Destiny 2: Every Possible Way To Obtain Bright Dust (2024)

Bright Dust is one of the most valuable currencies in Destiny 2. This rare resource is needed to purchase items from the Eververse store, Destiny 2's microtransaction store. Players can use Bright Dust to buy Exotic ornaments, unique cosmetic armor sets, Shaders, and much more.

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Unless players want to spend real money on Silver, Destiny 2's premium currency, you'll want to earn as much Bright Dust as possible. Fortunately, Bungie has made farming Bright Dust infinitely times easier. Thanks to Seasonal Challenges and bounties, players can acquire an impressive amount of Bright Dust without much effort. Here is every way you can obtain Bright Dust in Destiny 2.

Updated April 15th, 2022, by Charles Burgar: While Bright Dust hasn't changed much with The Witch Queen expansion, now is the perfect time to stock up before future seasons and holiday events. We've updated this guide with up-to-date Bright Dust sources, and we've added a section detailing the best Bright Dust farm.

How To Earn Bright Dust

Bright Dust is needed for purchasing anything from the Eververse store that doesn't cost Silver, Destiny 2's premium currency. Most players will get their Bright Dust from Seasonal Challenges, unique Triumphs that don't expire until a season ends.

Here is every way you can obtain Bright Dust:

*Only available when a holiday event is active.

Seasonal Challenges

Total Bright Dust: 10,000

Your main source of Bright Dust will come from Seasonal Challenges. Some Seasonal Challenges will list Bright Dust as a reward, granting anywhere from 75 to 300 Bright Dust.

You can actually tell how much Bright Dust each challenge grants based on the amount of XP that same challenge gives:

Completing a full week of Seasonal Challenges grants a large sum of Bright Dust, so it's a good idea to complete as many of them as possible if you wish to purchase any expensive item from the Eververse store.

Additionally, completing most Seasonal Challenges in a given Season will grant a Large Bright Dust Pile, giving you around 4,000 Bright Dust. The number of challenges required to earn this bundle change with each season, so be sure to check whenever a new season launches to gauge how many challenges you can skip.

If you haven't completed many Seasonal Challenges, we have guides covering each weekly challenge set, including tips and strategies to get them done quickly. You can view them on our Witch Queen hub page.

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Vendor Weekly Challenges

Potential Total Bright Dust: 14,040

Zavala, Shaxx, and the Drifter each have a weekly challenge that tasks you with completing eight bounties in their respective activity—strikes, Crucible, and Gambit. Completing one of these challenges will grant 120 Bright Dust. These challenges are character bound, meaning you can complete up to nine of these weekly challenges in a week if you have three characters, granting 1,080 Bright Dust. Assuming you did these challenges each week on all three characters, you would earn 14,040 Bright Dust.

Repeatable Bounties

Bright Dust Amount: 10 per bounty

Most repeatable bounties in Destiny 2 grant a small chunk of XP and ten Bright Dust as a reward. Every core activity vendor (Zavala, Shaxx, and the Drifter) sells repeatable bounties located on the far right of their bounty stock. You can hold five repeatable bounties from a specific vendor at a time, and they must be completed within 24 hours after purchase. Unlike daily bounties, repeatable bounties can be repurchased and turned in as many times as you want, hence their name.

Weekly Seasonal Bounties

Bright Dust Amount: 200 per bounty

Eva Levante has her own weekly, daily, and repeatable bounties with every Destiny 2 holiday event. She sells two weekly bounties each week the event is active, granting 200 Bright Dust per bounty when completed.

You can expect holiday events to occur around these months of the year:

• Guardian Games: May
• Solstice of Heroes: July-August
• Festival of the Lost: October-November
• The Dawning: December-January

Season Pass

Total Bright Dust: 10,500 (Season owners); 7,500 (free players)

Season Passes also provide a large amount of Bright Dust for players that can reach rank 100 in a given Season. Free players and Season owners will get a different amount of Bright Dust from their Season Pass.

• Free Players: 7,500 Bright Dust
• Season Owners: 10,500 Bright Dust

Season Pass owners get 3,000 additional Bright Dust in comparison to free players. Be sure to claim all of your Season Pass rewards before a Season ends. If you forgot to do this, you can claim last Season's Season Pass rewards from Bungie.net.

Bright Engrams

Bright Engrams have a meager chance of granting a Bright Dust bundle. They come in three sizes:

• Small Gift of Bright Dust: 250 Bright Dust
• Medium Gift of Bright Dust: 500 Bright Dust
• Huge Gift of Bright Dust: 1,000 Bright Dust

The actual percentage chance of them dropping is unknown. Anecdotally, the chance of obtaining one from a Bright Engram is quite low, hovering around a 10% chance. Larger Bright Dust gifts are rarer.

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The Best Bright Dust Farm

Seasonal Challenges serve as the best Bright Dust source in Destiny 2, so complete all of those first. Don't even bother farming bounties until you've completed every available challenge. Once you've expended that source and claimed your Bright Dust from the Season Pass, your next best source is repeatable bounties from vendors. Grab repeatable bounties from ritual vendors, then complete their weekly challenge. Repeat this until you've finished all three ritual weeklies.

Once you're done with that, you'll need to farm repeatable bounties for more Bright Dust. This farm is quite tedious, but here's how it works:

• ​​​​​​​Buy five repeatable bounties from Banshee.
• Travel to the Moon.
• Buy five repeatable bounties from Eris Morn.
• Farm Moon Lost Sectors until Eris' bounties are finished.
• Turn them in. Buy new bounties.
• Repeat.

You'll earn 50 Bright Dust for a set of repeatable bounties from Eris. We farm Moon bounties since they're the easiest to complete out of any destination. One Lost Sector clear is enough to finish at least a few of them, usually every bounty. Repeat until you need Glimmer, get bored, or have enough Bright Dust.

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