Xur Exotic Armor, Weapon, and Recommendations for November 15

Key Takeaways

• Xur returns to Destiny 2 with new legendary, exotic, and resources for players.
• Exotic weapons this weekend include Borealis, a new Hawkmoon roll, Thunderlord, and Crimson.
• For exotic armor, Xur is featuring Transversive Steps, Aeon Swift, and Severance Enclosure.

Xur has returned again to Destiny 2, complete with new exotic and legendary gear for players to check out for a limited time. The Act 1 intermission is quickly coming to an end, with the second act ready to arrive on November 19. In addition, players only have a few days left to wrap up any leftover Festival of the Lost content in Destiny 2, as the Halloween-inpsired event ends at reset next week.

Alongside the next part of the Episode: Revenant story, Act 2 is also bringing with it a big midseason update, a new Street Fighter collaboration, and kicks off Bungie’s free god roll weapons giveaway at Banshee-44. The patch also makes substantial changes and buffs to Destiny 2‘s roaming super abilities, both in a much faster recharge time as well as increased damage in PvE activities.

For now, though, the weekend merchant Xur is back with a new inventory of exotics and legendary gear for Destiny 2 players. Follow this guide for his 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 November 15, 2024.

Where is Xur?

Xur has now taken up permanent residence in the Bazaar area inside The Tower, so there’s no more hunting when the weekend comes around.

Since the Bazaar is located between both fast travel points, players can pick either one to load into. Head into the area where Ikora and Hawthorne are and look for the Ramen Shop towards the back wall. While facing the shop, the alley is to the right, where Xur is standing.

Destiny 2 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’s Exotic Armor

Transversive Steps – Warlock leg armor

Exotic Perk:

• Strange Protractor – Sprint speed increased. After a short time sprinting, your currently equipped weapon is automatically reloaded.

An extremely high roll that is ultimately plagued by a mobility spike. Still, considering that these exotics involve sprinting, perhaps having high mobility isn’t the worst thing. There are better options out there, but auto reloading a weapon after sprinting does come in handy in most circumstances.

Stat Values (69 Total):

• Mobility +21
• Resilience +6
• Recovery +8
• Discipline +6
• Intellect +12
• Strength +16

Aeon Swift – Hunter gauntlets

Exotic Perk:

• Aeon’s Wrath – Rapid precision hits with a weapon temporarily increase reload speed and weapon swap speed.
• Foebreaker Chant – Stunning a Champion or landing rapid precision hits on a powerful combatant will mark them. Your allies deal increased damage to marked combatants. When a combatant is first marked, nearby Aeon Cult allies who do not have the Sect of Force role equipped gain grenade and melee energy.

It’s back after a week off. Nothing has changed in the meantime, though the overall roll is slightly higher than it was earlier this month. Still, it’s not an item that is a must-have.

Stat Values (67 Total):

• Mobility +3
• Resilience +15
• Recovery +15
• Discipline +2
• Intellect +12
• Strength +20

Severance Enclosure – Titan chest armor

Exotic Perk:

• Spheromatik Trigger – Powered melee final blows unleash a damaging explosion. Finishers and final blows against more powerful targets increase the radius and damage of the explosion.

Probably more fun to mess around with, this exotic isn’t taking down any of the top options available during Episode: Revenant.

Stat Values (67 total):

• Mobility +10
• Resilience +12
• Recovery +12
• Discipline +6
• Intellect +17
• Strength +10

Xur Inventory Items

Year 7 in Destiny 2 has upgraded Xur’s inventory, adding a true rank progression system, rewards, as well as focusing options. Xur also has more than just weapons and armor as well, including:

• Acrius Catalyst
• Huckleberry Catalyst
• The Xurfboard (Skimmer Board Vehicle)
• Essentialism/Stoicism/Solipsism OR Exotic Cipher
• Exotic Engram
• Ascendant Alloy
• Glimmer
• Enhancement Core
• Legendary Engram
• Strange Gift (Random Item for 1 Strange Coin)

Xur’s Exotic Weapons

Year 7’s Xur revamp has also added the ability to offer multiple exotic weapons in one visit. Here is what Xur has this weekend:

Hawkmoon – Hand Cannon

• Paracausal Shot – Final blows and precision hits with Hawkmoon grant stacks of Paracausal Charge. The final round in the magazine deals bonus damage based on the number of stacks. Stowing Hawkmoon on the final round removes this bonus.
• Full Bore
• Alloy Magazine
• Quickdraw
• Combat Grip

Crimson – Hand Cannon

• Banned Weapon – This weapon fires a 3-round burst.
• Cruel Remedy – Kills with this weapon heal the wielder. Precision kills also refill the magazine.
• Smallbore
• Accurized Rounds
• Heavy Grip

Borealis – Sniper Rifle

• Ionic Return – Breaking a combatant’s shield—or the shield of a Guardian using a Super—with the matched damage type refills the magazine from reserves and grants bonus damage rounds. Breaking a combatant’s shield with a matched damage type Ionic Return round refreshes the perk.
• The Fundamentals – Holding reload changes this weapon’s damage type, cycling between Solar, Arc, and Void. Grants different stats based on your selected damage type.
• Corkscrew Rifling
• Extended Mag
• Hand-Laid Stock

Thunderlord – Machine Gun

• Reign Havoc – Final blows with this weapon generate stunning lighting strikes from above. Strong against Overload Champions.
• Feeding Frenzy – Each rapid kill with this weapon progressively increases reload speed for a short time.
• Polygonal Rifling
• Armor-Piercing Rounds
• Lightning Rounds

Xur’s Destiny 2 Legendary Armor Set and Weapons

Xur’s Set of Legendary Armor and Weapons. All gear costs 50 Legendary Shards and 1000 Glimmer.

• Blood Feud (Kinetic Submachine Gun)
• Nightshade (Kinetic Pulse Rifle)
• Brigand’s Law (Energy Sidearm)
• The Deicide (Energy Shotgun)
• Semiotician (Heavy Rocket Launcher)
• Planck’s Stride (Heavy Machine Gun)
• Crown-Splitter/Quickfang/Eternity’s Edge (Heavy Sword)
• Strange Weapon Engram
• Simulator/Entanglement Armor Set