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The Life Exotic

The Life Exotic

Obtain and equip a piece of Exotic gear.

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How to unlock the The Life Exotic achievement in Destiny - Definitive Guide

The only surefire way to obtain exotic gear is from Xur, Agent of the Nine. This NPC appears in the tower from Friday to Sunday 9:00am PST. He will sell you exotic gear for Strange coins, and an engram for Mote's of Lite.

The armour (such as helmets, gauntlets etc) will cost you 13 strange coins. These are sold as ready to use pieces.

The exotic weapon (which you'll need to upgrade for the 'Packing Heat' achievement) will cost 23 strange coins.

You can also buy an Exotic Armour engram for 23 Mote's of Light. I have heard reports that this engram always makes exotic gear, but is not guaranteed to be the same class (I.e. hunter, titan, warlock) as your character.
If buying this engram, buy it at your own risk.

The best way to earn Strange coins is by doing weekly Heroic Strikes. They are as follows:

Lvl 22 Strike earns 3 coins,
Lvl 26 Strike earns 6 coins.
Lvl 28 Strike earns 9 coins.

(That's 9 total. You can do each for 3 a piece or do the lvl 28 strike for all 9 at once).

You can also gain coins by chance by:

Decrypting rare/legendary engrams with the Cryptarch.

Looting chests.

Playing crucible matches.

Playing a one Public event a day and earn a Gold rank.
(This is also do-able across multiple characters each day, so if you have more than one character do one event a day with each one).

Mote's of Light can be earned by leveling up after you reach lvl 20, 1 for each lvl up.

Again there are also possible mote's found by chance as follows:

Decrypting rare/legendary engrams with the Cryptarch.

Looting chests.

Playing crucible matches.

Daily Public Events (Gold tier rewards).

Killing Major & Ultra (Yellow Health Bar) enemies.

Hope this is useful guys!

EDIT 1: Another way to earn exotic weapons/armour is by finding exotic bounties. The specifics of obtaining these bounties is still a bit murky, but some people have reported finding them after doing 25 strike missions.
* Cheers to xTGE for the info toast

Some of the bounties you can select and how to accomplish their goals are as follows in these links:

http://gameguidecentral.com/destiny-exotic-bounty-guides/

http://destinynews.net/guides-exotic-bounties/

DISCLAIMER: Weapons, armour and other items are subject to change with each new appearance of Xur, Agent of the Nine. Please remember the value of cost/items available may be subject to change due to the nature of this game/NPC.

Also; for those having trouble unlocking glitchy achievement do this:

Press the Menu button RB over to settings, highlight Log Out and choose Switch Profile (not Change Character). This will take you back to the game start screen, and once you press A, it will ask you to choose your Xbox Live profile.

Choose your profile and then choose your character from the character select screen. Any achievements that should have been unlocked will then unlock.

*Cheers to FLEEBS & ludo10109 for the info wink
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You may also want to add that there is a chance to get bounty missions that you can get for doing specific things, so far people are saying 25 strikes can get a bounty
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By xTGE on 19 Sep 2014 09:53
Cheers bud, i'll update and credit you toast
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By Triple G Andy on 19 Sep 2014 09:55
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By GrumpySnyper on 19 Sep 2014 11:08
Where in the Tower does Xur spawn? It's a rather large area...
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By ClaytThaGreat on 20 Sep 2014 15:20
yeah i couldnt find him tbh
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By pompeyladbfp on 21 Sep 2014 11:32
He was by the speaker this week
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By xTGE on 21 Sep 2014 11:45
Can someone tell me if you can do the weekly Heroic strikes more than once and still get coins?
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By SweptbackFlame on 21 Sep 2014 21:07
Xur changes his location every week.

You can do each difficulty once for the reward. If you do the hardest first, you'll get the rewards from all three.
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By Triple G Andy on 21 Sep 2014 22:28
Sorry Andreka0, would you mind clarifying that for me? Are you saying if you complete a level 28 strike, you will get 18 coins (9+6+3 for each of the respective difficulties)?
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By ParChadders on 21 Sep 2014 23:55
You'll get 9. You can do each for 3 essentially, but doing hard nets you all of them.
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By Triple G Andy on 22 Sep 2014 08:06
If anyone was wondering where Xur was this week, here is a video along with the items he has for sale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_bbw86bffI
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By Reabo on 03 Oct 2014 16:01
anyone else having problems with this one and valourous and suited for war unlocking. ive tried the whole switching thing and logging in and out but no luck
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By MytJAKE on 21 Oct 2014 18:26
Woohoo! Finally got this one after following the "Switch Profile" technique. Also, it unlocked public defender achievement too. :)

Xur is in the central room where the class vanguards are. Past the Crucible Quartermaster. At least he is for this weekend (Oct. 4th - 6th)
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By FractalKev on 05 Oct 2014 07:32
I get your point but...this actually has no reference to anything bought for lvl 20+. You don't buy exotic stuff with Marks, but with coins and Motes which I explain how you get.
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By Triple G Andy on 22 Oct 2014 15:13
This can also be gotten from gear you get from the Dark Below DLC.
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By DrMmmPie on 11 Dec 2014 21:25
Thanks!! I logged out and got 7 achievements when I logged in again smile
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By MwS Deathdealer on 25 Dec 2014 10:13
Do you have to finish the campaign before being able to acquire/wear exotic gear? I hit level 20 playing PVP and I did not finish campaign yet (just don't feel like it)... can I gear/level up to 30+ through just PVP, strikes, raids, etc?
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By PraXis91x on 06 Jan 2015 23:09
I think so, I assume you could just buy one from Xur and be good
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By Triple G Andy on 08 Jan 2015 09:32
Nice guide. Not sure why you insist on an apostrophe in the word "motes".
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By Big Ell on 11 Mar 2015 16:10
Neither do I :p
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By Triple G Andy on 11 Mar 2015 20:05
how does this change with the taken king?
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By beastman rules on 27 Sep 2015 22:40
I got one Exotic Item from the Taken King DLC (or from a gift from Bungie) but the Achievo didn't pop up for me :(
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By HellsDelight on 10 Jan 2016 16:14
Nice, I just followed the instruction to sign out and sign in from this other Achievement Guide and it finally popped up :)
DestinyFully WeaponizedThe Fully Weaponized achievement in Destiny worth 42 pointsFully upgrade a Legendary weapon.
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By HellsDelight on 10 Jan 2016 16:48
5-6 achievements popped up for me at the same time after I used the sign out/sign trick. So thank you for your guide. My positive feedback, of course ;)
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By x SATELE SHAN x on 28 Jan 2016 23:41
Wow, I just got 5 achievements doing the sign out/sign in trick. Thanks so so much!!!
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By Sapphiremoonie on 15 May 2017 22:51
I just started this again, i have all DLC, when i was in tower i went to post master and got the mote for level 25, i hit 25 and got the sunbreakers mark, equipped it and bam achievemnt
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By Bandicoot V3 on 10 Jul 2017 13:33
It just popped for me last night when my connection to the Destiny servers kept dropping. I don't even have any exotic gear/weapons. So I don't know what happened. I was disappointed as I thought I might have unlocked something.
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By Mrxknown JG on 05 Jun 2021 15:51
Can you even get this without the expansion? All the gear I can buy is level 40, but I seem to be capped at level 34 so I can't equip anything.

Edit: I bought an engram (29 strange coins) that decoded for a level 20 Hunter. I had to build a Hunter, but once I could equip, achievement unlocked.
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By JohnnieMonkey on 05 Aug 2022 22:27
All these solutions assume players know the game as well as you guys do (most solutions for Destiny achievements assume this - which is wrong in my opinion). You all forget to mention that a whole new world opens up once you reach level 20 and the only way to level up after that is by wearing gear which has Light and to buy this you need to work on your Vanguard or Crucible rank by playing competitive multiplayer or strikes. If people haven't reached lvl 20 yet just won't understand the solution.
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By LumonRefiner on 22 Oct 2014 10:37
Xur spawns at 9am PST, not UTC.
http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2gu7qx/xur_a...
Posted by CTM AudiRS6 on 19 Sep 14 at 23:08
You are wrong and so is reddit, Xûr has always spawned at Friday 9am UTC.

The game has changed quite a bit since the solution was written:

Strange Coin
- Weekly Heroic Strike (Level 26 = 3, Level 30 = 6, Level 32 = 9)
- Weekly Nightfall Strike (random chance of 9-11)
- The Crucible (random chance)
- Decoherent Engrams (random chance)
- Loot Chest (random chance)
- First Gold Public Event of the day, collect from Postmaster (random chance)
- Prison of Elders chest (random chance)

Mote of Light
- Purchase from Xûr for 2 Strange Coins
- Exchange 2 Ascendant Shard at The Speaker
- Exchange 2 Radiant Shard at The Speaker
- Earning XP after level 20
- The Crucible (random chance)
- First Gold Public Event of the day, collect from Postmaster (random chance)
- Decoherent Engrams (random chance)
- Loot Chest (random chance)
- House of Wolves Daily Heroic Story (Level 32 = 2)
- Dismantle House of Wolves Legenday Weapon (1)
- Prison of Elders chests (random chance)
- Trials of Osiris (Bronze Tier = 3, Silver Tier = 3, Gold Tier = 2)
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By HolyHalfDead on 25 Jun 2015 03:07
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Buy an exotic piece of gear from Xur preferably a weapon in order to upgrade it via an item that gives experience to your gear called "strange motes" to get the other exotic achievement. To find its location simply google it. Xur is only available during the weekends! Make sure to have enough strange coins. To find how to get strange coins google it. But you can acquire them for example through PVP matches.
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Just wanted to add to Goldstrike's solution: Xur has exotic weapons and gear that can be equipped at below level 40 unlike pretty much all the legendary weapons you see sold everywhere else. So you can get this without the dlc.
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By Jester-no-kami on 10 Sep 2017 02:36

Exotic gear is Yellow in color. An Exotic item is guaranteed from decrypting an Exotic Engram, and is also possible from a Legendary Engram. You can also get Exotic items from Raids and Exotic bounties, as well as from Xur, Agent of the Nine who will appear somewhere in the Tower on the weekends from 2am PST/5am EST/9am GMT on Friday through the same time of day on Sunday. Gear from him is purchased with Strange Coins, which are only guaranteed to be received from doing a Weekly Strike (only rewarded for the first time you complete it each week), but can also be dropped randomly or possibly decrypted from some class-specific Engrams.

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Exotic gear will either drop from high level activities (raids, strikes, or Prison of Elders). Raids and Prison of Elders can drop exotic weapons. The Year 1 version of Prison of Elders (levels 28, 32, 34, and 35) is guaranteed to drop an exotic the very first time you open the big chest. Each time after that is random. Xur will sell exotic armor pieces (one from each class each week) for 13 Strange Coins, an armor engram for 23 Strange Coins (not always), and an exotic weapon for 23 Strange Coins.

The most efficient way to acquire exotic gear now is to use Three of Coins (3oC). These can be purchased from Xur (in the Tower or The Reef each weekend) for seven Strange Coins for a pack of five. If you use a 3oC before fighting any ultra boss (note Crota, Omnigul, the Psion Flayers, and Aksis are not ultras) or during a Crucible match, there is a chance that you will get an exotic engram. 3oC will produce an exotic engram on average, 1 out of every 5 uses. Sometimes it will take more coins and sometimes it will take fewer. This is just an average.

Use IamFlownominal's Weapon Quest Guide (TTK) (ROI) for details on the weapons and quests listed below.

Quests:

  • Jolly Holliday - The Chaperone
  • Back in the Saddle - Tlaloc, Ace of Spades, or Fabian Strategy
  • Hunger Pangs - Touch of Malice
  • Imprecation - The First Curse
  • Not Forged in Light - No Time to Explain
  • A Sword Reforged - Raze-Lighter, Dark-Drinker, or Bolt-Caster
  • The Sleeper Stirs - Sleeper Simulant
  • We Found a Rifle - Khvostoc 7G-0X
  • Beauty in Destruction - Gjallarhorn
  • A Light in the Dark - Thorn (triggered after completing a weekly Shiro bounty)
  • Songs From the Void - Nova Mortis
  • Hymns of Fire - Abbadon (triggered after acquiring Nova Mortis)
  • Channeling the Corruption - Outbreak Prime
  • Rise of Iron - The Young Wolf's Howl
  • The Crux of Darkness - Necrochasm (triggered after finding Husk of the Pit which is a random drop after killing Hive enemies)

Bounties or Events:

  • Icebreaker - Complete weekly Sunrise bounty
  • Black Spindle - Alternate path in "Lost to Light"
  • Queensbreaker Bow - Complete Challenge of the Elders
  • Lord of Wolves - Complete Challenge of Elders
  • Dreg's Promise - Complete Challenge of Elders
  • Vex Mythoclast - Complete "Vault of Glass" on 390 Heroic

Weekly Featured Raid Challenges:

  • Crota's End:
    • Oversoul Edict (Adept)
    • Abyss Defiant (Adept)
    • Word of Crota (Adept)
    • Fang of Ir Yut (Adept)
  • Vault of Glass:
    • Fatebringer (Adept)
    • Atheon's Epilogue (Adept)
    • Vision of Confluence (Adept)
    • Praedyth's Timepiece (Adept)
  • King's Fall:
    • Anguish of Drystan (Adept)
    • Zaouli's Bane (Adept)
    • Smite of Merain (Adept)
    • Doom of Chelchis (Adept)
  • Wrath of the Machine:
    • Chaos Dogma (Adept)
    • Fever & Remedy (Adept)
    • Genesis Chain (Adept)
    • Steel Medulla (Adept)

Note: Exotics that drop from Vault of Glass, Crota’s End, or Year 1 PoE will be Year 1 exotics and will be usable at level 20. Exotics that drop from 3oC, King’s Fall, Nightfall Strikes, Vanguard Strikes, and Crucible matches will be Level 40 and only usable if you have The Taken King.

If you bought the version of The Taken King that comes with exotic class items or you bought the digital upgrade for those items, they are usable at level 20 and will unlock this trophy.

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