You can solo to fabled. It might take time and be frustrating but it's possible. Take every death as a learning experience to think of what could you have done differently. Slide into the corner instead of straight line.... Crouch instead of standing erect... Etc. Pinnacle weapons didn't ruin the game. Nor did they make it unbalanced or broken. People did that. Casuals who finally got their Luna or recluse and wish to flex so they can feel like a bad ass. I've never seen actual good players run NF / Recluse in quickplay. Unless facing a stack of 6 with NF, but that's different. The weapons can be out played, you just have to be a little passive. Regardless, this could be fixed easily: Use skill based match making. SBMM. The downside is you'll see a lot more lagging people... Lock crucible pinnacles out of quickplay, leave them in rotators and IB. Problem solved. but no, bungie decided to Nerf because everything else is to difficult for them.

Yeah Crucible pinnacles shouldn't have to exist, they make already good players (with all that practice to get the weapon) even better, and hardcore players even more.. unbalancing it even more.. Pvp should be something to decompress from the main game, not something parallel to it, heck even in the lore, the crucible is just a training ground : / which is kinda pointless really, because the strategy to kill pve and pvp enemies differ completely.. but hell you can't be 100% accurate lore wise haha. Maybe if there was some kind of k/d ratio matchmaking, things would be better, (or maybe there is, but not enough people play the gamemode, because sometimes i see some really good matches, where you feel you are playing with people of similar skill).