With the Loot Cave Gone, Here’s The Best Way to Farm in Destiny Right Now

Given that Bungie is eliminating all proper methods of spawn camping against Hive, Vex, and Cabal in Destiny, we are all changing our methods of preparing for our weekly raids. The Loot Cave is gone after the latest hotfix, leaving loot chest loops as one of the best methods for grabbing gear in Destiny today. While our method from the Beta test is still fairly effective in terms of loot chest runs, this is the best way we know where killing enemies and grabbing loot chests combine.

[Stevefantisy]

Its sad to see the loot cave go but its probably for the best. That's for the update with your current farming methods.

[JoeIsMad]

I figure that at least this way people have to try A LITTLE. It's probably going to stay the same, unless Bungie nerfs spawn rates on chests in the future.

[mochachino]

I happy to see it gone, and strike rewards increased.

[Christopher]

Strike rewards weren't increased. They just fixed an issue with them being harder than they should be.

All they said about these is they would communicate better the rewards you do get from strikes, daily missions, and the like.

[submarinna]

With loot cave gone I give up. Can't go through the repetitive chore of destiny anymore

[JoeIsMad]

I think that you're probably not having fun if you're not challenging yourself. Try turning up the difficulty on your missions, you might have fun.

[metalmatters]

Yup I recommend that you turn up the notch on difficulty, you will have a blast, a lot less repetitive and more challenging.

[Christopher]

I've done this, but then been disappointed by the rewards. No point in doing something more difficult, spending more time playing, to get less rewards (takes you longer to kill, less drops). To be honest, playing it as hard as it can be is just an attempt to ignore the issue and fool yourself into believing the game is giving you what you deserve, not a solution.

What I suggest is doing the bounties and other dailies/weeklies and then logging out. Only play a bit of time each day and don't farm. Over time, you'll get enough ranks, marks, and whatnot to buy what you need and maybe some day they'll reward us for doing things on harder difficulties.

[kneon]

Isn't using the loot cave just about the most repetitive thing you could possibly do in destiny?

[Delive]

@kneon & Pinkdolphinyfg
repetitive, he'll yea, but the results and returns were far more efficient-effective in the loot cave.

[Mega24]

@Delive

I got more done playing the game how it is supposed to be played, than standing outside a cave. I got more legendary engrams on strikes, Daily mission, and doing just basic exploration than my friends doing the cave. I haven't even done the raid yet.

[Christopher]

***I got more done playing the game how it is supposed to be played***

Good for you. I've played a lot more than many of the people I've grouped with and have less to show for it.

Just because you come in at the higher end of the RNG doesn't mean others do. The problem with the system isn't that you can't find something eventually, it's that it varies so greatly from one person to another that it essentially tells players that someone's 40 hours in the game is equivalent to another player's 20 hours in the game solely based on luck and nothing else.

Heck, took me 6 play throughs of the queen's bounty missions to find out that they only drop chest and helmet pieces. Really helpful considering I needed arm and weapon pieces only.

[Pinkdolphinyfg]

I find it ironic that the same people who are defending the repetitive missions in this game are going on the other threads and talking about how they were farming the loot cave with a bunch of friends. If what they were saying was true then they would be playing the actual game than farming a cave for hours. Just goes to show how hypocritical some people truely are.

[Christopher]

Not really.

The game is repetitive. Nothing will ever change that but Bungie themselves. And, honestly, I doubt they will ever change it. That's like Diablo 3 suddenly changing how you play that game, not going to happen.

But, people can still enjoy it and will take advantage of the best ways to alleviate the time they spend doing the repetitive actions.

You can like the loot cave and dislike the repetitiveness of the game. The cave only helps to limit the amount of time you spend doing repetitive tasks for legendary gear. Nothing else.

[n4rc]

There are multiple places to farm..

The moon mission dark beyond I think it is.. Darkness zone, doors open and 25 thralls run out... Kill them all and let the knight kill you, respawn and repeat

Essentially any darkness zone with many enemies can be used the exact same way

[JoeIsMad]

With the latest patch, this doesn't work. They nerfed spawn rates immediately after wipes, and since you'll be alone in your party, that's a wipe.

[n4rc]

Its a mission, not a patrol

The level resets when you die because its a darkness zone, that's why it works

They don't respawn.. They are part of the mission.. If the enemies didn't reappear, it would defeat the purpose of the darkness zones..

In that mission, you only advance IF you kill the knight..

[SwiftArsonist]

that got nerfed as well, if u do that the leg drop rate decreases, is in the patch notes

[Christopher]

That's not a problem actually since most people do this to get blues to raise cryptarch level. Unless they dropped the rate across the board.

But, I tried this out and it was a horrible option compared to just doing chest runs or the like. The drop rate two weeks ago on it was abysmal.

[Kryptonite42O]

lonelygoner is right..

after learning about the loot cave being nerfed, me and a buddy from work decided to try the moon mission... did it for about an hour and only picked up 2 blue engrams...

I woudln't normally condone farming like this, but the damn loot system is sooooo broken. The higher level raids drop the good gear, but I cant do the higher level raids because I don't have the gear required.. wtf am i supposed to do?

[PsylentKiller]

This is my go to farming spot. After about a half hour a war breaks out between the cabal and vex. It's great. You have to constantly be moving around all the time but I've completed quite a few bounties there as well as pick up a lot of engrams.

[Baccra17]

It's a damn shame when you can watch someone play Destiny with guardians and all they're doing is shooting into a cave cause the loot system and cryptarch are a f'ing joke.

I'll even go a step further, this was purposely done so a while later they can come out with some DLC, Crapcom style, that would put things the way they are supposed to be or make you buy your stuff with actual money.

[Christopher]

Actually, it was done as a lazy way to get us to play for longer. They even said so in their notes about how when they tested it internally people liked it because it was like winning the lottery when they got something they liked and therefore 'perfect' in design. When it was actually a management decision to limit things so that people would have to play for longer to get things. The longer you play, the better the game looks, the more other people will play it, the better chance you will buy DLC, and so on.

Problem is, it's backfiring because it's so blatantly obvious how broken the RNG is and they failed to provide enough content to hide this fact or utilize more levels of equipment quality to make it so that once you hit all blue armor/weapons that it becomes very rare to get something worthwhile from an engram, let alone how many more engrams you find that end up just being garbage.

[Swiggins]

My go to spot is the Downed Fallen Ship on Venus, consistent enemy spawns 2 chests that all spawn close together in the various rooms and a war event every hour or so can lead to some halfway decent farming, not to mention it's hands down the best place to harvest spirit bloom.

[ipach]

yes, suprised with how important those darn environmental supplies are in the late game. kind of surprised activision didn't implement microtransactions for that stuff. let's count our blessings, i guess.

[ipach]

i totally farmed here for a while - but had no idea about the duplicate chests! i just loved how the enemies from both sides spawned so quickly and found it more fun than cave shooting. but i guess i'll be finding a lot of other people there with me next time i go there!

[Humanbean74]

I find when you use a Hand Canon Revolver more Loot Drops!