Wow, really? (Destiny)

by Speedracer513 , Dallas, Texas, Sunday, January 11, 2015, 11:32 (3846 days ago) @ Beorn

Just one of those random questions, but what's a good glimmer per minute rate? Is 350/minute (after boost and vendor trash) a good rate?

That's not bad. I generally average about 4,000 glimmer in 10 minutes (the length of a consumable) on the Exclusion Zone.

Are you just doing the first section (with all the Majors dropping out of the ships) on repeat with a consumable active? 4K in 10 mins seems rather high; I remember that mission being a good drop rate, but not quite that good.

Yeah, I pop a consumable as soon as I activate the ghost at the terminal, then I run/jump out past the first ship and kill all the yellow legionaries- ignoring everything else for the most part. (Probably goes without saying, but you need to select at least the second difficulty level to have the majors instead of just regular red-titled guys). I usually use rockets and/or supers to kill most of them quickly. Then as soon as I've killed the yellow-titled guys I run up to the middle where the normal legionaries and phalanxs are until they kill me and repeat over and over again. Make sure you pick up all the "network keys" they drop too.

I did two cycles of this last night (two consumables - for a total of 20 minutes) and netted about 5k from kills and 2k from Network Keys. So, I guess that was more like 350/minute than 400/min, but I wasn't as quick and efficient as I could have been.

If you have a VoG Gatekeeper checkpoint you can actually get much more glimmer per minute there by just opening the door and killing all the yellow vex (with Blue Polyphage active) and jumping off the ledge over and over.