Destiny 2: Festival Of The Lost Will Be Your Best Chance To Earn Missing Exotic Armor Pieces This Year

Destiny 2's spooky season, Festival of the Lost, officially begins next week on October 17. Like previous years, this will be a celebration of all things Halloween, but with a Destiny 2 twist that revolves around exploring Haunted Sectors, battling the themed monsters within, collecting Spectral Pages and earning some gear for all your efforts.

There will be some changes this year as part of an effort to make Festival of the Lost more rewarding, starting with the overall challenge of the event being increased. Bungie explained that Legend Haunted Sectors. Like Legend Lost Sectors, these zones will be filled with more challenging monsters and you'll need to be properly equipped to take on the ghoulish enemies inside of them.

The second big change is that players can earn Eerie Engrams from Haunted Sectors during the event, which can either be opened up for instant rewards or "hocus-focused" into a specific Exotic armor piece. Eva will offer players opportunities to acquire Exotic armor with four focusing categories in addition to the Legendary Weapons Eerie Engram focusing, but you will need to own the relevant expansion that the specific Exotic armor is tied to.

You will not need to have acquired the Exotic armor previously for it to be eligible to drop from Hocus Focusing, which gives players a great opportunity to acquire Exotic gear that they're still missing. Usually, you'd need to grind your way--and without a fireteam--through Legend Lost Sectors to add a random Exotic that you don't already have, but this process will essentially take the randomness out of completing your collection.

Focusing costs are 2,500 candy and an Eerie Engram per Exotic and 1,000 candy and an Eerie Engram for a specific Festival of the Lost weapon. If you'd prefer to roll the dice on a random weapon--this year offers familiar favorites like the Acosmic grenade launcher, Horror Story auto rifle, Jurassic Green pulse rifle, and Mechabre sniper rifle--you can spend 500 candy and an Eerie Engram for a quick pull.

Players will only receive Exotic armor for the class that they are currently playing while interacting with Hocus Focusing, and you'll be able to add the following Exotics to your armory:

Exotic Arms Eerie Engram

• Aeon Swift - Hunter
• Mechaneer's Tricksleeves - Hunter
• Sealed Ahamkara Grasps - Hunter
• Shinobu's Vow - Hunter
• Young Ahamkara's Spine - Hunter
• Forsaken's Shards of Galanor - Hunter
• Forsaken's Oathkeeper - Hunter
• Forsaken's Khepri's Sting - Hunter
• Forsaken's Liar's Handshake - Hunter
• Beyond Light's Athrys's Embrace - Hunter
• The Witch Queen's Renewal Grasps - Hunter
• The Witch Queen's Caliban's Hand - Hunter
• ACD/0 Feedback Fence - Titan
• Aeon Safe - Titan
• Ashen Wake - Titan
• Doom Fang Pauldron - Titan
• Synthocepts - Titan
• Wormgod Caress - Titan
• Forsaken's Ursa Furiosa - Titan
• Forsaken's Stronghold - Titan
• Shadowkeep's Citan's Rampart - Titan
• Beyond Light's Icefall Mantle - Titan
• Beyond Light's No Backup Plans - Titan
• The Witch Queen's Second Chance - Titan
• The Witch Queen's Aeon Soul - Warlock
• Claws of Ahamkara - Warlock
• Karnstein Armlets - Warlock
• Sunbracers - Warlock
• Ophidian Aspect - Warlock
• Winter's Guile - Warlock
• Forsaken's Contraverse Hold - Warlock
• Forsaken's Getaway Artist - Warlock
• Beyond Light's Necrotic Grip - Warlock
• Beyond Light's Nothing Manacles - Warlock
• The Witch Queen's Osmiomancy Gloves - Warlock

Exotic Legs Eerie Engram

• Fr0st-EE5 - Hunter
• Gemini Jester - Hunter
• Lukcy Pants - Hunter
• Orpheaus Rig - Hunter
• St0mp-EE5 - Hunter
• Shadowkeep's The Bombardiers - Hunter
• Beyond Light's Star-Eater Scales - Hunter
• Beyond Light's Radiant Dance Machines - Hunter
• Dunemarchers - Titan
• Lion Rampant - Titan
• Mk .44 Stand Asides - Titan
• Peacekeepers - Titan
• Forsaken's Antaeus Wards - Titan
• Forsaken's Peregrine Greaves - Titan
• Shadowkeep's Phoenix Cradle - Titan
• Beyond Light's The Path of Burning Steps - Titan
• Lunafaction Boots - Warlock
• Transversive Steps - Warlock
• Forsaken's Geomag Stabilizers - Warlock
• Shadowkeep's Promethium Spur - Warlock
• Beyond Light's Boots of the Assembler - Warlock
• The Witch Queen's Secant Filaments - Warlock
• The Witch Queen's Rain of Fire - Warlock

Exotic Helmet Eerie Engram

• Celestial Nighthawk - Hunter
• Foetracer - Hunter
• Graviton Forfeit - Hunter
• Knucklehead Radar - Hunter
• Wormhusk Crown - Hunter
• Shadowkeep's Assassin's Cowl - Hunter
• Beyond Light's Mask of Bakris - Hunter
• The Witch Queen's Blight Ranger - Hunter
• An Insurmountable Skullfort - Titan
• Eternal Warrior - Titan
• Helm of Saint-14 - Titan
• Khepri's Horn - Titan
• Mask of the Quiet One - Titan
• Forsaken's One-Eyed Mask - Titan
• Beyond Light's Precious Scars - Titan
• The Witch Queen's Loreley Splendor - Titan
• Apotheosis Veil - Warlock
• Crown of Tempests - Warlock
• Eye of Another World - Warlock
• Nezarec's Sin - Warlock
• Skull of Dire Ahamkara - Warlock
• The Stag - Warlock
• Verity's Brow - Warlock
• Forsaken's Astrocyte Verse - Warlock
• Shadowkeep's Felwinter's Helm - Warlock
• Beyond Light's Dawn Chorus - Warlock
• The Witch Queen's Fallen Sunstar - Warlock

Exotic Chest Eerie Engram

• Lucky Raspberry - Hunter
• Ophidia Spathe - Hunter
• Raiden Flux - Hunter
• The Dragon's Shadow - Hunter
• Forsaken's The Sixth Coyote - Hunter
• Forsaken's Gwisin Vest - Hunter
• Shadowkeep's Raiju's Harness - Hunter
• Beyond Light's Omnioculus - Hunter
• The Witch Queen's Gyrfalcon's Hauberk - Hunter
• Actium War Rig - Titan
• Armamentarium - Titan
• Crest of Alpha Lupi - Titan
• Hallowfire Heart - Titan
• Forsaken's Heart of Inmost Light - Titan
• Shadowkeep's Severance Enclosure - Titan
• Beyond Light's Cuirass of hte Falling Star - Titan
• The Witch Queen's Hoarfrost-Z - Titan
• Sanguine Alchemy - Warlock
• Starfire Protocol - Warlock
• Vesper of Radius - Warlock
• Wings of Sacred Dawn - Warlock
• Forsaken's Chromatic Fire - Warlock
• Forsaken's Phoenix Protocol - Warlock
• Shadowkeep's Stormdancer's Brace - Warlock
• Beyond Light's Mantle of Battle Harmony - Warlock

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