we're the first to stumble upon it, we have yet to see a video or article pointing out this particular area or activity"

This was known long before the loot cave.

[kneon]

I found it on my second day playing the game, and I'm sure I was far from being the first.

It's not even the most effective spot for farming chests. It's better back where you first enter the city, just cycle through all the rooms and you'll be finding a chest every 3 or 4th room and kill plenty of enemies along the way.

Even better is at ishtar sink, there are only 6 caves where the chests appear plus a couple of other spots, and they are all close together with plenty of enemies for target practice.

[Gr1mmyshadows]

Yea I've been farming this are for a long time now. I hope bungie doesn't mess with this one as I need me a lot of spirit blooms

[Sentionaut]

You and me both.

[GearSkiN]

Funny how people have to do this to up their chances, coz bungies loot game is messed up!

[nicksetzer1]

Yea, honestly if loot wasn't so terribly inefficient to get through strikes, raid, etc I would 100% much prefer doing it that way.

Bungie acts like people are doing it because they enjoy it, when in fact it is being done because people want to move on to higher level missions rather than play the same 5 forever stuck at level 22. You can play any of the strikes, which take forever to do, and usually come out with literally nothing.

[Chuuzuu]

Agreed. Superhard strikes with three people and only one of them gets a GREEN UNCOMMON item. That really SUCKS!!

[--Onilink--]

quite the opposite, i've found that just choosing any of the 5 factions and leveling them up by playing all sorts of game modes to rank them up and buy the armor is MUCH easier, faster and fun.

People are assuming that just because you can get 1 legendary engram per hour and a bunch of blues shooting at a cave for an hour, you will actually get stuff faster, when its just the opposite with that damm cryptarch.

Seriously, just do some bounties per day, do the daily and weekly missions and play some PvP and within a week or so you will be mostly with legendary stuff.

I only went to the cave a couple of times and at most about 30min each time, not even for the loot itself, but because it seemed like a good way to get weapon parts and materials by dismantling stuff (now THAT is something that is out of balance, getting ascendant materials)

Maybe you are not supposed to be relying on pure loot to advance

[d0x360]

I've done all that for 2-3 weeks and I still don't have a full compliment of gear. Hell I'm not even level 1 in vanguard or dead orbit yet and I do at least 4 bounties a day if not more.

I've come in first in crucible matches countless times and get nothing while everyone else does. I've done every daily challenge and strike, every queens mission etc etc. If I get any gear at all Ita always something I already have or something way worse.

I even get the gold rewards from daily events and the cryptarch turns all 4 legendary engram's into blues or greens every single time.

I got an exotic item earlier today and it was turned into a mote of light... A single mote of light.

Some people get very lucky and everything works out for them but the majority of people are stuck endlessly grinding which is why you see tons of articles, comments and forum posts about the subject. You and your gear are in the very very small minority in destiny.

Bungie also took away the ability to get shards from legendary break downs so now its going to take weeks to upgrade a single piece of armor unless you can do raids which OMG a majority of players can't do!

[--Onilink--]

weird though, because i have done the exact same thing and im already rank 2 in Dead Orbit, Vanguard and New Monarchy. By the time the loot cave came up, i had already purchased all my legendary gear

[Yomamaslama]

First off dox360, exotics don't turn into anything but exotics. Even legendaries that turn into motes of light would give u at least 2-3. Yah the odds of legend aires turning out low are pretty shitty, but I don't see how you have a hard time lvling your faction.

If your doing it right u shouldn't be gaining vanguard or crucible ranking. And it's pretty easy to get legend arises through the factions. Kid every lvl 3 and up from your faction gives u a guaranteed legendary.

Oh and they didn't make it so that all legendarys can't be turned into shards ( which shouldn't effect you anyway since you cry about having trouble getting them), it's only queen story legends tied that don't turn into shards.

If you played a much as you whine you would have the same buffed out gear. Or maybe you just wasted too much time infront of the loot cave

[Specter229]

What your saying is Bungie made a game where you have to play pvp. I dont remember reading that anywhere.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

To be realistic, RNG sucks in a lot of games. Demon's Souls, Warframe, and Borderlands come to mind.

[LazyGoron]

This is what real RPG/MMO farming should be, farming for the spirit blooms and chests... not mindlessly drilling a black hole that creates engrams.

Once you hit Vanguard/Crucible ranks 2... you should have no problem buying purple guns and gear to raise your light level. Once I had my ranks where I wanted them, the only farming I need is for spirit blooms, helium, etc.

[Buff1044]

Agreed. I pick up Spirit Blooms whenever I see one on Venus.

[Menkyo]

Yeah sucks the cry baby forum people won.

[Buff1044]

Seems like new exploits have already been found.

[Der_Kommandant]

This game is a joke

[quenomamen]

A shooter where you spend more time grinding than actual shooting fails.

[ScaryMonkey]

This is not, nor was it ever meant to be, a pure shooter, maybe you were misinformed.

[FAT MAN GO BOOM]

I hope bungie starts banning the cheaters...

[ScottyHoss]

Cheaters in which sense? I'm simply curious as to who you believe it cheating, I agree with PvP bans but the farming honestly is just a waste of time, it's far less efficient than just levelling up a rank of some sort and buying gear, the random drops should be a bonus.

[Menkyo]

Yeah because the fact some one whose lvl and gear has no effect on your gaming experience should be ban.....jesus what is wrong with people today?

[ScaryMonkey]

This isn't "cheating", taking advantage of an exploit, maybe. All people are essentially doing is running around in a circle and revisiting boxes that are coded by the developer to re-spawn in those locations, that's not cheating and there's nothing wrong with it. If anything its a waste of time but that's on the people who are doing it, but trust me nothing they are getting from these boxes is in anyway a cheat or gives them an advantage over anyone else.

[PFFT]

Its mostly greens anyways. Every now and then you can strike gold by getting 2 blue engrams from those chests that actually turn out to be green trash after your visit with the Cryptarch.

[GusBricker]

There's a far better area in Old Russia for picking up chests and spinmetal.

[quenomamen]

what an awesome where all you do is find the next way of grinding/farming for crap.
It's like buying Gran Turismo and all you do is drive around looking for way to get a new paint or wheels instead of actually racing. In games like COD and BF cammos and gun upgrades are given as you go up in rank or by certain unlocks. Not by constantly playing through a level over and over. Good work Bungie.

[Sentionaut]

Another one's been found already? I can't believe it.

[ScaryMonkey]

This area is basically worthless, its ok if you're desperate for Spirit Bloom but that's about it, the chests take a while to re-spawn and dont expect anything major, mostly the aforementioned spirit bloom and the occasional very basic green weapon or piece.

[DarthJay]

This isn't remotely new. I've been going here when needing Spirit Bloom since release.