Concussive Shot HSol

I don't really like the Falcon, is there any good alternatives I could use.

Falcon primes and staggers extra reliably, it's light, has decent ammo in clip, but you can use almost any weapon, provided it's light enough. Or you can use a secondary like a Collector SMG or a Hurricane next to Falcon. 

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Easy. Instead of weapons, you deal all the damage through Concussive Shot. It actually works, but it can be quite tricky on Platinum. The CC build can be specced in many ways, you'll hear many opinions, all of them are good. Here's my line of thought with the HSol:

I NEVER, EVER, ever spec out of Adrenaline Rush. Period. Choose Hardening, because you'll be getting a lot more exposure, always Short Duration and the Shields evolution. This will keep you in the game if you accidentally get shot by DOT missiles. Use Rush to cancel the bees out.

Never leave your house without your keys and your Frags. In this particular build, I like to stack the Dot so I go for Bleed damage. Armor or Shields, it up to you. Both really useful.

For the Concussive shot I choose Damage (though Radius has to be paired with the "Hammer" evo for maximum effective zone), and Shredder will get you a pretty fine DOT vs Organics. Always remember to specc into "Shatter".

The idea is to equip Disruptor or Cryo, and with a light rapid fire weapon spread the ammo effect to your enemies. Then quickly spam CC. Throw a Frag to add more Dot to the party. Disruptor guarantees a million Tech Bursts, while Cryo doubles the damage of Concussive Shot (Shatter). I'm in fond of Incendiary rounds for CC.

Here's an example: build

Turians are also welcome. Give it a try with friends, it's super fun.

I say that Scrubbed's build is the most well-rounded one and less suicidal than mine. So go with that. But maybe don't use Avenger 

I'd probably take the Shield Damage Evo on Grenades, so I could throw them into the spawn and take out shields and start DoT right away, plus it will leave unshielded mooks ready to freeze with the Cryo Ammo.

Damage vs Bosses does seem to be lacking on Cryo Soldier though. Is it right to take like a Hurricane and just use AR on Banshees and such? Since the Cryo Ammo weakens Armor anyway, I'd just use a damage barrel.

Yeah, if you don't have a secondary as Falcon doesn't get headshots. 

It also works well with Lancer, Revenant or Incisor (less so, but it is a chance to use that weapon once in a while) if you don't fancy switching between weapons (which I don't).

EDIT: Just throwing my Build in here, too, even though it already resides in the AR-Thread.


Concussive Shot HSol w. Lancer

Worst Build In the Thread

That's my Cryo Soldier, also works with Disruptor and Incendiary Ammo. IMHO, Lancer is the best gun, no ammo requirement, easy to control once you learn how it behaves, good enough damage for the build, whilst being super light for CS spam. This is a free-roam build, that never runs to an ammo box for any reason, it just relentlessly applies pressure to the enemy. Good affinity for both disabling enemies, and destroying them.

Being locked out of CS during AR is horrible, but AR can (and will) save you from DOT effects, and the damage bonus is pretty nice anyway, so you don't lose TOO much damage by using it. There are probably more effective builds in the thread, I just like the freedom that this one provides, my other HSol's are much different (BF3 runs Incendiary Harrier+Grenades+Carnage, the damage level is just silly, especially to Armour).

talon does a good job proccing cryo ammo and doesn't suck against bosses. that's what i use

I'm a little confused by the Shatter evolution of CS. It says it adds 100% damage to frozen targets, which, in my experience means that enemy needs to be, you know... frozen. As in, icy popsicle lying on the floor. At which point, those 100% extra damage is pretty pointless, since the guy is as good as dead anyway.

So, does it work only against frozen targets, or those chilled as well? Incinerate specifies that it works against frozen or chilled targets, but I see no such specification in CS. Some clarification would be nice.

If it works against chilled targets as well, I might actually deploy my male soldier. No way the female one will allow me to take Claymore away from her