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How many exotic ciphers can you hold at a time? ›

You can have a maximum of one cipher in your inventory although it may allow to claim more. Extra ciphers will dissapear. You'll be able to stack them up to 5 or so and use them to focus exotic armor next season, but the stack limit changes leaked early and are not working correctly.

Unfortunately, you can only carry a few at a time, so be sure to spend your Ciphers wisely. Let's go over every way that you can earn Exotic Ciphers in Destiny 2 and how best to spend them.

As soon as you get your hands on an Exotic Cipher, head over to the Monument to Lost Lights that's located next to the vault terminals in the Tower. Here, you can turn in their Exotic Cipher (along with some other mandatory materials) in exchange for exotic weapons.

Exotics are yellow / golden class weapons and armour with unique perks and stats. These powerful and unique items have a catch; you are only be able to equip one Exotic at a time in your weapon or armour slots. (A good rule of thumb to follow is only one golden item can be equipped per side of the inventory screen.)

Exotic is the 40th aura listed in the collection, and has a 1 in 99,999 chance of being rolled.

Forsaken Ciphers and Exotics

Three (3) Forsaken Ciphers can be found in the Forsaken section of the Monument of Lost Lights Exotic Archive in the Tower. They can be used to purchase any Forsaken Exotic weapon in the Archive. If all Exotic weapons have been purchased, the Ciphers can be turned in for an Ascendant Shard.

You an only claim the cipher from weekend Xûr but doing so will also count as completing that week's quest which means you won't be able to complete the quess again on the week you turn it in. If you want to do the quess every week then you need to complete it and turn it in the same weekend you acquire it.

Xur's Fated Engram

If you'd instead like to round out your collection of world drop Exotics, Xur sells Fated Engrams that can help with that. The first engram each week will cost you Legendary Shards, but you can purchase one more each week with an Exotic Cipher.

Xur will offer you an Exotic Cipher quest so you can earn one each week, and you'll get another for resetting his reputation rank. There are also a small number of Exotic Ciphers available as rank rewards on the Season Pass. You can hold up to five in your inventory.

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Xur Location

Spawn in at the Tower and hang a right past Banshee-44. Continue down the stairs, follow the corridor, and once you hit the Bazaar, turn right down the nearby alleyway. You'll find Xur here in his dedicated alcove, ready to sell you his latest wares if you have enough Strange Coins in your pocket.

You cannot have more than one Exotic (gold) armor pieces and more than one Exotic weapon at any given time. Legendaries (purple) you can have as many as you like equipped.

Every time Xur offers an Exotic Engram, three Exotic weapons, and three Exotic armor pieces, one for each class.

Three (3) Forsaken Ciphers can be found in the Forsaken section of the Monument of Lost Lights Exotic Archive in the Tower. They can be used to purchase any Forsaken Exotic weapon in the Archive. If all Exotic weapons have been purchased, the Ciphers can be turned in for an Ascendant Shard.

Unfortunately, Caesar ciphers have a small key space; there are only 26 possible keys (shifts), and one of those is plaintext (a shift of 0 or 26). So messages encrypted with Caesar ciphers can be easily broken by brute force – by trying all possible keys.