Originally Posted by xtreme_Zr2 Okay..so if I told you I just cracked into the mp I hope I wont get walked off the plank. Loving it so far..I also have never played Gears..so horde mode is new to me as well. Any quick tips on best classes for noobs? So far I'm a level 15 human soldier, but really want to unlock the Krogan Vanguard. Sticking only to bronze for a while. Also, are the commendation N7 weapons unavailable at this point? I would like to get a Victory pack out of all my playing this weekend.

That is the same class I started with. I built to to be able to just spam Concussive Shot. I think the build was:

Adrenaline Rush
Damage, Duration and Power Use

Concussive Shot
Radius, Recharge Speed and Shredder

Frag Grenade
I put nothing in because at the time grenades were a pain in the ass to get. I would get one every wave and it felt pointless to use them. I still may or may not put points in this.

Alliance Training
Damage & Capacity, Power Damage and Weapon Weight

Fitness
Durability, Shield Recharge and Fitness Expert

At the time this would work for all levels of the game. I think bronze with just spamming Concussive Shot I was getting 10-20k points more than everyone else. Silver I was ranking in the top two and gold I was staying close to everyone else by two thousand points or so. Now I don't think people would let you play this above silver. It was always fun to play and seemed to level fast. The point for me was to keep the weapon weight low to have the 200+ regeneration and like I have said just spam Concussive Shot.

The human soldier is a great class to start out with.

The "spam concussion shot" approach works very well in lower levels but is far less effective on higher levels when the boss-to-grunt level enemies rise considerably (still useful to pick off grunts hiding in cover). For a better survivability, getting adrenaline rush with the damage reduction and shield regeneration bonuses works well is also helpful in taking down the big enemies with the higher rate of fire and accuracy. I also love grenades in general since they dishout large damage over an area of effect had have no cooldown. They are even better since most maps now dish out 2 at a time and you can equip grenade gear to carry even more. Also thermal packs, which otherwise are limited in usefulness, replenish your grenade supply.

My main build is this:

Adrenaline Rush to Rank 6 (all damage reduction/duration bonuses)

Concussion shot to 3

Frag Grenade to 6 (Damage, Max grenades, Armor piercing)

Alliance training to 5 (damage/capacity and power damage)

Fitness to 6 (all durability related)


Check out the human engineer too as it is a great, easy-to-you class and also quite viable in higher level matches.

WOW.

Played a ton this weekend, probably 6-8 hours. Thanks for the help everyone on the builds.

I promoted my Soldier and started a Human Engineer class, using the tech burst/fire explosion combos. That was a ton of fun. Level 19 currently on the Engineer.

I got ballsy and played a few silver matches and actually think I held my own okay. I was running the Locust only and spamming the tech burst/incinerate explosions like crazy.

I only bought recruit packs until all the starting guns were X level, and just bought three veteran packs. Managed to get the Eviscerator, Quarian Infiltrator and the PHAESTON! What a great gun, sounds sweet when it shoots and I put cryo ammo on for instant freeze.

However, what is the easiest way for Banshees/Brutes on silver? Bastards are hard to put down.

I remember when I thought the Phaeston was an awesome gun . Wait until you unlock the Cerberus Harrier.

Armor piercing helps a lot against the bigger enemies. I almost always equip my main weapon's piercing mod. Using warp or incinerate ammo also helps. In the end though, power combo attacks work best especially now that tech explosions are much easier to do.

Harrier, get ready to run out of ammo. Either sit next to ammo boxes or come prepared with extra ordinance (forgot what the equp is called).

I have hundreds of hours logged and still no Cerberus Harrier.

Originally Posted by chubbyninja1319 I have hundreds of hours logged and still no Cerberus Harrier.

Well you could always do the trick of uninstalling the DLC and buying packs, with the Rebellion Pack still installed granted, in order to focus the random luck in your favor. I saw a guy do this for the newest DLC, in order to get the new classes. That's a bit much though (since you stated how long you've been playing I think it's fine if you do that method lol).

Originally Posted by Spybreak8 Well you could always do the trick of uninstalling the DLC and buying packs, with the Rebellion Pack still installed granted, in order to focus the random luck in your favor. I saw a guy do this for the newest DLC, in order to get the new classes. That's a bit much though (since you stated how long you've been playing I think it's fine if you do that method lol).

But wouldn't that mess anything up? You're saying that if I uninstall all the DLC and go into MP then I won't see all the DLC weapons/equipment/characters I already own but if I ever later install the DLC all that stuff will still be there?

Originally Posted by Teh Nitwit But wouldn't that mess anything up? You're saying that if I uninstall all the DLC and go into MP then I won't see all the DLC weapons/equipment/characters I already own but if I ever later install the DLC all that stuff will still be there?

Yes, it'll still be there supposedly since all the data is stored on the server side. Never did it myself, though so don't know firsthand but lots of people have done this.

On the mass effect forums on the bioware social site people have talked about doing the same thing. The only issue I have see is with the new classes being able to have a 6/6/6/6 build. I have had the issue with the Volus however I did't uninstall any packs. I think it is a more common issue or a guarantee of having the issue if you uninstall all the packs but the new one. For me the 6/6/6/6 issue was an easy fix. All I had to do was back out with out assigning any points. As for the older packs I have not heard of any issues with them.

Thanks, Spy, but I'll live without the Harrier for now. no way I'm messing around with deleting and reinstalling dlc. I'll get it eventually.

Oh boy

http://blog.bioware.com/2012/10/31/m...een-challenge/

Gotta do that tonight after work soloing bronze should make it easy.

Originally Posted by IanKazimer Oh boy http://blog.bioware.com/2012/10/31/m...een-challenge/

Ugh. No way I'll have enough time to finish 5 matches tonight. Really wish they would let this go longer. Should have done it over a weekend.

Originally Posted by IanKazimer Oh boy http://blog.bioware.com/2012/10/31/m...een-challenge/

Way cool. This is a very creative way of reeling us in.

Originally Posted by Feeni Ugh. No way I'll have enough time to finish 5 matches tonight. Really wish they would let this go longer. Should have done it over a weekend.

They are running it over a weekend. The blog post says it runs Oct 31 - Nov 5.

Could have sworn it said Nov 1 the first time I checked it. I thought a 1-day event was pretty silly. This is much better.

Edit: Happened to still have my original window open and it did say the 1st. Either a typo or they extended it. Whew.

Any tips on using the N7 Fury? I want to make the most out of Dark Channel and Annihilation Field. I haven't used her much since unlocking her back when the Earth DLC came out.

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Originally Posted by chubbyninja1319 Any tips on using the N7 Fury? I want to make the most out of Dark Channel and Annihilation Field. I haven't used her much since unlocking her back when the Earth DLC came out.

Someone, I think Slimjim, had a good build posted a few pages back. His tip about using incinerary ammo to explode with throw and follow up with a biotic explosion was good.

Duh, I missed that entirely and only one page back, too. For shame.

Great build guide Slimjim! I learned a lot and will be kicking butt with her this weekend.