How to Farm Sleeper Nodes Fast!
Just put my thoughts together on the fastest way I've seen.
Detailed notes, below.
To open Sleeper Nodes, you need Resonant Stems. Collect these from public events, patrols, high value targets, and Lost Sectors on Mars. Combine 4 to make a Harmonic Frequency which tells you where the node is and allows you to open it.
My route:
Land in Glacial Drift. Do all the triangle, Collectables, patrols. The ones in this area will always be Hive-based. Do the "get kills" patrol. Try to combine these patrols with public events, if one is occurring.
Heroic public events grant two stems, but the event will take slightly longer. Easier to do with more people around.
Keep your eyes and ears open for high value targets and their treasure chests, which drop stems.
The assassinate patrol in Glacial Drift will require you to go into the cave (as if toward Xol). Use Melting Point shoulder charge, Tractor Cannon + Nova, or Celestial with Gunslinger super to wipe the Knight quickly.
Save the scanning survey for last, use this to take you to Futurescape. Once there, do the same as above. Note: the patrol past Ana and the Escalation Protocol area is almost always "kill Psions" which do not spawn during EP or public events.
Remember that patrols will respawn if you finish them all in an area. Once you've done a few laps, and have a good pile of stems, go to orbit. It hasn't been confirmed, but nodes appear to be location specific, so while you could try to game the system, I found it faster to just go to orbit and combine stems.
Log into https://www.d2checklist.com to see which nodes you do not yet have. Combine stems until you have a new one, go back to Mars.
This process seems long, but it's the fastest way I've seen and it took me two days to get 20 nodes. I hope it helps! If you know of a faster way, drop a comment below!
Happy hunting!
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