How well do you think that a Valiant (3 I think) and a Hurricane will work on gold for a HFI and a D

If you don’t mind me asking, what are those right mods/builds? It’s just that I like this gun so much more than BW, but a lot of people keep telling me it’s not gonna cut it on Plat. I’m a big fan of that fast reload time, pinpoint accuracy, zero recoil and low weight.

I'll be honest, as much as I love the Valiant, I'll echo that it suffers problems in the jump from Gold to Platinum. It is still a viable weapon in that environment, but the lower damage will often be felt against the massive Platinum health bars.

It has all the qualities that you mentioned, and in the Gold environment, I'd argue it is competitive with the Widow/Black Widow (especially for people with less twitch aim ability.) It's not a perfect semi-assault rifle, nor a perfect high-damage sniper rifle, but combining some of the benefits of both makes it very powerful in Gold, assuming you address a few issues with mods and your build.

A sniper build should be fairly obvious, combining weapon bonuses with damage/SR bonus (if an infiltrator.)

Less obvious is fun stuff like the caster/sniper, a fun way to play an Asari Adept. Since the Adept is likely to lose at least some weapon bonuses to power evos, the trick is to use Warp Ammo. This gives extra oomph against armoured targets (important) as well as providing a very effective damage bonus whenever the target is under the effects of a priming power. For most mooks, even shielded, it's a simple cast of Stasis (or whatever it's called) followed by easy headshots against the held target with full warp ammo bonus. If the primer is detonated by a follow-up power, the Warp ammo won't apply its damage bonus anymore (until someone re-primes the target.)

Mostly, consider the armour and piercing angle. More damage on a Sniper Rifle is of little use if it can't penetrate armour/scenery or loses much of its damage potential because it lacks armour mitigation.

So make sure to have either a piercing barrel equipped on the Valiant itself, or if you lack one (or need the slot for something else) make sure to use either Armour Piercing ammo or Drill ammo.

Don't combine the barrel with the ammo. For complicated reasons, it reduces the damage of the bullet too much when piercing cover, and is an oddity of game mechanics. Just make sure to use one or the other.*



*But for the record, this quirky problem of shooting through cover does not apply to weapons with native piercing, like the Crusader or Black Widow. On those weapons, you can stack Armour Piercing with no penalty for shooting through cover. The issue stems from the game combining the penalties for shooting through cover for weapons that don't inherently pierce cover.

Oh, one more thing.

If you decide to use the heavy barrel with the %50 weight penalty on the Asari Adept (or any kit, really) and you don't mind a little cheese: Before starting the match, pop quickly back into the character menu and re-select your character. Then start the match without accessing your weapon menu. Another odd bug in the code will result in the Valiant receiving the benefits of the barrel without the weight penalty being applied to your casting refresh time.

BUT NO ONE ON BSN WOULD EVER CONDONE SUCH EGREGIOUS CHEATING

This one understands.

Well, putting a Valiant on the HMI would be weird! O.O

I actually prefer the Valiant scope to the BW one, and it allows me to land two shots and then switch my target without having much trouble with readjusting my aim - but I do find it more punishing than the slower and high-recoil BW if you don't go for headshots - and that requires more finesse.
Jeremiah12LGeek, thanks a lot for your advice, that really came in handy! I'm not a heavy SR user, so I was totally unaware of that piercing + ammo thing. Next time I'll be putting Warp ammo on my SR to see how it goes. And as for the weight glitch... Guilty as charged, I do abuse it on my Vanguards. But since I only play Vanguards on-host and I almost never host, I think people around here will forgive me for doing so.

I do happen to remember this for some reason, and one of my GI Valiant friends also told me that for him, Valiant is better than BW. But he's the type that gets 20 headshots before or during the first objective wave, so there's also that.

Well, quite a few people struggle with single-shot SRs (and I'm one of them), and I simply can't use the Javelin (the gun is just ugh for me ATM), so for us scrubs, it's either BW or Valiant, and I happen to like the latter more. It feels like a needle, very accurate and sharp, while BW has that BANG BISH feeling to it which I absolutely don't mind on single-shot SRs or shotguns, but kind of don't welcome on 3-shot SRs.
But yeah the bottom line is as always, L2P.

I know you know this but it's worth stating for those that don't that the Kishock is immune to this bug, which is why it's a great fit for the Sticky characters. I still prefer the Claymore approach on the QFI but at least one of my HIs will get a run out with the Kishock from time to time.

And I'll echo what I said yesterday in another thread, in agreement with nitrous's observations- the Valiant is all about the headshots, and in general I'm pretty rubbish in that department. I remember doing a Plat duo as a QMI (inspired by Xen's blistering abilities) with TMB and halfway through kinda cringing with embarrassment. 

Valiant = warp for any difficulty and/or enemy, but why would you need the Hurricane?

You're an infiltrator: what's that close range encounters ? Plus you have very nice slowing powers on both the HInf and DAI...

This.

Plus, you took melee damage on TC rank 5.... RIGHT?

It's their face - you cloak because you want to punch it.