I like the bounty forge mechanics... it plays to my sensibilities. 1. You don't have to wear the armor anymore. Immediately made Bonfire more fun for me. Because I can use whatever I want... I'm not spending crafting resources infusing and upgrading the gear as I go. And if you don't like Bonfire Bash... you can still get drops by only technically playing it once. 2. Once you unlock 1 or the 1st set of ingots... your forge gets an upgrade that guarantees drops from the bounties themselves. As you advance the armor... those drops and benefits improve. All my bounty armor drops have been 62+... I got a 68 already. That's only the first set of ingots done. Multi-perked weapons too... I'm already getting multi-perked weapons. 3. The grind is easy... I would like a change in the future that reduces the refresh cost (with an upgrade earned... like the Dawning oven, to like 3). Because technically it's better to grab a 1 leaf gray bounty that can be completed in like 45 secs... not including travel time, then to refresh manually. I think that's what you want people to figure out, but I'm not doing that... and I don't think anyone else will either. I'd rather burn every leaf I have to get the bounty sets I want... go grind more leaves, than breaking my cadence. And I know it's nonsensical, I'm not being optimally efficient when I do that. I just don't want to change all my weapons/kit every time I complete a loop of bounties. Optimally, I should build out my inventory to cover the field of objective possibilities, run a class agnostic regen exotic... design my play sessions around Solstice. The event isn't good enough, activity wise, for me to want to live that life for 3 weeks straight. If Bonfire played like the CoiL... then maybe. What I'm saying is Bonfire NEEDS something. I know you tried in the past... but I don't think exploration or hidden enemy spawns in obscure locations was it... But NOW, it seems overly simple... nothing is a threat, you don't really move around the map that much anymore. Remember when we had to go inside the buildings... the perimeter floating islands? Traversal is easier than it's ever been, our rides spawn... time to bring some of that back. Here's my idea... after you stoke the fire and kill the 'first' boss... it continues. After that 1st cycle... NOW... every time you stoke the Bonfire it makes the spawns harder on a timer... if you fail to make it the 2nd boss, extra rewards still drop based on the number of spawns. After the 2nd Boss... same thing EXCEPT the ENTIRE map is on fire and that escalates as you stoke the Bonfire, creating more hazards and restricting traversal... the catapults & light bumpers turn off during the 3rd loop too. There would be no real penalty for dying, except losing time... not stoking the Bonfire in time to spawn the 2nd or 3rd boss. Then that's it. 2 Bonfire nodes... 1 for single loop. 1 for the triple loop. 2nd and 3rd loop escalating rewards in both quantity and quality... like the CoiL, that's why that mode was so awesome. You could matchmake w randoms, no mic... and it was worth risking a wipe because the loot was so good... you would commit 45mins to an hr... because it was worth it. Bonfire HAS that potential. TLDR: The new systems and mechanics are great. Bonfire Bash requires growth and improvements. @Bungie for your consideration, please and thank you 😇 👍💠.