You'll get particular Exotics out of it, bless be RNGesus.

They're Queensbreaker's Bow and Lord of Wolves

Note: Aside from completing a few target bounties in the first couple days of Foresaken, I’ve only ever done the top-tier wanted bounties each week (the 1-per-week that gives a powerful reward). And I’ve managed to get both Lord of Wolves and Queenbreakers Bow. Could just be crazy luck, but at any rate it is certainly possible to get them without needing to grind every bounty each week.

...but I play more than almost all of you (WastedonDestiny tells me I'm in the top 2% of Destiny players, time-wise, and I do a LOT of bounties), and I don't have either of those.

Am I missing out on something?

Even when I had to do a few bounties for him I just did the glimmer ones quickly and moved along in the campaign.

As they (all but one) offer "Legendary Gear" and take a currency that requires hanging about the tangled shore (which I've moved on from due to Dreaming City fun times), I haven't casually picked them up/done any of them.

So, while I help melt any "WANTED" I see show up with whoever is interested, I still feel like I'm just missing out on something.

My issues

• I don't know why bounties to pick up based on what activities I'm about to do. The strike playlist doesn't exactly guarantee that I'm going to run into any specific enemy within an hour or two (and that would require me to even know which ones show up in strikes...).
  
• The rewards are just "meh"? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  
• They require a currency that would require me to kill time in the tangled shore when I'm using whatever spare moments I've stolen to continue pursuing powerful engrams...

So yeah, am I missing something? Are the rewards cool and unique in some way? Should I develop a mental map of where each of these WANTED characters pop up and pick up the bounties as part of my playstyle? Has this particular part of the design just passed me by?

To me, the Spider bounties look like content that was put in the game specifically for players that progress very slowly through the campaign. While most of us (I suspect) have largely moved on to the Dreaming City, the Xbox Achievement data shows that only somewhere around 10% of players have even reached the Dreaming City. So there’s a sizeable chunk of the player base who is still plugging away at the Tangled Shore, and might want more activities to do while they’re there.

Though I just can't imagine being more casual than I already am and being like "yeah I can pick these up and hope that this week I happen to run just the right strike to get it".

That’s my biggest issue with the tiered soft cap system. The Tangled Shore is a really cool place, but it feels like the game really rushed me through it with not a whole lot of reasons to go back. I wish it was like half as complex as the Dreaming City with a bit more to find. The Dreaming City should be the standard for all destinations moving forward.

As far as I can tell, the Wanted enemies in strikes are only for the Triumphs.

[*] All the WANTED bounties you get are either tied to Lost Sectors (Named in the flavor text of the bounty) or are the random High Value Targets on destinations (It usually says the area they spawn in the flavor text). So far none of them have been for the random WANTED that show up during strikes. There is that useful imgur link that names all the Lost sectors.

WHAAAAT, I did not know that the strikes ones had nothing to do with them, it's one of the main reasons I avoiding picking them up. If it's like an actual bounty and I use the flavor text to go hunt them down in patrol, that's awesome.

It feels like that’s their real purpose. It’s a good guaranteed source of gear with perks, which will be much more helpful when I’m closer to max level and have tons of dupes for cheap infusion.