Here’s where Xur is in Destiny 2 today, and what you should buy from him

Xûr is Destiny 2’s Exotic gear merchant. He appears every weekend to sell the game’s most coveted items in exchange for Legendary shards, but if you’re a casual player with limited shards to spend, it can be hard to know which of his wares is most worth your investment. That’s where we come in.

Xûr appears every Friday at 17:00 GMT (09:00 Pacific), and will stick around until the Tuesday reset. We’ll update this guide shortly after he arrives, so if you’re reading this, you need only read on to learn where he is, and which are the best items he’s selling this week.

Ever since the Forsaken expansion, Xûr’s icon no longer appears on your director, so he’s not quite as easy to track down as he used to be. That said, his appearances in the EDZ, Titan, Nessus, Io, and The Tower have so far been in the same places he frequented in vanilla Destiny 2. When he appears in the Tangled Shore or Dreaming City (as he surely will) we’ll be sure to let you know exactly where.

Xûr is back on Titan this week, northeast of the landing zone on the Rig. He is selling:

Crimson, an Exotic hand cannon, for 29 legendary shards
Transversive Steps, Exotic Warlock leg armour, for 23 legendary shards
Fr0st-EE5, Exotic Hunter leg armour, for 23 legendary shards
Ashen Wake, Exotic Titan gauntlets, for 23 legendary shards

A Fated Engram, which guarantees a non-duplicate Exotic, for 97 legendary shards.

Crimson pays homage to Red Death, a pulse rifle from the original Destiny. It has basically the same perks, but on a hand cannon. Its ability to keep you alive is a huge boon in both game modes, but especially in the Crucible, and its stability and range stats are good. Its potential to auto-reload also obviates a common weakness of hand cannons, and puts it up with Sunshot as an add control tool in PvE.

Transversive Steps are a handsome pair of Warlock boots that will increase your sprint speed and automatically reload energy weapons while sprinting. The speed increase is roughly 5%, and since mobility doesn’t affect sprint, this is the only way to get faster at top speed. Still, it’s hardly essential; you could pair it with the two MIDA weapons for a blazing Gauntlet run, but otherwise we can’t think of any situation where it’s a must-pick, especially since Warlocks have plenty of other excellent Exotic armour. Mediocre.

Fr0st-EE5 wants you to run. Rapid Cooldown increases regeneration for grenade, melee, and dodge abilities while you’re sprinting, and gives you a little bit more mobility while you’re moving at top speed. All those things are useful, but there’s no denying that it’s not the most combination of Exotic buffs. Not essential in any meaningful way, though they can come in handy for giving you a bit more control in the midst of jumping puzzles. That’s a pretty limited recommendation, though.

Ashen Wake gives Titans fusion grenades that explode on impact and come out faster. Plus, you’ve got grenade cooldown reductions whenever you connect with a melee attack. The usefulness of all this is pretty obvious – if you like your grenades, this is an excellent choice to keep the explosives coming out regularly.