If you clear out left side only of his room and run over to the rock on the far left side you can crouch behind it.
Thats fine in a group but when doing it solo its really dangerous trying to clear out the room, since pretty much everything will 1 shot you with melee or arc ranged damage. So yeah, for anyone solo'ing nightfall a armor piercing sniper rifle from the pre-room is the best choice, since nothing can hit you there. Its gonna be slow as fuck though switching to IB, regen, switch to AP sniper, empty clip, repeat. Still the hardest part of this week solo are the 3 wizards, since they will fuck you up in an instant. A solar rocket launcher does wonders with em though, and can run back to the open cavern before and ice breaker snipe em once you pop their shields with solar rocket.
and da fuq is wrong with bungie, its so fucking retarded thats its now week THREE of people cheating on atheon and still no patch. Goddamn.
you can hit level 27 within 24 hours just by grinding the fuck out of crucible and public events/patrol missions. Get 100 tokens from each, spend 65 from each to buy a legendary gloves/chest/boots and upgrade them asap (helps to have done some of this leg work the week before). You should get enough shards from the public events from a few days to upgrade most of it all the way. If you got lucky you got showered with some purples along the way, but even with 0 luck you can still get fully 29 level purp'd out within 2 or 3 weeks.
Literally stats don't matter at all in this game, yeah its nice going full int/disc but it really won't make that much of a difference in endgame raid if you are 100% str in your gear, all that matters is getting to light level 27, 28, and 30 asap so you do full dmg to mobs and don't take 50-100% extra damage from them.
i brought my ps3 home from my nephews house so im gonna test out what happens if you try and raid on a ps3 on an account thats already cleared stuff on a ps4.