Where Is Xur Today? (December 22-26) Destiny 2 Exotic Items And Xur Location Guide

Xur has arrived in the solar system as the Dawning continues to for one more week in Destiny 2. If you’re looking for new builds to take advantage of its new weapons (or that new Exotic Strand bow, Wish-Keeper, from the Warlord’s Reign dungeon), you might want to check out Xur’s slate of Legendary and Exotic gear. Here’s where to find Xur and what he’s selling this weekend.

This week you can find Xur in The EDZ, in the Winding Cove area.

Xur is offering Coldheart for his Exotic weapon this week. Hunters can snag the Celestial Nighthawk helmet; Titans have the Synthoceps gauntlets; and for Warlocks, Xur offers the Felwinter’s Helm helmet.

Xur Location

Use the Winding Cove transmat zone in the EDZ to find Xur this week. When you spawn in, hop on your sparrow and head north along the highway that loops along the left side of the area. When it bends to the right, hop off and head to the cliff wall ahead. You’ll find a cave you can enter, which will twist up to the cliffs above where a Fallen skiff has crashed. Xur hangs out beside it, standing near the edge of the cliff.

Xur Exotic and Legendary Items

• Exotic Engram – 97 Legendary Shards
• Coldheart – 29 Legendary Shards
• Celestial Nighthawk – 23 Legendary Shards
• Synthoceps – 23 Legendary Shards
• Felwinter’s Helm – 23 Legendary Shards
• Hawkmoon – 200 Legendary Shards, 125,000 Glimmer, 1 Ascendant Shard, 1 Exotic Cipher
• Xenology quest – Free
• Legendary weapons and armor – 50 Legendary Shards, 1,000 Glimmer

Exotic Armor

Celestial Nighthawk (Exotic Hunter helmet)

Celestial Nighthawk spent a lot of years as a must-have Hunter Exotic for high-end content, especially raids. This was the Exotic to use to do massive Golden Gun damage to bosses. It reduces your Golden Gun to one single, high-damage shot, and combined with the Deadeye setting, allows you to do ridiculous damage in one blast. With a recent buff, Celestial Nighthawk is back to being an excellent boss damage option for Hunters, so if you don’t have one, pick this up. Xur’s roll isn’t great, but the total stat number is at least pretty high and its stats are fairly balanced, so you could do worse than this one.

• Mobility: 11
• Resilience: 8
• Recovery: 16
• Discipline: 10
• Intellect: 19
• Strength: 2
• Total: 66

Synthoceps (Exotic Titan gauntlets)

Synthoceps get some great synergy with various Titan builds, and often become a little too powerful at times, resulting in Bungie rebalancing the Exotic to make it a little less awesome. The gauntlets enhance your melee and Super damage when you’re surrounded, which can be great for melee-focused Titan builds that benefit from lots of kills against lots of enemies–and with the right approach, it can be great for boss damage, too. Mobility is a little too high on this roll, while Resistance is a little too low, so if you’re not picking Synthoceps up to unlock it from your Collections, you might want to skip this one unless it fits your build needs.

• Mobility: 12
• Resilience: 3
• Recovery: 21
• Discipline: 12
• Intellect: 10
• Strength: 10
• Total: 68

Felwinter’s Helm (Exotic Warlock helmet)

Melee-focused Warlocks can get a lot of benefit from Felwinter’s Helm, which gives some significant benefits when you land final blows with your powered melee. Killing enemies with a powered melee creates an explosion that weakens other enemies, and that explosion gets even bigger when you land final blows or execute finishers on more-powerful enemies. The weakening effect can be great for crowd control against lots of small enemies, and using it to debuff tougher enemies or bosses can turn the tide of battle and help you stack damage.

• Mobility: 7
• Resilience: 15
• Recovery: 10
• Discipline: 2
• Intellect: 16
• Strength: 14
• Total: 64

Exotic Weapons

Coldheart (Exotic trace rifle)

An old Exotic but a great Exotic, Coldheart is a trace rifle that pairs perfectly with a lot of Arc builds. It fires a steady laser that lets you zap enemies from pretty long distances with a lot of accuracy, and the longer you hold the beam on targets, the more powerful it becomes. The synergy comes from the fact that Coldheart final blows periodically generate Ionic Traces, those little electrical buffs that give you ability energy when they reach you. Ionic Traces can get you grenades and powered melees back very quickly, so this can be a very useful addition to a lot of Arc builds that rely on things like pulse grenades.

Hawkmoon (Exotic hand cannon)

Hawkmoon this week is mostly just fine. It sports strong recoil control, which can make it a little easier to use, but Snapshot Sights is definitely not the best main perk you can get on this gun. Generally, you want more Range than this to be effective in the Crucible in particular.

• Paracausal Shot
• Extended Barrel
• Alloy Magazine
• Snapshot Sights
• Combat Grip

Legendary Armor

Titan	Type	Mobility	Resilience	Recovery	Discipline	Intelligence	Strength	Total
Kairos Function Gauntlets	Titan Gauntlets	15	10	7	2	15	15	64
Kairos Function Chestplate	Titan Chest Armor	16	6	12	16	10	6	66
Kairos Function Mark	Titan Mark	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kairos Function Helm	Titan Helmet	7	7	18	7	23	2	64
Kairos Function Greaves	Titan Leg Armor	20	2	12	6	2	23	65
Warlock	Type
Kairos Function Wraps	Warlock Gauntlets	26	6	2	24	6	2	66
Kairos Function Robe	Warlock Chest Armor	10	10	10	7	6	18	61
Kairos Function Bond	Warlock Bond	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kairos Function Crown	Warlock Helmet	16	2	12	2	12	19	65
Kairos Function Boots	Warlock Leg Armor	15	10	7	2	6	23	63
Hunter	Type
Kairos Function Grips	Hunter Gauntlets	12	7	7	7	14	6	53
Kairos Function Tunic	Hunter Chest Armor	6	12	9	17	6	2	52
Kairos Function Hood	Hunter Cloak	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kairos Function Helmet	Hunter Helmet	7	13	7	11	2	14	54
Kairos Function Legguards	Hunter Leg Armor	8	6	12	8	10	6	50

Legendary Weapons

Whispering Slab	Kinetic bow	Natural String/Agile Bowstring	Fiberglass Arrow Shaft/Straight Fletching	Hip-Fire Grip	Opening Shot	Target Acquisition Masterwork
Wolftone Draw	Kinetic bow	High-Tension String/Polymer String	Compact Arrow Shaft/Natural Fletching	Threat Detector	Frenzy	Draw Time Masterwork
Vulpecula	Stasis hand cannon	Corkscrew Rifling/Extended Barrel	Appended Mag/Tactical Mag	Encore	Adagio	Handling Masterwork
The Number	Arc auto rifle	Fluted Barrel/Polygonal Rifling	Extended Mag/Appended Mag	Surplus	High-Impact Reserves	Range Masterwork
Explosive Personality	Solar grenade launcher (wave frame)	Volatile Launch/Countermass	High Velocity Rounds/Implosion Rounds	Genesis	One For All	Blast Radius Masterwork
Temptations Hook	Arc sword (caster frame)	Honed Edge/Hungry Edge/Jagged Edge	Balanced Guard/Burst Guard	Relentless Strikes	En Garde	Impact Masterwork
Threaded Needle	Void linear fusion model	Arrowhead Brake/Full Bore	Accelerated Coils/Ionized Battery	Auto-Loading Holster	Vorpal Weapon	Reload Speed Masterwork