I’ve been playing Destiny since 2014 and Destiny 2 since 2017 when it launched. I talk about it weekly on Two Titans and a Hunter and have been complaining about how many things I have in my vault. I can never find what I need because I’ve stuffed it full of spikey armor rolls, exotic weapons I’ve not used in years and event weapons or gear that I “toss in the vault to sort out later…” and later is never.

I play mainly on my Titan but my Warlock gets some decent time so I’m only juggling armor for two classes. I don’t know what you all do who play all three classes. I have a Hunter. Mostly to open raid chests and to load in when I want to clean my vault.

I mentioned I had my vault down under 300 items (268 and dropping) and a friend just said “Teach me.”

So here’s what I did.

This is not The Best Way. This is My Way. I’m frustrated with not being able to find things and holding on to them for no reason. I’m not a “But It Might Be Good Next Season!” player. I don’t need the best. I’m happy with good enough for me. If you want to deeply analyze your vault I recommend: D2 Checklist

Cull The Weapons
Open Destiny Item Manager. (You are using DIM to manager your game, right?) Enter this in the search bar.
-is:wishlist -is:inloadout kills:0

This will show you weapons that are:

• Not in a Wishlist (The ones with👍)
• Not in a loadout (DIM loadouts or in-game loadouts)
• 0 Kills on the kill traker. You’ve never fired it.

Note: This only shows for the active kill tracker. If you have 10,00 kills in PVE but the weapon is set to the PVP tracker for some reason. It will show 0 kills, so be careful and don’t delete your beloved weapon.

Cull The Armor
Enter this in the search bar.
-is:wishlist -is:inloadout is:armor

First two are the same: No wishlist (👍) gear and nothing in any of your loadouts.

Final bit just says “Show Me Armor!” So it’ll remove anything else. No ghosts, sparrows, ships, materials, etc that you may have stashed away.. Then you can sort til your heart’s content, or just load up your least used character, remove their existing weapons and armor you want to keep and drag everything to them to delete in-game.

If you’re purging your Exotics, set aside some time it’s like 6 seconds to delete an exotic (on console).

Once you have a set of things selected, you can use DIM to:

• Set Notes to everything #JunkThisGarbage or #NeverFired and it’ll apply to the entire group.
• UNLOCK EVERYTHING! 😄 Makes deleting easier.

@SamBatyley on Twitter: I just said this in an interview.

“What kinds of games do you play?”

“Oh, mainly cozy games like Diablo, Coral Island, Cozy Grove, & Destiny.”

& then I explain, those are cozy to me. Zero stress, just zoning out and having fun with my pals or solo. Cozy is so subjective.🫶🏼

This is why I return to Destiny again and again. It’s an old worn pair of pants. A cozy sweater to wrap up in for the day. Destiny is comfortable. It’s not perfect. It’s aged. It’s not going to compete with the youngest and newest games. It’s not going to compete with anyone for hottest or trendiest. But I know it.

I know it so well. The skies I’ve stopped to admire and battled under. The maps I’ve played and replayed and re-re-re-re-replayed thousands of times. The hundreds of days I’ve spent running across the same plot of land. If the digital artwork were earth, there would be deep paths worn into the dirt.

It’s also a decision I don’t have to make. I sit down with my coffee or cola. I turn on my Xbox and I press A.

That’s it.

I don’t have to look through my library. I don’t need to worry about whether there’s gigabytes of updates to wait through. I don’t need to worry about how the game has changed since I last played it.

I sit down. I power on. I play.

I play with my friends. I play with new people. I play alone listening to music of podcasts in my ears. I don’t need the dialog or music. I’ve heard it all before. I don’t need to worry about what the game is trying to tell me, I can see where I need to go and what I need to do.

Destiny is where I’ve spent thousands of hours playing since 2014. I’ve recorded a weekly podcast about it since 2019. There’s plenty in the game I have never done. There’s parts of the world of I have never seen nor step foot into. But I play what I like and I play it often.

It’s an easy choice to the point where it’s not even a choice anymore. It’s my default. I don’t look at other games when I turn on my Xbox. I turn it on and I’m surprised if it’s not sitting in the first spot ready to go.

This is how I will describe the Crackdown series to people unfamiliar with it.

I do the things that I’m designed to do: Punch dudes, shoot dudes, squash dudes, explode dudes, run dudes over in my car, throw dudes off high ledges. Each time an enemy dies, he renders up pretty, colorful bubbles that flutter pleasingly toward me. These are upgrade points that level up my various skills. So I become better at punching, shooting, and squashing at a rate that is comparable to the increasing menace of my opponents.