Gaming Reaper
Currency is an important aspect of any game because it lets the player gauge what they can do as well as see how much they’ve done in the game based on the amount of currency that they have.
That currency for Destiny 2 is glimmer and the game describes it as both a currency and as a fuel. It is used in every world and takes the form of transmutation material if necessary. Glimmer is incredibly integral at maintaining progress and completing activities, no matter what stage of the game you are in.
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In this article, we’ll go over the various uses that glimmer has in Destiny 2 as well as some of the fastest ways that you can earn glimmer in the game.
Best Uses for Glimmer in Destiny 2 (+ video)
As mentioned before, glimmer is used in a variety of transactions that you’ll be making in your Destiny 2 playthrough.
The best five main ways that you will end up using Glimmer are:
- Purchasing Items from Vendors
- Purchasing Bounties
- Upgrading Gear
- Adding Mods to Gear
- Pulling Gear from Collections
These five items may not seem like much but they are the big ways you gain more power and allow you to adapt to dangerous situations fluidly.
Purchasing Items from Vendors
Vendor Cost:
- Glimmer Cost Varies
In the Destiny 2 universe, there are countless vendors that you are going to come across and all of them have some items that you will have to purchase in order to continue your progress through Destiny 2.
All the vendors in the Tower require some glimmer in order to access their services. From Master Rahool to Zavala, if you want to purchase stuff from them you’ll have to shell out some serious glimmer.
This also counts for purchasing mods and engrams because there are quite a few of those to get, especially for players that haven’t played Destiny 2 before or are getting into it for the first time.
If the word engrams caught your eye, look no further, our quick guide will show you how to farm engrams at an alarming rate for free!
As for players that are now in the end game of Destiny 2, the one thing that they are going to buy a lot with glimmer is raid banners. Raid banners are consumable items that can be placed before raid encounters and give your team ammo and super energy. If you regularly take on raids then this is a consumable that you are going to run out of rapidly.
Raid banners are also quite expensive because they are made to be purchased by players that don’t have other stuff to spend glimmer on and you can go through your entire resin stockpile in a matter of minutes.
If raiding is a route you want to take, check out our guide on how to beat the Deep Stone Crypt raid with ease!
Purchasing Bounties
Bounty Cost:
- 5000 Glimmer
Bounties have become both a blessing and a curse for Destiny 2 players. On one hand, they are the best way to gain light rapidly but on the other, it has become one of the only ways to gain light levels in the game.
There is a lot to be said about bounties in Destiny 2 but now is not the place for that. Instead, let’s focus on the drain that bounties place on your glimmer resources and how fast purchasing bounties can just deplete them.
Items such as enhancement cores and legendary shards can be obtained from completing bounties and are a boon to your progress in the game.
Every vendor will charge you glimmer to get bounties and buying a lot of them can take a lot of glimmer. Every bounty you purchase costs 5000 glimmer and getting even 10 of them will set you back 1/5th of your maximum glimmer capacity.
Upgrading Gear
Upgrading Cost:
- +100 Glimmer
Destiny 2 doesn’t really initiate new players with how important upgrading your gear is. All gear that you get in the game can be upgraded by adding more mod slots and eventually master working them to increase one of its stats permanently.
Upgrading and master working gear in Destiny 2 requires a lot of resources and that is true for glimmer as well. You will have to pay a glimmer cost as well as use up enhancement materials in order to masterwork gear and you will have to do this if you want to get into end game content.
The bonuses that masterworked gear provides are important for activities such as raids, dungeons, and ranked Crucible. Every other activity can be easily completed with normal gear.
The glimmer cost of masterworking gear can get pretty high, especially if you do all of your weapons and armor at once. That is what a lot of your glimmer will be spent on and because of sunsetting, that is going to become a common occurrence.
Adding Mods to Gear
Mods Cost:
- Glimmer Cost Varies
There is a multitude of mods in Destiny 2 and each of them applies different changes to your weapons. They can help you reload faster, carry more ammo in the mag, find more ammo for that particular type of weapon but they can apply more drastic changes such as giving weapons the ability to stop champions, increasing the aim assist that they come with, and do flat out more damage.
Mods aren’t just limited to weapons either, all armor pieces can be equipped with mods that can increase your stats, as well as a lot of other cool stuff that can change the way that you play the game.
The game also has seasonal mods now that can really change the way you play. In one of the previous seasons, the game added mods that would produce Warmind cells which would allow you to deal more damage amongst other things.
When you want to add mods to any gear that you have, you are going to need the mod itself as well as glimmer. Every time that you apply a new mod or replace an old one, you will have to spend glimmer to do so.
Since you will have to change out mods for a variety of situations, you will end up going through a lot of glimmer just by changing mods around.
Pulling Gear from Collections
Gear Cost:
- Glimmer Cost Varies
Destiny has this cool system of collections where you can see all of the weapons and armor that you have acquired in the past and using some glimmer you can pull an instance of the gear for any reason.
You are mostly going to end up pulling gear because of certain bounty or quest requirements where you have to have a certain type of weapon or element in order to complete it. This takes both glimmer and legendary shards, both resources that you are going to want plenty of.
How to Farm Glimmer Quickly in Destiny 2
- Dismantling gear yields the player loads of glimmer and resources
- Players can find public events all over the map. Partcipating in these grants players strong weapons and glimmer
- PVP and PVE gamemodes are a great way to earn glimmer due to its grind-ability
There are certain things that you can do in the game in order to get glimmer really quickly so that you don’t have to go around killing everything that you see just for some glimmer.
If you want to learn more on how you can form glimmer, here is a short guide on farming glimmer in Destiny 2!
Dismantling Gear
There is a lot of loot to be had in Destiny 2 but there is very little of it that you will want to keep. You can essentially dismantle all blues and almost all purples in order to get your glimmer reserve going.
Dismantling gear doesn’t give you much glimmer but given the amount of dismantling that you will have to do in the game, you are bound to get more glimmer than you need.
Public Events
Public events are surprisingly good for glimmer farming. They are easy to complete and don’t take much time at all to do. You will also end up with a lot of people that will join in and you can get thousands of glimmer in mere minutes. If you opt for this route then you should focus on public events that are over quickly and are popular with players.
Altar of Sorrows is an excellent one for this as there are so many enemies that will drop you glimmer and the rewards that you get at the end are also pretty good.
PvP
PvP isn’t everyone’s forte but it is a great source for glimmer, tokens, and gear to dismantle. Doing even just a few matches should give you enough glimmer to get by. Learning how to get better at PvP in Destiny 2 will yield better results for your time playing
If you opt for PvP then you should use crucible matches instead of gambit because they can be completed faster and require less commitment.
Choosing the best class for PVP-related events is necessary if you want to go far in the PVP game modes. Check out our guide on the best PVP classes for Destiny 2.
PvE
If PvP is not your thing, PvE game modes are still worth playing as they yield great results of glimmer and gear. The only drawback is they take longer than PvP matches. If this is the way you want to go our guide on the best PvE classes can be found here!
Conclusion
Glimmer is a resource that is scattered throughout the Destiny 2 universe. It is rewarded for doing basically anything in the game and shouldn’t be a resource that is used sparingly. If you just play the game and do activities in it, you’ll be able to get more glimmer than you know what to do with.
We hope you enjoyed our guide on how to spend glimmer in Destiny 2. Comment down below if we missed anything and as always, game on! I would personally recommend checking out our top 25 tips and tricks for Destiny 2 next!
