1st bring back trials 2nd mayhem during the weekend 3rd SRL for the 3 weeks of Solstice with new armor and sparrows with no eververse. Let us choose the activities to earn the armor ornaments with the vanguard or Shax/Saladin. If it’s the 3 characters completing one should cut down on the requirements for the other 2 characters.

Haven’t played much D2 recently and won’t be grinding the Solstice armour. What bothered me last year (and generally) was you grind to upgrade the armour, new dlc comes out and it’s useless - absolutely no point in doing it at all apart from the highly questionable trophy value. Why not make it continuous and equally upgradeable into Shadowkeep so it might be worthwhile actually doing it to use it? I have been shooting things in D1 - revisiting all my old gear and it occurred to me that there is something fundamentally wrong with repetitively grinding the hardest content for the best weapons and gear...and then do what with it...? The same content again with a faster reloading hand-cannon or fancy helmet...? I slogged in D1 for Touch of Malice, Outbreak Prime, Trials gear etc. and never actually used most if it: straight into the Vault. Spent today running around with my DealBreaker, Eirene and leg’ sword! All perfectly accessible weapons. Less quantity more quality, custom and upgrade options would be my taste for ShadowKeep...undecided at the mo.’

Easy. I wouldn't have done solstice. Maybe a buff in drop rates for all events so people can collect what they want to get before the new expansion. Maybe fixing some known issues with PvP instead.

Like Medicare, free loot for all!

Like the valor reset, everything should have counted retroactively. That way we'd have to play for orb generation for the armor and eaz kills. Also, once done on one character it should count for all. The eaz minibosses and chests should have both been 50.

Well.... Hot tub time machine in the tower for starters And in the end We all have to compete in a roller derby or roller ball while wearing heavily modded skates

Revamp forsaken missions instead of designing EAZ. Everything else was fine with me.

Less monotonous activities. Better rewards, Destiny has an obvious problem with time invested and rewards.

Focus the event more squarely on the new activity in the EAZ. Include final boss kills as an armor requirement. Include event engrams in some way. Lessen the grind for your second and third characters. Charge less for the armor glows. Include event shaders as rare drops in EAZ chests. Use a new sparrow design for the reward for grinding all three armor sets (the one they did use is super boring and generic).

[quote]Pretty simple really, instead of salt and tears or endless anger tell me how you'd do it. Different grind events? Just less grindy? Something entirely different? I'm curious humor me.[/quote] Me personally would have designed other steps. Not this freaking honey do list of chores. Like make up different challenges ANYTHING new. EAZ was a step in the right direction but it failed miserably with the 100 mini boss thing. There’s so much they could have done to at least make it fun. But instead they chose the least played shit just to extend the play time.

I would have set a reduced set of requirements that would be completed by playing in the EAZ, and had them count across all players in the activity rather than individually. I'd have unlocked the armour set upgrades account wide rather than character wide. Instead of a single sparrow I'd have had the EV-35 Arcrunner, EV-36 Solscout and EV-37 Voidstreak. Maybe even have put the E-47 Prismatica in there as well. I would also have had an unobtained (if there were any missing from the collection) exotic drop right at the beginning of the quests, along with the green armour set. It's supposed to be a celebration of the past year. Instead it's a regrind of the same things that have already been done 10's or 100's of times. This is just a small part of my opinion on how it could have been handled better.

You could probably write a 10 page essay with all the ideas that have been giving on these forums on how to make this event better. Most of the ideas are really good too.

Why tell you how to do a event like Solstice ... The issue is Bungie can’t do one without sapping the FUN from it and they prove this time and time again.. Very simple concept is make something fun to do and people will do it .. Bungie go the exact opposite and cause people to leave game or not even bother with events.

Cut minibosses in half of make every defeated enemy count. Be able to use the previous iterations of armour as ornaments. Earn SOLSTICE glows from solstice PACKAGES. Return event engrams. Introduce MUCH more strict AFK timers and penalties for quitting sessions (I definitely quit my fair share of EAZ runs - sorry not sorry). Give a clear explanation of how the solstice armour won’t be made immediately irrelevant in Armour 2.0 as we acquire new, more powerful sets. To name a few.

Like Y1 Faction Rallies Any activity drops Key Fragments Go to Eva and turn in Key Fragments for Rank Up Packages. Packages drop nothing but Legendary Majestic Armor with Randomized Perks. Small chance for Ghost, Ship, Sparrow from Packaged too. EAZ Chests would be the fastest way to farm armor. Every EAZ Chest drops a piece of Legendary Majestic Armor with Randomized Perks. Chance for Solstice Ghost, Ship, Sparrow from EAZ chests as well. Ornaments unlocked by doing specific tasks. 1 task per Ornament. Grinding for all 3 sets of Ornaments would be exactly like grinding from rare to legendary solstice Armor now. MWing the full set of Armor would involve replaying the Mission to save Cayde and actually saving Cayde. Cayde would then give you five treasure maps to find a chest that MWs each of the 5 pieces of Armor.

The basic structure of the event is fine. You just have impatient players...and shooter gamers complaining. I would have only made two changes. 1. Bungie needs to just accept that the game's PVP modes are in a bad state, and are HIGHLY controversial. So nothing is gained at this point---other than community resentment----by pressuring players to go into them who don't want to be there. It makes the people who don't want to be there angry and resentful....and it makes the people who DO want to be there FRUSTRATED because you have people throwing games and being AFK because they don't want to be there. I literally had a Gambit match where---afer losing the first round---all three of my team mates just stopped picking up motes. Or if they picked them up by accident, they refused to bank them. They were simply throwing the match in order to get it over with as fast as possible. 2. The reward structure for EAZ was poorly designed. Once again....as a manifestation of the game's overall STINGINESS with loot. Part of the reason that people are so frustrated with the EAZ grind is that you get NOTHING of value from it unitl you've COMPLETED the grind and levelled up the armor. All you get is----for players of end-game level----a bunch of garbage. I figured that out pretty quickly, and just held onto the boxes and key fragments until I got my Majestic armor set....then started opening them again. Even then, all you're getting is alternate rolls on the armor you just leveled up. People would have found the EAZ grind less obnoxious if they were being given USEFUL rewards along the way. Instead of---essentially---weapon parts and (if you're lucky) enhancement cores. Bungie needs to understand that---in these games---engagement follows REWARDS. So when you stop rewarding an activity, players either stop doing it.....or they grow to dislike doing it, and try to get it over with as quickly as possible. But if you pressure playres into playing content they don't like....and you basically dont' GIVE them anything for doing it (wich is basically what the EAZ is doing) THEY ARE GOING TO REBEL.

How about Penalizing the turds that leave events for starters! I say ban the PRICKS for a week, where they can’t even boot up the game. That would stop them pretty damn quickly I bet. Bungie is way too soft and spineless

Something like the mini bosses only count after the chest openings when it ends Have regular folks look and test the idiocy of 100 mini bosses that only count when you shoot them but packages that are team and are 50 as example that could have been handled better Again my analogy two week vacation to Maui Bungie wants you to row for 13 days then have a day to play should be one day travel 13 to play Get 100 kills in crucible rather then play ten rounds this way no afk folks and good players get the reward of finishing quicker but it’s very obtainable for all Same for strikes get xxx kills/assists again no afk be efficient instead of speed running Let folks turn in each piece as finished rather then all And reward those who masterwork all pieces with something simple like a emblem 25 patrols of your choice 10 events of your choice The orb numbers were not a issue

Solstice of Heroes carnival is what i'd do, give the vendors in the tower their own minigames which you can play to earn points to improve your gear

Make it possible to do it all in pve, don't require any clan stuff. Sell the glows for less or let us use the old ones and I would've enjoyed an aerial zone for all planets. I'm not doing any of the armor just like last solstice. I still enjoy the EAZ though. It looks so sexy at night.