for me it's Infiltrator
>>741444793Soldier is kinda just boring, but objectively the most combat-effective class.Vanguard is the most fun in every game despite its flaws.Infiltrator would be way cooler if you could do stealth melee takedowns.Sentinel is meh.Adept and engineer are for autistic people.
>>741445419>engineergoated in 2 and 3may as well be an infiltrator in 1 since they share all the meaningful powers
>>741445541>engineer>goated in 2 Absolutely fucking not. It's amazing in 1 because of all the Geth you're fighting and any class that can combo spam in 3 has an easy go of it.
>>741445761it sucks in 1 compared to infiltrator, which has ai hacking, overload, damping, sabotage + immunity and snipersin 2 engineer can strip every defense except barriers, meaning every mission that isn't collectors you can solo. Infiltrator edges out engineer in 2 because the dps boost from tactical cloak basically makes you able to go shotgun infiltrator and ghetto blast niggas
>>741444793why would you voluntarily chose to play a stealth archer?
>>741446157https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YyVx3C_SVg
>Soldier>crayon eating jarhead and jalapeno cheese MRE connoisseur >engineer>autist who spends his free time speedrunning extranet hentai games>adept>asariboo who wants nothing more than to cut his dick off, paint himself blue and put an octopus on his head>vanguard>uber elite chad who shits danger and fucks xeno bitches by the thousands>Infiltrator>tries to be as cool as the vanguard but fails because he hides like a PUSSY>sentinel>autistic troon who gens terabytes of asari futa porn. In an "open and polycurious" relationship with adept
>>741444793Adept with shotgun or sniper gun skill here
>>741447005every vanguard I ever played with in me3 multiplayer wound up running away like an even bigger pussy
>pick infiltrator>remember that it feels like shit to play and has abilities that overlap with half the cast>restart as vanguard and actually have fun
>>741445419this post has the right of itno notes
>>741444793White Human Male Soldier.
ME3 multiplayer was pretty fun. Playing a Volus adept with that one mini-shotgun pistol, speccing into minimum cooldown and pairing yourself with a Geth juggernaut restoring his shields forever was pretty nice.
>>741445419>Combat Specialist is the most combat effective classWoah, anon! Stop dropping those pearls of wisdom!
>>741447005>jalapeno cheese MRE connoisseurThose look fucking good to be fair.
>>741444793vanguard is the most fun, but you gotta play on the lower difficulties because playing out in the open and charging into enemies is a recipe for a game over on the higher difficulties. I liked infiltrator the most in ME1, but then the later games with their ammo drops and changing of engineer powers kind of made the class gay as fuck.
>>741444793Vanguard is the most fun class
I picked the stealth one and snipered everything.Easy game.
THIS PISTOL DOESN'T HAVE A THERMAL CLIP
>>741447686ah yes, incendiary ammo, cryo ammo, pull, and shockwavewhat unique and original abilities...
>>741447498When I was playing it was about chaining charge and nova like mad.You couldn't run away even if you tried, you would just get instantly killed.
>>741444793I want to play Infiltrator but never can because I want to use Garrus, Legion and Thane.
>>741444793I always liked Vanguard best, even in 1 where there was no charge.
>>741444793I thought Infiltrator was Insanity on easy mode (and it is) until I played Sentinel where it was basically impossible to die unless you actively tried to play like the biggest retard on the planetInfiltrator is still the coolest though
>>741448307>bodychecks youcry about it nerd
>>741448221Absolutely untrue. Just play smart in ME2 and completely reckless charge+nova spam in ME3 and you faceroll Insanity.>>741448307Charge, motherfucker.
>>741444793Love Infiltrator. When I first played Mass Effect I had some kind of obsession with overpowered anti-material sniper rifles. I just thought that things like the Barret were the coolest things ever created. I fucking loved the weapon customization in the first game because you could make an obscenely strong rifle that would have huge recoil and massively overheat after firing one shot but it would kill nearly everything in the game in a single shot.I remember reading the description for the sniper you get from the Collector ship and having the 4 strength 4 stam leather belt reaction to it.>used to outright destroy any vehicle short of a tank>can only be used effectively by krogans because any other un-augmented humanoid will just break all their bones after firing itooughgh
>>741448441ME3 vanguard is pretty sweet, big fan of nova. and "playing smart" in ME2 as manguard usually means not charging into a group of enemies and booming them with a shotgun, which is the most fun way to play the class. if I want to play a cover shooter with an SMG I'll just play literally any other class
>>741447996Making the only healer characters fat jewish dwarves was a daring choice for sure
>>741448361>>741448441oops I pressed a button on my omni tool and now your biotic amp doesn't workoops I pressed another button, now you can't see meoops I punched you once with my 90% damage boost and because you're a squishy biotic you're now a pile of goop
>>741448221>but you gotta play on the lower difficultiesNah you just have to pick your charges in 2, and minimize recharge time in 3.
>>741445419The problem with Sentinel is that your companions are designed to back you up while the player's control is still entirely over Shepard, so you're basically running defense in every scenario while outsourcing offense to the companion A.I. The end result is that the game becomes a million times more difficult than it needs to be simply because you didn't pick a class with offensive capacity. It's better to pick soldier, vanguard, or even adept & then have Tali be the skill monkey.
engineer is kino because it starts the trilogy as the absolute weakest and ends as the absolute strongest class in the game
>>741444793Vanguard chaaaaaarge!>>741445419Sentinel armor is cool though, can play both as a safe tank or get very aggressively without much risk.
>>741444793>Guide ME, Guide ME2, Guide ME3Why do these three people need guides so bad?
>>741448560Playing smart Vanguard in 2 means charge becomes the panic button. You use it defensively or during a burn phase.
for me it's Shiala
>>741448891It's actually guide me, guide me twice and guide me thrice.
>>741448793Eh, ME1 pistols are very strong regardless, ME3 allows you to stack armor skills and guns to become a ME1 SoldierI guess ME2 can be challenging before you unlock the Tempest and forgo the DLC Locust
>>741449019>forgo the DLC LocustI loved ME2 but holy shit guns can't hit for shit, I tried playing sentinel without it and I couldn't hit shit.That's why the Mattock is goat, it hits where you shoot.
>>741448793In 1 that doesn’t really matter at all, you facetank anything with infinite barrier and there isn’t any enemy in the game you can’t just kill with your gun.In 2 and 3 you are a biotic/tech detonation machine. You shit out giant explosions all over the place on top of the giant explosions and invincibility from tech armor. The only shit part is being stuck with SMGs for awhile but eventually you just get a mattock or whatever and start blasting anyway.
>>741444793Space wizard is interesting, but Soldier fits Shepard best.Engineer Shepard is ridiculous. Who would make an engineer a fucking super secret spectre?
>>741448603sure but that's boring. I want be a whirlwind of destruction, which normal facilitates. it's like how the uncharted games don't really deliver the fantasy of the indiana jones action sequence on the highest difficulty, I want to punch and shoot, not shoot then use the charge as an execution once I've thinned the herd.
>>741448943always
>>741448916yeah that blows ass I want charge to be an offensive button. the whole class fantasy of vanguard is built around bulldozing shit.
>>741449354Because it means "military engineer". Like placing mines, destroying fortifications with shaped charges and all that stuff.
>>741449354Engineer Shepard is basically Green Lantern
>>741449354because ME engineers are science wizards who can throw frostbolts and fire balls
>>741444793for me it's the gameplay was so forgettable I forgot there were even classes besides space magic and shoot gun
>>741448370Triple sniper squad is pretty effective in 2, just give thane and garrus the incisor in the early game, probably wouldn't try it on the reaper iff mission. Legion with its widow upgrades is a total beast as well.Sentinel is really fun in 1 if you have the bonus powers unlocked, just pick a weapon talent since you already have a full hotbar of useful abilities.
>>741447005>picked engineer>actually do speedrun hentai gamesFuck
>>741449417You're absolutely a whirlwind of destruction in 3 regardless of difficulty, 2 feels significantly weaker but so long as you charge single enemies you can headshot with your shotgun rather than groups you'll still mow down everything.
>>741444793Vanguard is the white man's choice
>>741450156in 3 yeah vanguard is super sweet, most fun class in the entire franchise. shame about the rest of ME3 being pretty bad, it delivered on a not half bad gameplay experience.
>tfw me3 vanguard>tfw you can clear insanity without even firing your gunThat charge+nova is just too good
>>741445419>AdeptTop pick for ME1>SentinelTop pick for ME2
>>741446157The right way to do it, is to use a shotgun/smg, and snipe occasionally.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbJe88Q7F6w
>>741444793Some guy on vrpg did recommend it and it's fun alright.
>>741445761>>741445937>engineer in 1Pretty good debuffer/controller, but it usually feels like a less powerful adept>engineer in 2I hope you love spamming the ball because that's what you're going to do for 90% of the game>engineer in 3Space techno wizard
>>741444793What I have the aiming skills of a retard?Then what do I pick for all three games
>>741449354Because they needed 3 classes
Infiltrator and Engineer are the cannon Shep classes. >biotic clasShep almost never uses their biotics in cutscenes. Also the squad gets filled with insanely powerful biotics with dark edgy pasts related to it that completely overshadow Shep whose biotics are a non-topic. >soldier Too much of a straightforward jarhead to be a good N7 operative. Shep also hacks into things a lot in gameplay so tech experience makes sense.
>>741444793For me, it's Vanguard.
>>741455994adept
>>741456756yeah the fact that Shepard is the one canonically hacking into doors and safes tells me he's not exactly bored with the tech Ken and Gabby are always talking about
>>741444793>Soldier>Male>Assault Rifle>Befriend Wrex >Romance Tali It's Mass Effecting time
>>741456756>Shep almost never uses their biotics in cutscenesThis is actually a really good point. Biotics are fantastic powers, so why wouldn't they come up?Biotics is such a terrible name.
infiltrator is pretty damn fun in ME1 LE since you're almost always at a range where sniper is god tier with headshot damage.Its a bit less fun in ME2 when it compresses the distance of fights
>>741448793Pump Wrex's tank abilities and give him your best shotgun and you can outsource him to the middle of the field out of cover and he'll solo 90% of the game on MELE Insanity. It isn't that much of a conundrum like Garrus can in ME3 with a Typhoon and assault rifle traits.
>>741445419Sentinel got all the crap skills from biotics and techies respectively. They get massively better in 2 and 3 where they finally start to have unique skills and abilities of their own.
>>741450330The only thing holding it back in the horde mode was whether you were the host or not. Otherwise human vanguard w. pistol and all points into skill damage could easily clear gold matches no problem. The new difficulty was a little iffy.
>>741448441vanguard is borderline unplayable in 2 from how bad it isyou'd know if you ever played any difficulty other than easy
>>741444793The game never acknowledges your class which always bothered me.
>>741460723untrueengineer has like 2 mentions in the entire trilogy
>>741460723I played soldier and never had this problem.
>>741460723ME3 does it three times.Citadel DLC profile on Shepard mentions it.Evil twin from the citadel dlc is your class.If you ask Liara to “be honest” about you in her beacon project, she mentions your class
>>741461671You get a few mentions of your biotics in 3 if you're a class that has them too. Shep also uses biotics to take out a Cat-6 mook in Citadel in a cutscene.
>>741460234No singularity is a bummer but barrier and warp are pretty much all you need
>>741445419>Adept and engineer are for autistic people.It was a single fire ball for 2 and god was the game hard on insanity.
>>741462436No class is hard on insanity when the mattock and geth plasma shotgun exist. Even the locust can carry you through the early game.
>>741461671There is an extremely specific moment in the Omega DLC where only an engineer Shephard can shut down the system right then and there that all other classes can't do. It's odd that they put it in, but not unwelcome.
>>741462679and a small mention when Brooks tells you about following the lines at the casino
>>741447005Which class did you play?
>>741462679He uses sabotage toowhich annoys me because infiltrator has sabotage
>>741444793Adept in 1 and Sentinel in 2/3.
I find the lack of babes disturbing
For me, it's biotic.
>>741465323when I was 5 I told my kindergarten teacher, pretty 30yo black woman, that I wanted to grow up to become a grand wizard some day
>>741467194did she get the BWSC?
Unfortunately the way the game is structured means that unless you pick a class that patches up the holes left by the companions you intend to take with you, your party ends up being shitty at something.
>>741447005posts like these are why I still come here
>>741444793I did Adept for my first playthough and Infiltrator for my 2nd.1 and 3 were fine on both playthroughs, with Infiltrator being a bit more fun in 3 and about the same in 1. But holy FUCK was Infiltrator ten gorillion times better in 2 than Adept. Playing through ME2 as an Adept was painful, especially some of the DLC sections. There's that solo DLC mission, I would run out of ammo, and would have to spam that gravity detonate combo on dudes to do 5% of their shields, because as long as they had shields they were outright immune to every other ability.That said, yoinking enemies off cliffs was fun, especially once you learned out to curve your projectiles to throw enemies at perpendicular angles.
>>741444793I like how you could just pick and choose abilities in Andromeda
I think I played vanguardRunning around with a shotgun slamming people into wallsIt was fun
>>741444793These classes made sense for ME1 but ME2 became an entire different genre and they changed how biotics work only to change the combat formula again for ME3.Mass Effect and Dragon Age will be studied for decades on how Bioware fumbled two major IPs.
I think this may be perfect thread to ask.Are there any downsides to Legendary Edition?(aside from forced Origin launcher)
>>741444793Next Mass Effect (if it manages to release at all) better take into account what class the protag is for at least some of the cutscenes. No having an Adept pull an Avenger out of their ass to bang on a class window instead of using their biotic powers.
>>741444793I chose SoundCloud rapper this game is fucking hard
>>741444793>>741445419Soldier in ME1Shepard is supposed to be the bestVanguard in ME2&3Cerberus lied about making no changes to himTali and Garrus would be the only ones to notice the changeTali was bullied by Miranda, called a dirty suit rat then promised Shepard would fuck her raw because new Super Shepard wouldnt make her sickTali going along with not tell Shepard the truth makes her guilty masturbate over being a bad girlMiranda just threatened to tell the Turians about Garrus activity as Archangel and it would destroy his reputation.Only thing worse than being a mercenary is an assassin
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>>741444793>Sentinel is fun in 1>Amazing in 2>Fucking trash in 3Th-thanks.
>>741444793Soldier is the chaddiest class
I've only played passed the tutorial. I chose Infiltrator, but I'm thinking about restarting as a Vanguard. The stat-based weapon sway is so fucking gay and it takes away all the joy of using a sniper.
>>741476469Nah, hitting the middle of the pendulum swing to neatly click the head of some gethnigger 2km away with your all damage no stability rapecannon and instantly vaporize him is fucking kino.
>>741445419Soldier is most fun in 3. Too many weapons that break the game.
>>741478950>Soldier is most fun in 3desu, every class is the most fun in 3.>>741469889>Are there any downsides to Legendary Edition?Quite a few anons dislike the lighting revamp, and for a good reason. IIRC, the ME3 heavy melee is also gone in Legendary for some reason. The rest remained the same, for better or for worse. Fortunately, you've got mods for all of that if you're on PC. Oh, there's also no multiplayer, but I never played it in the first place>>741474982>Fucking trash in 3You can literally become invulnerable to small arms fire, most melee attacks and even grenades with the right set-up.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZof1SOK8yk
>>741479141>have to do something completely unavailable unless playing the OG
Sentinel; I ALWAYS choose the most exotic option available to me, which is what it sorta felt like, having tech and biotics in the same class.
SOMEONEPOST THE FUCKING MEME PICTUREWITH HOW TO PLAY VANGUARD RIGHT THE FUCK NOWI CAN'T FUCKING FIND IT ANYWHERE AND I NEED ITNOW
>>741480889I gotchu anon
>>741456756Engineer is a shit class, I really wanted to like it since using technology to spawn turrets, drones and freeze people sound great but:>turrets suck dick, require aiming to drop them and constantly chooses targets in cover>drone dies in seconds and even if you spec into its kamikaze upgrade for the stagger it's damage sucks>freezing is great but requires no armor/shields and pull does the same thing but better
>>741448560Once the frontlines settle after engaging you can safely charge flanks for the most part
>>741482208I played Engineer as a crowd control sniper, i.e you spam Explosive Drones and Flamethrower Turrets from afar to preoccupy the enemy while taking potshots at them. I remember reading about an overpowered Engineer build somewhere that goes all out on power combos, so you might try that out once.
>>741482208Engineer is fucking broken in 3, arguably strongest in the game. >turrets are great, damages enemies, primes tech combos, and staggers>drones are great, damages enemies and staggers >AI hacking is amazing against Cerberus, taking their sentry turrets and atlas mechs, making the tougher early game easy >constant tech explosions ever 2-3 seconds as you annihilate armor with incinerate/cryoblast (chilled enemies are debuffed) and shields/barriers with overloadAll in all you can split aggro 5-6 different ways counting up all the drones, Shep, and the squad. Even more if you bring Tali.
>>741444793Man I remember in the early 2010's there would always be daily Mass Effect threads on /v/. Good times.
Loved rolling ME2 with Dominate and Morinth so every encounter is a 5 man squad.
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