Not sure if this has been said before, but if you jump into a nightfall to help a buddy or whatever, you still get sweet loot out of it from the boss drops at the end (just not the "activity reward" in the rewards screen). I scored a couple of purple engrams helping buddies last week.

Yeah, didn't they said they did that so you wouldn't have to run it 3 times on 3 different characters? Now they let you run it 3 times on 1 character, if you like, I think....

Yeah, didn't they said they did that so you wouldn't have to run it 3 times on 3 different characters? Now they let you run it 3 times on 1 character, if you like, I think....

Sadly that only applies to the Heroic strike and weekly Crucible game type (both of these are account-wide weekly rewards). The Nightfall reward is still character specific for some reason (at least according to Reddit-I haven't done any nightfalls yet).

I ran it with someone who had already run it. The boss still drops engrams, but he only got 2 motes in the post game screen. I got the Dead Orbit cloak and our other teammate got strange coins. Kinda lame rewards.

And yet dramatically better than in 1.0, where the boss would have given you nothing but a black wax idol.