There’s a new buff called Firebound that gives you increased Recovery and Super Regen when close to allies.
Also, when you kill the carriers they drop 3 balls that you barely have enough time to throw 2 let alone 3.
Seems like Bungie wants us to run together this year instead of sitting in a corner camping enemy spawns.
Max is 30 this year. Assuming you have at least 20 silver leaves and max ignitions you’ll net 20 ash per piece of solstice gear equipped. So if you have all 5 on you’ll get 100 silver ash. You can just equip all 5 pieces once the final boss spawns in, you don’t have to have them equipped.
Sticking together is generally the best strategy, especially playing with randoms. Once you get the throws down there’s only two spots where you can’t throw the ignition charges from where they drop (the alleys to the left and right of where the boss spawns) so when I’m playing with my friends we’ll sometimes split up a bit and I’ll clear an area by myself when I know I can throw all 3 in myself before rejoining them