• The Basics
  • The main screen you'll interact with is the inventory screen, which is pretty straightforward. Items are grouped by item slot, and divided between vaulted items and equipped items.
    
  • To move items around, tap on the image of the item and press the button at the bottom to send it where you want: "Equip" puts it in your hands, "Store" will swap it from Vault to your character and vice versa. If you're on PC, you can use the 'p' key to "pull" to your character, or 'v' to vault it
    
  • You can also tap the + button if you're looking to fill a particular slot, and only items that fit in that slot will be displayed.
    
  • Use the search bar at the top to narrow things down. The search has an excellent intellitext suggester so look as you type in for things like name:"servant leader" or is:scoutrifle or perkname:demolitionist. On PC any item that doesn't meet all your search terms will be faded out; on mobile, a pop-up will display with a list of items after you hit return.
    
  • You can do this at almost any time even while on-planet or during most missions. Locked gear quests and similar events might prevent you, the only way to know is try.
    
  • The tool-tips are handy reminders if you don't know what a particular perk does. Hover over it on PC or tap it in mobile to bring up the tool tip
    
  • If you have exotics equipped DIM can sometimes have trouble shuffling them around if you're adding another exotic. I try to unequip an exotic if I'm planning on equipping a new one.
    
  • Often you don't even need to make an empty space to pull from the vault - DIM will automatically shuffle something back when it equips a new item. Watch out if it displays an error though
    
• Loadouts
  • Loadouts are collections of items and mods that you can equip as a group, presumably because they act synergistically together. DIM allows you to save this configuration and use one press to equip everything
    
  • When you create a loadout, select items for each slot. Any slots you leave blank will not change when equip the loadout. This is handy if you have an armor configuration you like, and a separate weapon configuration you like - so you can equip both separately and change one without affecting the other. Ghosts, Ships, Sparrows, and Emblems can also be equipped, so you can have a fleet of Ghosts for different roles like armor farming, glimmer boosting, XP growth, etc.
    
  • You can also add items to be on your character but unequipped. For example, I could have a grenade build that works with any energy subclass with just a swap of gauntlet items, so I'd have all those gauntlet exotics transferred over too.
    
  • Finally, you can select Armor Mods. Just select the mods you want (using search terms to find them more easily) and DIM will allocate them automatically. Note that it might fail if there's insufficient space or incorrect energy types, so double-check it worked when you equip it. DIM will give you a status when finished.
    
  • Be sure to give it a descriptive name and double-check mod placement. If you mess up or want to change things you can edit loadouts later.
    
  • Once saved, you can hit "Apply" on any given loadout and it will equip it as programmed.
    
• Organizer
  • The Organizer tab lets you search through all your different characters for specific items and compare them one-to-one. From there you can then tag items for infusion, destruction, or whatever else you loot-crazed munchkins do with your hoard.
    
  • Just click on the different categories and work your way down. Guns/Hunter/Titan/Warlock, then whatever submenu, and all the items meeting that category will be listed in a neat organized table
    
  • From here you can sort, list, lock/unlock, check, apply notes, and otherwise comb through the whole mess that is your inventory.
    
  • Note that the search bar works here too, so you can use this to filter what you're looking at to simplify things
    
  • The big hamper for DIM is that Bungie doesn't allow you to delete/shard items using third party apps through the API - for good reason, as it would be easy for someone to grief anyone who got the password or made a malware inventory manager. It sucks that you can't even create a bin or folder for things, but you can use your other character slots for that purpose if you aren't actively playing with them.
    
• Armor Optimization
  • This in my opinion is where DIM shines. While in the Loadouts tab, there's another button below Create Loadout labeled "Loadout Optimizer".
    
  • Your first step is to rank the Attributes from highest to lowest in importance. I play Warlock, so Recovery (my class skill) is usually at the top, and I often make grenade builds so Discipline is usually up there too
    
  • You can also set minimum or maximum tiers for them, or set them to be ignored entirely. DIM will try to maximize your total tier count while still following your attribute ranking and minimizing wasted stats, so fiddling with these settings can sometimes yield different results. Since a 49 Recovery is no different from a 40 it will favor things that bump another stat higher, though it will highlight stats that are within +5 range for easy stat mod boosting.
    
  • If there's a particular piece of equipment you want to use, you can Pin that item or, in the case of exotics, select which one you want to tailor the build around.
    
  • Once you do this a list of armor configurations shows up. We can stop here and set mods manually, but I strongly suggest using the mod finder too.
    
  • To do this, first decide if you're willing to spend materials to upgrade armor or change its element, and apply the relevant settings. Locking the element will constrain you if any mods you select are element-limited. For example, "Bountiful Wells" will only fit on a Solar piece of armor, and "Ashes to Assets" is limited to Solar Helmets. Similarly, a new piece of armor with great stats might only have 1 energy slot, so it's a good idea to allow upgrading. Legendary Shards will get you up to level 5, Enhancement Cores will get you up to 7, Enhancement Prisms to 9, and Ascendant Shards are needed for Masterworked level 10 armor.
    
  • You can also select your subclass and configure it in case it has effects on your attributes, like Stasis and the new Void subclass. Eventually Solar and Arc will be like this too.
    
  • Once done you can save it as a new Loadout (see the loadouts section), equip it directly, or add more stat-boosts. Personally I wait to add stat boosts manually so I can place them where I like.
    
  • And you're done! Equip your new loadout and swap back and forth quickly and easily!
    
• Progress, Vendors, and Records
  
  • I'll admit I haven't used these as much. I tend to use the Braytech app for tracking Triumphs, Medals, Achievements and the like, and the Destiny Companion app for tracking vendors and acquiring their bounties
    
  • The main benefit is seeing all items vendors are selling, where Xur is, and what's available for what prices in one single page without having to travel to five different places.
    
  • Still, I'm sure there's a lot of use to be gleaned from them, so if you don't want to mess with multiple apps definitely use this tool and let me know how to use it more effectively!
    

1. I'm building an Arc Grenade loadout built around Getaway Artist, an exotic that lets you create an upgraded Arc Soul buddy, so I set that first:
   
   
2. I also set the subclass to Arc, then look over the different configurations that show up. Notice the arrows under the class item - this tells me DIM has found multiple equivalent options - pretty common for class items since their only stats are from mods you've added. I see some familiar Masterworked armor since my other grenade builds probably share similar stats, but let's add mods.
   
   
3. I Lock Element for Masterworked items (don't want to wreck another build!) and set Assume Masterwork to None since I'm not sure I want to invest a bunch of Ascendant Shards for this. DIM assumes an energy level of up to 7 but won't tell you to invest resources unless it's necessary to fit your mod choices
   
4. Now I start selecting my mods. I skip the attribute mods and save them for last. Looking at helmet mods, Ashes to Assets "Gain bonus Super energy on grenade kills" seems useful - assuming Arc Soul counts as a grenade kill which it might not. For now I select it twice, and the rest of the mods grey out because there's max two helmet slots for mods.
   
5. I then move down the list. Grenade Kickstart for gauntlets, Thermoshock Plating (efficient Season of the Risen mod) for chest, and Bomber for Class item. Nothing really stands out for Legs to me so I leave it empty for now.
   
6. Now I get to the special mods - Raids, Charged with Light, Warminds, and Elemental Wells. I don't have anything in mind just yet so let's end here and see how much space I have left. I hit Select Mods to apply my choices and close out the window
   
7. My armor choices have changed. Mods are shown where they're placed, and it looks like it's using a bunch of my other gear for the top line. However, notice the following lines show that I can change one of my other helmets' element type to fit the Ashes to Assets I've chosen. #2 and #3 I don't want to mess with since they're already level 8 (and I don't want to waste a prism) but #4 is just an upgrade - that could be an option if I don't like one of the others for some reason.
   
8. I also notice that the last slot is open on all items of the first option - not surprising, since I didn't apply any special mods - and I have space on all of them for more. I think I'll add Elemental Wells or Charged with Light to this build. I click Select Mods again and look over my options. Firepower CWL looks good, as does Heal Thyself. Stacks on Stacks can help (at the cost of Recovery) and Supercharged can give more. I also I select mods and look...
   
   
9. Crud, I'd have to change the element of my energy 9 chest armor. I take off CWL mods by hitting the x's and look at Elemental Wells instead
   
10. Elemental Ordnance, Seeking Wells, and Bountiful Wells look like decent fits. However if I pick three Ordnance then I don't get any options - there's not enough energy. Either I can drop a Grenade Kickstart or some other high cost mod, or I can drop the number - I compromise to two Elemental Ordnance and review my final configuration:
    
    
11. Now I can Save my loadout to a particular name, or equip it and try it out to see if I like it.
    
12. If I save it as a loadout, I can later Edit it and use the Armor Optimizer again, unpinning anything that isn't working and seeing what that frees up. For now I save it as "Arc Grenade"
    
    

DarkHorse fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Mar 12, 2022

muike fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Mar 13, 2022