So friend of mine threw out this idea on a chat today and I figured why not to share it here:
Currently unused exotics are taking a lot of vault space. Lets say you get an insane roll, 69-base (nice) exotic armor with perfect split for that specific exotic, but that exotic is off meta or off of your current playstyle. So you throw it in vault and it'll stay there indefinitely. Wasting space.
To fix this, we could just "Dismantle to Collections". If I now took that 69-rolled off meta exotic that I wont use and dismantled it to collections, that would be my new collections roll. Next time when I pull that exotic from collections I would get that same 69-roll back. Then if I happened to get a better one one day, orone with better split stats I could throw that into collections to replace the old 69-roll.
EDIT: To be clear there would need to be two options to getting rid of that armor, select to either dismantle or to replace the current one in collections.
This would make "collection" tab a real collection, and not whatever we have right now. And it would save an insane amount of vault space.
A little edit: Stealing a comment that in my opinion had some great wording for this:
Collections feel like it is under utilized. It’s often more as just an index to see that you’re checking items off. When we want it to be a viable way to retrieve gear.
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Anything that helps with vault space I'm down for. Particularly armor rolls. Keeping each exotic for each character and a full raid set for each character really messed up my vault