to masterwork your weapons and armor
you're going to need a ton of
enhancement cores enhancement prisms
ascendant shards and a sena alloys so in
this video i'll go over the best ways to
farm these materials as a solo player
using these methods i've been able to
hoard thousands of materials and be sure
to stick around to the end for a trick
to get dozens of cores in only a few
minutes i'm marshix and i make destiny 2
guides for solo players if you enjoy all
i ask for is a like on the video before
we start keep in mind the kryptark
offers material conversion so you're
able to turn your enhancement cores into
prisms and prisms into ascendant shards
there's also a weird trick you can do to
convert them the opposite way but i'll
go over that in a few minutes in order
to master work legendary armor you'll
need three cores three prisms and one
ascendant shard then for exotic armor
you need 5 cores 5 prisms and 3 shards
then for weapons you just need 17 cores
and for crafted weapons you'll need to
craft your preferred frame using 12
cores and you'll need one alloy for each
enhanced perk you choose now time to
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gunsmith offers some of the easiest
materials in the game first he has daily
bounties that drop enhancement cores
these bounties are very easy to complete
only requiring kills with certain
weapons in any activity so you'll
probably finish these without even
trying each bounty will only give one
enhancement core but it's something you
can easily do in the background while
farming some of the other activities
later in the video be sure to pick these
up first thing every day for some
extremely easy cores also as you rank
them up by dismantling gear you'll get
cores golf balls and a senate alloys the
other tower vendors are also good for
masterwork materials similar to the
gunsmith these vendors will give cores
and prisms as you rank them up and
they'll even give an ascendant shard on
your first reset also each time you pick
up their engrams they have a small
chance to drop enhancement cores you
shouldn't solely focus on rank ups but
keep them in mind for later because
you'll be able to work on them in the
background while doing other activities
on this list if you head back to the
crypt dark you can outright buy
materials for legendary shards you can
buy 5 cores per day for 30 legendary
shards each alloys are 400 legendary
shards but can only be purchased once
per week and enhancement prisms are also
400 shards which is way too expensive so
don't buy these unless you're desperate
there are also a couple easy sources
like this for ascendant shards too in
the season pass you get a total of three
at ranks 85 90 and 94. you also get one
free ascendant shard every season by
completing the seasonal story these
obviously aren't farmable but they're
easy guaranteed one and done sources
that you can do every season most people
think of lost sectors as a place to only
farm exotics but they're actually a
pretty good source of enhancement cores
too legend and master lost sectors can
both drop cores at an uncommon drop rate
while this won't be the fastest way to
farm them you'll be getting exotics at
the same time so you can double up on
the rewards and unlike exotic drops you
don't have to run these solo so if you
have one or two friends who also need
cores just load up a short lost sector
and speed run through it in only a few
seconds empire hunts are also often
overlooked you can run the hero
difficulty for common cores and rare
prisms and you get a matchmade team or
if you already have a team you can run
legend or master for better drop rates
of those same materials as well as a
good source of high stat armor this
isn't at the top of the list but if
you're looking for high stat armor and
masterwork materials this is a great
activity to farm trials of osiris is one
of the most rewarding activities in the
game even for solo players all you need
to do is get 7 wins on a card whether it
be flawless or not then continue to play
on that 7 win card each win beyond 7
will have a decent chance of dropping
cores prisms and even ascendant shards
and as you play you'll get a ton of rank
ups from both saint 14 and shax so
you'll rack up a ton of loot i know
getting wins isn't easy so if you
struggle to keep around a 50 win rate
you'll want to farm this next source but
first if you are finding this guide
helpful be sure to leave a like on the
video nightfalls are also very rewarding
low level nightfalls will drop
enhancement cores and prisms and they
have matchmaking so you can easily run
them as a solo player adept will drop
them at an uncommon drop rate and hiro
will drop at a common drop rate with a
rare chance of prisms the higher levels
will drop those same materials at higher
rates but you will need a team if you're
playing solo i recommend hero difficulty
for the most loot while keeping
matchmaking or if you do have a team and
you're high enough level for it i
recommend master difficulty for a high
chance at ascendant shards or grand
master nightfalls for a guaranteed shard
and a high chance at another one as well
as tons of exotics on top of that but
don't forget you will need to kill all
champions to get the full drop rates for
these rewards also nightfalls have
double rewards from time to time so if
you see a notification for this go grind
it as much as possible a good solo
alternative to grandmasters is actually
dungeons the master versions of duality
and grasp of avarice have a small chance
of dropping prisms and descendant shards
after every encounter these are also
farmable so you can run them over and
over for materials as well as high stat
artifice armor with an extra mod slot it
is possible to solo these dungeons on
master but they will require you to be a
high power level and have a good bit of
experience with the encounters ascended
alloys drop from many sources now but
the most common one is the high level
campaign missions alloys drop from any
difficulty but the higher the difficulty
the higher the drop rates and just like
nightfalls you need to get platinum by
killing all champions to get these to
drop hero difficulty has matchmaking and
is much faster than the others so
running these will probably be the best
use of your time but if you do have a
team that can comfortably run masters go
for that master wellspring can also drop
alloys but it will require a full team
of 6 and you only unlock it after
reaching rank 18 in the throne world
catch crash can also drop alloys but
just like wellspring they only drop on
master difficulty which is only worth
running if you have a full fire team but
there is another good solo friendly
activity for alloys and that is
nightmare containment after completing
tier 3 of containment behind the final
chest you can spin vestiges of dread for
additional rewards this will drop
haunted weapons as well as a small
chance for a senate alloys it does help
to have others participate to speed it
up and ensure you get to tier 3 but
since it is a patrol zone you can wait
until other people show up or reload the
instance until you find a team who's
already doing it after grinding any of
these activities for a while you're
going to be left with more prisms than
you know what to do with since you can
only hold 50 at a time you may want to
break them down into cores to do this
you'll need a blue armor piece with 5
energy most of them drop at 5 or you can
pull some out of collections for glimmer
upgrade it from level 5 to level 8. this
will cost 3 enhancement cores and 1
prism but once you dismantle it you'll
get six cores back essentially turning
one prism into three cores this also
works with ascendant shards fully
masterworking an armor piece will cost
three cores three prisms and one golf
ball but it'll dismantle into six cores
and six prisms you are losing some of
the value but this is currently the only
way we have to break down materials into
their lesser versions this is very
helpful in situations where you're full
on prisms but you're running low on
cores just do this trick to convert them
into what you need and unlike prisms
there's no limit to the amount of cores
you can hold this concept can also be
used to store materials in your vault
when you're near the material cap just
masterwork armor that you don't care
about and store it in the vault when you
eventually need it you can dismantle
that armor to get some back now here's
an easy way to passively get masterwork
materials you'll need a couple ghost
mods the lesser core harvest mods will
give you enhancement cores for getting
head shots in crucible killing invaders
and gambit and defeating bosses and
strikes
the greater core harvest mods will do
the same thing but for prisms just throw
these mods on before running those
playlists and materials will passively
start to add up now as promised here's a
way to get prisms extremely fast you
probably have a ton of finest matter
weaves these drop randomly by
dismantling legendary weapons and armor
and they stack up really fast if you
have a large supply of finest matter
weaves you can head over to the moon and
look for any of these locked hive chests
if you shoot one of the symbols in the
wrong order a knight will appear pop a
matter weave then kill it and it has a
very high chance of dropping an
enhancement core while the symbols reset
pop another matter weave then spawn the
knight again this method will give you
about 3 cores per minute and you can do
it over and over as long as you have
matter weaves to spend so which of these
activities should you farm to get the
most resources while solo for cores and
prisms i recommend hero difficulty
nightfalls while working on gunsmith
bounties then for ascendant shards
trials is the best by far and for
ascendant alloys i recommend the lowest
difficulty campaign missions for fast
clears or nightmare containment
whichever you prefer if you thought that
enhancement core trick was cool you'll
want to check out this video for some
other weird yet useful tricks in destiny
2. thanks for watching i'm marshix and
i'll see you next time