Poll: Favorite Mass Effect class (please read before vote)

[Scorekeeper]

ME1: Adept, because ragdolling enemies with impunity was fun.
ME2: Vanguard, because Adept was nerfed and Biotic Charge was badass.
ME3: Adept, because double Pull/Throw with minimized cooldowns and improved explosions cleared rooms with ease.

 

[Denamic]

Easily Vanguard in ME3.
A pixel of health, no barriers, playing on insanity? CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!!!

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I played soldier in all my games because of all the guns I could carry around.

I wasn't really into biotics because not liking of having to wait for cooldowns.

 

[Texas Joker 52]

Well, for the first Mass Effect, I always played Soldier, mainly to just tank my way through the whole game. The combat was serviceable enough, but I never really enjoyed it much. It seriously needed refining.

For Mass Effect 2, however, I started playing as either Soldier or Infiltrator, before I realized that Engineer suited me much better. With the Assault Rifle training from the Collector Ship, and the Firepower Packs Mattock, I was a force to be reckoned with, what with Overload and Incinerate at my disposal. That, along with Armor Piercing Ammo, and I was golden. I still played Infiltrator, which had a nice twist thanks to the Tactical Cloak, but I ended up preferring Engineer.

When Mass Effect 3 came around, I ended up with sticking with either Infiltrator or Engineer, again with Armor Piercing Ammo as my bonus power. As a perfect example of where I ended up going with my Engineer lately, my Shepard is running with an N7 Typhoon, and an N7 Eagle, and I focused as much as I could on Ammo Capacity and Power Recharge. I went for a full Support Gunner Shepard, with a massive gun, and spammable, hard-hitting powers. The battlefield is mine, baby.

Now, I've tried Vanguard, but in all honesty, I'm not a fan of biotic classes, the Vanguard in particular. Even as nice as the Shotguns are, I never actually ended up using them very much, at least as a Soldier. Sentinel seems interesting enough, but I feel that it would be the same case as my Engineer, what with spamming Overload to kill shields and barriers, then Warp/Incinerate to kill armor and health.

So, Engineer, all the way. Screw Space Wizards, go for the latest in high-tech weaponry, don't be some dumb grunt.

 

[Souplex]

I would have to go with Vanguard.
Battlemages are always my favorite class, and I love melee range.
Although they were a little terrible in 2. (Bioware seems to have no idea how to balance. In 1 Biotic classes were best and tech classes were terrible. In 2 Power Based classes were not so good, and the Vanguard was completely useless. In 3 power based classes were godlike, and the Vanguard was the most overpowered thing) (I also suspect Bioware does not comprehend the concept of difficulty. They said that 3 would be a lot harder than 2, it ended up being much easier. They said Dragon Age: II would be easier than Origins, and it ends up being a tedious difficult slog.)

 

[Therumancer]

I was fond of Infiltrator myself, it seems to be popular (unsurprisingly) though far from the top choice. Kind of odd because snipers annoy me on the rare occasions I play FPS games. My big "all three games" character was an infiltrator and truthfully most other classes were cool but it was the one I always came back to, which surprises me because personality wise I'd think Adept or Vanguard would be my personal favorites since I'm usually into magic in most games.

To be honest a lot of it comes down to the fact that I found the ME companion AI to be lacking, not the worst, but a far cry from being good. It seemed to me the AI wasn't big on taking advantage of kills I was setting up for it, and really I found it's use of powers to be eclectic and unreliable at best, and even something of a pain when I manuall triggered squadmate abillities. For all three games a big part of my strategy was to grab a couple of fairly in your face brawler companions and let them run up and do their thing since basic gunplay isn't something the computer messes up too often, and then ran support picking off enemies and using the cloaking device to avoid any paticularly hot situations. I for example used Ashley and Wrex a lot in the first game, and I used Grunt and either Jack (who has a shotgun and close range biotics) or Zaeed in ME, for ME3 I used a certain unpopular marine and day #1 DLC Prothean a
lot of the time.

I tried to use some characters I liked like Liara, Katsumi, Tali, etc... but in short the more abillity-centric the character seemed to be, the worse the AI did. As awesome as the character is, I'll also say for whatever reason the computer seemed to have an unnerving habit of getting Garrus whacked early on in most fights so I simply wound up not using him too often despite the fact that he'd seem to match my general playstyle.

 

[madwarper]

Infiltrator

ME1: I'm a god with a sniper rifle.

ME2: Look at me. Now, look at this gun. Look back at me. Now, look at how there's no ammo for that gun. I'm now a Wizard. And, this is a fireball!

ME3: Didn't play. Wasn't about to play another ME with those shitty ass thermal clips.

 

[Gameguy20100]

For me It was always a Vanguard they seem to be good with just about everything
Enemy behind cover: pull
group of enemies: Shock-wave
getting bored of cover: Charge+Nova

 

[Gatx]

My first play through of the first game I had an Adept - light armor, only pistol, the whole shebang. Second play through I went with a soldier, and honestly with the way the series goes, it feels more appropriate - a down to earth, "normal" soldier without any psychic superpowers going head to head with crazy aliens and robot Cthulhus.

I've been tempted to use the other classes, what with the improvements all of the other ones got. Also while I love adepts, it just doesn't fit with the super bulky armor they force Shepard into, at least not when every other Biotic started wearing less armor-y outfits (like Miranda, Jacob, Liara, and you know, Jack). Plus Biotics do all kinds of crazy cool stuff in the cutscenes like jump off rooftops or knock over mechs, but Adept Shepard can never do any of that stuff.

 

[teebeeohh]

It's hard because of the series inconsistency, Adept sucked in 1 because of the overly long cooldowns, it was sort of okay in 2 but involved staying in cover a lot and it absolutely rocked in 3 with the cooldown bonuses.

Sentinel was meh in 1, absolutely fantastic in 2 and then meh in 3.

Not really a soldier fan, engineer was pretty good. I haven't done a vanguard playthrough, but they look fantastic in 2 and 3 and are easily the most fun to watch.



I voted for Adept on the principle of the thing but if I'd played it, it would probably be vanguard and then maybe engineer as the most consistent

some people would argue that the adept was at her best in ME1 since high-level adept would chew through everything and having assault rifle training allowed you to be useful in between cooldowns.
it also kinda sucked having all abilities on one cooldown, i prefer having more powerful abilities and using them less often than just spamming skills.

OT:for me it really is a split between vanguard and adept, i like shotguns in every game but vanguard(at least for me) jumps very hard between wiping the floor with everything and dying in an instant so i picked adept for the poll. The only thing that really bugs me about adept shepard is the sucking in cutscenes is even worse than with any other shepard, maybe she is not powerful enough to fly off buildings but shouldn't she be able to block hallways with barriers?

 

[StashAugustine]

Infiltrator was probably my consistent favorite. Vanguards were fun in ME1, but in 2 and 3 they got a little too gimmicky. A fun gimmick, but I can't see myself charge-nova-ing my way through 30 hours. Sentinels were crap in ME1 and got nerfed in ME3, but were glorious in ME2. Adepts got awesome with biotic explosions in 3.

 

[Professor Lupin Madblood]

In the days of yore when I played ME1, I played a vanguard, since they were a tough hybrid class and I had no idea what I was doing.

In ME2 and ME3 I played Adept, since throwing fools around the battlefield before blowing them up with warp never gets old (though I personally tend to use my gun more than an Adept ever should, but that's just me and the Tempest being ridiculous when pimped out with magazine capacity). Plus, Adeps in ME3 are godlike, what with the cluster grenades and improved cooldowns and warp being hella awesome.

Can I just add how much I utterly adore cluster grenades in ME3? With five pieces of shrapnel, they were essentially a big "FUCK YOUUUUUUU" to brutes and banshees at close range, and the sound design was effing amazing.

Captcha: very nice

Yes, Captcha. Yes it was.

 

[BrotherRool]

some people would argue that the adept was at her best in ME1 since high-level adept would chew through everything and having assault rifle training allowed you to be useful in between cooldowns.
it also kinda sucked having all abilities on one cooldown, i prefer having more powerful abilities and using them less often than just spamming skills.

Yeah but what you're doing is being a generic soldier with no ability. You run into a room, spam all your powers and then do nothing adepty for 30 seconds. The best would be ME3 where you could have an assault rifle and a 200% cooldown bonus but abilities fired in less than a second so there was no reason not to be using them.

Shockwave and singularity had too long a cooldown to be used regularly, but with the one cooldown system you could use all the others powers 4-5 times when you could only use them once in ME1. And I don't think ME1 had biotic combos which are part of the fun strategy of adepting.


I guess that's just my opinion though

 

[teebeeohh]

some people would argue that the adept was at her best in ME1 since high-level adept would chew through everything and having assault rifle training allowed you to be useful in between cooldowns.
it also kinda sucked having all abilities on one cooldown, i prefer having more powerful abilities and using them less often than just spamming skills.

Yeah but what you're doing is being a generic soldier with no ability. You run into a room, spam all your powers and then do nothing adepty for 30 seconds. The best would be ME3 where you could have an assault rifle and a 200% cooldown bonus but abilities fired in less than a second so there was no reason not to be using them.

Shockwave and singularity had too long a cooldown to be used regularly, but with the one cooldown system you could use all the others powers 4-5 times when you could only use them once in ME1. And I don't think ME1 had biotic combos which are part of the fun strategy of adepting.


I guess that's just my opinion though

oh no, i agree with you, it was fucking boring, you put down the kill field and wait for everything do die.
i would have loved a combination, have some less powerful abilities on low, shared cooldowns (your throw, pull and such) and have things like singularity be way more powerful and be on its own, long cooldown.
also because it matter: flare sucks,it's way to powerful and chews through shields.

 

[Olas]

Infiltrater and Vanguard are the only classes I've played the main campaigns as. Vanguard is more fun, the only problem is your attacks become somewhat repetitive and lack some of the strategy of other classes because your basically just charging the enemy repeatedly.

Infiltrater is cool because you get to survey the battlefield but you're never in as much danger either.

 

[Darklord008]

Soldier in a 3 games, because I am a simple man with simple tastes, and being able to throw massive amounts of death downrange with any weapon appeals to me, especially since I didn't have to worry about cooldowns.

 

[The]

ME1 - Infiltrator
ME2 - Infiltrator
ME3 - Sentinel

I may go through again as either Vanguard or Engineer.

 

[WaysideMaze]

First game I went with soldier, because my computer at the time was shit and it was the only class it seemed able to handle.

Second game, I liked playing the psychopath so vanguard was a lot of fun.

Not played ME3 yet, I'll get there.