If you're a veteran Destiny player, then you probably know of -- or you've at least heard of -- the infamous loot cave that players farmed for precious engrams in the first game. Back in the early days of the original Destiny, the loot system wasn't exactly rewarding, and in order to bypass the grind, many players took to standing in front of a specific cave and shooting constantly spawning enemies until the entrance of said cave was choked with engrams. Watching these gatherings of Guardians desperate for some quality loot was both hilarious and a bit sad, truth be told.
And now, the loot cave is back in Destiny 2. Kind of. With the game's faction rally ongoing, players are in need of tokens, and many have discovered that the best way to get these tokens is to cheese their way through a cave over and over again.
The cave in question is actually a Lost Sector named The Weep, which can be found in the European Dead Zone. Basically, you kill everything inside, loot the chest near the back, and return to the entrance. Once you're there, the chest will have respawned, so you run back inside and loot it again. You can do this as many times as you want, and you'll nab three tokens for each run.
No doubt Bungie will be looking into this exploit right now, so if you're a prime cheese lord, you'll want to make use of it sooner rather than later.
[source eurogamer.net]
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Its more effort than last times Faction Rallies but then if the reward is linked to a chest, then any of the Lost Sectors will work for this method. Its just the shortest and quickest to clear that benefits the most. There are 3 very easy ones in the EDZ - all in very close proximity too if you wanted to add a bit more variety to repeating the same thing over and over again. Its not really a loot cave as such though is it!
Would be worth it if the rewards were any good.
They're not.
@BAMozzy I don't know man, it is a cave with loot in it.
I did it this morning got myself 1200 tokens. Its just an exploit. Loot cave indicates that you are getting constant loot all you gets is the intial weapon and the rest are tokens for your faction. The you are getting random items so good some bad. This is much better use of time to get your 30 engrams than doing other activicties in the game being as they reduced the rewards.
The issue I have is that the faction winner result might end up different because of this exploit. Apart from that its bad coding that has allowed this to happen.
@ShogunRok That 'loot' as in the Lost Sector loot has always been there. That loot though rarely gives any 'decent' loot that will improve your character - not powerful loot and rarely more than farming 'loot' crates that randomly spawn. All this is, is a cheap way to get faction tokens rather than to keep doing Public Events.
The 'loot caves' of Destiny 1 were about getting purple engrams or more from spawning enemies, using the 'respawn' mechanics to your advantage. So much so that you didn't need to actually go in the cave - just sit far enough back so the respawn mechanic triggered. Lost sectors have always had the 'loot' and you can constantly go back and forth to get that 'loot' regardless of whether its beneficial or the 'easiest' way to get faction tokens.
I think that's different to the 'loot caves' of Destiny 1 otherwise ALL Lost Sectors since Day 1 have been 'loot caves' and this is 'not news'.
The last faction rally also had boxes to shoot so that gave more tokens. In fact you could just back out slightly, go back in, shoot the closest boxes, back out and repeat. Now you have to actually clear the lost sector - inc killing the boss to get the chest to open for faction tokens. The only difference is that now they have Faction Tokens but 'loot' was always there if you could be bothered to just keep farming lost sectors. Yu could actually get more Faction Tokens by completing Heroic Public events and get as much loot too. Its more effort than the D1 loot cave farming.
Because they couldn't be bothered to implement a smart loot system to avoid identical duplicates dropping many many many many times. There is also zero incentive to grind through any other content.
Look guys, it's a loot cave, you run in and out of a cave and open a chest with loot glimmer and tokens.
@BAMozzy
You don't have to do the whole lost sector again. Basically when you finish it and open the chest a door that leads back to the outside opens. So we what you do is run through the entrance get to the end of the corridor where it changes locations, run back and the location will change back to the weep and the chest will respawn. It takes about 15 seconds so if you rinse and repeat your getting about 12 faction tokens a minute.
@starman292 double mida rocket boots slide shoulder charge 300 tokens 20 minutes
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi
Or yeah you can do that lol!
@ShogunRok
"cuh! It's not a 'loot cave', it's a 'plunder cavern'."
Bloody hell! People are still playing Destiny 2?
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