Return to vendor: the legend of Xur

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Every Friday - we call it Xur Day - a special non-player vendor character arrives in the Tower, Destiny's social space. The mysterious merchant, eyes burning white, tendrils reaching out from within a face cloaked in shadow, sells Exotic weapons and armour, but there's no way to predict which ones. Xur, Agent of the Nine, is a law unto himself.
Or is he?
Exotic class weapons and armour are the best in the game, but getting your hands on them is not an exact science. Complete a Nightfall mission and you have a good chance to get one. Defeat a boss in one of the game's two Raids and you have an okay chance to get one. Complete a match in the Crucible player versus player mode and you have a slim chance of getting one. And then there are the various drop rates for each Exotic item to contend with. Not all Exotics, it seems, are created equally.
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