How to Get Enhancement Cores Fast in Destiny 2

In Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate, Enhancement Cores remain a critical resource for Guardians looking to optimize their gear. These materials are essential for upgrading weapons and armor, ensuring that even the best stat rolls and "God Rolls" of meta weapons can reach their full potential through Masterworking. Running low on Enhancement Cores can halt a Guardian's progression, making efficient farming methods vital.

How to Get Enhancement Cores Fast in Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate

The fastest and most consistent ways to acquire Enhancement Cores in Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate involve a combination of strategic play and material management:

Ritual Activities with Ghost Shell Mod:

• Equip your Ghost Shell with the "Core Harvest" booster modifier. This mod increases your chances of receiving Enhancement Cores from activity completions.
• Focus on completing Portal Activities (Strikes, Crucible, Gambit). Crucible activities are often the fastest to complete, allowing for more frequent reward drops, including Enhancement Cores. While other Portal activities like Strikes can also yield cores, their longer completion times may make them less efficient for pure core farming.
• Look for specific "Tonic" buffs from vendors like Eido (at the HELM) that can increase Enhancement Core drop chances for killing certain enemies.

Dismantling Gear:

• Regularly disassemble unwanted Legendary weapons and armor. While not a guaranteed drop every time, Legendary gear has a chance (roughly 2 out of 10 times) to yield Enhancement Cores upon dismantling. This passive method accumulates cores over time, especially if you're frequently playing activities and acquiring new loot.
• Higher-tier gear (like fully Masterworked items) will yield more Enhancement Cores and other higher-tier materials upon dismantling.

Reward Pass Progression:

• As you level up your seasonal Reward Pass (Battle Pass), you will claim several Enhancement Cores at various tiers. This is a passive but reliable source throughout the season.

Additional Options for Enhancement Cores:

• Rahool (Tower Vendor):
  • Visit Rahool in the Tower and select "Material Exchange."
  • You can purchase Enhancement Cores by trading in Enhancement Prisms. This is a great way to convert higher-tier materials into cores if you have a surplus of Prisms.
  • "Blue Armor Trick" (Conversion): A well-known method involves pulling a blue class item from collections, upgrading it to level 8 (which costs Glimmer, some Cores, and 1 Enhancement Prism), and then dismantling it. This process nets you 6 Cores back for a cost of 3 Cores and 1 Prism, effectively converting Prisms into a net gain of Cores.
• Random Drops in Destinations:
  • Enhancement Cores can randomly drop from killing enemies, particularly powerful enemies (yellow bars), in various destinations across the system. Using a "Finest Matterweave" consumable (if you have any left over from before The Final Shape) can increase the chance of a core dropping from a powerful enemy.
• Portal Activity Completion (Above D Rank):
  • Completing Portal Activities with a performance ranking above "D Rank" (typically B, A, or S Ranks) increases your chances of receiving Enhancement Cores as a reward.
• Xur (Weekend Vendor):
  • Every Friday to Tuesday reset, Xur appears in a random location. He occasionally sells Enhancement Cores in exchange for Strange Coins. While not a primary farming method, it's a good way to spend excess Strange Coins if you have them.
• Suraya Hawthorne (Clan Rewards):
  • Completing Social Activities and contributing to your clan's weekly XP can earn you Rank Rewards from Suraya Hawthorne in the Tower, which sometimes include Enhancement Cores.
• Banshee-44 (Gunsmith) Bounties:
  • Banshee-44 in the Tower offers daily bounties that reward Enhancement Cores upon completion. Doing these on all three characters daily is a consistent, low-effort way to accumulate cores.
• Legend and Master Lost Sectors:
  • Soloing Legend and Master Lost Sectors can be a very efficient way to farm Enhancement Cores, often dropping multiple cores and even Enhancement Prisms per run, especially on shorter Lost Sector layouts.

Given the increased emphasis on weapon enhancement and Armor 3.0 in The Edge of Fate, Guardians will likely need dozens of Enhancement Cores to fully Masterwork their new gear. Utilizing a combination of these methods will ensure a steady supply.

How to Use Enhancement Cores in Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate

Enhancement Cores are a versatile material with several crucial applications in Destiny 2:

Masterworking Weapons and Armor:

• The primary use of Enhancement Cores is to upgrade the Masterwork level of weapons and armor. Each tier of upgrade requires a certain number of cores, alongside other materials like Glimmer and Legendary Shards,eventually leading to a fully Masterworked (Tier 10) item that grantsbonus stats and an energy slot for mods.

Purchasing Legacy Armor and Weapons:

• You can use Enhancement Cores to purchase Legacy Armor and weapons from various vendors in the Tower, including Zavala (Vanguard), The Drifter (Gambit), and Banshee-44 (Gunsmith).
• With The Edge of Fate, Saint-14 in the Hangar now also offers Legacy Trials armor, allowing players to complete their collections of previously featured Trials of Osiris Armor sets.

Weapon Enhancement:

• Since the introduction of Weapon Enhancement (originally for Deepsightweapons, now expanded to other Legendaries), Enhancement Cores areinvested to level up most Legendary Weapons. This process improves their perks into "improved" or "enhanced" versions, making already strong rolls even better.
• It's important to note that this process does not allow you to re-roll perks; it only enhances the existing ones. This makes it a worthwhileinvestment for "God Rolls" or meta weapons that you are confident inusing long-term.

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