Destiny: Farming Russia for fun and profit!

If you're playing Destiny, you may be nearing or have already reached the level cap of 20. But where are you going to get some nice loot for the raids that opened last week? Russia. That's right, low-level, introductory Old Russia. Before you begin your farming adventure, you'll need to take care of a few things first.

Make sure your rank with the Cryptarch is at 2 or higher. This will cause more Engrams to drop, the lower level ones automatically decrypted. Next, find someplace like the Moon to kill a bunch of Hive Ultras so that you will get a Black Wax Idol. Idols make dead Hive drop more Glimmer for 10 minutes. Now you're ready to patrol the Cosmodrome!

You're going to Skywatch, near the Hive Seeder. When you arrive in Old Russia, head toward the left, across the Mothyards, where all those rusted airplanes areThrallstunnels in the building on top of the hill will open out at Skywatch, and just on the other side of the short cliffs is the seeder. You will probably see a few people already farming.

If you stand any closer to the cave than these people are, then only Acolytes will come out, but you want Thralls as well for maximum profit. If other people are standing too close, you can try to stand in front of them and do the pointing gesture to get them to back up. If that doesn't work, try melee-ing them in the face a bit.

I can see my engrams from here!

Now comes the fun part! Consume one of your Black Wax Idols. From your vantage point, kill the Hive that come out of that cave and watch your Glimmer count skyrocket. If any Hive make it out of the cave without dying, you have to hunt them down and kill them, or no more will respawn from there.

Eventually, everyone will run out of ammo, resorting to shooting rockets into the cave, at which point, everyone will run into the cave together. Nothing will spawn while someone is in or near the cave.

No shortage of ammo, Glimmer, or Engrams! 

As you can see, there are lots of treasures to be found in the cave. Two people found Legendary Engrams in the ten minutes I farmed this cave. You can farm this cave all day if you want to, and maybe you'll experience the roughly once-per-day surge of ten times as many Hive at one time. You might have to clear out your inventory periodically when you get too much stuff (that's where having Engrams decrypt automatically becomes helpful).

Some additional notes: The public event of "Defend the Warsat" occurs every thirty minutes in this area. You'll know if it's about to happen if the sky turns a weird blue color. I suggest running into the cave at this point, or the Warsat may drop right on top of you and kill every one in the area. It's happened before.

If you're near a group of people that doesn't seem to get how to farm the ideal way, and you can't get them to do it right, you can always return to orbit and try landing in a Russia on another server. Good luck!