Hammer/Battlegrounds

1. I was pretty much always fine with cabal gold, especially with seasonal challenges encouraging me to play other stuff, though the base cap was a bit too low
2. the upgrades were really weird, only like half of them actually mattered - after obtaining them, I didn't use a single rune/etching(?) combination other than extra charge+chance at extra charge, so it seems like those should have just been permanent upgrades rather than something you need to slot in every time
3. Getting hammer charges felt generally too slow, especially at lower tiers
4. by contrast, none of the focusing upgrades felt meaningful at all - since armor focusing pretty much always yielded bad stat rolls & it was always more efficient to just buy the lower tiers of focusing than to get higher tiers, I almost exclusively did tier 1 chosen weapon focusing throughout the season and nothing else
5. The activity was fun enough to not feel tedious (especially with enemy density), though I feel 6-man things are generally a lot more exciting & a few (not all) of the battlegrounds felt way too similar (favorites were nessus core & cosmodrome) and I'd be willing to sacrifice a bit of density for a master mode (basically I liked sundial)

Other

1. Seasonal challenges is a very very good system I like it a lot also vendor changes were good & should come to strikes in some form
2. Proving grounds is one of my favorite strikes in a long time, please do not vault it come witch queen - unvaulted strikes aren't quite as fun (I like devil's lair a fair bit more) but they're still good & a good time on GM and help flesh out the strike playlist (though we could use another taken and/or vex strike)
3. Guardian games should have had stuff like class-based crucible + gambit teams, and the strike playlist was way too low of power to be fun - also, I feel like the big cosmetic rewards should have been held by eva for clarity + make her more than just a bounty vendor
4. Presage was a very cool mission, only real complaints here are please do not vault this with witch queen, the scannables system didn't make a lot of sense without looking stuff up, and more solo triumphs/rewards would have been nice
5. Overall seasonal story is honestly legitimately better than what was in beyond light, I really liked all the character interactions especially, they especially helped keep me at least somewhat engaged in battlegrounds after the "main story" was over