Alright so I've been through Nether a few times now. Gone flawless a couple times. So what I'm about to say has nothing to do with difficulty. Because Nether is not difficult, it's just bad... for a couple reasons. Having a seasonal/episodic event tied to direct story progression should NEVER feature any type of negative health modifier, limited revives, or wipe mechanics. That is an absolute guarantee to piss people off for no gain for the game. Those modifiers serve no reason other than to inflict artificial pain points that SHOULD NOT exist in regular/story progression events. This is not me saying that difficult content shouldn't exist in this game, but rather they need to exist in specific places. Bungie, you guys already have varying levels of difficulties for players to select, and it's fine that you guys want to try new game modes... but those new game modes should not come at the expense of continuing to shoot yourselves in the foot with negative sentiment everywhere I look. This is the -blam!- episode that's going to lead into frontiers and there shouldn't be this much negativity not even one week into the episode. So here is some suggestions. For the BASE LEVEL difficulty only... remove the no health regen, remove the limited revives. I really think we all severley underestimate just how little people want to build craft for the lowest difficulty offered for an activity. Those casual players just want to chill, turn their brains off, do the shooty's with the guns they like, and get the looties. And that is completely fine For the harder difficulty, crank Those modifiers. Give us no health regen, make the enemies aggressive, give us the revive tokens. Really differentiate between the two difficulties and make the loot worth going for. Adept weapons need to be a guarantee for the first completion of the week. Armor drops in the harder mode also need to be 60+ on stat distributions. Bottom line, any game mode attached to the seasonal/episodic story progression needs to be as braindead as possible for 99% of the players. If you guys don't want to have a brain dead option, don't tie it to story progression. It also needs to be at whatever level players were previously boosted to at the beginning of the years newest DLC. This will make it to where returning players can hop right in and not have to play catch up on their power level. You shouldn't have to build craft Min/Max Or in any way shape or form, worry about your load outs or abilities on base level content tied to story progression. YOU SHOULD have to buildcraft/minmax and optimize load outs for hard mode content. Bungie, it is such an easy change to appeal to both groups of players. Give the hard core players that feeling of accomplishment by overcoming extremely challenging content. You can do that WITHOUT sacrificing your casual players experiences. We can have both things in this game. I don't want this game to fail. I dont want to continue seeing the player base drop, or lapsed players not even try to come back because of all the negativity surrounding this episode so far. You guys can turn this around with simple changes. Make the normal mode a casual friendly experience. Make the harder mode kick me in the teeth.