Poll: Favorite Mass Effect class?

[AD-Stu]

Depends on which game in the series we're talking about.

Soldiers were a little boring in ME1, but unlimited ammo, assault rifles and high level invulnerability talents made them ungodly-powerful. Limited ammo and no god mode in the later games obviously put an end to that. Plus the bugs where biotic powers tended to get enemies stuck in walls made playing biotic kind of annoying.

In ME2 I think I ended up trying everything and probably liked Engineer the best - it's what I did my Insanity run on.

Soldier is the only run through I've done of ME3 so far (I always do it first because I know I'll be all "boring/where did all my powers go" if I do it after a tech or biotic run) so I don't have any firm opinions on that.

In ME3 multiplayer I like Infiltrator a lot - I don't know if having access to cloak redeems the fact that all classes have access to sniper rifles in single player though.

 

[Zen Toombs]

I like all of them but Sentinel. I want to like him (I love jack-of-all-trades after all), but it doesn't have the right oomph. ESPECIALLY in Mass Effect 3 (grumble grumble tech armor debuff grumble grumble)

EDIT: CORRECTION, I hated Engineer from Mass Effect 1 until Mass Effect 2. In the third game they take a huge jump from "boring, but the drone is alright" to "BLOODY AWESOME!"

 

[Jace1709]

To be honest, ive only played as Soldier in all 3 games, so i have no idea what the others classes are like... are the others fun?

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

I've always been partial to the Adept. One Singularity in ME1 could stop a room full of Krogan from hurting me. In ME2, we kind of bit the bullet what with everyone being protected from our powers, but Singularity + Warp detonations were effective against defenses if you could get one guy... if you know what I'm talking about. ME3 brings us back to full ass-kicking power. Shockwave is good now, everything detonates everything, and the longest recharge I have to deal with is three seconds, tops. Adepts are fucking fantastic. I've beaten Insanity with my Adept the first two games, halfway through ME3 on him now.

 

[DustyDrB]

To be honest, ive only played as Soldier in all 3 games, so i have no idea what the others classes are like... are the others fun?

Yeah...there's a good reason why people say, "You're doing it wrong" if you have only played a soldier in the Mass Effect series.

 

[synobal]

I love the infiltrator myself, at least in 2 and 3.

 

[ryo02]

infiltrator for me though I do wish it had a bit more engineer mixed in namely the combat drone.

 

[applesandoranges]

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[shado_temple]

In the 3rd game's multiplayer, I went with a human Sentinel that only carries a small, heavy pistol; all of her points are placed into throw and tech armor (along with passives that decrease wait and increase power), so that I can spam throw every 2 seconds. It may be a bit useless against shielded oponents/specials, but man do I rip my way through everything else.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Currently playing through ME3, and so far, I am loving the hell out of playing as an infiltrator. Incinerate is awesome, and invisibility is super fun. Makes for some especially satisfying ambush scenarios (have squad mates cover enemies form front, sneak up behind, take out snipers, then snipe the rest from behind. Good times).

 

[Xpheyel]

ME2(+3?): Vanguaaaaaaards!

I would yell charge but seriously, what else were you going to do?

ME1: Probably Adept.

 

[Gatx]

I played an Adept in my first playthrough, went with Soldier in my next one. I liked the idea of Shepard using standard infantry weapons and training to match up against all the crazy super powered enemies that are encountered. Plus, while Biotics like Jack and even Liara get to do all kinds of cool things with their powers in the cutscenes, Adept Shepard still just runs and shoots.

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

Spoiler: VANGUARD. HELL YEAH. Just add nova to the bottom of the chart, and this is how I play, to a T (including default broshep lol). Think I've posted this already, but idgaf

Though I play as an Adept in mp. Vanguards are such prima donnas in multiplayer. Apparently they've never heard of the word "team".
Lost track of how many times I've had to save one of em.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

EDIT: Infiltrators and Vanguards are still leading, but now the Adept are the least favored, followed by Engineers. People like variety over purity.

Infiltrator, with Adept and Vanguard close seconds.

I love sniping, and I love biotics. My favorite config is an Infiltrator with Slam as the Squadmember Bonus Power.

 

[Nicolairigel]

Gotta always go with my vanguard.

Charge/Nova. Need I say anything else?

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Adept. There is no finer recipe for destruction than warp, singularity, and shockwave.

 

[Major_Tom]

Infiltrator/Vanguard. I don't like pure classes, but still want access to nice guns.

 

[MyNameIsNowNotMyName]

Vanguard of course, I would suck balls at everything if it weren't for my over-shield in Mass Effect 1 Insanity Edition!

 

[Terminal Blue]

Until about a week ago, I would have said Sentinel, but then I played through ME2 as an engineer (I don't have ME3 yet) and it was so much faster and more fun, so I'm going to say Engineer. The "Demolisher" in particular really lives up to its name, and I took one level in AP ammo as a bonus power.

I loved playing an Adept in ME1, but in ME2 I felt too often stuck with providing "finishing moves" to people whom my companions had already mostly killed, and I'm not really a shooting-oriented person so none of the combat classes really appeal. I did get a kick out of playing soldier with the massive machine gun though, not to mention the broken thing in ME1 where you could just be perpetually invulnerable.

 

[Zetsubou-Sama]

Always been a Vanguard always will.