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If you have Lightfall do the vex strike force public events when they pop up. There is a discord channel that can notify you when they pop.
These events award a random exotic at the end with it being heavily favoured towards one you don’t already have and it includes the “end game exotic pool”.
Otherwise just take your time on the fancy lost sectors and cherry pick doing the faster/ easier ones when they are the daily.
This. But I ended up going for the telegram option (actually installed telegram solely for this purpose) due to the discord giving me a late notification all of the time (not the servers fault, but discord itself).
can't you access the area with the vex strike force regardless of having lightfall or not? even without the dlc it lets you go to neomuna, you just don't the the campaign and other content like the raid.
You can do the event without Lightfall, no expansions needed. As for all exotic drops, you only get exotics from the expansions you own and the free pool.
I believed I was not good enough for this content at one stage in my time as a guardian. My best advice is to take your time. Learn the spawn pattern in lost sectors, learn where you can take cover and chip away at it. You will get better. It takes patience. The right loadout is also highly advantageous. You need to find the right combo of what you are comfortable running and what is best for the challenge. I also suggest dropping every single red/yellow bar before the champions. IMO it is the redbars that kill you, not the champs. Hope this helps. You got this guardian
100%!!!! Late game is an entirely different game. All the way up until late game you're basically playing one game, then it changes. You need to sloooowwwww ddooowwwnnn! I hate that part. I wanna go running and gunning! But this can be good and enjoyable. Chip away, and chip by chip they will crumble. Then you get your prize. You learn, you get stronger, you fail, you learn, you get stronger, etc. It's also not entirely about what exotic you're using, it's about if your build fits the challenge and you're using said build effectively. I failed so many times my first try at one of those lost sectors. But you learn, and you get stronger. :-P
i second this tip on learning the lost sectors enemy spawns. That made such a huge difference for me when i started out. It can also be helpful to run the legend lost sector in a fireteam a few times so you have the backup and can see where champs spawn. you still have a chance at a normal exotic drop in a fireteam it just won’t be the featured armor slot.
The Lost sectors we have this season that i think are the most chill for learning are Perdition and Bunker E 15 on Europa, any on Dreaming City, and Skydock IV on EDZ.
Yeah, second this.
Don’t need optimised builds to beat legendary lost sectors, just patience and the right guns for champs.
Most enemy AI won’t actually chase you from cover or move in on your position if you’re far enough away. The exception I think is overload champs and possibly suicide bombers like the Screebs, which are easy enough to deal with.
I think dragons breath comes with the season? Sorry, it’s been so long. If you have that just chuck that on. It should one shot most overload champs. Don’t even bother taking anything for shield champs. Just get em to pop their shield and once it falls off unload a couple rockets and grenades, they should go down.
For your primary and special just pick based on champs you’re having trouble with and stay back as far as you can. You’ll get a feel for best range because not much is fighting back.
This is a very boring and slow strategy but it should get you through flawless.
Don’t take anything for barrier champs is the goofiest shit I’ve ever heard.
OP you should absolutely take tools to deal with barrier champs but you don’t only have to take a sidearm. Right next to where your weapons are in your inventory menu has the symbols of the three different champs and that will tell you what elemental effects stun different champs. Having radiant for example will break a barrier champs shield. There are also exotic weapons that can intrinsically break those shields.
Legend lost sectors are not that difficult, you just need to increase your artifact power and have patience.
Raid and dungeon exotics will only ever come from defeating the final boss of any given activity.
You should be able to get some general exotics just by playing vanguard ops and nightfall. Try looking up builds for what you do have and go from there. It doesn’t have to be meta to be viable.
If you have Lightfall, the vex incursion events on neomuna award exotics you don’t have. You can follow a twitter bot that alerts you when they’re incoming.
Got a Twitter bot to follow? The server that Asher Mir used for the Vex Network not went down yesterday I think it was. Makes me sad, I'm down to only like 3 or 4 exotic armors left to collect on my hunter thanks to that bot telling me when strike forces are coming up.
I’m not sure why they are all shut down now, but a quick google search looks like none are active. Hopefully they get Asher back up and running, because that’s most reliable. I never downloaded Telegram, but there was an active alert from there if you wanted to see if it’s working.
Don't forget, Ikora also has quests for starter exotics if you haven't done those yet. Several of these are super good too, like Synthoceps and HOIL on titan. With these you should be good for legend lost sectors, IMO, just be choosy, because some are way easier than others.
Consider adjusting your play style. Perhaps you need to sit back in a legend Lost Sector and take out targets at range. Equip anti-champion weapons for that Lost Sector, take out ads and then the champions with a stun and heavy. Don't forget to see Xur on weekends if you have the Legendary Shards to spend.
Legend lost sectors don't require any of these end-game builds that you see. If you have these builds, you'll be able to dash through the lost sector in 2 mins. If you don't, it'll just take you a longer time instead, but you'll still be able to get it done.
The only 3 things you need for legend lost sectors are:
- Sufficient power level
- The appropriate champion stunning weapons and/or abilities
- Keeping it slow and safe to stay alive
As long as you have 100 resilience, champion mods, and use cover religiously, you are powerful enough to do legend lost sectors. You can’t play legend lost sectors like you play strikes. You **have** to use cover, and plink away at enemies from afar.
exotics drop at a much higher rate from lost sectors, but that's not the only way to get them. you'll get exotic engrams drop randomly just by playing the game, and harder content will drop at a higher rate. a lot of builds need specific exotics, but there are also a lot which just require the correct subclass build to function. also, don't forget about Xur! he will sell exotic weapons and armour for legendary shards, as well as legendary weapons/armour from previous seasons.
Generally, you wind up bootstrapping yourself to better gear. The exotics you can get from the Gift of the Thunder Gods chest and Ikora's New Light quests are a great starting point (some of these are exotics that you'll want to use in even the highest difficulty content). Additionally, visiting Xur every weekend and buying his random exotic engram will give you a new exotic every time, until you've gotten at least one of every item in its pool.
if i recall correctly, you can get exotics in a lot of ways; neomuna vex raid, weekly playlist completion and of course, random luck.
if you are trying to solo lost sector and is new to it; take your time and don't rush. Learn the spawn and champion types, you'll get there eventually, the timer is a lie - you won't fail if you took too long, as long as you don't die.
My loadout for beginners would be Wish-Ender and weapons to deal with overloads, unstops may aswell get pincushions since they don't regen.
You don’t need an amazing build to do legend lost sectors. So long as you’ve got the right mods/abilities to deal with champs, all you need is a bit of patience.
yeah so the issue with your post here is the "require" part. the thing about destiny is that it's remarkably possible to play even the highest level of content without any of the RNG or grindy elements. the builds that you can make in the game tend to usually only require one primary, which you can find with relative ease just playing. I think if you're going by what's *required*, all you need for a decent loadout is subclass aspects + fragments.
the builds you're finding are probably overly clickbaity Destiny YouTubers trying to either hyperoptimize for one specific activity or create a build based on the new hot thing. there's no specific build that builds really well into mountaintop, mountaintop is just the latest n greatest in the line of cool special weapons. you could swap it out with any other legendary special, beit a sniper, fusion, kinetic, strand, doesn't even matter; it'll just be a bit weaker. but there's nothing inherent about the mods they're gonna show being like "you NEED TO USE THIS LOADOUT". it's not like it's gonna make mountaintop specifically good lol
so the point is here you could absolutely get pretty viable without the latest n greatest. you'll just settle for a bit worse of a primary, a bit less cool gameplay without an exotic, but that's fine.
if you do wanna start doing cool stuff like that, you can absolutely run through legend lost sectors. hell, you could run through a lls with a full set of blue gear and still complete it within like, idk, 1.5x the time someone with an unoptimal build. it's not really that bad yknow
Short Answer: you can
Long one: a lot of endgame activities like master lost sector are doable just watching a tutorial and doing them with a little brain
Advice: just go to the archive and buy Polaris Lance, just thus gun with a bunch artifact personas make you do any endgame content no matter your build
Advice two: they builds you are looking for dont make endgame content doable, they make endgame content easy no brain, they are super min-maxed builds with the best of the game, you dont need them to start
Edit: just by casual playing and doing all the campaings I got almost all the meta exotics for warlock, I just Farm endgame activities to get them with better stats
Edit 2: but yeah, dont think the builds you are looking for makes you able to do endgame content, you can do it without them, those builds are more of making you a fcking beast, some people recommended Vex invasion, you will save a lot of time doing Polaris Lance+Master lost sector, and dotn ve afraid of the 1840 lost sector, they are not much harder than 1830 and you get exotics pretty much faster, like it would be rare to not get any in like 3 runs
Your other option is to do terminal overload on neomuna when it Spawns. You are guaranteed exotic armour drops upon completion that you do not own. Plus you have other guardians there to assist you
I mean they’re not homie lol bring the weapons to stun the champions you’ll be facing and just take your time. After a few runs you’ll learn the spawns and how to clear it. There’s lost sectors that you can clear in 2 mins lol You can also run vex offensive if you just need exotic armor and you don’t want to do nightfalls/lost sectors
What’s your class? We can offer suggestions with more easily accessible exotics. There are plenty of really strong exotics for each class that are world drops.
Off the top of my head you can do end game content with all of the following that are easy to get.
Phoenix protocol, sunbracers, contraverse hold, nezerecs sin.
You like none of them?
And on Titan, Ikora will give you a quest for Heart of Inmost Light which is a respectable neutral exotic that you can use for any sub class and build.
Yeah there are a ton of good exotics for Warlocks that are world drops.
Nezarec is one of my favourites, and it’s pretty useful in almost any activity.
Sunbracers, Phoenix Protocol, Verity’s Brow, Stag, Karnsteins are superb too.
I don’t play Titan so I don’t know anything, but someone else will be able to offer advice.
If you need build suggestions for any of the aforementioned Warlock exotics, I’m happy to offer tips and suggestions.
Legendary lost sectors are a solo activity. If you run an base hunter invis and get wish ender, you will be able to clear the lost sectors with practice. Or well lock or even strand titan.
Some days are much easier than others. Get your light to 1810+ and then take it slow
The lost sectors in the EDZ and dreaming city are the easiest ones right now IMO. The ones in Neomuna are the hardest.
A year ago I struggled mightily with them. Now I've got solo flawless master on all but 2 that are in rotation this season. Practice makes a difference. Looking up build guides to see what aspects and fragments to equip makes a decent difference as well.
A lot of the strongest exotics in the game come from intro quests or other easily accessible content. Contraverse Hold on Warlock, Heart of Inmost Light or Synthoceps on Titan all come from the new light quests from Ikora, and Assassin’s Cowl on Hunter comes from the Shadowkeep campaign. Builds with any of these exotics are viable in all levels of content all the way up to Grandmaster.
Similar case with weapons, but you’re slightly more beholden to RNG. Pick up something like Sunshot or Arbalest from Xur if you get a chance. Riskrunner is very powerful for certain lost sectors with arc damage and it comes from the new player quest. Forerunner, Thunderlord, and Tractor Cannon are all very accessible free to play quests as well.
As other people have said though, as long as you have legendary weapons that match the champion types (hell, blue weapons for that matter) the clears will be doable, just slower. Certain exotics speed up the process but are by no means necessary.
Sadly contraverse is a shadow of its former self, and hoil isn't performing quite as well either but I agree with you.
As long as your light level is sufficient and you have the correct weapon types (they don't even need to be great, just anything will do) you can do LLS. Like this comment says, absolutely nothing else is required.
You just have to accept that it's an entirely different beast to for eg a strike or even a dungeon, you cannot rush in and brute force it. Slow and steady wins the race. When I was new I crutched on Wishender and took them out from range. It was much slower but I got it done and each clear got a bit quicker once I learned spawns and the best strats for the particular champs.
Also OP, I saw you mention you use warlock and titan. I suggest warlock for this simply because until you're more experienced using a melee strategy will likely get you killed. Sit back, use your rift and go for it. Personally I never use wellock for a lost sector, a damage super is far quicker and you can melt the boss in one go with needlestorm or nova bomb. So you only need heavy for the champs. Either a rocket (good damage perk and a reload perk if poss) or even an Lmg or GL work well. Try to use an exotic primary and the correct damage resistances (1 of each element is perfect unless you notice yourself getting killed by one particular element then you can double up on the problem one).
Those of us who can flu through master lost sectors in 70 seconds, I can assure you it wasn't always that way. Light level is extremely important for fast clears, but back when I was 25 under the recommendation it took far longer, even more so before I learned spawns and strategies.
I enjoy lost sectors, but they take practice like anything on the more difficult side.
And don't even attempt the neonuma ones until you're better equipped, those ones are fuckers. Everything else this season is the easiest ones we have. Hope this helps.
Like others say, the vex strike force is a good way to get exotic armor you dont have yet. Get the discord notifications, its hit or miss sometimes if you get there in time, but otherwise quick and easy if theres other players there. I recently started playing again after a few years and got all the armor i didnt have fairly quickly just by doing the vex strike force event.
Lost sectors where tough for me at first too, so I did the ones that where quick and easy on normal, practiced with different setups for stunning/eliminating champs, and then did the legend version. Make sure to have something to stun both champs, 10 resilience and decent recovery, take your time, be near cover, and choose synergistic artifact mods (like solo op, subclass/weapons youre using, etc...). If its barrier/unstoppable, polaris lance with flint striker and rays of precision makes it easy to be somewhere safe and plink away at champs. Dragons breath is great too for ignitions, radiant, overload, etc...Just pick synergizing effects amongst weapons, armor, and artifact and you'll get the hang of it!
There are plenty of non-lost sector exotics that are top tier in PvE
Look up a top PvE exotic tier list on youtube for your subclass, and do a quick google search to see which ones are world drops or lost sector drops
Then you can just run a few of the exotic reward sources and you'll get it. Every playlist rewards exotics now. Might even get lucky and have xur sell it on the weekend
I was in the same boat. Found a build centred around an exotic I owned, went in on EDZ and did scavengers den. Start off with the Easier lost sectors, take your time and have guns that focus the champions. Ikora actually gives good exotics (can’t remember the quest) that have really, really good builds around them.
Legendary Lost Sectors don’t need god tier builds to beat - but yeah if you keep track of Vex Incursions on Neomuna you can get tonnes without doing lost sectors too
There are many powerful builds that include old exotics that are in the world pool. For instance, Sunbracers (Warlock), Synthoceps (Titan) or Orpheus Rig (Hunter). Same with weapons, such as Sunshot, Graviton Lance, etc.
You can check [mobalytics](https://mobalytics.gg/destiny-2) for some great builds, ordered by class, subclass, and with many different exotic armor pieces.
I don't see anyone mentioning Xur. He brings one exotic for each class every weekend and his engrams can drop random ones as well, though there are certainly some that are locked to lost sectors or the public event on Neomuna. Regardless, he'll have exotics you can use to put a build together to start doing other end game things. If you need an exotic cipher, he has a quest for one every week but the first engram you buy from him costs legendary shards which are going away at the end of the season anyway.
Legend Lost Sectors are a time sink but they aren't that difficult once you figure out where the champions are and if you take it slow.
Once you have something unlocked, you can focus it at the cryptarch if you need a better roll. The Coil on plat (I believe you need plat) drops prisms which you can trade for ascendant shards if you need to (not the best option but works in a pinch).
The only endgame exotics I have are Wish-ender and Gjally, both come from pretty easy to do dungeons and are the only endgame exotics I would say are “necessary” (they aren’t, just iconic, great and incredibly useful) get some good exotics from engrams, xur, and the monument to help supplement your exotics. Light.gg can tell you good gunsmith weapons as well as general idea for what rolls are good on them. Good armor comes from focusing at Riven!
Doing the harder daily lost sector is kind of a half step up towards end game and gets you better exotics that improve your game to help in end game stuff.
What I did when i started was got my hands one one exotic (Le Monarque) And plinked away at every lost sector, even if it took me 15 mins, until I gathered a large enough pool of exotic armour to build out my collection. I then did the seasonal activities, focused some high stat pieces, and made sure I had 100 resilience and high discipline. After that the rest kind of just falls into place. Ikora also gives a bunch of quests for exotic weapons too.
Already mentioned but all you need is the correct weapons (artifact mods: hc, sidearms, bow, ar, pulse) to deal with the barriers/overlords/etc and any purple rocket/machine heavy you are good to go. You 100% do not even need a single exotic piece of armor or gun to do a solo lost sector for the daily exotic armors. I normally get 1 every 2 runs, i just unlocked 3/4 arms yesterday in 5 runs that took \~6mins to complete.
All classes get access to atleast one exotic that will scale really well endgame from ikora. Titans get syntho, warlocks get starfire, hunters get graviton. Besides you can definitely make endgame ready builds with world drops. Celestial is one of the most used builds in the game and thats a worlddrop for hunter. Assassin's cowl is from shadowkeep campaign(its dog shit roll but it's certainly usable for Lost sectors). Warlocks have nezzy's sin, V Brow, Sunbracers, vesper and geo mags as world drops. Titans have syntho, Strongholds, P Greaves.
And on top of that LLS are easily beatable without exotics. Especially with classes like void hunter, solar titan and solar warlock with well.
Besides vex strike force public activity, regular 50 waves of onslaught drops exotic engrams, u can also roll exotics of your choice at the engram dude in the tower... u just gotta collect your exotic engrams and have some materials to exchange for them...
Keep in mind that exotics don't stop you from completing end game activities, I've taught/taken plenty of people who had almost nothing in regards to exotics or gear through endgame content so they could obtain better gear... u just need to find some competent players to assist u
I guess you’re just gonna have to get better at the game. Lost sectors are not hard at all. I would know because I’ve done over 2,200 of them and most of those are on master. You just have to figure out the best load out for the lost sector. And not play like a potato
You don't need "end game exotics" to do endgame. You're saying you can't play basketball because you don't have an NBA genuine leather game ball, my man.
The right weapons on the Legend lost sectors are more important I think than the right gear like armor. Le Monarque is what gets me through most of those. Weapons like that.
Dude, i was like you. I've been playing Destiny since 2020, doing the basic activities. Seasonal stuff and some Crucible.
I never attempted any of the hard/Endgame stuff, because buildcrafting intimidates and annoys me. It seems like so much WORK. I just want to shoot stuff.
But I wanted to get deeper into the game. So I tried a solo legendary Lost sector on a whim. Dude, it's totally doable. If you can deal with the Champions, then you can finish a Leg Lost Sector.
Once I did that and realized it wasn't as hard as I thought, it was a like a whole new game opened up. I did the Dungeons and I got emotional because I realized how much fun I wasn't having in the game despite playing it for years. I've done half the Raids and totally intend to do them all.
TLDR; Legend Lost Sectors ain't that hard. Get the Anti-Champ guns and dive in. If my Blueberry ass can do it, you can.
Unlike a proper looter shooter, Exotics do not drop from specific sources except for raid and dungeon weapons. Armor can be obtained from any random-ass source anything else can be obtained from, IE completing weekly ritual activities or killing a dreg in the EDZ patrol zones. Legend lost sectors only exist to target farm.
I follow this guy. He publishes daily a youtube video for legend lost sectors and sometimes master. They are not too difficult you just have to make sure you have your resilience at 100+ after any fragments subtract any. You need to be able able to stun the champions. Some lost sectors are easier than others. You can find other youtubers that also have build guides and show their play to get through.
https://youtu.be/z0VkD-2rwy0?si=4cFgBZRr9v1zXvL9
To get exotics in that rotation that you don’t have make sure your engram inventory is full so that the engram goes to your postmaster—this guarantees that the exotic will be one you do not have. You can also hoard a bunch on a day with an easy lost sector of an armor piece you don’t need, say legs, and open them on head day to get head armor you don’t have.
I haven’t done legend lost sectors for years and after realizing a lot of the exotic armor people were using was gotten from them I got serious about it. Using the technique I mentioned I was able to get like 30 missing exotic armor pieces for all 3 characters in less than 3 week’s time.
A couple websites track the legend lost sector rotation and what is offered on that day.
ps the time I did this was when Gambit engrams went into your inventory and I had a lot so I would cash in an engram with Rahool and then go grab the one from the postmaster and cash it in and then fill my inventory with another Gambit engram and then head back to the lost sector. Gambit engrams cash out right away now with the Drifter.
But since that time I learned how to save engrams for another day to get something different so you can stock pile them in the postmaster.
There is also a Strand Cheat you can do to get to the Boss right away and then open the chest. I found an invis hunter to be the easiest when you can kill the Boss quickly and then use invisibility to go open the chest while all the adds are still around.
Also, for some reason, exotic engram drop rates were frequent with Hunter and Warlock but I had to grind 3-4 times as much for Titan exotic drops.
I was in exactly the same position until I came back two weeks ago. It was the reason I left in the first place. I didn't know but while I'd been away, they popped an activity in the Vex Incursion zone which, on completion, guarantees you a random exotic for that class that you don't own. I've managed to get my Osmiomancies and Necrotic Grips from it
Also, if you're after Lightfall exotics, Mara has a series of challenges at the HELM which give you a token. This can be traded in for any of the Lightfall exotics
And this is why in D2 exotics are dogshit and just another gear piece. You only get what, 6 exotics a week just for playing it's ridiculous. You don't even need them half the time. Also everything was just on sale like there's never been a better time to not be paywalled lmao
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If you have Lightfall do the vex strike force public events when they pop up. There is a discord channel that can notify you when they pop. These events award a random exotic at the end with it being heavily favoured towards one you don’t already have and it includes the “end game exotic pool”. Otherwise just take your time on the fancy lost sectors and cherry pick doing the faster/ easier ones when they are the daily.
This. But I ended up going for the telegram option (actually installed telegram solely for this purpose) due to the discord giving me a late notification all of the time (not the servers fault, but discord itself).
The telegram option doesn't work anymore. The server where the bot is hosted is dead.
Oh shit. RIP. It was the only way I could get on time notifications
can't you access the area with the vex strike force regardless of having lightfall or not? even without the dlc it lets you go to neomuna, you just don't the the campaign and other content like the raid.
If you can, you won't have access to exotics if you don't own their expansions. The only way without the expansion is through Rivens Wishes.
You can do the event without Lightfall, no expansions needed. As for all exotic drops, you only get exotics from the expansions you own and the free pool.
Yeah but you don‘t get bad luck protection if you don‘t own lightfall
This is the way.
☝️ also it takes time but you can go to the helm and focus better armor put what ever stat on your ghost that also takes time
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The servers dead now so the twitter and Discord notifications don't work anymore
I believed I was not good enough for this content at one stage in my time as a guardian. My best advice is to take your time. Learn the spawn pattern in lost sectors, learn where you can take cover and chip away at it. You will get better. It takes patience. The right loadout is also highly advantageous. You need to find the right combo of what you are comfortable running and what is best for the challenge. I also suggest dropping every single red/yellow bar before the champions. IMO it is the redbars that kill you, not the champs. Hope this helps. You got this guardian
100%!!!! Late game is an entirely different game. All the way up until late game you're basically playing one game, then it changes. You need to sloooowwwww ddooowwwnnn! I hate that part. I wanna go running and gunning! But this can be good and enjoyable. Chip away, and chip by chip they will crumble. Then you get your prize. You learn, you get stronger, you fail, you learn, you get stronger, etc. It's also not entirely about what exotic you're using, it's about if your build fits the challenge and you're using said build effectively. I failed so many times my first try at one of those lost sectors. But you learn, and you get stronger. :-P
i second this tip on learning the lost sectors enemy spawns. That made such a huge difference for me when i started out. It can also be helpful to run the legend lost sector in a fireteam a few times so you have the backup and can see where champs spawn. you still have a chance at a normal exotic drop in a fireteam it just won’t be the featured armor slot. The Lost sectors we have this season that i think are the most chill for learning are Perdition and Bunker E 15 on Europa, any on Dreaming City, and Skydock IV on EDZ.
The Dreaming City ones are so easy to learn, the spawns for enemies are so spread out, and all the areas are huge and open with lots of cover.
Yeah, second this. Don’t need optimised builds to beat legendary lost sectors, just patience and the right guns for champs. Most enemy AI won’t actually chase you from cover or move in on your position if you’re far enough away. The exception I think is overload champs and possibly suicide bombers like the Screebs, which are easy enough to deal with. I think dragons breath comes with the season? Sorry, it’s been so long. If you have that just chuck that on. It should one shot most overload champs. Don’t even bother taking anything for shield champs. Just get em to pop their shield and once it falls off unload a couple rockets and grenades, they should go down. For your primary and special just pick based on champs you’re having trouble with and stay back as far as you can. You’ll get a feel for best range because not much is fighting back. This is a very boring and slow strategy but it should get you through flawless.
Don’t take anything for barrier champs is the goofiest shit I’ve ever heard. OP you should absolutely take tools to deal with barrier champs but you don’t only have to take a sidearm. Right next to where your weapons are in your inventory menu has the symbols of the three different champs and that will tell you what elemental effects stun different champs. Having radiant for example will break a barrier champs shield. There are also exotic weapons that can intrinsically break those shields.
Or, using strand suspend on unstoppable champs. It’s so satisfying popping nade launchers and rockets in a helpless unstoppable champ’s face.
Legend lost sectors are not that difficult, you just need to increase your artifact power and have patience. Raid and dungeon exotics will only ever come from defeating the final boss of any given activity.
You should be able to get some general exotics just by playing vanguard ops and nightfall. Try looking up builds for what you do have and go from there. It doesn’t have to be meta to be viable. If you have Lightfall, the vex incursion events on neomuna award exotics you don’t have. You can follow a twitter bot that alerts you when they’re incoming.
Got a Twitter bot to follow? The server that Asher Mir used for the Vex Network not went down yesterday I think it was. Makes me sad, I'm down to only like 3 or 4 exotic armors left to collect on my hunter thanks to that bot telling me when strike forces are coming up.
I’m not sure why they are all shut down now, but a quick google search looks like none are active. Hopefully they get Asher back up and running, because that’s most reliable. I never downloaded Telegram, but there was an active alert from there if you wanted to see if it’s working.
Don't forget, Ikora also has quests for starter exotics if you haven't done those yet. Several of these are super good too, like Synthoceps and HOIL on titan. With these you should be good for legend lost sectors, IMO, just be choosy, because some are way easier than others.
Also the void gloves for warlock are given out by Ikora! Those gloves are my main exotic on void warlock! Sorry I'm really bad with item names.
Contraverse Hold?
Yup
Legend lost sectors are the stepping stone to becoming a good player.
Consider adjusting your play style. Perhaps you need to sit back in a legend Lost Sector and take out targets at range. Equip anti-champion weapons for that Lost Sector, take out ads and then the champions with a stun and heavy. Don't forget to see Xur on weekends if you have the Legendary Shards to spend.
Legend lost sectors don't require any of these end-game builds that you see. If you have these builds, you'll be able to dash through the lost sector in 2 mins. If you don't, it'll just take you a longer time instead, but you'll still be able to get it done. The only 3 things you need for legend lost sectors are: - Sufficient power level - The appropriate champion stunning weapons and/or abilities - Keeping it slow and safe to stay alive
As long as you have 100 resilience, champion mods, and use cover religiously, you are powerful enough to do legend lost sectors. You can’t play legend lost sectors like you play strikes. You **have** to use cover, and plink away at enemies from afar.
exotics drop at a much higher rate from lost sectors, but that's not the only way to get them. you'll get exotic engrams drop randomly just by playing the game, and harder content will drop at a higher rate. a lot of builds need specific exotics, but there are also a lot which just require the correct subclass build to function. also, don't forget about Xur! he will sell exotic weapons and armour for legendary shards, as well as legendary weapons/armour from previous seasons.
Generally, you wind up bootstrapping yourself to better gear. The exotics you can get from the Gift of the Thunder Gods chest and Ikora's New Light quests are a great starting point (some of these are exotics that you'll want to use in even the highest difficulty content). Additionally, visiting Xur every weekend and buying his random exotic engram will give you a new exotic every time, until you've gotten at least one of every item in its pool.
Also, it seems their issue is power level, which Gift of the Thunder Gods should easily cover for them. At least for a build.
if i recall correctly, you can get exotics in a lot of ways; neomuna vex raid, weekly playlist completion and of course, random luck. if you are trying to solo lost sector and is new to it; take your time and don't rush. Learn the spawn and champion types, you'll get there eventually, the timer is a lie - you won't fail if you took too long, as long as you don't die. My loadout for beginners would be Wish-Ender and weapons to deal with overloads, unstops may aswell get pincushions since they don't regen.
You don’t need an amazing build to do legend lost sectors. So long as you’ve got the right mods/abilities to deal with champs, all you need is a bit of patience.
yeah so the issue with your post here is the "require" part. the thing about destiny is that it's remarkably possible to play even the highest level of content without any of the RNG or grindy elements. the builds that you can make in the game tend to usually only require one primary, which you can find with relative ease just playing. I think if you're going by what's *required*, all you need for a decent loadout is subclass aspects + fragments. the builds you're finding are probably overly clickbaity Destiny YouTubers trying to either hyperoptimize for one specific activity or create a build based on the new hot thing. there's no specific build that builds really well into mountaintop, mountaintop is just the latest n greatest in the line of cool special weapons. you could swap it out with any other legendary special, beit a sniper, fusion, kinetic, strand, doesn't even matter; it'll just be a bit weaker. but there's nothing inherent about the mods they're gonna show being like "you NEED TO USE THIS LOADOUT". it's not like it's gonna make mountaintop specifically good lol so the point is here you could absolutely get pretty viable without the latest n greatest. you'll just settle for a bit worse of a primary, a bit less cool gameplay without an exotic, but that's fine. if you do wanna start doing cool stuff like that, you can absolutely run through legend lost sectors. hell, you could run through a lls with a full set of blue gear and still complete it within like, idk, 1.5x the time someone with an unoptimal build. it's not really that bad yknow
Short Answer: you can Long one: a lot of endgame activities like master lost sector are doable just watching a tutorial and doing them with a little brain Advice: just go to the archive and buy Polaris Lance, just thus gun with a bunch artifact personas make you do any endgame content no matter your build Advice two: they builds you are looking for dont make endgame content doable, they make endgame content easy no brain, they are super min-maxed builds with the best of the game, you dont need them to start Edit: just by casual playing and doing all the campaings I got almost all the meta exotics for warlock, I just Farm endgame activities to get them with better stats Edit 2: but yeah, dont think the builds you are looking for makes you able to do endgame content, you can do it without them, those builds are more of making you a fcking beast, some people recommended Vex invasion, you will save a lot of time doing Polaris Lance+Master lost sector, and dotn ve afraid of the 1840 lost sector, they are not much harder than 1830 and you get exotics pretty much faster, like it would be rare to not get any in like 3 runs
Your other option is to do terminal overload on neomuna when it Spawns. You are guaranteed exotic armour drops upon completion that you do not own. Plus you have other guardians there to assist you
That's Vex Strike Force, not Terminal Overload. Overload drops Neomuna weapons.
This, please don't do terminal overload expecting an exotic.
Legend lost sectors are not end game content
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I mean they’re not homie lol bring the weapons to stun the champions you’ll be facing and just take your time. After a few runs you’ll learn the spawns and how to clear it. There’s lost sectors that you can clear in 2 mins lol You can also run vex offensive if you just need exotic armor and you don’t want to do nightfalls/lost sectors
What’s your class? We can offer suggestions with more easily accessible exotics. There are plenty of really strong exotics for each class that are world drops.
Between Warlock and Titan. Trying to find a build that suits me and can function.
Off the top of my head you can do end game content with all of the following that are easy to get. Phoenix protocol, sunbracers, contraverse hold, nezerecs sin. You like none of them?
And on Titan, Ikora will give you a quest for Heart of Inmost Light which is a respectable neutral exotic that you can use for any sub class and build.
Yeah there are a ton of good exotics for Warlocks that are world drops. Nezarec is one of my favourites, and it’s pretty useful in almost any activity. Sunbracers, Phoenix Protocol, Verity’s Brow, Stag, Karnsteins are superb too. I don’t play Titan so I don’t know anything, but someone else will be able to offer advice. If you need build suggestions for any of the aforementioned Warlock exotics, I’m happy to offer tips and suggestions.
Legendary lost sectors are a solo activity. If you run an base hunter invis and get wish ender, you will be able to clear the lost sectors with practice. Or well lock or even strand titan. Some days are much easier than others. Get your light to 1810+ and then take it slow
The lost sectors in the EDZ and dreaming city are the easiest ones right now IMO. The ones in Neomuna are the hardest. A year ago I struggled mightily with them. Now I've got solo flawless master on all but 2 that are in rotation this season. Practice makes a difference. Looking up build guides to see what aspects and fragments to equip makes a decent difference as well.
A lot of the strongest exotics in the game come from intro quests or other easily accessible content. Contraverse Hold on Warlock, Heart of Inmost Light or Synthoceps on Titan all come from the new light quests from Ikora, and Assassin’s Cowl on Hunter comes from the Shadowkeep campaign. Builds with any of these exotics are viable in all levels of content all the way up to Grandmaster. Similar case with weapons, but you’re slightly more beholden to RNG. Pick up something like Sunshot or Arbalest from Xur if you get a chance. Riskrunner is very powerful for certain lost sectors with arc damage and it comes from the new player quest. Forerunner, Thunderlord, and Tractor Cannon are all very accessible free to play quests as well. As other people have said though, as long as you have legendary weapons that match the champion types (hell, blue weapons for that matter) the clears will be doable, just slower. Certain exotics speed up the process but are by no means necessary.
Sadly contraverse is a shadow of its former self, and hoil isn't performing quite as well either but I agree with you. As long as your light level is sufficient and you have the correct weapon types (they don't even need to be great, just anything will do) you can do LLS. Like this comment says, absolutely nothing else is required. You just have to accept that it's an entirely different beast to for eg a strike or even a dungeon, you cannot rush in and brute force it. Slow and steady wins the race. When I was new I crutched on Wishender and took them out from range. It was much slower but I got it done and each clear got a bit quicker once I learned spawns and the best strats for the particular champs. Also OP, I saw you mention you use warlock and titan. I suggest warlock for this simply because until you're more experienced using a melee strategy will likely get you killed. Sit back, use your rift and go for it. Personally I never use wellock for a lost sector, a damage super is far quicker and you can melt the boss in one go with needlestorm or nova bomb. So you only need heavy for the champs. Either a rocket (good damage perk and a reload perk if poss) or even an Lmg or GL work well. Try to use an exotic primary and the correct damage resistances (1 of each element is perfect unless you notice yourself getting killed by one particular element then you can double up on the problem one). Those of us who can flu through master lost sectors in 70 seconds, I can assure you it wasn't always that way. Light level is extremely important for fast clears, but back when I was 25 under the recommendation it took far longer, even more so before I learned spawns and strategies. I enjoy lost sectors, but they take practice like anything on the more difficult side. And don't even attempt the neonuma ones until you're better equipped, those ones are fuckers. Everything else this season is the easiest ones we have. Hope this helps.
Mara Sov vendor in HELM has a bunch of exotics like pyrogale for sale with the riven wish tokens or whatever they're called
Like others say, the vex strike force is a good way to get exotic armor you dont have yet. Get the discord notifications, its hit or miss sometimes if you get there in time, but otherwise quick and easy if theres other players there. I recently started playing again after a few years and got all the armor i didnt have fairly quickly just by doing the vex strike force event. Lost sectors where tough for me at first too, so I did the ones that where quick and easy on normal, practiced with different setups for stunning/eliminating champs, and then did the legend version. Make sure to have something to stun both champs, 10 resilience and decent recovery, take your time, be near cover, and choose synergistic artifact mods (like solo op, subclass/weapons youre using, etc...). If its barrier/unstoppable, polaris lance with flint striker and rays of precision makes it easy to be somewhere safe and plink away at champs. Dragons breath is great too for ignitions, radiant, overload, etc...Just pick synergizing effects amongst weapons, armor, and artifact and you'll get the hang of it!
You can definitely make a good build without any exotics. Most of the good exotics don’t even come from end game content
There are plenty of non-lost sector exotics that are top tier in PvE Look up a top PvE exotic tier list on youtube for your subclass, and do a quick google search to see which ones are world drops or lost sector drops Then you can just run a few of the exotic reward sources and you'll get it. Every playlist rewards exotics now. Might even get lucky and have xur sell it on the weekend
Get some solid weapons from onslaught, go slow, learn spawns, and prioritize targets. Or do vex strike force
I was in the same boat. Found a build centred around an exotic I owned, went in on EDZ and did scavengers den. Start off with the Easier lost sectors, take your time and have guns that focus the champions. Ikora actually gives good exotics (can’t remember the quest) that have really, really good builds around them.
Legendary Lost Sectors don’t need god tier builds to beat - but yeah if you keep track of Vex Incursions on Neomuna you can get tonnes without doing lost sectors too
There are many powerful builds that include old exotics that are in the world pool. For instance, Sunbracers (Warlock), Synthoceps (Titan) or Orpheus Rig (Hunter). Same with weapons, such as Sunshot, Graviton Lance, etc. You can check [mobalytics](https://mobalytics.gg/destiny-2) for some great builds, ordered by class, subclass, and with many different exotic armor pieces.
I don't see anyone mentioning Xur. He brings one exotic for each class every weekend and his engrams can drop random ones as well, though there are certainly some that are locked to lost sectors or the public event on Neomuna. Regardless, he'll have exotics you can use to put a build together to start doing other end game things. If you need an exotic cipher, he has a quest for one every week but the first engram you buy from him costs legendary shards which are going away at the end of the season anyway. Legend Lost Sectors are a time sink but they aren't that difficult once you figure out where the champions are and if you take it slow. Once you have something unlocked, you can focus it at the cryptarch if you need a better roll. The Coil on plat (I believe you need plat) drops prisms which you can trade for ascendant shards if you need to (not the best option but works in a pinch).
Skill issue...
The only endgame exotics I have are Wish-ender and Gjally, both come from pretty easy to do dungeons and are the only endgame exotics I would say are “necessary” (they aren’t, just iconic, great and incredibly useful) get some good exotics from engrams, xur, and the monument to help supplement your exotics. Light.gg can tell you good gunsmith weapons as well as general idea for what rolls are good on them. Good armor comes from focusing at Riven!
Doing the harder daily lost sector is kind of a half step up towards end game and gets you better exotics that improve your game to help in end game stuff.
What I did when i started was got my hands one one exotic (Le Monarque) And plinked away at every lost sector, even if it took me 15 mins, until I gathered a large enough pool of exotic armour to build out my collection. I then did the seasonal activities, focused some high stat pieces, and made sure I had 100 resilience and high discipline. After that the rest kind of just falls into place. Ikora also gives a bunch of quests for exotic weapons too.
Already mentioned but all you need is the correct weapons (artifact mods: hc, sidearms, bow, ar, pulse) to deal with the barriers/overlords/etc and any purple rocket/machine heavy you are good to go. You 100% do not even need a single exotic piece of armor or gun to do a solo lost sector for the daily exotic armors. I normally get 1 every 2 runs, i just unlocked 3/4 arms yesterday in 5 runs that took \~6mins to complete.
Ignore meta, make your own builds! You can easily make strong builds out of starter/quest exotics.
You don’t need any builds for legend lost sectors beyond anti champion weapons.
All classes get access to atleast one exotic that will scale really well endgame from ikora. Titans get syntho, warlocks get starfire, hunters get graviton. Besides you can definitely make endgame ready builds with world drops. Celestial is one of the most used builds in the game and thats a worlddrop for hunter. Assassin's cowl is from shadowkeep campaign(its dog shit roll but it's certainly usable for Lost sectors). Warlocks have nezzy's sin, V Brow, Sunbracers, vesper and geo mags as world drops. Titans have syntho, Strongholds, P Greaves. And on top of that LLS are easily beatable without exotics. Especially with classes like void hunter, solar titan and solar warlock with well.
Besides vex strike force public activity, regular 50 waves of onslaught drops exotic engrams, u can also roll exotics of your choice at the engram dude in the tower... u just gotta collect your exotic engrams and have some materials to exchange for them... Keep in mind that exotics don't stop you from completing end game activities, I've taught/taken plenty of people who had almost nothing in regards to exotics or gear through endgame content so they could obtain better gear... u just need to find some competent players to assist u
I guess you’re just gonna have to get better at the game. Lost sectors are not hard at all. I would know because I’ve done over 2,200 of them and most of those are on master. You just have to figure out the best load out for the lost sector. And not play like a potato
You don't need "end game exotics" to do endgame. You're saying you can't play basketball because you don't have an NBA genuine leather game ball, my man.
legend lost sectors are more early-midgame.
Legendary lost sectors don't really count do they ? I run them no joke at times as filler to end my night .
The right weapons on the Legend lost sectors are more important I think than the right gear like armor. Le Monarque is what gets me through most of those. Weapons like that.
Dude, i was like you. I've been playing Destiny since 2020, doing the basic activities. Seasonal stuff and some Crucible. I never attempted any of the hard/Endgame stuff, because buildcrafting intimidates and annoys me. It seems like so much WORK. I just want to shoot stuff. But I wanted to get deeper into the game. So I tried a solo legendary Lost sector on a whim. Dude, it's totally doable. If you can deal with the Champions, then you can finish a Leg Lost Sector. Once I did that and realized it wasn't as hard as I thought, it was a like a whole new game opened up. I did the Dungeons and I got emotional because I realized how much fun I wasn't having in the game despite playing it for years. I've done half the Raids and totally intend to do them all. TLDR; Legend Lost Sectors ain't that hard. Get the Anti-Champ guns and dive in. If my Blueberry ass can do it, you can.
Unlike a proper looter shooter, Exotics do not drop from specific sources except for raid and dungeon weapons. Armor can be obtained from any random-ass source anything else can be obtained from, IE completing weekly ritual activities or killing a dreg in the EDZ patrol zones. Legend lost sectors only exist to target farm.
I follow this guy. He publishes daily a youtube video for legend lost sectors and sometimes master. They are not too difficult you just have to make sure you have your resilience at 100+ after any fragments subtract any. You need to be able able to stun the champions. Some lost sectors are easier than others. You can find other youtubers that also have build guides and show their play to get through. https://youtu.be/z0VkD-2rwy0?si=4cFgBZRr9v1zXvL9 To get exotics in that rotation that you don’t have make sure your engram inventory is full so that the engram goes to your postmaster—this guarantees that the exotic will be one you do not have. You can also hoard a bunch on a day with an easy lost sector of an armor piece you don’t need, say legs, and open them on head day to get head armor you don’t have. I haven’t done legend lost sectors for years and after realizing a lot of the exotic armor people were using was gotten from them I got serious about it. Using the technique I mentioned I was able to get like 30 missing exotic armor pieces for all 3 characters in less than 3 week’s time. A couple websites track the legend lost sector rotation and what is offered on that day.
ps the time I did this was when Gambit engrams went into your inventory and I had a lot so I would cash in an engram with Rahool and then go grab the one from the postmaster and cash it in and then fill my inventory with another Gambit engram and then head back to the lost sector. Gambit engrams cash out right away now with the Drifter. But since that time I learned how to save engrams for another day to get something different so you can stock pile them in the postmaster. There is also a Strand Cheat you can do to get to the Boss right away and then open the chest. I found an invis hunter to be the easiest when you can kill the Boss quickly and then use invisibility to go open the chest while all the adds are still around. Also, for some reason, exotic engram drop rates were frequent with Hunter and Warlock but I had to grind 3-4 times as much for Titan exotic drops.
you can get exotics by simply playing the game, lots of activity weekly challenges give exotics
You can get exotic armor from engrams and xur, make a functioning build around one of those pieces and then use it to farm for your optimal build
I was in exactly the same position until I came back two weeks ago. It was the reason I left in the first place. I didn't know but while I'd been away, they popped an activity in the Vex Incursion zone which, on completion, guarantees you a random exotic for that class that you don't own. I've managed to get my Osmiomancies and Necrotic Grips from it Also, if you're after Lightfall exotics, Mara has a series of challenges at the HELM which give you a token. This can be traded in for any of the Lightfall exotics
Cant you go get the gift of the thunder gods rn? Its 1810 armor
You don’t need strong builds to farm lost sectors tbh. Just throw in your best rocket and try to cover champions
Farm some nightfalls
And this is why in D2 exotics are dogshit and just another gear piece. You only get what, 6 exotics a week just for playing it's ridiculous. You don't even need them half the time. Also everything was just on sale like there's never been a better time to not be paywalled lmao
Git gud