Destiny Ascendant Shards Ultimate Strategy Guide Step by Step on how to do it!
In our next Destiny Guide we will provide you with Destiny Ascendant Shards Ultimate Strategy Guide to give you 30 plus Ascendant Shards per week. Ascendant Shards is so crucial to get in the game and the more you get the better you will be off to upgrade your weapons and armor.
TOC: Walkthrough | Review | Weapons Guide | Golden Chest Locations | Dead Ghosts Locations | Spinmetal Leaves Locations | Ascendant Shards Guide | Raid Walkthrough | Raid Weapons Guide | Raid Armor Guide | Tips, Tricks & Cheats | Mars Gold Chest Locations | Moon Gold Chest Locations | Venus Gold Chest Locations | Earth Gold Chest Locations | Weapon Drop Locations | Hunter Class Loadouts | Warlock Class Loadouts | Titan Class Loadouts | Strike Missions | Strange Coins Locations | Vault of Glass Raid Walkthrough | Medals | Ascendant Materials Guide | Helium Filaments Locations | Exotic Weapon Bounties
Ascendant Shards and Energy are a legendary material in Destiny. They are used to upgrade Legendary and Exotic Armor and Weapons.
The following provide a chance at rewarding Ascendant Shards:
- Public Events
- Legendary Engrams
- dismantling legendary
- exotic armor
- daily story mission
- Loot Chests / Spinmetal / Helium Runs
- completing sections of the Vault of Glass
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Ascendant Materials Locations and What they do
Name | Use | From |
Relic Iron | upgrade high level gear | Gathered and looted from chests on mars |
Spinmetal | upgrade high level gear | Gathered and looted from chests in the cosmodrome |
Helium Filaments | upgrade high level gear | Gathered and looted from chest on the moon |
Spirit Bloom | upgrade high level gear | gathered and looted from chests on venus |
Ascendant Energy | upgrade weapons to the highest levels attack | Obtained as a reward from high level activities and from dismantling high level gear |
Ascendant shard | upgrade armor to the highest level of defense | Obtained as a reward from high level activities and from dismantling high level gear |
Mote of Light | currency used to purchase special gear in the tower | obtained by earning xp beyond the level cap and completing high level activities |
Armor Part (Plasteel Plating, hadronicc essence, sapphire wire. | upgrade armor | obtained by dismantling uncommon and higher level armor |
Weapon Parts | upgrade weapons | Obtained by dismantling uncommon and higher level weapons |
Dismantling Legendary Equiptment, Weapons you can pick up ascendant shards or you can buy guns with vanguards to dismantle.
Let’s go deeper into dismantling equipment:
Some materials can only be obtained by dismantling specific equipment. One comes from weapons, and the other three can only come from class specific armors. They are used in upgrading their respective weapons and armor. See Below what they are:
- Hadronic Essence – Warlock armor
- Plasteel Plating -Titan armor
- Sapphire Wire – Hunter armor
- Weapon Parts – Weapon
TIP: Do at combinations of each of the above per day and you can get from 10 to 3 Ascendant Shards per week.