The Drifter
The Drifter | |
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Name | The Drifter |
Title | Rogue Lightbearer |
Race | Human |
Gender | Male |
Location | The Tower |
Description | The name says it all. |
The Drifter is a Rogue Lightbearer, acting as the interim Hunter Vanguard in place of the late Cayde-6. He manages quests, bounties, and rewards related to Gambit.
Location
Vendor Tooltip
This tooltip appears when hovering over the icon in the upper-left corner of the vendor screen:
Gambit
- Complete Gambit matches to earn Gambit Ranks. Winning or completing multiple matches in a row grants additional progress.
- Complete Ranks to earn Gambit Engrams.
- Earn Gambit weapons at the end of matches, in engrams, or from focusing more weapon perks as you complete up to 4 Rank resets in a Season.
Weekly Challenges
Name | Description | Objectives | Rewards |
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Shady Schemes | Complete bounties from this vendor to earn powerful rewards. |
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Gambit Rank
"I don't care if you win or lose. I just want you to get paid. Heh." —The Drifter
Complete Gambit matches to gain Gambit Rank points. Complete them back-to-back to increase your activity streak. Earn more points with higher streaks.
Starting a different ritual activity may reduce your streak.
Players can increase their rank with the Drifter (sometimes referred to as Infamy) by completing Gambit matches. Completing matches will also increase the player's Gambit activity streak, granting increased reputation rewards with each match, up to a maximum streak of 5. The player's current streak can be seen by hovering over the reputation icon on the Gambit screen in the Director. Completing Vanguard, Crucible, or Dares of Eternity activities will reduce the player's Gambit streak while adding to those activities' streaks. Players can only have a total of 5 streak progress across all four activity types, rebalancing depending on the activities completed.[1]
Each rank will reward a Gambit Engram, stored on the Drifter's vendor screen, which can either be decrypted into gear from the current Gambit loot pool, or focused into specific items in the Focused Decoding and Legacy Gear sub-menus. They have a maximum capacity of 99, and will disappear at the end of the season if not used.
Some weeks will feature a modifier that increases the amount of Gambit Rank points gained. When this is active, an "Increased Gambit Rank" modifier will be visible when launching Gambit. This modifier will be active until the next Tuesday reset. Bonus Gambit Rank weeks are usually announced the weekend before through a "Next Week in Destiny" alert in-game.
Rank can be reset to 1 after rank 16 is completed. Resetting rank once will give a chance for weapons obtained from Gambit match completions, Gambit Engram decryptions, and Focused Decoding to drop with additional Traits in the third and fourth perk columns. The chance and number of additional perks increase with each reset, up to 4 resets.[2]
Ranks
Rank Number | Rank Name | Total Points Needed | Points Until Next Rank |
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1 | GUARDIAN I | 0 | 50 |
2 | GUARDIAN II | 50 | 75 |
3 | GUARDIAN III | 125 | 125 |
4 | BRAVE I | 250 | 250 |
5 | BRAVE II | 500 | 450 |
6 | BRAVE III | 950 | 600 |
7 | HEROIC I | 1,550 | 375 |
8 | HEROIC II | 1,925 | 600 |
9 | HEROIC III | 2,525 | 825 |
10 | FABLED I | 3,350 | 525 |
11 | FABLED II | 3,875 | 775 |
12 | FABLED III | 4,650 | 1,050 |
13 | MYTHIC I | 5,700 | 750 |
14 | MYTHIC II | 6,450 | 1,075 |
15 | MYTHIC III | 7,525 | 1,475 |
16 | LEGEND | 9,000 | 1,000 |
17 | LEGEND (Maximum Rank) |
10,000 | N/A |
Rank Rewards
Rewards can be obtained when certain ranks are reached. Rank will be automatically reset to 1 at the beginning of the next season, and any unclaimed rewards will be lost.
Season of the Witch
Rewards | |||
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No Resets | 1 Reset | 2+ Resets | |
Every Rank | Gambit Engram | ||
Every Major Rank | Powerful Gear (World Loot Pool gear) | N/A | |
Rank 4 | 3 Enhancement Cores | 3 Upgrade Modules | |
Rank 7 | Night Vision (Shader) | 3 Enhancement Cores | |
Rank 10 | 2 Enhancement Prisms | 3 Enhancement Cores | |
Rank 13 | Banked Projection (Ghost Projection) | 2 Enhancement Prisms | |
Rank 16 | Malediction (Hand Cannon) | Mulled Envy (Malediction Weapon Ornament) | 2 Enhancement Prisms |
Reset Rank (Rank 16 Completed) | Ascendant Shard | Exotic Engram |
Past Seasons
- See also: The Drifter/Past Seasons
Focused Decoding
Gambit Engrams, earned by increasing one's rank with the Drifter, can be focused into specific weapons and armor items with random rolls. Alternatively, they can be decrypted from the vendor screen to reward random drops from the current Gambit loot pool. To focus an engram into a specific item, the item must first be unlocked in Collections.
Each item costs 1 Gambit Engram, 25, and 5,000.
Weapons
Decoded weapons will have one trait in the third and fourth perk columns. Resetting rank once with the Drifter will give a chance for these weapons to decode or drop with additional traits in these columns. More resets will increase this chance, as well as the number of additional perks, up to 4 resets.[2]
- Albruna-D (Sniper Rifle)
- Borrowed Time (Submachine Gun)
- Dead Weight (Shotgun)
- Herod-C (Auto Rifle)
- Laser Painter (Linear Fusion Rifle)
- Qua Xaphan V (Machine Gun)
- Servant Leader (Scout Rifle)
- Trinary System (Fusion Rifle)
- Trust (Hand Cannon)
- Yesteryear (Pulse Rifle)
Armor
Note: The Viperidax Class Items ( Viperidax Mark, Viperidax Cloak, and Viperidax Bond) cannot be focused.
Legacy Gear
Gambit Engrams can also be focused into older weapons and armor sets that are no longer in the current Gambit/engram pool. These items can be focused without having acquired them in Collections. However, items will cost more to focus if they have not been previously obtained.
Legacy Weapons
If in Collections, a legacy weapon costs 1 Gambit Engram, 25, and 5,000.
Legacy Armor
If not in Collections, a legacy armor item costs 3 Gambit Engrams, 50, and 10,000.
If in Collections, a legacy armor item costs 1 Gambit Engram, 25, and 5,000.
Legacy Armor I
Legacy Armor II
Quests
Vaulted
- The Draw
- Breakneck
- Gambit, in Its Prime
- By Your Bootstraps
- The Investigation (Quest)
- Honor Among Thieves
- Lullaby
- Edge of Darkness
- Clean Getaway
- Season 8: Keepin' On
- Get Closer
- Green With Envy
- Free Advertising
- In the Face of Darkness
- Vanity in Dark Times
- Snakeskin Wrap
- Gambit Salvager
- Primeval Patina
Bounties
Daily
The Drifter sells 4 randomly chosen Gambit bounties daily for 250 each. They each reward XP+.
- All Right, All Right, All Right
- Big-Game Hunter
- Black Hole Byproduct
- Blind Spot
- Blockade
- Don't Mind If You Do
- Electri-fried
- Elite Executioner
- Envoy While It Lasts
- Evanescent Emptiness
- Face-to-Face
- Final Ploy
- Fish in a Barrel
- Fistful of Motes
- Hanging by a Thread
- High Voltage
- Lest It Stare Back
- Like Kindling
- Line 'Em Up
- Not Your Mama's Combat Drill
- Pins and Needles
- Sun Charred
- Sweltering Heat
- Torn to Shreds
Additional
The Drifter offers repeatable Gambit bounties for 3000 each. They each reward XP and 10 Bright Dust.
- Arc Gamble
- Auto Rifle Gamble
- Blocker Elimination Gamble
- Blocker Gamble
- Bow Gamble
- Grenade Gamble
- Guardian Gamble
- Hand Cannon Gamble
- Invader Elimination Gamble
- Melee Gamble
- Mote Gamble
- Pulse Rifle Gamble
- Scout Rifle Gamble
- Sidearm Gamble
- SMG Gamble
- Solar Gamble
- Stasis Gamble
- Strand Gamble
- Super Gamble
- Void Gamble
Vaulted
Patch History
- 7.2.0.1[3]
- 7.0.0.1[4]
- Ritual vendors in the Tower (Zavala, Shaxx, Drifter, Banshee-44, Saladin, Saint-14) now have help tooltips describing the core ritual and reputation, as well as explaining some of the less visible features.
- UNLISTED:
- Legacy Gear focusing options added to the Drifter.[5]
- Gambit Engrams no longer need to be claimed, and can now be decrypted through Drifter's vendor screen.
- 6.3.0.4[6]
- Reduced the focusing costs of weapons and armor for Trials of Osiris, Iron Banner, Crucible, and Gambit.
- Legendary Shards reduced from 50 to 25.
- Glimmer reduced from 10.000 to 5.000.
- Reduced the focusing costs of weapons and armor for Trials of Osiris, Iron Banner, Crucible, and Gambit.
- 4.0.0.1[7]
- Some items that were previously sold by the Drifter or dropped from the Primeval Servitor boss in Gambit now have a small chance of dropping upon completion of a Gambit match.
- The Drifter now offers weapon and armor focusing.
- New Gambit engrams can be spent on focused equipment from the Drifter, or be decrypted by Master Rahool.
References
- ↑ "Destiny 2 Update 4.1.0" Bungie, posted by Bungie, 24 May 2022, https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/51380. wikipage
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Destiny 2 Update 6.2.0" Bungie, posted by BrunoLouviers, 23 Aug. 2022, https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/51707. wikipage
- ↑ "Destiny 2 Update 7.2.0.1 - Season of the Witch" Bungie, posted by Destiny Dev Team, 22 Aug. 2023, https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/season-witch-update-7-2-0-1. wikipage
- ↑ "Destiny 2 Update 7.0.0.1" Bungie, posted by Destiny 2 Dev Team, 27 Feb. 2023, https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/update_7_0_0_1. wikipage
- ↑ "Economy Updates And More Coming In Lightfall" Bungie, posted by Destiny 2 Dev Team, 25 Jan. 2023, https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/season-20-legacy-focusing. Accessed 28 Apr. 2023.
- ↑ "Destiny 2 Hotfix 6.3.0.4" Bungie, posted by Destiny 2 Dev Team, 18 Jan. 2023, https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/hotfix_6_3_0_4. wikipage
- ↑ "Destiny 2 Update 4.0.0.1" Bungie, posted by Destiny Dev Team, 22 Feb. 2022, https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/51110. wikipage