Noob questions - MP beginners guide for dummies

Actually, the geth SMG it's a very accurate peashooter, so you definitely need to go for headshots so it at least tickles the baddies. Maybe you're confusing it with the geth Spitfire, which may be closer to a spray and pray gun.

66644 is viable enough.

Strong as AHI's DC, it is inefficient at killing on its own. Most enemies die from Warp-rounds enhanced gunshot.

If I have to spec passive rank 5 I'd choose 5B.

ED will prime TB on anything, and Incinerate will detonate TB on anything primed with it, which is what you were doing. However, ED will only detonate TB on synthetics and shields. Ref. masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Power_Combos

I like GPSMG on GI. AP ammo, extended clip and heat sink. Start ramp up, cloak, continue shooting, cloak, continue shooing, cloak, continue shooting, cloak, reload. Start again. With the gun at X I can get just about 4 cloak cycles in before I have to reload. Aim for the head.

Cloak is one power that doesn't start the ramp up again, so you can shoot continuously for days while you intermittently boost your damage with cloak. Plus geth weapons damage bonus.

You can also use Geth SMG on the TSol, but you must stop firing and start again after activating Marksman, which breaks up the flow of the game (and means you waste precious MM time on ramp up).

Can a Turian Ghost to the same with his cloak? I don't have GI. I assume GI gets racial bonus from this gun as well? The only Geth I have is a Trooper.

Apparently, I do not have Asari Adept either, so it will be Asari Sentinel/human Sentinel for a few days for me for getting biotic mastery finished before I can try something else.

So, has to be GI then. Okay, I am going to just not worry about that gun & run my Asari Sent till I drop off to sleep tonight :) Am gonna suck so badly.

Does phasic rounds really breaks shield gate? I can only kill a phantom with a single hit when head shooting on gold with my gi javelin that does 6000 damage and 14600 on headshot

but phantoms on gold have 3000 barriers and 1700 health, shouldn't just a normal shot be enough to kill it?

On host phantoms have variable damage reduction (a significant amount) to the host, and lesser so for the off host players (although they still do get variable DR to the off host players also).

Depending on their movement type, the level of DR will increase. For encountering the lowest level of on host Phantom DR, shoot them while they are motionless

If memory serves then no, phasic rounds don't actually break (as in ignore) shield gate.



IIRC what phasic round consumables actually do is apply extra damage before the bullet hits that has a massive damage bonus against shields.

If that damage is enough to remove the shields completely then shield gate will not affect the bullet when it hits, but if even one lousy shield point remains then shield gate will still affect the bullet.



Against most mooks phasics will remove the shields without issue when used on a javelin because the ammo's damage is scaled to the javelins massive damage stat but phantoms have a lot of shields for a mook (3075 barrier on gold), so depending on the level of your javelin and what bonuses and passives your GI is running you might be falling slightly short of stripping all of the shields with just the ammo.

Play with your build on kalance to see if you're hitting that 3075 or not, and if not see if you can tweek the build to get there.


Of course, even if you are over the 3075 threshold you should expect phantoms to try and BS their way out dying half the time with crap like that DR Max mentioned.

TBH an infiltrator is likely going to give the GPSMG a way bigger damage boost than a Geth with racial bonuses.

Phasics do 10x damage to barriers and shields up front. DR of phantom like described above.

Short answer for your scenario is no, Phasic rounds would not have made a difference in overcoming shield gate. Calculations below explain why. Phasic rounds are still useful for semi-automatics to strip shields that much faster, and against Geth who mostly have shields but low health.

For calculations below here are some other assumptions:

• According to Bioware post for Silver/Gold/Platinum, Shield Gate will absorb 75% of your damage.
• Phasic round III does +15% damage, and 10x vs shields/barrier. For simplicity I'll ignore the +15% damage - won't make a difference even if I do in this scenario.

Let's first look at a body shot.
Initial. Body shot: 6000 damage. Phantom: barrier = 3000, health = 1700.
Damage shield/barrier. 6000 - (300 x 10) = 5700 damage remaining. Phantom: barrier = 0, health = 1700.
Shield gate. 5700 x 0.25 = 1425 damage remaining. Phantom: barrier = 0, health = 1700.
Damage health. 0 damage remaining. Phantom: barrier = 0, health = 1700 - 1425 = 275. Phantom alive.

Now for headshot.
Initial. Head shot: 14600 damage. Phantom: barrier = 3000, health = 1700.
Damage shield/barrier. 14600 - (300 x 10) = 14300 damage remaining. Phantom: barrier = 0, health = 1700.
Shield gate. 14600 x 0.25 = 3650 damage remaining. Phantom: barrier = 0, health = 1700.
Damage health. 3650 - 1700 = 1950 damage remaining. Phantom: barrier = 0, health = 0. Phantom dead.

Javelin head shot result would kill Phantom even without Phasic ammo. Shield gate means you need to still have 1700 x 4 = 6800 damage remaining after penetrating shields, or be able to do a total of 6800 + 3000 = 9800 damage to strip shields and have enough damage left to kill a Phantom.

FWIW Kishock is the only sniper weapon that ignores shield gate.