Mods are crucial for customizing your gear and fine-tuning your build, while enhancement materials are necessary for upgrading your armor and weapons. Mastering these systems is essential for reaching peak Power Level and optimizing your Guardian's performance.
Armor Mods:
- General Mods: Enhance weapon performance (e.g., reload speed, targeting), provide defensive bonuses (e.g., damage resistance), or improve ability regeneration.
- Combat Style Mods: These are more complex and powerful, creating synergies within your build.
- Charged with Light: Generate 'Charged with Light' stacks and consume them for various buffs (e.g., weapon damage, damage resistance).
- Warmind Cells: Generate powerful explosive or supportive orbs by defeating enemies with specific weapons.
- Elemental Wells: Generate elemental wells that grant ability energy, healing, or other buffs when picked up.
- Seasonal Mods: Unique mods available each season, often tied to the seasonal artifact, offering powerful temporary perks.
Weapon Mods:
- Weapon-Specific Mods: Enhance a weapon's performance (e.g., Icarus Grip for airborne accuracy, Major Spec for increased damage to powerful enemies).
- Anti-Champion Mods: Essential for higher difficulty content, these mods allow your weapons to stun Barrier, Overload, and Unstoppable Champions.
Enhancement Materials:
- Glimmer: Basic currency for most transactions.
- Legendary Shards: Used for purchasing items from Xur, infusing gear, and masterworking.
- Enhancement Cores: Used for upgrading gear to higher energy levels and infusing.
- Enhancement Prisms: Used for upgrading armor to energy level 9 and masterworking.
- Ascendant Shards: The rarest material, used for masterworking Exotic and Legendary armor to energy level 10.
- Planetary Materials: Specific to each destination, used for upgrading gear and purchasing items from planetary vendors.
Farming enhancement materials is an ongoing process, especially for endgame players. Focus on activities that reward the materials you need most, such as Nightfalls for Prisms and Shards, and Public Events for planetary materials.