Destiny 2 How to farm Exotic Engrams in 2023

Exotics are some of the most sought-after items in the entire game. It’s only natural that chasing and farming Exotics is an important part of the Destiny experience.

There are several ways to acquire Exotics in Destiny 2. Some are locked behind specific activities, such as Raids or specific quests, but most Exotics can be earned through Exotic engrams.

What is an Exotic Engram?

Exotic engrams are rare items you can earn after completing an activity or encounter. Exotic engrams can be decrypted into either an Exotic weapon or armor piece, but unlike Seasonal or Prime engrams, they will decrypt automatically and transform into a random Exotic as soon as you claim it. Be aware that a select few Exotic engrams won’t decrypt automatically as they are meant to be used for Exotic armor Focusing.

How do they work?

Exotic engrams are not entirely random anymore. They now feature a light “bad luck” protection system that prioritizes items you haven’t earned before. This is how it works:

1. Exotic engrams will automatically decrypt into an Exotic weapon or armor you have never earned before
2. If you have already found every Exotic in the loot pool, Exotic Engrams will decrypt into a random Exotic armor piece with a random roll

This means that chasing Exotic engrams is the best method to find a specific Exotic weapon. If you’re looking for, say, Trinity Ghoul, each Exotic engram you earn will bring you closer to finding it thanks to this back luck protection.

One of the best sights in the game…

Exotic Engram rewards: Weapons

These are all the Exotic weapons you can acquire through Exotic engrams:

Exotic Engrams: Weapons

Art	Weapon	Type	Archetype	Rarity	Ammo	Element	Requirements	In loot pool?	Ammo?	Element?	Tier	Excels	Source	Craftable?	Requires	Released	Slot	Can be Crafted?	Best of?	Top Perk?
	Black Talon	Sword	Exotic	Exotic	Heavy	Void	Free-to-Play	Yes	Heavy	Void	Strong ❘ A	PvP	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 4	Heavy	No	Top-tier
	Borealis	Sniper Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Special	Void	Free-to-Play	Yes	Special	Void	Weak ❘ C	-	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 1	Energy	No
	Cerberus+1	Auto Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Primary	Kinetic	Free-to-Play	Yes	Primary	Kinetic	Weak ❘ C	-	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 4	Kinetic	No
	Coldheart	Trace Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Special	Arc	Free-to-Play	Yes	Special	Arc	Strong ❘ A	PvE	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 1	Energy	No	Top-tier
	Crimson	Hand Cannon	Exotic	Exotic	Primary	Kinetic	Free-to-Play	Yes	Primary	Kinetic	Strong ❘ A	PvP	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 2	Kinetic	No	Top-tier
	D.A.R.C.I.	Sniper Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Heavy	Arc	Free-to-Play	Yes	Heavy	Arc	Weak ❘ C		Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 1	Heavy	No
	Fighting Lion	Grenade Launcher	Exotic	Exotic	Primary	Void	Free-to-Play	Yes	Primary	Void	Average ❘ B	PvP	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 1	Energy	No
	Graviton Lance	Pulse Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Primary	Void	Free-to-Play	Yes	Primary	Void	Average ❘ B	PvE	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 1	Energy	No
	Hard Light	Auto Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Primary	Void	Free-to-Play	Yes	Primary	Void	Average ❘ B	PvP	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 1	Energy	No
	Lord of Wolves	Shotgun	Exotic	Exotic	Special	Solar	Free-to-Play	Yes	Special	Solar	Average ❘ B	PvP	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 4	Energy	No
	Merciless	Fusion Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Special	Solar	Free-to-Play	Yes	Special	Solar	Best ❘ S	PvE	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 1	Energy	No	Top-tier
	Monte Carlo	Auto Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Primary	Kinetic	Shadowkeep	Yes	Primary	Kinetic	Average ❘ B	PvE + PvP	Exotic Engram		Shadowkeep	Season 8	Kinetic	No
	Prometheus Lens	Trace Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Special	Solar	Free-to-Play	Yes	Special	Solar	Weak ❘ C	-	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 2	Energy	No
	Skyburner's Oath	Scout Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Primary	Solar	Free-to-Play	Yes	Primary	Solar	Strong ❘ A	PvE	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 1	Energy	No	Top-tier
	Sunshot	Hand Cannon	Exotic	Exotic	Primary	Solar	Free-to-Play	Yes	Primary	Solar	Best ❘ S	PvE	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 1	Energy	No	Top-tier
	SUROS Regime	Auto Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Primary	Kinetic	Free-to-Play	Yes	Primary	Kinetic	Average ❘ B	PvP	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 3	Kinetic	No
	Telesto	Fusion Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Special	Void	Free-to-Play	Yes	Special	Void	Strong ❘ A	PvP	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 2	Energy	No	Top-tier
	The Colony	Grenade Launcher	Exotic	Exotic	Heavy	Void	Free-to-Play	Yes	Heavy	Void	Weak ❘ C	-	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 2	Heavy	No
	The Huckleberry	Submachine Gun	Exotic	Exotic	Primary	Kinetic	Free-to-Play	Yes	Primary	Kinetic	Strong ❘ A	PvE	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 3	Kinetic	No	Top-tier
	The Jade Rabbit	Scout Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Primary	Kinetic	Free-to-Play	Yes	Primary	Kinetic	Strong ❘ A	PvP	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 2	Kinetic	No	Top-tier
	The Prospector	Grenade Launcher	Exotic	Exotic	Heavy	Arc	Free-to-Play	Yes	Heavy	Arc	Average ❘ B	PvE	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 1	Heavy	No
	The Queenbreaker	Linear Fusion Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Heavy	Arc	Free-to-Play	Yes	Heavy	Arc	Worst ❘ D	-	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 4	Heavy	No
	The Wardcliff Coil	Rocket Launcher	Exotic	Exotic	Heavy	Arc	Free-to-Play	Yes	Heavy	Arc	Average ❘ B	PvP	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 1	Heavy	No
	Thunderlord	Machine Gun	Exotic	Exotic	Heavy	Arc	Forsaken Pack	Yes	Heavy	Arc	Best ❘ S	PvE + PvP	Exotic Engram		Forsaken Pack	Season 4	Heavy	No	Top-tier
	Tractor Cannon	Shotgun	Exotic	Exotic	Heavy	Void	Free-to-Play	Yes	Heavy	Void	Strong ❘ A	PvE	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 1	Heavy	No	Top-tier
	Trinity Ghoul	Combat Bow	Exotic	Exotic	Primary	Arc	Free-to-Play	Yes	Primary	Arc	Best ❘ S	PvE	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 4	Energy	No	Top-tier
	Two-Tailed Fox	Rocket Launcher	Exotic	Exotic	Heavy	Void	Free-to-Play	Yes	Heavy	Void	Best ❘ S	PvE + PvP	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 4	Heavy	No	Top-tier
	Vigilance Wing	Pulse Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Primary	Kinetic	Free-to-Play	Yes	Primary	Kinetic	Average ❘ B	PvP	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 1	Kinetic	No
	Wavesplitter	Trace Rifle	Exotic	Exotic	Special	Void	Free-to-Play	Yes	Special	Void	Average ❘ B	PvE	Exotic Engram		Free-to-Play	Season 4	Energy	No

If you didn’t find a specific Exotic on this list, it is because it’s not part of the Exotic engrams loot pool and requires another acquisition method.

Exotic Engram rewards: Armor

Unlike Exotic weapons, which have many different sources ranging from Raids to Quests, Exotic armor can be either earned through Exotic Engrams or Legend/Master Lost Sectors.

In fact, the vast majority of Armor pieces are part of the Exotic Engram loot pool:

Exotic Engrams: Armor

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Aeon Soul	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Aeon Exotics have an additional mod socket which is used for Aeon Cult mods."
Apotheosis Veil	Warlock	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Immediately regenerate health, melee, grenade, and Rift energy upon activating your Super. Nearby allies recharge class abilities faster."
Astrocyte Verse	Warlock	Helm	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 7	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Blink further and more frequently. Weapon readies quickly out of Blink and radar remains up. Provides a moderate benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of all weapons."
Chromatic Fire	Warlock	Chest	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Precision final blows from Kinetic weapons create an explosion that deals damage in the element of your subclass and applies elemental effects."
Claws of Ahamkara	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Gain an additional melee charge. Charged melee final blows spawn an Orb of Power."
Contraverse Hold	Warlock	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Resist incoming damage while charging your Void grenade with Chaos Accelerant, Feed the Void, or Handheld Supernova. Charged Void grenades return an amount of grenade energy on a hit."
Crown of Tempests	Warlock	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Arc ability kills increase the recharge rate of your Arc abilities and extend the duration of Stormtrance."
Eye of Another World	Warlock	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Highlights priority targets and improves the regeneration speed of your grenade, melee, and Rift abilities."
Felwinter's Helm	Warlock	Helm	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 10	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "Powered melee final blows create a burst of energy that weakens nearby targets. Finishers and final blows against more powerful targets increase the radius of the burst and the length of the weakening effect."
Geomag Stabilizers	Warlock	Legs	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Damaging targets with Chaos Reach extends its duration. Collecting Ionic Traces grants you energy for Chaos Reach."
Getaway Artist	Warlock	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 6	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Convert your Arc Grenade into a supercharged Arc Soul. The Arc Soul functions as an autonomous turret."
Karnstein Armlets	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Melee kills instantly restore a large amount of health and continue to restore health afterwards for a short duration."
Lunafaction Boots	Warlock	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Your Rifts gain the additional ability to increase weapon reload speeds. Empowering Rift makes weapons effective over longer ranges."
Nezarec's Sin	Warlock	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Void-damage kills increase ability energy recharge rate."
Ophidian Aspect	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Weapons ready and reload very quickly. Provides a small benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of all weapons."
Phoenix Protocol	Warlock	Chest	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Kills and assists you make while standing in your Well of Radiance return Super energy."
Promethium Spur	Warlock	Legs	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 9	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "Defeating combatants or Guardians while Daybreak is active creates a healing and empowering rift at their location. While standing in any rift, Solar weapon final blows grant Rift energy. When your Rift energy is full, final blows consume your Rift energy and create a healing and empowering rift at the target's location."
Sanguine Alchemy	Warlock	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "While standing in any rift, gain a bonus to weapons with a damage type matching your subclass damage type. Weapon final blows while standing in any rift pause the rift's countdown, extending its duration."
Skull of Dire Ahamkara	Warlock	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Provides additional damage resistance during Nova Bomb. Nova Bomb kills grant Super energy."
Starfire Protocol	Warlock	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Fusion Grenades have an additional charge and recharge from empowered weapon damage, with empowered weapon final blows granting more energy. Defeating targets with Fusion Grenades grant Rift energy."
Stormdancer's Brace	Warlock	Chest	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 8	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "Each target you defeat with Stormtrance increases the damage you deal with it and refunds Super energy when Stormtrance ends."
Sunbracers	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases the duration of Solar Grenades. Solar melee kills grant unlimited Solar Grenade energy for a brief time."
The Stag	Warlock	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Your Rift provides damage reduction to allied Guardians standing in it. Grants Rift energy when you are critically wounded. On your death, creates a healing rift on your corpse."
Transversive Steps	Warlock	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Sprint speed increased. After a short time sprinting, your currently equipped weapon is automatically reloaded."
Verity's Brow	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Weapon final blows with a damage type matching your subclass energy grant Death Throes, which provides a grenade damage bonus and grants you grenade energy. When you have Death Throes and throw a grenade, nearby allies gain greatly increased grenade regeneration for a short time."
Vesper of Radius	Warlock	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Rifts periodically release Arc shockwaves. Final blows with these shockwaves create an Arc explosion. While an Arc subclass is equipped, the shockwaves and subsequent explosions blind nearby targets. Rift energy recharges faster when you are surrounded by targets."
Wings of Sacred Dawn	Warlock	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "When Dawnblade is equipped, aiming weapons while you're midair suspends you there for a short time, reducing incoming flinch and granting damage resistance. Weapon hits extend this effect's duration, and weapon final blows reload your Solar weapons from reserves. Provides a large benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of all weapons."
Winter's Guile	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Defeating targets with melee attacks increases your melee damage. Targets encased by Penumbral Blast automatically shatter."
Aeon Swift	Hunter	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Aeon Exotics have an additional mod socket which is used for Aeon Cult mods."
Assassin's Cowl	Hunter	Helm	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 8	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "Powered melee final blows grant invisibility and restore a portion of health and shields. Finishers and final blows against more powerful targets increase the duration of the invisibility and the amount of health and shields."
Celestial Nighthawk	Hunter	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Modifies Golden Gun to fire a single high-damage shot. Enemies eliminated by the shot explode and grant you Super energy."
Foetracer	Hunter	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Damaging a powerful combatant or Guardian with an ability grants you a temporary bonus to weapon damage matching your subclass type. Defeating that target with a weapon matching the damage type of your subclass creates an elemental pickup."
Fr0st-EE5	Hunter	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increased grenade, melee, and dodge regeneration while sprinting. Dodging increases your sprint speed."
Gemini Jester	Hunter	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Dodging disorients nearby enemies and temporarily removes their radar."
Graviton Forfeit	Hunter	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases the duration of any invisibility effects. While you are invisible, your melee recharges faster, your weapons reload faster, and your Recovery is greatly increased."
Gwisin Vest	Hunter	Chest	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Each Spectral Blades kill you make before going into stealth will restore more of your Super energy."
Khepri's Sting	Hunter	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 7	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Punching someone with full melee energy will instantly cast Smoke Bomb. Gain Truesight while in your own Smoke Bomb effect. Your smoke bombs deal increased damage."
Knucklehead Radar	Hunter	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Provides radar while you're aiming. Enhances your radar resolution while crouched. Visually marks targets. Deals more damage to low-health marked targets. Provides a small benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of all weapons."
Liar's Handshake	Hunter	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 6	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Using your Arc melee ability or being hit by a melee attack will allow you to follow up with an extremely powerful melee counterpunch that will heal you."
Lucky Pants	Hunter	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "When you ready a fully loaded Hand Cannon that deals kinetic damage or a damage type that matches your subclass energy type, each hit from that Hand Cannon increases the damage of the next shot for a short time against a combatant. Hand Cannons ready faster and are more accurate immediately after swapping to them."
Lucky Raspberry	Hunter	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases the chaining capabilities of Arcbolt Grenades. Damaging enemies with Jolt lightning strikes and collecting Ionic Traces both grant additional Arcbolt Grenade energy. Arcbolt Grenades stun [Disruption] Overload Champions and delay their health regeneration."
Mechaneer's Tricksleeves	Hunter	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases Sidearm ready and reload speed. While you're critically wounded, swapping to a Sidearm increases its damage."
Oathkeeper	Hunter	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Bow charges can be held indefinitely. Gain a bonus to the Bow's damage when released, based on how long the charge was held. Provides a moderate benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of Bows."
Ophidia Spathe	Hunter	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Grants two knives per charge."
Orpheus Rig	Hunter	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Provides ability energy for each enemy tethered by Deadfall anchors. Moebius Quiver has more shots."
Raiden Flux	Hunter	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Quick successive attacks with Arc Staff increase its damage output and duration."
Raiju's Harness	Hunter	Chest	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 10	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: " In Super, deactivate Arc Staff early to create a blinding explosion and gain a temporary boost to Arc weapon damage. Arc Staff consumes energy more slowly when not attacking."
Sealed Ahamkara Grasps	Hunter	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Dealing melee damage reloads your currently equipped weapon. Charged melee final blows reload all weapons. Provides a large benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of all weapons, and movement speed and jump height after dealing melee damage."
Shards of Galanor	Hunter	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Hits and kills with Blade Barrage will return Super energy after the Super ends."
Shinobu's Vow	Hunter	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Improves Skip Grenade, and you gain an additional Skip Grenade charge. Skip Grenade returns energy when it damages enemies."
St0mp-EE5	Hunter	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases sprint speed and slide distance while your dodge energy is full and improves High Jump, Strafe Jump, and Triple Jump."
The Bombardiers	Hunter	Legs	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 9	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "Dodging leaves behind an explosive that detonates after a short delay, damaging targets around it and creating a secondary effect based on your subclass energy type: Arc Blinds, Solar Burns, Void Suppresses and Stasis Slows targets."
The Dragon's Shadow	Hunter	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Dodging reloads all weapons and increases both movement and weapon handling speeds for a brief time."
The Sixth Coyote	Hunter	Chest	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Gain a second dodge charge."
Wormhusk Crown	Hunter	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "We strive to know infinity, and sharpen our minds on the whetstone of the impossible."
Young Ahamkara's Spine	Hunter	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases Tripmine Grenade duration and blast radius. Ability damage grants Tripmine Grenade energy."
ACD/0 Feedback Fence	Titan	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Melee hits grant Armor Charge, and you take less melee damage while you have Armor Charge. Taking melee damage causes you to emit a burst of damaging Arc energy that Jolts targets, consuming your Armor Charge and dealing more damage based on the number of stacks consumed."
Actium War Rig	Titan	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Steadily reloads a portion of your equipped Auto Rifle's or Machine Gun's magazine from reserves."
Aeon Safe	Titan	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk? Instead of an Intrinsic perk, Aeon Exotics have an additional mod socket which is used for Aeon Cult mods.
An Insurmountable Skullfort	Titan	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Kills with Arc melee abilities trigger health regeneration and restore melee energy."
Antaeus Wards	Titan	Legs	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Improved slide. Sliding after sprinting for a short time reflects incoming projectiles."
Armamentarium	Titan	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Gain an additional grenade charge."
Ashen Wake	Titan	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Fusion Grenades now explode on impact and gain increased throw speed. Final blows with Fusion Grenades grant grenade energy."
Citan's Ramparts	Titan	Arms	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 10	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "You and your allies can shoot through your Towering Barricade, which has reduced health and duration."
Crest of Alpha Lupi	Titan	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Generates an additional Orb of Power from Supers and a healing pulse when Barricade is activated."
Doom Fang Pauldron	Titan	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Defeating targets with Void damage has a chance to grant an escalating bonus to damage with Void weapons. Defeating targets with Void melee grants Super energy. While Sentinel Shield is active, defeating targets with melee attacks recharges Shield Throw, which extends your Super on hitting a target."
Dunemarchers	Titan	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases sprint speed. Sprinting builds up a static charge. After melee-attacking an enemy, that charge will chain damage to nearby enemies."
Eternal Warrior	Titan	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Arc final blows grant an escalating damage bonus with Arc weapons. Gain an overshield when activating Fists of Havoc, and gain the highest tier damage bonus to Arc weapons when your Fists of Havoc Super ends."
Hallowfire Heart	Titan	Chest	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Solar takedowns while standing in a Sunspot create a Sunspot. Greatly improves recharge rate of your Solar abilities while your Super is charged. Provides a small benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of all weapons."
Heart of Inmost Light	Titan	Chest	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Using an ability (grenade, melee, or Barricade) empowers the other two abilities. Empowered means abilities have faster regen, melees and grenades do more damage, and Barricades have more hit points."
Helm of Saint-14	Titan	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Enemies that enter Ward of Dawn are blinded, while allies that pass through gain an overshield. Guarding with Sentinel Shield blinds nearby enemies."
Khepri's Horn	Titan	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Solar final blows recharge your Barricade, which unleashes a blast of Solar energy that scorches targets when summoned."
Lion Rampant	Titan	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Provides additional aerial maneuverability and enables accurate hipfire while you're in the air during Lift."
Mask of the Quiet One	Titan	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Grants ability energy when you're damaged. When critically wounded, regain maximum health on kills."
Mk. 44 Stand Asides	Titan	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Grants an overshield when you're sprinting at full health with Seismic Strike, Hammer Strike, or Shield Bash equipped and charged. Hits with these abilities recharge a portion of your melee energy."
One-Eyed Mask	Titan	Helm	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Highlights the enemy who dares to damage you. Track down and destroy your enemy for an overshield."
Peacekeepers	Titan	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Reloads stowed Submachine Guns and allows you to ready them instantly. Improves your handling with SMGs and your movement while wielding one."
Peregrine Greaves	Titan	Legs	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 7	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "All shoulder charge abilities (Seismic Strike, Hammer Strike, or Shield Bash) deal bonus damage when activated in the air."
Phoenix Cradle	Titan	Legs	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 8	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "Sun Warrior lasts twice as long. Allies who pass through your Sunspots are granted Sun Warrior."
Severance Enclosure	Titan	Chest	Shadowkeep	Exotic Engrams	Season 9	Shadowkeep	Exotic Perk: "Powered melee final blows unleash a damaging explosion. Finishers and final blows against more powerful targets increase the radius and damage of the explosion."
Stronghold	Titan	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 6	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Maximizes guard stats on equipped Swords. You take reduced damage while blocking with a Sword. Rapidly damaging targets after blocking shots with a Sword grants restoration for a duration determined by the number of shots blocked."
Synthoceps	Titan	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increased melee lunge range. Improved melee and Super damage when you're surrounded."
Ursa Furiosa	Titan	Arms	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Move faster while guarding when Sentinel Shield is active. Guarded damage converts to Super energy when the Super ends."
Wormgod Caress	Titan	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Melee kills increase melee damage for a period of time. Additional kills extend duration and increase effects."

How to farm Exotic Engrams

There are several ways to obtain Exotic engrams in Destiny 2:

1. Claiming Exotic engrams from the Season Pass

The easier Exotics engrams available to you can be found in the Season Pass. Both the Paid and Free tracks of the Season Pass offer a handful of Exotic engrams. All you need do is earn the XP to unlock them before the season is over. There are 8 Exotic engrams in total, including both free and paid tracks.

2. Vendor rank resets

Ever since Bungie reworked the different Vendors in the Tower, they have now become a consistent, albeit grindy, method to acquire Exotic engrams. Gambit and Vanguard ranks are notoriously long and tiring to earn, but Crucible and Trials of Osiris are much faster to complete, especially when Bonus ranks weeks are active.

3. Farming Nightfall: The Ordeals

Technically, Exotic engrams randomly drop whenever you play the game, no matter the activity. That said, some activities do offer much higher chances to earn Exotics, namely Nightfall: The Ordeals. The higher the difficulty, the higher the chances to earn Exotics.

4. Visit Xûr every Friday

Finally, every weekend, Xûr offers 1 Exotic engram, 1 weapon and 3 armor pieces (one per class). These are all from the Exotic Engram loot pool, and visiting Xûr every weekend will help you complete the collection significantly faster.

Your turn

Do you have any other good methods to farm Exotic engrams? Let us know in the comments!