Ranking all the characters for Platinum

Yeah, I mean, this is not a bad idea but maybe you can rework the order of some characters based on feedback from this topic.

Some of the most notable mistakes (in my opinion):

- Angara Insurgent - I personally don't like this guy from the start of MEA, but damn is he strong. Amazing troll mines, and great tankiness from passives + Shield boost (and team support with shield boost). He is top tier

- TSol - I mean, we can argue if he is tier 4 or 5 but he is still the best weapon platform in this game for me. Put a good weapon on him (I mean, you don't even need the Hurricane X, just slap on the Raptor) and the DPS he dishes out is insane. If you feel he's a bit squishy slap on a Cyclonic on him as due to his DR, he's one of the few characters in MEA that benefit more from the Cyclonics than the rest

- Human Adept - ponytail is pretty great on Plat. Maybe not the top tier but pretty awesome. Same goes for the AA but she has to be played even more carefully and that may not suit everyone

- Human Vanguard - Tier 2, this is heresy! with 40% combo, powers and melee, the human vanguards are some of the characters that benefit the most from the Veteran ranks. Everyone has a different preferred way of playing him but I would say that I am quite pleased with my Charge/Nova build and carrying power recharge gear. The idea is that your cooldowns are so fast that you basically live in a constant alternation of iframes from charge/nova (and well placed Dhan or other shottie shots in-between). Failure happens only when charge fails to activate or iframes randomly fail offhost. Maybe not tier 5, but tier 4 at least! And your teammates will be grateful how much of the aggro and Hydra shots to da face you're taking with your iframes while they dish out damage to the distracted enemies!

Reading comprehension seems to be an issue for you.  It's ok though, I don't expect the narcissistic jackasses to agree with any of this.

- Read what I said about the Insurgent... his trip mines are great, but you will be running from ammo box to ammo box to replenish them.  Camping with him is excellent to setup a chokepoint trap, but once you run out of trip mines, it's either spam your ammo capacity or run constantly to the next box.  Shield boost of course is a great support power, which should be spammed all game long.

- I know how electric barricade works.  And how the Blaze Hydra, Progenitor, Fiend, Observers walk right through them.  It's perfect for Adhis, Wraiths and even Berserkers rushing.  But by the later rounds, the bosses just ignore the barricade.  It's helpful for hacks/uploads in rooms keeping enemies out.  Unfortunately most rooms have 2 entrances, so unless you have 2 barricades, you can only block 1 door at a time with 1 barricade user. 

- Your video alone shows the issues with a duelist, Backlash is used in small spurts, Charge is used to survive.... and Lance is your 1 power to spam.  Outside of having detonators, what is Lance going to do otherwise?  Unlike a gold match, where you can head in face first and destroy enemies, her power set means she is going to set back or wait for CQC to become effective.

- Annihilation becomes useful sitting in a room.  Out in the open, not so much.  How many health only enemies are there in platinum compared to shielded or armored enemies?  Annihilation needs enemies to get close, and most players will be playing with fire letting too many enemies get so close.  Sure, sitting in a room with teammates will increase her power set.... but then again that goes for almost any character. 


And of course this game is Co-op.... but guess what, a good portion of people PUG rooms and relying on them is like expecting you to understand adult concepts.  For those testing the waters, wondering which characters are going to survive, deal damage or focus on support, this is a list for them.

just came here to say your tiers are backwards.

4 Infiltrators with 8 sticky grenades each.

20 grenades per wave x 4 player is 80 grenades.

80 x 7 wave is 560 sticky grenade.

Each player has reserve 8 grenades x 5 ammo pack which is 40.
40 x 4 is 160 grenades in reserve.

I can`t imagine anything better than that especially they will make all objectives free win.

4x angara avenger with 8 stickies and 7 stealth grids is better than that. But yeah. Stealth nade spam is easy mode platinum.

And by lower enemies you mean anointed, chosen, destined, agents, anarchists, saboteurs, pariahs, sharpshooters, raiders, dogs, nullifiers... which are over 85% of the enemies.

Besides, of course you're not going to use barricade to block hydras, but you can use it to protect yourself from their missiles when they target you. The same goes for observer's lasers and destroyer's turrets.

Potato puhtato!

That doesn't mean barricade is ineffective against those enemies. You can rush into them, pop it, prime/stun/detonate and finish them off with the gun.

Question from the OP, says salarian infiltrator can heal in 3 ways?

I'm surprised I've missed something, energy drain + ? + ?

What's your duelist build?

platty build?