I hope we can all agree that Umbral focusing has taken a giant step backwards from Arrivals. Here's everything that absolutely should be fixed before the Recaster is thrown into the DCV again.
1) [b]Hammer Charges should be obtained from more activities, not just Battlegrounds.[/b] Not everyone is a fan of 20-30 enemies all teleporting while Cabal drop pods kill you for no reason. What other activities are there in the game that don't drop Cabal gold that can be used to gain Hammer Charges?
2) [b]Hammer Charges should be obtained in higher quantities.[/b] To require 3-5 for a single focused engram puts newer players at 3-5 Battlegrounds completions while players with a single upgrade have to do 1-3. I'd like to see the base Hammer Charge quantity obtained be 2 or 3, then the Rune upgrade making it 4 or 5, or even another Rune upgrade to make a third tier at 7 or 8 for even more gold.
3) Worthy, Arrivals, and Hunt gear is all bundled into a single engram. This gives players next to no control over anything aside from the current season's armor and weapons.
4) [b]You can only focus a certain amount of Tier 3 engrams per week.[/b] Not the "you only have this many free focuses" but "you can only focus this row like three or four times PER WEEK." This makes absolutely no sense. This isn't raid loot! This is like capping the amount of Shards or Prisms you can get from Nightfalls per week-- completely unnecessary. What's even worse is that [b]you can't upgrade how many Tier 3 Umbrals you can focus per week[/b]. There's no Rune for it.
5) (Personal preference) [b]The Hammer of Proving should display Hammer Charges as a simple number[/b], not as boxes. I'm not saying I can't count, but if I'm playing from a distance from my monitor, I don't want to have to lean forward to see if I have 7 or 8 charges.
None of these should be controversial.
EDIT:
The one comment worth pinning:
6) Focusing an umbrel engram pre destined above 1300 will reduce that engrams power back to 1300. You could have a 1310 umbral, focus it, and it comes out as 1300.
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You forgot...I have a 1310 umbral engram but if I go to focus it to get a chance at a specific gear it will come out as a 1300 focused engram. I just go to the recaster when my inventory is full and dump them all in without focusing and dismantle for shards. They could literally remove this from the game and my inventory would be less cluttered.