If you want to infuse and enhance your gear, you must use masterwork cores (enhancement cores). Unfortunately, there are currently no activities in Destiny 2 that reliably give out masterwork cores as rewards. However, a clever Redditor has likely found the best way to farm these rare cores.
No masterwork cores, no infusion: If you want to raise your beloved gear to a new power level, you will often need to invest masterwork cores. These have now been renamed to enhancement cores.
However, they are extremely rare. If you want to acquire the coveted resource in a normal way, you have to spend legendary shards at Spider in the Tangled Shore.
This can be quite expensive: Because with each purchased masterwork core, the price doubles. For 5 masterwork cores, you have to spend 310 legendary shards – a steep price.
The Redditor Bullmoogle has now shown that there is a much cheaper way. All you need for this is a supply of legendary shards (at least 200-500).
Note: The method is tedious, I won’t hide that from you. You will spend a lot of time on loading screens and bouncing between Tangled Shore, Mercury, and the Tower. You won’t even have to fire a weapon (or will you?).
How to Efficiently Farm Masterwork Cores
As previously mentioned, you will need to regularly visit Spider in the Tangled Shore, Brother Vance on Mercury, and the Cryptarch in the Tower. Here’s how the trick works in detail:
- Step 1: Spend all your legendary shards at Spider in the Tangled Shore for Simulation Seeds. All of them? Yes, all! You receive these in stacks of 5 for one legendary shard each. Do not exchange the Simulation Seeds for Glimmer; that won’t work.
- Step 2: Fly with your Simulation Seeds to Brother Vance on Mercury and exchange them for reward packages. Dismantle everything he gives you.
- Step 3: Fly to the Tower and dismantle all the shaders from Brother Vance at the Cryptarch. This will give you back some of your legendary shards.
- Step 4: Go to the gunsmith and exchange the materials you got from dismantling the weapons. Dismantle everything you don’t need.
Repeat steps 1-4 as long as your Netflix series is running or your food is on the stove.
So what does all this bring? The Redditor Bullmoogle obtained 69 masterwork cores in exchange for about 500 legendary shards. Thus, one masterwork core costs only 7 legendary shards. You can’t get the resource cheaper anywhere else right now.
By dismantling the shaders and gear, you get back about 65-70% of your invested legendary shards. As a bonus, you also get masterwork cores, mod components, and the occasional exotic item might pop up.
Why does it have to be Simulation Seeds and Brother Vance? In fact, the trick also works with the planet material from the EDZ or Titan – however, you have to invest more materials for a reputation package. In this regard, Brother Vance is the “cheapest”.
If you haven’t fallen asleep yet, you can also complete the exotic quest Coming Dawn with your second or third character afterwards. This grants you another 15 masterwork cores for the other characters on your account after the first completion. It may take longer, but at least you get to play with your weapons every now and then.
Have you discovered any other farming methods for masterwork cores? Let us know in the comments!
