Wasn’t too bad; finished it solo today. Went in blind so took a while to complete. Just have to take your time.

I definitely agree although the Champions weren't bugged for me. The issue lies within the fact that Bungie designed this mission to be played with a fireteam. And i don't care about hearing all those people who solo'd it on their own. This simply was a badly designed mission to keep you locked into the game if you badly want a specific roll of Hawkmoon.

This is why raids and other difficult activities will never have match making.

This post shows why the game is dying. The activities difficulty is a matter of perspective and opinion and I bet a lot of people will tell you to git gud. Back in D1 and D2 early days, everyone just came along and did things together and helped each other on a better scale. Now you are at the mercy of trash lfg experience or something. Everyone has the right to enjoy the game the way they desire but team and community spirit, which was a big part of this franchise and its true strength, is gone.

1270 recommended light, it’s a struggle even overleveled

I Solo’d without dying after multiple and I mean multiple attempts. You have to learn the rhythm of each encounter. I recommend anti barrier pulse for vandal snipers. Arc smg and sword combo for phalanx then switch to unstoppable hand cannon and xenophage for captains and unstoppables. Use environment for cover and be strategic. Xeno also kills vandals in one shot so that can make life easier in the second room. For the boss room after the jumping area I used gnawing hunger and a kinetic bow with xenophage. Use the platforms left or right of boss until immune then quickly get back to beginning area and methodical kill the shielded guys. Save one to farm for heavy bricks. But there are two shielded knights that xeno takes out in 3 shots as long as the hobgoblins don’t make them immune. Use bow to take out hobgoblins then xeno for knights after clearing the shielded guys. Use the semi safe spot at beginning to peak and shoot. It really becomes fairly easy with proper mods gear and strategy. It was frustrating the first several times I played it spent hours in 2nd room learning. Now I feel stupid for how quick and easy that room is. Went in blind and actually thought the two unstoppable room was final room died endlessly at first until using proper gear and mods and cover. Oh forgot to mention use the middle upper platform in that room with two unstoppables to peak and shoot makes it a lot easier. Just have some patience and learn from mistakes. It’s actually really fun. Don’t give up and good luck. One of the better activities at the moment. If one PlayStation or PC I would be happy to teach you this strategy.

My only issue are the snipers that continually respawn and and seem to have rapid fire and pinpoint aim even when your on the move. The sniper resistance mod does'nt help any that I can tell either. This is just my experiance running solo. Have'nt tried with a fireteam yet.

I agree OP, Bungie are ramping up the difficulty in lots of activities as a poor excuse for lazy design. I noticed when I attempted a solo legendary lost sector. Killed by unavoidable hive knight splash damage again and again and again. In any other situation this would be survivable but no matter what I did with my armor or changing my tactics nothing worked. In the end I said F this, keep the reward I'd rather go watch tv. Why do two knights that look identical from different parts of the game output different damage when using the same weapon? What's the lore explanation on that? There's a challenge and then theres Bungie's version where solo players are hated on because they don't bring in extra friends to the franchise and are therefore expendable. The studio wanted to make Destiny 2 mostly a PvP game because it's easy money - make a map once and people just play it over and over, no story lines or voice actors needed. Lazy. If there's one thing that costs money it's making PvE missions and quests. What you're seeing is Bungie squeezing the literal life out of the existing assets they have by adding invinclible champions and difficulty modifiers to recycle content, and they figure on doing this for at least another year. Sadly, we've had the best of this game. I've decided not to spend anymore money on it. If Bungie won't spend spend time and money on the game why should we?

Idk if it’s too hard, over not listed correctly. I think it’s meant to be a fireteam activity that you can choose to solo. Completely understand your point, tho. When I did my first run I thought “The people at Bungie that are in charge of setting activity difficulty have seriously lost touch. How is this mission so hard and the raids are laughably easy??!!Like, it’s hard to whip in the raids because the enemies are so soft!!”

I did it on all 3 solo. So i believe in you

I just solo'd it and it was NOT fun. I went into it blind because I wanted to experience it myself and let me say that the survival room was...a surprise I wasn't happy about. The final boss i just cheesed with witherhoard and obliterated the knight closest to me with my super every time. Witherhoarded the acolytes far away as well as the taken knights.

*Hardlight and Borealis noises*