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Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer |OT| Rich, deep online role playing
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D'oh
I'm constantly torn between putting points in cloak or the shadow training tree
From what I've seen, if you're using a gun on a Shadow, you're doing it wrong. Also, Shadow Strike takes all of its bonuses from melee damage upgrades.
The Power Damage bonuses apply to the Electric Slash and Shadow Strike. You can do insane amounts of damage consistently - but the issue is that of preference mostly. The Cloak bonus will give you a slight edge against boss enemies, but the power damage being upgraded through the other branch gives you consistent weight behind every hit.
I've thought about dropping the Electric Slash to just 3, maxing the shadow training branch, and leaving Cloak at 5
My Reegar X disagrees. Teleport behind a Prime on gold, use one clip from behind and he's half dead.
Phantoms on gold? That actually kills them.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Wish i had a Reegar X.
Reegar X Harrier X and my Geth Infiltrator "Bit" will be cleaning up. That Increased fire rate and Damage Buffs.
Well, this is the build that I've been hearing is all the rage:
6/6/6/0/6
Tac Cloak: Duration, Melee Damage, Extra Power
Shadow Strike: Damage/DP (either or), Electric Damage, Shield Drain
Electric Slash: Damage, Detonate, Damage
Sword Mastery: Sword Damage, either or, Armour Damage
And the attack sequence would go Cloak, Shadow Strike. If enemy is dead, Shadow Strike somewhere else. If not, roll back and use Electric Slash for the tech burst.
6/6/6/0/6
Tac Cloak: Duration, Melee Damage, Extra Power
Shadow Strike: Damage/DP (either or), Electric Damage, Shield Drain
Electric Slash: Damage, Detonate, Damage
Sword Mastery: Sword Damage, either or, Armour Damage
And the attack sequence would go Cloak, Shadow Strike. If enemy is dead, Shadow Strike somewhere else. If not, roll back and use Electric Slash for the tech burst.
Boombloxer
Member
Both of those should be at 6. I'd say Strike First, as it's more useful. The link posted is a pretty good build.
Power recharge is the biggest thing for that class, between SS and cloaked ES, nothing lives.
I fear nothing.
The gun is basically for shits and giggles.
I sacrifice a little power to be able to use one power and remain cloaked. It's the most useful thing ever.
I can use electric slash twice and remain perfectly hidden.
Someone on my team is down? Cload myself, get him up, use slash to stun the enemies around us and get away.
Geth Prime with other enemies around him? Telebort behind him, use electric slash and run away, remaining unseen.
Very very useful.
I also put no points on shields because I can atack while invisible so no one will shoot at me.
What? That's exactly what Extra Power allows you to do.
The alternative is sniper damage.
Orochinagis
Member
Actually is quite good for long range still only for draining shields, its more like a support gun
I haven't played since the DLC came out, so I haven't tried Platinum yet.
I'm very good in Gold and have everything besides Ultra-Rares leveled to X. Is there anything I should know or expect when trying Platinum? Do people kick you if you don't use Level III consumables or high level gear mods?
I'm very good in Gold and have everything besides Ultra-Rares leveled to X. Is there anything I should know or expect when trying Platinum? Do people kick you if you don't use Level III consumables or high level gear mods?
Orochinagis
Member
After wave 6 its hell on earth, the game only spawns armor enemies and bosses, just pray for the killing enemies objetive. Escort and hack the computer in open areas is just suicide. It really needs a good team with upgraded weapons and mods or know what exactly that to do, you can join most of the lobbies on the 360 because they usually do the Missile glitch.
Thanks!
How many credits do you get for successfully completely Wave 6? Is it more than a full game of Gold?
Orochinagis
Member
Hopefully I'll be able to play with you guys tomorrow. Today was pretty miserable. :/
The former.
If I want to strip shields, I'll use my Acolyte. This way I don't have to expose myself for any longer than I have to
Bornstellar
Member
Got to wave 9 today with randoms. My whole team got banshee skewered halfway through the round so I was on my own against Marauders, Banshees, and Phantoms as a Geth Engineer. Managed to take down everything except for one Banshee and one Phantom, still had survival packs and medigel so I thought we would make it. Then the phantom ended that dream by sucking me into her sword. Bioware really needs to fix that.
My impression of this class is that's it's tricky and versatile. I usually like jack-of-all-trades characters (like most engies) and the paladin fits right into this type.
My first build was flaming shield with melee buff and shield buff (50% more health for the omni shield), fully upgraded snap freeze (range, slower movement, damage). 6 on class, no point on incinerate. Full energy drain, specced with area, recharge, 40% damage reduction).
Things I noticed:
-brute's charge will break the shield no matter what, same for Atlas missiles. Didn't have the stomach to try and face a Prime with it, but I guess it applies in similar ways. Banshees without barrier tend to keep spamming their health poison attack (or whatever it is) and become sitting ducks, otherwise (barriers intact/restored) they'll teleport over my head and grab me. Phantoms can one-shot the omni-shield only with a sword attack. I still don't understand if the ravagers' spit has splash damage or not, since sometimes they down me even though I'm facing them completely straight.
Enemies always shoot only at me when I'm placed in a choke point with the shield drawn out, but in an open area they aim for everyone else and don't even care I'm there.
-snap freeze goes through walls. You can turn an entire spawn into ice cubes, easy.
-enemies react to the shield like you're in cover: they get close (no matter what type of attack they feature) and you can melee without too much problem. I'm not sure but I think that the melee animation you do when you exit the shield-crouch, looks like normal melee but counts as heavy.
Keep in mind I've no problem standing still, shield drawn out while teammates sharpshoot everything, and scoring the lowest in a match.
Full upgraded class tree can have you sport a Reegar at 155% power recharge reduction.
About electric charge: fully specced, plus class skill tree buffs, EC gives you over 1000 points of damage, that you can do through walls and much faster than smash: 1.60 or something like that if you take the recharge option.
Come to think of it, to me the N7 shadow plays a lot like a phoenix vanguard: SS like charge, EC like smash, and some barrage of melee attacks. Using heavy melee and stylishly decapitating grunts is oh-so-awesome.
Game froze up on me in the later waves of a Gold match again.
[monotone]Yay.[/monotone]
But, the PSP I bought beforehand got my SMG High-Velocity Barrel up to IV, and a card for the last I needed of the new characters' appearance unlocks. Hopefully they'll start dropping more of the new Gear from now on; I've only gotten two of 'em thus far.
[monotone]Yay.[/monotone]
But, the PSP I bought beforehand got my SMG High-Velocity Barrel up to IV, and a card for the last I needed of the new characters' appearance unlocks. Hopefully they'll start dropping more of the new Gear from now on; I've only gotten two of 'em thus far.
astroturfing
Member
last night i was having an awesome gold match, it was tense as hell and it was a miracle we got past wave 6.. this one guy who played a Paladin had to clear out almost an entire wave by himself; a banshee, several brutes and ravagers and marauders etc... i watched him play and was astonished at all the moves he pulled, didnt use any rockets either. so crazy. we get to wave 10 and again we're barely surviving, i had used up all my rockets, ops survival packs and medi-gel... but i make a desperate mad dash to deliver the objective and i make it and we get the cash! i'm in disbelief, literally yelling "YEAHH!!!" to my tv...
...then my game freezes and i lose the credits and consumables i wasted. AND i have to restart the PS3 which takes 20 minutes because it has to rebuild the database every single time a game freezes. FUUUUUUUUUCK.
fuck i hate games freezing so much, if it happened any more often i'd probably not play much at all. a total buzzkill.
Polydeuces
Member
Im seriously getting frustrated how that I cant escape a phantom when I revive myself and when she is near me. Absolutely ridiculous. Has this been mentioned on BSN? I swear we need some 3 second invincibility before we actually start reacting to the hits...
Phat Michael
Banned
finished 3 runs on platinum. you get so much money its ridiculous. there was some guy doing the infinite missile/striker glitch so we just supported him and let him kill everything.
there is no way platinum is possible without that shit. the whole place is just a killing field full of geth, atluses and banshees non stop.
so many psps, still no demolisher :/
there is no way platinum is possible without that shit. the whole place is just a killing field full of geth, atluses and banshees non stop.
so many psps, still no demolisher :/
StalkerUKCG
Banned
So you support a game breaking glitch in favour of credits? ... Cool
Platinum is more than doable without glitching in fact people have farming methods for it already.
Phat Michael
Banned
I didnt know it was a glitch till I read this thread where someone mentioned missile glitch.
how is it game breaking? it didnt effect me at all, I just played until the end.
the thing is, when he shot.the missiles they looked like normal striker bullets, they even sounded like them but it kept registering as missiles.
2 guys were level 1000+ and me and this one other guy had no idea what was going on till I looked it up later.
since its not pvp I have no problems with anyone doing shit like this.
As long as you dont do it yourself... Bioware recently banned around 1300 people because of that glitch and hacks like changing weapon stats and the amount of credits gained.
Phat Michael
Banned
dude I have no idea how to even do it. and I dont know how to change weapon stats or money, im assuming thats on the pc tho..
No Mass Effect Honor
Orochinagis
Member
why? your team have to kill her or at least take her to another place. The survival shields in other part, it really need some invincibility while recharging the goddam shields.
Just not stay so much in the same lobby
Dick Justice
Banned
Haha, shit, just realised that I hadn't installed the Resurgence DLC on PS3, which explains why I couldn't find any matches other than bronze.
Phat Michael
Banned
im not going to bed till I unlock a demolisher
Just be aware Bioware's policy is that you can be in a pub game with missile glitchers other than yourself and it's okay, but if you do not leave the lobby after said game and keep playing with them they'll consider banning you as well.
Tl;dr don't leave the game immediately when someone uses a missile glitch, get the credits THEN leave.
(as stated by one of the mods on bioware's forums who seems to handle cheating related stuff)
Phat Michael
Banned
thats silly tho. its their fault there is a glitch and how can they prove u know anything about it? they should worry about fixing all the glitxhes in this game rather than banning ppl just trying to play
That seems very fair. Haven't seen any of them in Gold lobbies yet today, I suppose they all moved to Platinum.
Phat Michael
Banned
its not fair at all. as long as you are not doing it it should be fine. you cant leave every lobby just because someone may use a glitch which shouldnt be there in the first place.
It's perfectly fair.
If you see someone using an obvious glitch and you stay with him on purpose, you know what you're doing and you want him to keep doing it. So you're as guilty as he is.
You're playing on 360, aren't you? There's no shortage of people missile glitching platinum so just bounce from one lobby to another.
Phat Michael
Banned
still dont see an issue when its not pvp. you as a player dont lose anything if someone else does it really.