Mote of Light

"A brilliant spark of the Traveler's Light"

— In-game description

A Mote of Light

A Mote of Light is an Item Guardians collect by accumulating 80,000 experience after reaching Level 40^[1], opening loot chests in Patrol, decrypting Engrams, completing Bounties, dismantling gear, completing Crucible matches and Vanguard Strikes, or finishing a Public Event with Gold ranking. Xûr, Agent of the Nine also sells Motes for two Strange Coins apiece.

Usage

Motes of Light can be traded in the Tower for several items and services:^[2]

Legendary Class Items from the Speaker (twenty-five Motes of Light and sixty Legendary Marks)
Legendary Emblems from Eva Levante (seven Motes of Light}
The Tempering Buff from Saladin (one Mote of Light)
Weapon Reforges from Banshee-44 (one Mote of Light, three Weapon Parts, two hundred-fifty Glimmer)
Infusing Legendary Weapons (one Mote of Light, ten Weapon Parts, two hundred-fifty Glimmer, and three Legendary Marks)
Reputation (+50) for Dead Orbit, Future War Cult, and New Monarchy (five Motes of Light)

Motes of Light can also be used as a consumable as of The Taken King. Activating a Mote instantly grants 1500 XP, similar to turning in a Bounty.

^ (2014) "Anyone know how much XP it takes to get a Mote of Light after level 20?". Reddit. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
^ Youtube: Destiny Alpha Gameplay: The Tower in Depth - Vendors, Stats, Items and More

Destiny

Consumables

Combat supplies	Ammo Synthesis • Heavy Ammo Synthesis • Heavy Telemetry • Primary Telemetry • Special Ammo Synthesis • Special Telemetry

Enemy drops	Axiomatic Beads • Black Wax Idol • Blue Polyphage • Ether Seeds • House Banners • Network Keys • Impact Shard • Olympus Tear • Pumice Thread • Resupply Codes • Sensor Mite • Silken Codex • Skyburners Command Beacon • Skyburners Deployment Codes • Skyburners Security Pass • Wormfeeder Rune • Wormsinger Rune

Utility items	Agonarch Rune • Antiquated Rune • Boon of Osiris • SIVA Offering • Enhanced SIVA Offering • Favor of Osiris • Flight of Shadows • Fused SIVA Offering • Infusion of Light • Isenfyre Token • Legendary Keys • Knuckles of Eao • Mercy of Osiris • Perfected SIVA Offering • Reciprocal Rune • Royal Amethyst • SIVA Cache Key • Skeleton Key • Spark of Light • Splicer Key • Splicer Intel Relay • Stolen Rune • Three of Coins • Treasure Key

Miscellaneous	Dawning Fortune • Emerald Coil • Flight of Shadows • Jackolyte • Plasma Drive • Stealth Drive • Void Drive

Mystery bags	Radiant Treasure • Sterling Treasure • Treasure of Ages

Materials

Salvaged materials	Anti-Grav Node • Arc Inducer • Armor Materials (Hadronic Essence • Sapphire Wire • Plasteel Plating) • Conversion Matrice • Docking Cap • Enamel Cap • Ether Sup • Fallen Bio-Grafter • Focusing Lens • Force Harness • Fusor Proxy Drive • Grafted Bones • Hard Point Glass • Hard-Point Plating Heavy Roto Joint • Husk Flake • Marrow Dust • Radiolarian Pod • Roto Joint • Scalpel Leech • Scrap Casting • Sensor Whip • Shock Core • SIVA Actuator • Slap Channel • Slug Screw • Stasis Disruptor • Stream Syphon • Swivel Turret •Symbiote • Temper Cloth • Thread-Metal Strand • Torchlight Binding • Weapon Parts • Wire Wrap

Planetary materials	Hadium Flake • Helium Filaments (Soliton Flare) • Moldering Shard • Relic Iron (Relic Crystal) • Spinmetal (Zeptocyte Core) • Spirit Bloom • Wormspore

Rare Crafting materials	Ascendant Energy • Ascendant Shard • Crux of Crota • Embalming Orb • Etheric Light • Exotic Shard • Glass Needles • Radiant Energy • Radiant Shard • Runed Core

Currencies

Redeemable items

Destiny 2

Currencies	Ascendant Alloy • Ascendant Shard • Bright Dust • Enhancement Core • Enhancement Prism • Exotic Cipher • Glimmer • Legendary Shards • Nightfall Cipher • Osirian Cipher • Silver • Spoils of Conquest • Strange Coin • Synthweave

Destination Materials	Alkane Dust • Baryon Bough • Cloud Accretions • Dusklight Shard • Etheric Spiral • Fundamental Osmium • Glacial Starwort • Helium Filaments • Microphasic Datalattice • Petrified Egregore • Phaseglass Needle • Seraphite • Simulation Seeds • Stigma of the Witness

Redeemables	Advanced Paradox Amplifier • Arcology Token • Concentrated Radiolarian Cultue • Crucible Token • Dead Orbit Token • EDZ Token • Engram • Emperor Calus Token • Fossilized Hermaion Blossom • FWC Token • Guided Game Ticket • Gunsmith Materials • Io Token • Mercury Token • Nessus Token • New Monarchy Token • Nightfall Pass • Transmatter Components • Treasure Map • Trials of the Nine Token • Vanguard Research Token • Vanguard Tactician Token • Weapon Telemetry

Consumables	Deepsight Harmonizer • Fireteam Medallion • Scout Report • Upgrade Module • XP Boost