Ether seeds, black wax idols, blue polyphages, network keys (re supply codes or whatever they're called) drop all over the world and speed up glimmer farming. And you can buy weapon telemetries from the gunsmith at anytime now. And not just specific weapons like in Y1. And those only came from Xur. I wouldn't call the candies you get from the packages pay to win. In fact, you're an idiot if your buying the packages for things that are already in the game.