Glimmer

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The currency of the City. A form of programmable matter, used both for craft and as a fuel.^[1]

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The Grimoire card for Glimmer

Glimmer is a type of currency. It can be used to upgrade weapons,^[2] and buy items.^[3]

Overview[edit]

Majors and Ultras (enemies with yellow health bars) such as Riksis, Devil Archon drop Glimmer when killed.^[2] Normal enemies only drop Glimmer if the player has used Ether Seeds, Black Wax Idol, Blue Polyphage, or Resupply Codes, or a Legendary Ghost. Glimmer is also gained by disassembling items or finding some in loot chests^[3]. Another source of Glimmer comes from selling House Banners, Silken Codexes, Axiomatic Beads and Network Keys to the Cryptarchs for two hundred fifty Glimmer each.

As of Shadowkeep Glimmer drops on almost every enemy kill. Shadow Thralls drop Glimmer on death in patrol zones, but leave no Glimmer in The Shattered Throne ^{[citation needed]}.

In Destiny, Glimmer is capped at 25,000; one way to circumvent the cap is to stockpile the aforementioned items and sell them to the Cryptarchs when needed. In Destiny 2, Glimmer is capped at 500,000. Prior to update 7.3.4, it was capped at 250,000.

Trivia[edit]

Glimmer is apparently buried deep within the earth and can be extracted from the ground, as the Fallen will attempt to do so with portable Glimmer Drills in some Public Events.^[4]
According to the Grimoire card, Glimmer is a "programmable matter" which can be transmuted into nearly anything. This function is not displayed in-game, as the only shape Glimmer takes is small cubes. This may be incorrect, as many objects for Public Events seem to materialize/dematerialize from thin air, possibly Glimmer being programmed into these objects.

Gallery[edit]

List of appearances[edit]

Destiny (First appearance)
Destiny 2
The Hidden Dossier (Mentioned only)

References[edit]

^ Destiny Tracker: Glimmer (Destiny 2)
^ ^a ^b YouTube: Destiny 2013 E3 Demo
^ ^a ^b The Guardian: how the makers of Halo plan to change the future of shooters
^ Bungie (2014-6-12), Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard.

v • d • e

Loot

v • d • e

Destiny

v • d • e 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

v • d • e 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

Glimmer • Legendary Marks • Silver • Silver Dust

Redeemable items

Engram • Mote of Light • Strange Coin • Crucible Commendation • Vanguard Commendation
Armor Core • Weapon Core • Token of Flight • Token of Identity • Token of Judgment • Passage Coin • Royal Amethyst

v • d • e 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

v • d • e The Golden Age

Installations	A-113 • Ares Spire • Asylum • Blind Watch • Cosmodrome (The Wall) • First Light • First Light Lunar Installation (Anchor of Light • Archer's Line) • Floating Gardens • Icarus • Skyshock • K1 (The Anomaly) • Vostok Observatory • BrayTech Futurescape • Bray Exoscience • Deep Stone Crypt

Settlements	Caer Lerion • Freehold • Ishtar Academy • New Pacific Arcology • The Last Exit • Trostland (Memento • Widow's Court) • Eventide

Organizations	Aeronautics of China • Black Armory • Clovis Bray • Daito • Future War Cult • Häkke • House Bray • Ishtar Collective • North American Empire • Off World Transit • Russian Federal Bureau of Aeronautics • Seraphs

Technology	Computer Core (Failsafe) • Curious Transceiver • Engram • Exo • Firewall • Frame • Glimmer • Helium Filaments • Martian Navcore • Nanotechnology • NLS Drive • Orbital Grid • Planetary Defense Network • Sensorium • SIVA • Spinmetal • The Taikonaut • Transmat • Warmind (Rasputin) • Submind (Charlemagne • Malahayati • Voluspa) • Silver • Soteria • Synthweave • Warsat

Vehicles	Colony ship (Exodus Black • Exodus Blue • Exodus Indigo • Exodus Red • Devil's Spire • Yang Liwei) • Maintenance Tank • Orbital platforms (Morning Star • Seraph Station) • Jumpship

Weaponry	Centrifuse • Eyes of Tomorrow • Fabian Strategy • Graviton Lance • Hierarchy of Needs • Izanagi's Burden • Jötunn • Khvostov 7G-02 • Le Monarque • Monte Carlo • No Land Beyond • No Time To Explain • Polaris Lance • Revision Zero • Riskrunner • Sleeper Simulant • SUROS Regime • Sturm • The Lament • Tractor Cannon • Worldline Zero

Glimmer

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Overview[edit]

Trivia[edit]

Gallery[edit]

List of appearances[edit]

References[edit]

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