For the defenders sake, It seems a bit odd that you can log in to someone raiding your base, and they are still 100% combat ready if you rush out to defend yourself.
They still remain max yellow, max blood.
I propose a change to where every couple of shots, a brazier has a chance to tick some blood damage as well. Nothing major, just slightly inconvenient to where you would be down 10-50 biles in blood if you had been raiding on a few walls already.
I think this would force more open world combat opportunities.
Also, it really isn't a bad idea that braziers should defend people as well.
(you are on your town claim, just got assaulted, the scent triggers brazier response) It seems stupid to me you can be murdered 2 feet from a brazier and the brazier will watch you die.
An example to trigger would be trespassing + ko of a village member on town claim