As you get higher these will stack. I’m sitting on like 150,000 right now.

Sounds like you're not dismantling nearly enough, and infusing way too frequently

I wish the dismantle to infusing ratio was better. At 300 it costs 1,600 to infuse something but I only get about 400 from dismantling an item.

We need a new Strange Coin Vendor besides Xur because we are relentlessly playing portal with Max out Strange Coins till Friday even then theirs no point for me because I have everything Xur got in his inventory including DOE *Turn a tower vending machine into a vendor so we can spend coins on to buy Buffs that can last a day or two, that's a lot better then them sitting in my inventory.

Something I have done from power cap to power cap raise is take all my weapons in the vault and raise them up to use whenever I want. This system doesn't allow that. Even though I have infused certain weapons up to max power for years that I'll never use. I still like having it available as an option. This system means I'll really never use those weapons that I vault for the "maybes". Also this system encourages me to delete more items then I usually would trying to get a surplus of cores. Meaning I can not just vault some of the new gear I'd like to try because I need the cores in the moment. If it only gets worse from here the I imagine I'll only have a hand full of weapons I can use and same with armor.

Am about to hit LL300 - without really leaning into the grind; I just infused stuff with higher stuff, as it became available…and even master-worked some bits to survive tougher missions…and give my guns more ‘bang!’ This got me up to around LL250 / GR6 On today’s grind, especially in Scorched Crucible, I just switched out each new higher piece of gear as I got it…and, no more infusing stuff. When I noticed the high cost of upgrading gear, I stopped! However, some bits needed upgrading - to do more intense missions…Master runs, specifically! I don’t have any plans to chase the higher tier stuff, as I don’t need or desire it…even though some tier 4 stuff is beginning to drop. The best source for this old tortoise is Scorched Crucible…and Solo / Fireteam runs…and Pinnacle runs when ‘Minty’ is up! 🎲👻🎲 Get some in! ✅ That is all. Ease Springs! 🖖

You may not want to hear this, but in general while grinding power, use one single build and one single character. If you primarily play one activity (solo ops for example), you can infuse the gear from that set without cost. Do this until you reach 400. Do not masterwork armor under tier 4 either. Just level up and focus on getting up to power. Once you get to 400, the increases really slow down, and everything under tier 4 outside of a few great rolls of t2-3 weapons may be worth keeping, but everything else that has dropped since EoF launched is pretty much deleted, including some armor that you may have thought was good at the time and masterworked. It is REALLY easy to burn through all of your upgrade materials before you even hit 350. So, just dont. Running a single character to level on saves the costs of spending materials to raise that second character needlessly. Stick with one, the one that is easiest to clear the Portal activities the fastest. I ran a lot of solo ops, so I wore TechSec armor the most. I mostly hopped into Pinnacle during the power grind just to grab a focus drop, then back to Solo. The drop from pinnacle, I would often just hold on the side and not infuse but keep it until I got another drop in slot that I could infuse for only glimmer. Being 1 or 2 power lower in a single slot equipped is not really going to hold you back from the scoring algorithm, you just dont want every piece to be a few light lower than account max. Once you reach 400, then you may have plenty saved and can start to experiment with different builds... and will be deleting much of the gear that drops which is not t4+ along the way. This is also when I focused more on Pinnacle Ops than Solo or Fireteam, because I want Bushido T4+ armor, not TechSec. Unless you are running a Kinetic focused build, TechSec is just placeholder armor, and Bushido works much better for activities with Brawn, which I run a lot due to the point scaler. Focusing on getting through the grind to 400 as quick as possible, makes it much cheaper in the long run than gradually rising and infusing out with different builds, etc... After hitting 400, you are "free" from the grind, and consistently getting gear worth using and infusing into. Almost all of my builds now use new armor, because it is objectively better than the old (other than exotic armor). Better stats overall, with gear set perks which can make a difference in play, while subtle it all adds up.

I just need enhancement cores, all of them.

I've learnt to not infuse until its a much higher boost and just delete all the drops of higher power

I don't understand how people are having unstable cores problems. I've infused my gear every time I've gotten an upgrade since launch infused multiple builds and have run out of regular cores more often, and I'm currently sitting on an unstable index fund of over 150k. This post isn't the only place I've heard about this problem. like, are you guys just keeping everything that drops and not deconstructing trash? I don't get it. My stockpile only grows.