Nevertheless, I'm very much of a sentimental person when it comes to gear: memories get attached to the pixels, so the pixels have value.

Here are some of the questions I ask myself when deciding to keep or shard an item:

1. Is it easily replaceable?

I keep:

Many (but not all) VoG and Crota raid weapons, almost all elemental primaries. (One of each.)

Some Y1 Iron Banner weapons. (Dumped my Radagast Furies, but too many good times were had with Timur's Lash, Efreedet Spear, etc.) Some hard decisions need to be made occasionally here. If you have a LOT of stuff, one of the things you can ask yourself is "will I ever have a specialized need for this?") Remember the dude who soloed Oryx? He used a Corrective Measure at first to clear the adds because it has Surplus. Not many heavies have Surplus, which is a cool perk because once you kill a critter with the Surplus perk, that ammo drop will have the additional ammo, even if you switch out your CM.

The starting class items (white cloak, bond, mark.)

Nostalgic armor pieces are where tough calls need to be made. I have a full set of VoG armor for the hunter, but neither Titan nor Warlock had a full set, so away those pieces went. I don't like the way Crota stuff looks, so that all went away. I find it useful to focus on one character in terms of who gets vault space. I would love to have a full IB set, and Crota set etc for my characters, but that builds up fast. You gotta murder your darlings.

All Y1 exotic weapons have been sharded (since easily replaced) with a few exceptions: Gallie, Thorn, Ice Breaker, Vex.

All Y1 exotic armor has been sharded with 1-2 exceptions, mainly the hunter gloves that give you invisibility on crouching, and the Bones of Eao. (The latter I keep because of functionality: they have a "heavy weapon" mod, and I only use them for jumping puzzles.) Most of the useful Titan / Lock Y1 exotic armor exists in Y2, or can be repurchased.)

Unless I know I might be using them a lot, most 290 exotics get sharded. Things like the Bolean Gemini, Hereafter, etc.

Exception: the class-specific gunsmith legendaries are all kept, Stillpiercer, Immobius, and the lock one. I don't think it's possible to replace those.

2. Is it better than what I currently have?

Let's say I get a Hacksaw drop. (This applies to any legendary weapon):

Am I so wowed by the perks that I want to immediately start using it?

Is it equivalent or worse than the vendor one, which I can get pretty easily?

Can it be used as infusion fodder, and how many of this item type do I own / need dedicated to infusion?

3. Will I ever use it in the future?

This is where it gets tricky. One question to ask yourself is, what are your favorite weapon types? From my perspective, the list goes (primaries) Hand Cannons, Pulse, Scout, AR. Secondaries: Snipes, Shotties, Fusions, Sides.

As a result, I think I have one legendary AR (the new IB one), a dozen HCs, half a dozen Scouts and PRs. A median roll on a weapon you'll never use should either be infusion fodder, or sharded.

4. Can I use it now?

One method that's helped me is to immediately start using a questionable weapon on an alt -- whether it be on patrols, crucible, whatever. Level it up, see if you connect with it. This has allowed me to clear out a lot of "hmm, I'll have to check it out sometime" weapons

5. Which legendary boots, gloves, and chests?
For a while, I had a LOT of legendary boots and chest pieces, until I was able to boil it down to the necessities:

For boots, I keep:

One set of boots with MG ammo
One set of boots with RL ammo

I also like to have access to Sniper / Shotgun / Fusion (for the exotic) ammo, so on some characters, I have three pair, i.e. RL/Fusion, MG/Snipe, and Doesn't Matter/Shot.

Everything else can be sharded. When comparing similar boots, you can always look at the stats (INT/DIS/STR) and aesthetics to pick a winner.

For chests, it's a little easier, I like to keep

One chest with Sniper ammo, and my preferred elemental sub-class armor.
One chest with Shottie ammo (for crucible).

If you're an HC user in PVE, then you might want a Hand Cannon chest piece.

Another consideration is looks, of course!

Hope this helps!

It didn't take off, is my point.

Sorry, but this is not your fault.

Bungie has made this game even more grindy than before.

I took a few weeks off from Destiny but launched it last Saturday during Iron Banner to see what the guy was selling. With a 310+ character, it is just not worth it to grind for 280/290 gear. I just closed Destiny and launched Battlefront instead. There's no reason for Destiny's light system to exist except to manipulate players into sinking tons of time into an aspect of the game that isn't even fun.

Hey, they gotta keep people playing till September without releasing any new content until then. Destiny is supposed to be its own hobby after all.

Yeah... The no new content thing is a fantasy you made up. Perhaps recall when Urk recently said:

First I ave heard about new content in the spring. If it's not just an event, then I'm all for it. Thanks.

Maybe you could take this as a lesson in maybe trying to learn a couple of facts before spewing more of the trademark Cody ignorance... They have made multiple references to the upcoming events. SRL was clearly classified as their Holiday event, with a small gift coming to your postmaster soon (15 coins + motes) before the next event.

Lurn2Reed

Remember that you can lock stuff in the Postmaster to protect it from deletion. I realized that a bit too late...

We need more postmaster space, Bungle!

Sorry, but this is not your fault.

Bungie has made this game even more grindy than before.

I took a few weeks off from Destiny but launched it last Saturday during Iron Banner to see what the guy was selling. With a 310+ character, it is just not worth it to grind for 280/290 gear. I just closed Destiny and launched Battlefront instead. There's no reason for Destiny's light system to exist except to manipulate players into sinking tons of time into an aspect of the game that isn't even fun.

Hey, they gotta keep people playing till September without releasing any new content until then. Destiny is supposed to be its own hobby after all.

Yeah... The no new content thing is a fantasy you made up. Perhaps recall when Urk recently said:

First I ave heard about new content in the spring. If it's not just an event, then I'm all for it. Thanks.

Primaries
Similmar's Wrath, Her Right hand, Six Dreg Pride, Her Mercy, Aegis of the Kell, Skorri's Revenge, Payment VI, Hygiea Noblesse... Yup. Agreed. Burn them. These are crappy weapons I've never used after leveling them. I'm only holding onto them now because they're part of a set. I'm hoping that Bungie will add Kiosks for IB, the Prison and/or the Queen. When I really run out of space though, they're all getting deleted. I've already been considering loosing either the Queen Weapon set or the Iron Banner weapon set. Your recommendation to kill all of the Queen weapons save Her Benevolence is reinforcing that option (although you weren't much kinder to the IB weapons :).

Secondaries
You're not a fan of Fusion rifles, I see :) Not even a single solar FR to keep? At the moment I'm holding onto fusion rifles right now in hopes that Bungie eventually finds a way to make them useful, but the ones I have are pretty bad rolls and you're probably right about all of them. Except for the Arc Thesan FR4 - that's got a great roll and it's the only FR I've fired in over a month other than Telesto. At first I thought you'd nix the Tamar-D too, but then I remembered why I kept it - it's got surplus and you've been singing the praises of that perk so long that I've been keeping and infusing that sniper on your recommendation :)

Heavies
You're 100% right about the heavies. I'm holding onto those just to maintain a set, and the Ruin Wake and Objection IV you pointed out are just so I have an arc and solar legendary machine gun. I want to like Objection based on its perks (the vendor roll appears good), but I don't think I've fired it. Ever.

Armor
I've been thinking about ditching those hand cannon loader gauntlets. I'm only holding onto them now in case hand cannons become the Crucible 'win button' again. But I'm keeping my titan pulse rifle loader gloves; I still use Mercy/Spare Change/Hawksaw in the Crucible.

There's a lot of infusion fodder in the chest armor. I'm holding a solar/arc/void damage reduction chest for each character just for nightfall burns, but at this point it really doesn't make much of a difference. And the nightfall just gives me horns and coins anyway <grr>.

About those boots - I usually run machine gun ammo boots, but each character has an alternate set of boots with rocket ammo. Not that I play trials any more, but if I ever run rockets I switch to those boots and take the hit to my light level.

I'm keeping a lot of class items at the moment just as infusion fuel; I'm working on two exotic class item quests and the ones you marked will come in handy.

Artifacts. <sigh> The "gotta catch 'em all" collector OCD has been kicking in for those. Eventually I'll probably reduce to grenade kill and precision kill orbs for my preferred subclass element with an int/dis/str value that helps.

That's actually my reduced collection of shells though; I deleted at least 6 last night. I'm trying to have a kills=glimmer for each race, and a material finder for each planet. At the moment there's some gaps.

Sets and other:
Raid weapons are precious to me, I'll keep those sets for a long time. Even Song of Ir Yut and Swordbreaker.

I really should make a video where I delete all three Crux of Crota's while having my Necrochasm equipped, huh?

I use ships and emblems to remind me of my faction (when working on the exotic class item) or subclass (when not).

<emote>Boo!<emote>

Thank you so much, Funkmon. It's great having a second set of eyes on this, and you've reinforced what I've been considering. Let me know if I can do the same for you, but I suspect you don't have quite the problem I do in this area. I'm keeping my Titan, though :)

Sorry, but this is not your fault.

Bungie has made this game even more grindy than before.

I took a few weeks off from Destiny but launched it last Saturday during Iron Banner to see what the guy was selling. With a 310+ character, it is just not worth it to grind for 280/290 gear. I just closed Destiny and launched Battlefront instead. There's no reason for Destiny's light system to exist except to manipulate players into sinking tons of time into an aspect of the game that isn't even fun.

Hey, they gotta keep people playing till September without releasing any new content until then. Destiny is supposed to be its own hobby after all.

Yeah... The no new content thing is a fantasy you made up. Perhaps recall when Urk recently said:

There's a whiteboard in one of our meeting rooms filled with scribblings and sticky notes that represent the developments planned for Destiny's not-so-distant future. Events, activities, content, and features designed to keep you happy, entertained, and rewarded throughout the year to come: some events and some activities that will become additions to your Director.

The first of these early 2016 experiences will be on a scale close to Festival of the Lost. The second will be far larger than anything you've seen since the release of The Taken King. There's also another significant update to the world and sandbox planned in this same window.

It's true that we've updated the playbook based on what we've learned to date, and to better tap into what makes Destiny unique. Last year, we all waited five months and ten days between content drops after December. This year, the plan is to deliver new experiences at a faster clip. To that end, the updates described above are all currently slated to hit across Winter and Spring of 2016, with more to come, as well.

Note: your vault appears to be mostly sentimental. However, some of that crap sucked then and always will suck so you should dump it. Your armor mostly appears to consist of sets you think are cool, so I didn't do much with it. Also, I left some guns that are awful but worth keeping around to infuse later onto good guns. If I marked em red, delete/infuse now. You need to put XP in that full auto raid scout.