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Edited by shammshine: 7/1/2015 5:14:39 PM
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Soloing Nightfall?

This week, I'm unable to play until Friday, and many of the people I would do nightfall with won't be willing to run it [i]again[/i]. I have seen very detailed videos on soloing Phogoth with solar and void burn, and I feel equipped enough to do it. I trust my skill, but I'm wondering if anyone else has successfully soloed this weeks nightfall, if they have any advice, and if I would be able to do it based on my skill level (mid skill to high skill.) Also, does completing nightfall solo award the trophy for completing a strike with only your clan members? Edit : Thanks guys, I'm really confident in my ability to solo but the amount of people who are willing to help me is flattering. Since I have to run nightfall on two characters, I'll solo on my warlock and run it on my Titan with some of you guys. Edit : I'm on PS4 : shammshine, send a friend request now and I'll pick it up later in the week

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  • Phogoth has always been the easiest to solo if you cheese it. Once you learn the spawning pattern of the void sentry at Phogoth's entrance, you can just cheese him from outside pretty safely.

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  • I pretty much used icebreaker all the way through with a legendary solar rocket. Worst bits are when the 4 wizards come at you in the second room and watch out for the ultra poppers. Sniped phogoth from room before shrieker through the gap.

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    • It was so easy solod it on my lock in 16 mins only died once in the lock room because of stupid Knights not too bad.

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    • My main advice for soloing is to be patient. It's not hard at all. But if you run and gun, you're gonna have a bad time. If it takes 5 mins longer, so what. Better than having to do it all over again

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    • Been there done that

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    • This is one of the easiest Nf to solo. I've been soloing this one since it was 28. No hive enemies have solar weps. Gotta watch out for the orge and some hive who use void. Just stay back and when the 4 witches come and snipe em.

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      • Vision. Swordbreaker. Gally. Done.

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      • Its really easy and I don't typically solo nightfalls. I'd say the most difficult part is the first room with the 3 waves. As long as you hang back in the hallway though you're pretty safe and can pick off the ads as they trickle towards you. The wizards might chase you back up the stairs, but can be dealt with quickly if you have a solar rocket or sniper (I used galley/blackhammer). Same goes for the second room; snipe the ogre and yellow bar knight and sprint to the boss. Once you get to phogoth, you can take him out by peeking in and out of the doorway while shooting rockets/snipers and occasionally backpedaling away from the shrieker if needed. Just be careful of the ads that spawn in near the door way, especially if you're shooting rockets. My load out: word of Crota, blackhammer/icebreaker, gally/hunger of crota

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        • Like the others mentioned, soloing is not difficult at all this week. Just the room with the waves might give you a slight problem. Hang back at the two barricades towards the beginning of the room and pick enemies off. Solar rocket launcher for the wizards and yellow knights and you're golden. Phogoth is a breeze if you just hang out in the room before his chamber and remain conscious of the void shooting shrieker or whatever.

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          • This was my first solo nightfall. Very easy

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          • I solo'd all 3 of my nightfalls last night. EXTREMELY easy. I ran my 365 Vision of Confluence, 365 Void Effrideets Spear and my 265 Gally. I used the Gally as soon as the wizards appeared in the first room and used the strat of the left rocks when I faced Phogoth.

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          • I used the vision of confluence and icebreaker for this week's nightfall. Plus a solar burn rocket launcher for the wizards. Other than that, when I get to phogoth I sit in the shrieker room and take turns sniping and shooting him with rockets. When the shrieker appears I go behind the wall and wait for it to disappear again. And rinse and repeat. I think I completed it in less than 10 min this week

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          • It's eminently doable, shammshine. I woke up Tuesday morning (U.S., Mountain Time), soloed the nightfall three times, did all the Queen's bounties on one of my characters and still had a couple of hours to kill before Iron Banner started. Gjallarhorn or any good solar damage launcher makes short work of the wizards in the first part of the strike. The knights, majors included, go down easily with a void or solar machine gun despite the arc shields. Mongo drops pretty quickly if you use your favorite solar or void sniper rifle from the safe spot just outside the shrieker room. Us Xboxers don't get any achievement for soloing a nightfall. Can't imagine that being different PSNers.

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          • It's easy to solo this week. Word of crota Swordbreaker/icebreaker Gjally I just gjallarhorned the the wizards in the first room and shotgunned the knights. You can probably just run through all this up the right side if you really wanted. Then kill the first wave of stuff however you want and gjally the last 2 waves. It only take 1-2 rockets to kill the mini boss and the other 3 wizards if you catch them as they come out. The rest you can just run through until you get to phogoth. If you're worried about running through the trash just take a few seconds to hit everything with your primary. When you get to phogoth just stay in the shrieker and hit him with 7 gjallies pop a synth and hit him with 7 more. He should be dead. Keep in mind the shrieker is void so shoot 4 rockets and step back out of the room for a second. If it spawns just stay out of the room and it will despawn. Only took me 15 minutes at most per character.

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          • All you need is patience and time.

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            • I soloed up until phogoth, all my characters are level 32. Invited people in when i got there and only ever got one other but, I did do it and never wiped you just got to be care and watch out for the witches. When do you plan on doing it and how many times are you planning on doing it?

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            • Used to solo any NF I played, till How dropped. Now need to level up my toons to 34 before doing that shit again..but to be honest the urge to do NFs isn't there anymore. At +2 level than the NF level its fine to solo. Just takes some concentration for a length of time, as being careless is what gets you sent to orbit,.

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            • Up until recently I almost always soloed every Nightfall. It's the same tactic every week. Use the burns to your advantage and [b]just be patient.[/b]

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              • Took 10 minutes to solo got another shoot to loot sniper.

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              • Normally I always play with friends just because it's less stressful than worrying about an accidental death, but this week was easy. Just bring plenty of heavy solar damage to clear out the waves of wizards in the first big room, and then hopefully have an Icebreaker with you so you can just sit behind the Shrieker room and snipe him down lol. Cheesy but I did it pretty fast.

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              • Super easy, if you have an ice breaker. Just sit back and kill them alone at a time. For phogoth himself, sit in the entry room and lay into him, when the shrieker appears run to the previous room and hide behind the door, it will disappear and take the wizards and knights with it shortly. Careful though, two shots from that shrieker will kill you

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                • I've done it and it will be simple. When the third group of enemies spawn durring the decryption portion get ready to run back up the stairs to not get slaughtered by the wizards. Other than that cheese phogoth from outside the room and you should have no difficulty at all. Just never get greedy with kills

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                • Soloing this week should not be a problem for you. I find it odd that atleast one of your friends won't take 20 minutes to run through it with you. If you were on PS3 I'd give you a hand.

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                  • Psn as above (ps4) ill do it with you :) 34 max Gjally

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                  • I run at least one solo a week just for the challenge of it. This week's is super easy, just make sure you have a solid void/solar heavy for the wizards and you'll be fine. Obviously snipe Phogoth in the shrieker room but don't get greedy because the shrieker can damn near one shot you. Good luck! Patience my friend

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                  • If you're having trouble finding friends to help you with a simple task like this week's nightfall then you may need new friends to play with haha. Man, I'd happily help you out, look me up on psn: SteelWolf07 and msg me you are so I'm reminded. But at the end of the day, it can easily be done solo.

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