You need to earn legendary marks, get vanguard/crucible/faction packages, and buy new legendaries. Then you can go back to infusing those.

I'm struggling too. I incorrectly thought that since we completed Year 2 with Moments of Triumph that we were leaving all 335 gear frozen at Year 2 level and not bringing them into Rise of Iron. In preparation for 'Rise' I cleaned up my vault alot and infused many exotics to 335ish thinking they'd be frozen and capped out. I wasted a LOT of exotic shards, which I don't have many of, unlike others.

Yikes. Sorry about that. You should probably spend more time here. :)

I actually would have preferred it that everything was frozen like with Year 1. (I forget if Y1 gear overlapped into Y2 at all or not). It would have been easier for me if there was a clean break, now I feel like im in a gray area between Years.

Ugh, please don't say that. I mean, I get that you're annoyed that you wasted some stuff, and I'm sorry about it, but... they did that at the end of year 1 and I HATED it. I mean, ALL the stuff I liked was just immediately made (mostly) useless. Screw that. I don't ever want to do that again.

Im not good at infusing and not good at getting rid of gear. Ive got a vault with a lot of Y1 gear in it that I can't seem to part with because of the memories. Ive got a problem.

Not a problem as long as there's space. I still have a lot of my old raid weapons, and some of the too-good-for-their-own-good Y1 legendaries. The Devil You Know, Shadow Price, and a few others.

As of now I haven't infused any old 335 stuff up. I have a clear separation between old Taken King time period gear and new Rise of Iron gear. It feels like a line I don't want to cross but at some point im going to have to? Maybe once I get into the 360-380 range? The problem is that right now at 346 I have a bunch of capped blue 340 stuff that I could use as infusion fodder

I guess I don't really understand keeping the old stuff separate. Do you not like any of it? Seems odd since that's apparently the stuff you were using previously. ;) Unless you're just waiting until you're higher level, so that you infuse it once instead of multiple times? That I understand - saves resources. Although I don't really bother doing it myself for some reason.

Hey thanks for taking the time to reply, very helpful stuff here :)

But can someone point me in the direction of a guide or several that tells me how to treat different gear from different expansions/updates, etc.? I remembered (a little too late) that you should maximize your light level before turning in engrams and then do one at a time to try to roll higher gear. That still stands, right?

Yes it does. Although I'm unsure why you would treat gear from different updates differently. At least as far as engrams are concerned, they're all the same. Taken King engrams will decode the same as Rise of Iron. And it's not like you can tell the difference between them in your inventory anyway. Now, some activities from the older DLCs that drop items DIRECTLY might still be capped at their old light levels (for instance, someone mentioned to me recently that Court of Oryx from The Taken King is still dropping things at 335).

What I meant by treat gear differently, I meant how should I prioritize storage, dismantle, etc. I rarely look at my vault and realized I have a bunch of low level blues from year 1, for example. I could use those as other characters but frankly the loot wheel turns relatively well at that level so perhaps its best not to waste the space that way? And yea, you have a point about Crucible. I may keep a few year 1 Legendaries/Exotics for that reason, but I barely play Crucible so it may not be worth keeping many.

I also have a metric crap ton of sterling boxes in my inbox. I should probably Infuse which ever gear I like from that and infuse it?

Yeah, go ahead and open those right away. They all start at 3 light so it's not like they'll be higher level if you wait. Just open them all, see if you like the stats/perks/look, and keep them to infuse up if so. Shred the ones you don't, they'll give you chroma you can use to put lights on the keepers. Pro tip on that: hitting the "destroy chroma" button (or whatever it's called) on those armor pieces will actually re-roll the color on them to a random setting for 100 glimmer, so you can change them to a color you like for a fairly insignificant price. Just something you might not know if you haven't dealt with them much.

Only reason I wouldn't open them all now is storage space. But thanks for the destroy advice, I was wondering where the reroll mechanic I'd heard of was.

I also remember that the Gunsmith did weapon test things. Is that still a thing and is it worth doing? I forget why.

Yes, at least if you're currently below rank 2. Hitting rank 2 with him will start a quest for a class-specific legendary weapon. Hitting rank 3 will start the same quest for a class-specific exotic. Some of these weapons are quite good IMO (Tlaloc especially is monstrous) and there's no other way to get them. See here for info.

I think I JUST got the quest for the Legendary one. Neato. Thanks for the advice :)