Can u buy weapons/armor from any NPC ?

[mortuus]

Im new to this game and i wonder is all loot only from playing missions quests or do any vendor sell weapons u can buy for the currency u collect on the ground from monsters ??

[Kopejka]

The currency you collect from enemies or gathered resources can be changed for engrams (think of them like lootboxes) which contain random piece of armor or weapons from local vendors.
But honestly you will get much better weapons and armor from just playing activities and getting powerful rewards. There are some exceptions though.

[2PLY]

Every Friday you can exchange the resources from dismantling purples for Exotics.

To an NPC called Xur (something I wish the game told me but found out much later)

He spawns in a random location every friday, so will need to google where he's at.

outside of that - as mentioned above you can exchange planetary/quest resources also to up rep with nearly all npcs for better gear. Each main npc typically also have a weekly bounty/activity completion task for gear also.

Everything in between will get you higher light level stuff, its always progressing no matter what you do, just play however you see fit/enjoy.

The Xur on friday's is maybe the most important.

[mortuus]

okay thanks for answers.