Honestly they're just as quick and easy to do by yourself as they are to carry two individuals through them. If your point is you don't want to carry people through them so they don't get free drops, well, I can see your point there.

I agree, I also find BS that they discouraged solo. So they had to make it HARDER for solo players. Honestly it's not our fault they friends might have a different schedule or other things to do. I've always been a solo player due to this. Now we're getting penalized.

give me a solo strike playlist and i will take my xb1 back from my gf and start playing destiny again. solo hunter is solo

Just clock on the strikes on the planets.

Did the guy with 9 kills get in at the end or was he there from the beginning? At his level - he should have had at least 35 kills or so. If he had weak weapons - which is possible - he could have laid back and waited to support and revive guys and gotten at least that many kills. I often have been in that situation where my teammates where better than me and had better guns and my level was one or two notches below the strike level so I would try and not die and cause everyone to go back to checkpoint. In that case - I waited around to revive them and to toss grenades and do my super if I could. The only time I remember getting that bad a result was when I got into the team near the end. I am not judging because I haven't been a stud or anything due to pain in my hands but I usually give decent support to my roster mates. The fact that I did the Nightfall 3 times this week along with at least 5 Weeklies should show that because I didn't do all that for myself. I did it because my friends were calling on me for help so they must have known what kind of mate I am in battle. I feel for you mate. But most of the time you must get hooked up with good fighters who don't do that. Anyway, this is why my first course of action when planning on doing strikes is to call on my roster mates because I know what they can do and it is not what that guy did. It could have also just been a really bad day for him -maybe the flu or something. In that case - he shouldn't have played at all. By the way Me555 - I wouldn't call him a newbie - his level is way too high for that.