Patience and time. 22,000 something a headshot on the bosses. Sword is crazy. Any arc fusion rifle vaporizes. Zhalo is just mean. My friend and I laughed all the way through the nightfall.

This is going to sound a viciously cruel comment, but the issues you've pointed out reflect more on a lack of skill and planning than a lack of ammo. I say this for very good reasons, so please hear me out. Earlier this week, a friend of mine and I two-manned the Nightfall a grand total of 8 times in succession. On our first run, we even gave ourselves a unique challenge of being forced to only Fusion Rifles. I ran Telesto and he ran Queenbreaker's Bow. We only ran out of ammo at the boss and only because we played it safe and camped on the rock instead of actually staying in the arena. After all, it is hard to pick up ammo when you're being a coward hiding up in the rocks, but that's why Bungie gave us synths isn't it? We knew what we were up against. We didn't even have maximum reserve ammo for our weapons, but we pushed through. We planned out builds, we picked weapons that fit our playstyle and complemented each other, and we proceeded to utterly devastate the strike time and time again with minimal problems. If you found yourself in a situation where you were COMPLETELY out of ammo, you did something very wrong. You either wasted too much primary ammo on Majors instead of Special/Heavy, you used your trickle-limited combat abilities really poorly, or you just chose some bad weapons to go into the encounter with. It is impossible for me to understand how you fully depleted your ammo multiple times throughout a single run unless you were running this thing solo. I understand people do it on a weekly basis, but they understand the risks and limitations that go along with that. They plan it out ahead of time. Surely you, and others like you, are capable of doing the same. I am not going to hide behind the guise like I don't understand why you are quick to bring up the Year 1 Go-To weapons (Icebreaker, Black Hammer, Gjallarhorn) because I used Icebreaker like a crutch. I didn't want to actually become a skilled player back then. It was easier to "play it safe" and just trying to survive, but it was also extremely boring. I embrace the challenges the game sets up and I purposely try to take things to the next tier because I find the challenge to be fun. I know that not everyone else feels that way, but they are also so quick to say make an argument that is tantamount to "I need a crutch because I want it!". You can still play it safe, you know. Seriously, Double Fusion Rifle Ammo + Queenbreakers Bow + Second Thoughts and a few Synths and its all the same. Synths aren't even hard to get anymore. I buy close to 100 a week just because I have an excess of glimmer and it is something easy to spend it on. The worst part is that I only play for like 10 hours a week, so you do the math. The mixture of modifiers and player's own limitations are why I enjoy the nightfall. If you want to go into something and wipe it out like its a joke, go run Strikes. Complaining that content that is supposed to be a challenge (and is when compared to Challenge of the Elders) is too difficult is petty. Before I wrap this up, I also want to point out a major error in your argument: Your topic title is about PvP changes affecting PvE, yet you spend far more time complaining about the mixture of modifiers than you do actually making points to make this part of argument even apply. The closest you come is the following paragraph: "In addition, prior to year 2 Ice Breaker, Black Hammer and Gjallarhorn were all nerfed in favor of encouraging players to not camp and shoot from a safe distance. However with no ammo, no abilities and no shields - this is the most pragmatic strategy. It goes against everything these nerfs were intended to do." Mind you, these were made at the end of Year 1 BEFORE the PvP Nerfs were implemented. You openly ignore the fact that you can get a large number of perks to help keep ammo in your reserves with Y2 weapons: Partial Refund, Triple Tap, Rescue Mag, Replenish, Performance Bonus, and even Perfectionist. A lot of these perks are underrated, but absolutely SHINE in situations like what we experienced with this Nightfall. Seriously, Rescue Mag is probably the strongest perk for Exposure since you spend most of your time floating around that critical level, meaning there is a 25% chance of getting a whole clip back just by taking any minor amount of damage. The weapon doesn't even need to be active to it to work. The PvP nerfs amounted to literally nothing. The issue is that you can't adapt. Take some time and figure out what a functional loadout for you REALLY is and then get back in the game.

I soloed the NF this week. Died once with self res. Only ran completely out of ammo once at the boss. Just gotta play it smart, camp a lot, and make that ammo run whenever you get the chance

Aren't Nightfalls supposed to be hard? Just saying.

The ammo nerf is ridiculous! I swear I can go a whole area without even finding a green brick and they said they've increased the drop rate? Bullshit!

i would prefer if nightfalls went back to year 1 styles with a random burns and shield match and kick to orbit on team wipe rather than this shitty trickle and exposure bu11sh1t almost everyweek which creates camping parties and makes the nightfall last 3 times as long as it would have in year 1. year 1 also alowed you to use different subclass' in the nightfall for fun. year 2 (more or less) focus' on a single subclass for safety. also give back the good old flame head and boosts for completing it.