Destiny 2: Xur Exotic Armor, Weapon, and Recommendations…

Summary

Xur has returned to Destiny 2 with new exotic and legendary gear for a limited time during the Festival of the Lost event.
Hunters can pick up the recently nerfed Young Ahamkara's Spine, Titans get Peacekeepers, while Warlocks get Winter's Guile.
The exotic weapon this week is The Prospector heavy grenade launcher.

Xur has returned again to Destiny 2, complete with new exotic and legendary gear for players to check out for a limited time. Week 2 of Festival of the Lost has seen a few changes from Bungie to help players continue progressing. A recent Destiny 2 update made Eerie Engrams easier to earn when playing through the normal Haunted Sector playlist. Players looking to potentially earn more Lost Mementos now have better odds with Eerie Engrams dropping more often.

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In addition to Festival of the Lost, Xur is back again with a whole selection of exotics and legendaries for Destiny 2 players over the next few days. Follow this guide for his most current weekend location, news on his exotic cipher quest, as well as a review of all the exotic and legendary gear he's brought for the weekend of October 27, 2023.

Where is Xur?

Over the next few days, Xur is located inside the Tower Hangar.

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Fast travel to the main Tower location and head left into the Hangar. Once there, take another left and move past the Dead Orbit section to find a metal staircase. Move up the stairs to find Xur on a platform overlooking the mountain range off in the distance.

Class Armor and Exotic Cipher

Xur's role continues to offer the usual weekly quests, exotics, and legendary gear. Not only are these quests required to purchase a second fated engram, but they're necessary to acquire legacy exotic gear from the Tower kiosk. Players can earn a new cipher by completing strikes and winning crucible or gambit matches. Gain bonus points for playing with clan mates or finishing more challenging activities.

Xur continues to sell even more gear outside his usual content. In addition to his normal exotic gear, Xur now has Legendary Weapons and Armor for sale in exchange for Legendary Shards and Glimmer.

Exotic Armor

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Winter's Guile - Warlock gauntlets

Exotic Perk:

Warlord's Sigil - Defeating targets with melee attacks increases player melee damage. Targets encased by Penumbral Blast automatically shatter.

An interesting roll for this exotic with two big spikes for Resilience and Strength, though at the cost of everything else. It's a melee specific exotic with a bonus to Shadebinder Warlocks, so it's likely only going to impact specific builds, which makes it hard to recommend, especially with such a chaotic stat distribution.

Stat Values (65 Total):

Mobility +2
Resilience +28
Recovery +4
Discipline +6
Intellect +2
Strength +23

Young Ahamkara's Spine - Hunter gauntlets

Exotic Perk:

Wish-Dragon Teeth - Increased Tripmine Grenade duration and blast radius. Gain Tripmine Grenade energy from ability final blows.

This exotic was a recent target of a nerf from Bungie for the Destiny 2 midseason update, making it much harder to counter in PvP. While the roll on this is pretty good, it's a hard exotic to recommend these days following the nerf and how specific it is for tripmine grenades only.

Stat Values (67 Total):

Mobility +14
Resilience +3
Recovery +18
Discipline +12
Intellect +2
Strength +18

Peacekeepers - Titan leg armor

Exotic Perk:

Mecha Holster - Reloads stowed Submachine Guns and allows the player to ready them instantly. Improves handling with Submachine Guns and movement while wielding one. Provides a moderate benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of Submachine Guns.

As the description reads, this exotic is only effective when using SMG weapons, so for players that don't use some of the stronger options like Osteo Striga, this is an easy pass this week.

Stat Values (67 total):

Mobility +3
Resilience +3
Recovery +28
Discipline +11
Intellect +10
Strength +12

Exotic Weapon

Unlike most other grenade launchers in this class, The Prospector can fire its rounds as a fully automatic weapon by holding down the trigger. Its exotic perk is called Excavation which lets players hold the trigger to fire the grenade and then release it to detonate all live grenades simultaneously. In addition, grenades can stick to surfaces and set targets on fire.

Naturally, this weapon allows players to blanket large areas with grenades before detonating them all at once. It can be a little unruly with the full auto system, but once players get the hang of it, it can lay some serious damage on enemies. Although it may not be at the top of the heavy meta these days, this weapon can be fun to use and is worth the shards for those who don't have it.

Weapon perks:

Chambered Compensator
Extended Mag
Fitted Stock

Hawkmoon Rolls

At this point, Xur is only selling Hawkmoon with randomized rolls, but its time is limited once Harbinger is ultimately added to the Exotic Mission Rotator and makes the hand cannon craftable. Either way, here is the roll Xur has this weekend:

Hawkmoon Rolls:

Extended Barrel
Alloy Magazine
Quickdraw
Combat Grip

Here's the complete rundown of Xur's exotic stock in Destiny 2 for October 27, 2023:

Winter's Guile (Warlock gauntlets) – 23 Legendary Shards
Young Ahamkara's Spine (Hunter gauntlets) – 23 Legendary Shards
Peacekeepers (Titan leg armor) – 23 Legendary Shards
The Prospector (Grenade Launcher) - 29 Legendary Shards
Hawkmoon (Hand Cannon) - 125,000 Glimmer, 200 Legendary Shards, 1 Exotic Cipher, 1 Ascendant Shard
Exotic Engram - 97 Legendary Shards/1 Exotic Cipher
A Question - Exotic Cipher Quest