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
I was thinking about figuring out how to set up something similar so I can adjust discord volume separately from everything else but I haven’t got around to it yet. I think the way to go would be using
wpctl status
To get a list of all sources and sinks and parse out the id from therewpctl status | grep "\. Some Discord Output" | egrep '^ │( )*[0-9]*' -o | cut -c6-55 | egrep -o '[0-9]*'
I think the above would return the ID of a node named “Some Discord Output” but I’m not at my computer to check