How you manage your gear power stats

[A3D1]

after power cap reset, do you change your guns and armor everytime you get new better one or keep ur favorite stuff and (idk how its called, but consume the item to level up your favorite gear) ?

im a but confused idk whats the right way to do it cause i want to use my favorite weapons and exotics and dont know if i level up them every 5/10/20 level, or change to random gear till a certain power level then use my own stuff

[N33MA]

keep the good stuff and bring it up to power using the new stuff. I usually level them when I need them. Most activities are not power enabled so it doesn't actually matter if they are max level or not.

[Nibbie]

So in case you didn't know, you don't need to equip high level gear for it to count towards your drops. That gear can be sitting in your inventory, in your bank, or even on other characters; as long as it exists, it counts, so you can use your favored stuff and just keep the highest gear drop in each slot to continue levelling.

As for when to do infusing, that is largely up to you and what you are planning on doing. There is a large percentage of the game that is set to minimum power, or even just power disabled, so unless you are doing specifically high power content like nightfalls, you can wait quite a while before having to infuse anything. Personally, I complete the legend campaign and get the set of gear before infusing anything, then infuse everything I want to use up to that power level, then wait for at least a +10 increase before infusing anything, if not just waiting for power cap before doing it all, unless I need the power sooner for something.

[TheVoidSpirit]

Originally posted by Nibbie:

So in case you didn't know, you don't need to equip high level gear for it to count towards your drops. That gear can be sitting in your inventory, in your bank, or even on other characters; as long as it exists, it counts, so you can use your favored stuff and just keep the highest gear drop in each slot to continue levelling.

To add to this, the system also doesn't use the "1 Exotic per side" rule. So if all your highest power is Exotics, it counts them all, evne though you can't equip them all at once.

[NIkto Barada]

erm, ritual activities do count item power afaik, it depends on the activity, check the modifiers.your general power level isnt counted in open world. thats it.
you can infuse stuff of the same name for 1k glimmer or an upgrade module if in same slot.

[redk]

Is the gun or armor piece a good or god roll ? Yes, infuse. No, replace (as long as the replacement is better).

I'm still running all my armor from last season, triple 100 stats. All infused to 2000.