Are shaders one time use? (Destiny)

by Speedracer513 , Dallas, Texas, Saturday, September 06, 2014, 17:08 (3825 days ago) @ someotherguy

I kind of thought he was only talking about special rewards. You can purchase the same weapon more than once, and it will charge you each time separately.

Obviously Weapons =/= Shaders, but there is precedent for being charged multiple times. Ships, which are purely cosmetic (like Shaders), behave the same. Makes a certain amount of sense - Don't want people buying an item once and giving it to all three characters.

I get the impression that the way it will work is that you can have 9-10 different shaders currently in your character's inventory (and some other amount in your vault) and you could freely swap between which is active at any time, but if you ever discard a shader from your inventory/vault and go to buy it again, sure it'll cost glimmer again.

Similarly, you could put a shader (or other item) in your vault specifically for the purpose of giving it to one of your other characters (but if course it could only be active on one character at a time unless you bought multiple copies).