How to Max Rank Rahool to get new exotic armors

We are 5 days out from a new episode and as of this video confirmed to be getting 3 new, Stasis exotic armors with Episode Revenant.

Now in case you forgot, acquisition of new exotic armors changed with The Final Shape. Your only way to get new exotics is Novel Decryption which requires a full reset of Rahool's reputation track. How do you gain Rahool rep? Decrypt exotic and prime engrams with higher cost decryption giving more. Here's how it's done:

• A full reset is 6,000 reputation. This is different than most vendors.
• Prime Engram decryption gives 100 reputation.
• Exotic Engram decryption gives 150 reputation.
• Advanced Decryption gives 250 reputation. Requires 10 Enhancement Prisms and 30,000 Glimmer each.
• Precision Decryption gives 500 reputation. Requires 2 Ascendant Shards and 60,000 Glimmer each.
• Novel Decryption (how you get new exotics) also gives 500 reputation. Requires 1 Exotic Cipher.

Now there's a few paths to max reputation. The complicated part is not using up all your resources focusing. As a reminder you can hold 30 Ascendant Shards, 100 Enhancement Prisms and 500,000 GLimmer.

• Fastest:
  • 12 Precision Decryptions. Costs 12 exotic engrams, 24 Ascendant Shards, and 720,000 Glimmer.
• Balanced Approach:
  • 5 Precision Decryptions
  • 5 Advanced Decryptions
  • 15 Exotic Engram Decryptions
  • Costs 25 Engrams, 10 Ascendant Shards, 50 Enhancement Prisms and 450,000 Glimmer
• Balanced Approach 2 (What I will be doing):
  • 5 Precision Decryptions
  • 3 Advanced Decryptions
  • 18 Exotic Engram Decryptions
  • 1 Prime Engram
  • Costs 27 Engrams, 10 Ascendant Shards, 30 Enhancement Prisms and 390,000 Glimmer
  • This keeps you from wiping out all your resources and just requires a full stack of exotic engrams on all 3 characters if you want to get all 3 new exotics after your rank reset.
• I Have a Lot of Exotic Engrams:
  • 40 Exotic Engrams. Stack up 10 on each character in engram inventory. Stack up another 10 across your postmasters. Don't forget to leave a few to get the new exotics.

If you want to try and calculate it out, here is a google sheet with these methods. Just edit the highlighted cells.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12W9nfgcBntCXRgiWasT7zov01NaWNO54ycG58iOc7Zs/template/preview

Tl;dr: Here's a quick list of what to do now to prep:

• Get as many exotic engrams as you can across your characters. Season pass exotic engrams are good. Starting today we have some easy Lost Sectors which you can farm for a chance at Exotic Engrams.
• Max out your Exotic Ciphers. Unfortunately cannot farm these. But at least do Xenology when Xur returns on Friday.
• Get Enhancement Prisms and Ascendant Shards. Nightfalls, Grandmaster Nightfalls and Solo Legend or Master Lost Sectors are best for this.
• Farm glimmer as needed. Public Events are good for this or chest farming anywhere.
• Read this guide before Episode Revenant launch and figure out what focuses you can do.

Hope that helps. Let me know if you have questions.