#vault cleaning

[titanicfreija]

Freija's tips for vault cleaning!

I pride myself on this, but only because I know some people *coughRise-26cough* who filled it in their first season and haven't touched it since.

For guns!

Step One-

Dump your pockets, fill them with selected gun archetypes. All shotguns, all rocket launchers or whatever

If you have more of an archetype than spaces in your inventory, sort by damage type.

If you have multiples, make sure to grab them all together for comparison.

Step Two

Take them all somewhere and shoot them.

Step Three

Break down the ones you don't like shooting.

No matter why you don't like shooting them. Shit reload? Glimmer. Handling a bitch? Glimmer. Don't like the shiny lights on the side? Glimmer.

Sole archetype and damage types may get a pass.

The basement in the relic supplies free heavy and special ammo. It won't tell you shit about how most perks feel, but at least you'll have a baseline.

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Sometimes this process means losing a good roll on a rare gun.

At that point, if you're truly torn, it comes down to three questions-

What's the Light Level?

Floor? Glimmer

How many kills are tallied?

Sub-fifty? Glimmer.

Are the perks worth the trouble?

A perk you universally love and are deeply familiar with and use frequently can be worth keeping.

Cascade killers, reload perks, etc. that are particularly useful or cancel out difficulties can be worth keeping.

Refer to the kill count. Zeroes, regardless of perks, aren't worth it.

(there's a secret fourth, which is "are you willing to waste vault space in the name of sentimentality?" But by the time you get to it, it's answered.)

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Armor

This is much easier cos it's just numbers.

Step one

Pick a stat limit. Total points or specific stat totals.

Get an idea of an average with a scan over

You will want to make exceptions. Pick the exception to allow. At most two, or maybe another combination of two.

Lift standards if any old standards are met but vault is still crowded.

So say your standard is 60 total, but when you get rid of everything, you're still crowded. So now you want at least thirty points spread between recovery and discipline, be it twenty eight and two or fifteen and fifteen.

Step Two

Delete the ones that don't make the cut.

Even that one.

When you can't do it, recall exception. Does it meet that secondary standard?

So, the standard is thirty between recovery and discipline, and this one doesn't make that cut.... but it's got 67 total spread. Other exceptions can be a particularly high single stat number or masterworking will correct the short. You'll want to make exceptions. Pick one or two and keep a hard line after that.

Now, here's a great thing--

Load out slots save cosmetics.

So you only NEED one set of armor. (I am gonna keep my many pages, but you do you.)

[audax-3]

Made a spreadsheet of "Checklist Weapons" to help with Vault management.

It took about an hour and a half, three different apps, and wrapping my head around Sheets..... but it was worth it.

Highly recommend.

(Also, I used Light.gg 's filtering tags to help find specific weapon types with specific elemental affinities. Made it so much easier.)

[l3rking]

Vault cleaning videos are fun for me just because I like seeing all the little treasures people have held onto over the years. That blue Allegro that carried you to Redrix in Warmind. The Better Devils you used in your first Leviathan clear. A box of raisins. A used toothbrush. A curated Kindled Orchid. Your damaged Traveler’s Chosen you’ve kept since the Red War. There’s something personal and a little vulnerable about it imo

[l3rking]

I watch this video every year and every year I think about nuking my vault.

[titanicfreija]

vault cleaning takeaways

First, I used a complicated DIM search formula to clean out my armor (base stats <64, intellect >10, legendary non class item in my vault)

And that didn't do as much as usual because I've already taken out most of it and I'm about to have to get weird and even narrower with my shit

And I normally take my weapons to the basement on Mars for the free ammo to gun test, and let go the actual perk gameplay part of it. If I don't like shooting it, the perks don't matter

But I can't do that anymore, either, I won't clean out shit because I already know I like it, it's still in there.

Plus Ergo Sum needs testing against enemies.

So for real testing, I took a bunch of special/heavy weapons to Shuro Chi. Looking for wave clear with the ads, big damage for the knights, etc. and measure effectiveness. Can I use this sniper rifle in actual gameplay?

Some surprised me.

I have a couple of shotguns that can do wave clear with Incandescent or Chain Reaction, love that

I stay not liking SMGs. Fucking hate them. Pitch perfect gets a pass.

Auto rifles are also not my favorites, but I have a few I forgive.

Half of my Ergo Sum collection was trash

Rocket launchers are all the same until the rocket hits

Grenade launchers are all different even when it's the same archetype

Machine guns are machine guns and I love my 450s

I love the dual-fire special grenade launchers but they are useless.

repulsor brace+destabilizing rounds is busted.

I love glaives

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There has often been a time where everything in Freija's pockets is solar. Six fucking energy weapons and five heavy and only one isn't solar and it's a drop from the last public event.

Because of this, I expected to find out that my vault was 40-50% solar, with the rest holding kinetic, strand, void, arc, and stasis split amongst them, I fully expected that one to dominate.

It's actually a fair split, except when void or arc were the top. The only weapon type that had more solar was heavy swords.