Welcome to the materials and currency guide. In a game of this size, you can count on in-game currency to meet your needs. All vendors accept the same currency and materials, and no vendor offers better deals on upgrade modules, gear, or bounties. Only Master Rahool has sales, with his prices varying weekly and limited to the materials he carries.
Main Currencies
- Glimmer - Used to buy armor, bounties, and weapons from vendors. Also used in crafting weapons.
- Enhancement Prism - Required to Masterwork armor. Used to buy enhancement cores and craft enhanced weapons.
- Enhancement Core - Required to Masterwork armor and weapons. Used to buy enhancement prisms and craft weapons.
- Upgrade Module - Used to infuse gear to a higher power level. Acquired through specific activities and bought at various vendors.
- Silver - Bought with real money. Spent on cosmetics at the Eververse Store.
- Bright Dust - Earned through bounties, seasonal challenges, pathfinder, and the season pass. Spent on cosmetics at the Eververse Store.
Seasonal Currencies
- Will be posted when "The Final Shape" releases.
End Game Currencies
- Spoils of Conquest - Use to unlock loot caches in raids and purchase raid loot from the Monument to Lost Lights. Also used for crafting base raid weapons and enhancing crafted raid weapons.
- Exotic Cipher - Used to buy Exotic weapons from the Monument to Lost Lights and focus Exotic armor and weapons. Also used to add an Artifice Slot to Exotic Armor.
- Ascendant Shard - Required to Masterwork armor. Earned through challenging activities or bought from Master Rahool.
- Ascendant Alloy - Used to craft enhanced weapons at the The Relic in the Enclave via Savathun's Throne World. Bought from Master Rahool in the Tower.
Crafting Materials
- Ascendant Alloy - Used to craft enhanced weapons at the The Relic in the Enclave via Savathun's Throne World. Earned through the weekly campaign missions and the Witch Queen Offensives, or bought from Master Rahool or Banshee-44.
- Glimmer - Used to buy armor, bounties, and weapons from vendors. Also used in crafting weapons.
- Enhancement Core - Required to Masterwork armor and weapons. Used to buy enhancement prisms and craft weapons.
- Enhancement Prism - Required to Masterwork armor. Used to buy enhancement cores and craft enhanced weapons.
Learn more about making the perfect Exotic with our Weapon Crafting guide.
Masterwork Items
To Masterwork an item is to simply enhance one specific stat on the Weapon or Armor. Hover over the Masterwork slot and continue enhancing to reach Tier 10 Masterwork. On Armor, this will add plus 2 to every stat. On Weapons, this will add plus 10 to the Masterwork Stat. On Adept Weapons, you receive plus 10 to the Masterwork stat, and plus 3 to all other stats. Masterworking items requires the following currency:
- Glimmer - Used to buy armor, bounties, and weapons from vendors. Also used in crafting weapons.
- Enhancement Core - Required to Masterwork armor and weapons. Used to buy enhancement prisms and craft weapons.
- Enhancement Prism - Required to Masterwork armor. Used to buy enhancement cores and craft enhanced weapons.
Not all weapons can roll with all Masterworks. Weapons can only be Masterworked with a trait that is native to that weapon.
Other Consumables
- Phantasmal Fragment - Used to buy Phantasmal Cores from the Lectern of Enchantment on the Moon in the Sanctuary. Earned through daily bounties.
- Phantasmal Core - Use these to obtain Nightmare Essences from the Lectern of Enchantment on the Moon in the Sanctuary. Earned through weekly bounties or purchased with Phantasmal Fragments.
- Herealways Piece - This old Elksni currency is used to buy Glimmer or upgrades from Variks in Charon's Crossing on Europa. Gained from completing activities and defeating combatants on Europa.
- Dark Fragment - Used to purchase weekly bounties from Petra Venj on The Dreaming City. Earned through completing daily bounties.
- Tincture of Queensfoil - This Tincture allows you to see the Ascendant Plane and the challenges within. Bought from Petra Venj in The Dreaming City, or from Hugin and Munin deep in the Harbinger's Seclude.
- Concentrated Mattergem - Gives bosses the chance to drop an Upgrade Module after being defeated. This effect lasts until an Upgrade Module is dropped. Bought from the Eververse Store with Bright Dust.
- Glimmershard - Defeated bosses have the chance to create a shower of Glimmer, and the effects last for four hours. Bought from the Eververse Store with Bright Dust.
- Strange Coin - Used to obtain Starhorse bounties in Eternity.
- Sleek Synthcord, Plush Synthcord, and Rigid Synthcord - One for each class. Used to unlock universal ornaments in the Appearance Customization Menu.
- Bounties to earn Synthcords are bought from Ada-1 in the Tower. Complete the bounties and claim them afterwards. Take the Synthcords to Ada-1's Loom that sits behind her, and insert the Synthcord to receive either a Synthweave Bolt, Synthweave Strap, or Synthweave Plate. With these, unlock universal ornaments in the menu.
Blind Well
Unstable Charge of Light - the highest charge of light to offer to the Blind Well in The Dreaming City. You can only offer an unstable charge AFTER completing a full round initiated by Charge of Light—Tier III. By offering a charge of light, you dictate the level of bosses that can spawn into the activity.
- There are four types of charges:
- Charge of Light—Tier I
- Charge of Light—Tier II
- Charge of Light—Tier III
- Unstable Charge of Light.
Summary
Don't spend it all in one place... Joking. These currencies and materials are meant to be spent at your discretion, for whatever you are trying to accomplish. The main currencies should be a player's focus at first. One recommendation is to hold on to materials until you know for certain which weapons you would like to craft, which armor is worthy of being Masterworked, or if you really need that third cosmetic for Ace of Spades (the answer is yes, yes you do). Enjoy!
Credits
Written by: ShieldMaiden
Reviewed by: SquirrelyDan, Tenkiei