season of the haunted was a very good season in comparison to risen. the seasonal activity (nightmare containment) was absolutely atrocious, but it did take place on the leviathan. also, the weapons we got this season were extremely strong, as well as solar 3.0. every class pretty much became unkillable for a while. calus mini tool with incandescent was a BIS for literally every build. i just wish getting the reintroduced weapons wasnt such a pain in the ass. farming those keys was very annoying. the story beats were kind of interesting, and having everyone "face their inner selves" like some persona shit was cool i guess. also, duality came out. i dont think i need to say anything about that.

I have mixed feelings on Haunted’s main activities, public events and patrol chest farming. On one hand its nice to not have a half baked 6 man, but public events arent much better. Loot is good but half of it is old. Compelling writing and dialogue (as always these days) but the gameplay is hurting because of the shift in focus. Duality dudgeon is fun, not quite as good as Grasp. Duality’s loot could not have more of an existential crisis, we can only craft the old opulent gear and not the new weapons for some reason. Iron banner and rift along side it are a very fun change of pace and at the moment all the bugs in it have been fixed.
Haunted was very cookie cutter, the weekly quests are no longer fun. I want to see bungie take more risks in coming seasons. No more reused ideas, no more copy paste 6 player seasonal activity. I am super excited for King's Fall in 18 and can only hope a great season accompanies it.