Mass Effect 3 Classes

[Zhukov]

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Quick question, what difficulty were you playing on with these classes?

Various, ranging from normal to insanity.

Don't remember which classes were on which difficulty though.

 

[Wr3kluz]

Always played through mainly with the infiltrator. Loved cloaking and going into cutscenes in ME2. Feeling like a sneaky bastard for pure fun though would load up my renegade adept and fling people around like dolls. But playing on the multiplayer I unlocked a Vanguard drell early on and decided to check it out. Now I'm having so much fun pulling people and charging them, I may not go back to infiltrator...

 

[TheEndlessGrey]

I'd argue with your point about squad selection only being important if you're a soldier by saying if you go to any mission without a good squad setup then you're going to get boned.



What I'm saying, though, is that you say you like relying on your squad for powers, but you also like doing most of the work yourself. My point is that that's essentially what your squad is there to do no matter what class you pick, they're there to cover up the shortcomings of your class. Their powers aren't as strong as yours, nor are their weapons, however if you pick the right squadmates to mix with your class, you can be nigh unstoppable no matter what class you pick.

I'm actually not saying squad selection is only important to a soldier, although I can see how that might be taken from my comment. If anything I'm saying squad selection is less important, because within certain context they're pretty much interchangeable to me when I play that class. To rephrase then, when I said earlier that I like to pick and choose which powers I bring on a mission, what I mean is that I like to be able to select the powers I *want* to bring, rather than the ones I *need* to bring. Because if it comes to it I can switch to the appropriate ammo and finish the fight myself.

I don't think we really disagree here about squad selection being important for everyone, the biggest point for me is one of the last ones you made. Your squad's weapons are much less powerful than your own. Powers are great for disrupting and weakening, but what actually kills most of the time are the firearms. That's the one thing the Soldier has. Of course I try to take squaddies that will fit the mission, but if I'm playing as a soldier I don't need to pick the optimal pair to get through it. And yes, I do like to do most of the work myself.