What's your favorite class(es) in multiplayer?

Yeah pretty much this. If you are not up against Geth or fantrolls, his powers are pretty much useless. Granted, the drone does atleast some damage, but outside of that, useless. Still, having a drone troll that pesky nemesis out of cover never gets old.

Since I detest the Reegar with a passion (Not through any sort of cheese or OPness hatred, but simply because I cannot stand the range limitation), I only checked the Venom link, which is pretty close to how I would've specced for such a thing. Though I was thinking more along the lines of Wraith+Scorpion, as I find the Scorpion better for Phantoms and Dragoons (even if the Venom is funnier). I guess it's just a L2Venom thing.

So I'll say my piece regarding the VMS. Also will say this I haven't played the VMS in several weeks and haven't played platinum in a long ass time with him.

For me personally why I "Enjoy" using the VMS, which I don't blame most people it sounds ridiculous, considering if for no reason at all you tried to convince someone to use VMS over something like the QME/TGI, he/she probably thinks you took high dosages of Acid, to play VMS outside of Geth. And for me the reason why, is because he's different, he has pet powers and it's up to you to figure out, how you're gonna use those pet powers, it's not as ez mode like popping a stim pack on the TGI and going to town with your harriers and whatever AR or weapon of choice.

Also another reason why I like the VMS is because he has, some nice multi roles to it's kit, being able to direct attention away from your team with decoy and the drone, able to do revive trips because of double cloak, healing with shield boost and, slap a weapon him that allows him to do good damage so he isn't dead weight trash on the team.

In my opinion I believe the VMS still has decent impact, not to the same degree as using him against the Geth, the Geth is literally the VMS's playground.

Going down the list Cerberus, troopers, turrets, engineers, nemesis, phantoms, and centurions are susceptible to Decoy. And all you have is rush down dragoons and a slow atlas marching towards you. I think dragoons should be more than fine to deal with, stick a combat drone on the atlas and watch him get annoyed, as he periodically gets staggered by the Drone's 5A shock, bonus points if the combat drone staggers the atlas at the worse time, and interrupts him firing off of a rocket at you. not sure if the combat drone staggers atlas on platinum because I think the staggers thresholds are different??

Bit of a shame though phantoms of all things to get seduced by a decoy (Good shit bioware, did something right there), probably has caused more salty tears to players from these weaboos armed with a sword that can sync kill you, do ludicrous amounts of damage with their palm cannons, and have insane on host damage reduction, and in my opinion they're more threatening than dragoons, brutes, ravagers and atlases.

Not much to say about reapers, banshees is the only thing you have to keep in mind, also drone screws her over which is good for caster classes. Decoy pretty much handles your marauders and cannibals.

Collectors I'd probably exercise a bit of caution, be mindful of the scions and seeker swarms and then it should be mostly smooth. They're essentially a more buffed up version of reapers. Scions similarly to atlases get staggered by the shock attack from the drone, and again not sure if they stagger on platinum.

Geth is self explanatory, put a decoy on a high elevated platform, and geth bombers can't do anything to it, and only rocket troopers can damage the decoy, and I believe they're less common on platinum, so that works even better in your favour.

I don't wanna ramble for too long, but this is my current build I use the claymore on him, there's a couple variations you can go with the VMS, like fast shield recharge with multicapacitor, less points on combat drone, combat drone with rockets, less points on decoy, no passives, no fitness, max duration on decoy, whichever suits you.

Arkhne already mentions, the standard things to do on the VMS, decoy > cloak > line up shot > Kill what is attempting to kill your decoy. And throw in a combat drone whenever, and use shield boost to keep you and your team healthy.

Platinum geth is fine, I remember one time I cheesed them super hard during either a wave 6 or wave 10 hack circle on firebase rio. To the point I got the entire geth army crowded around the decoy and my team only had to deal with banshees the entire time.

Budget - Cremator I was playing around last night trying to get more credits to unlock more of my manifest. I know lulz Reegar isn't ideal for Gold as we all know its OP as fuck, but I ran this build and OMG... The nazis would be proud... (terrible, I know). Someone accused me of cheating. I am just trying to get my credits as quick as possible with a good kit. My venom is still only I but my Reegar got maxed out very quickly. Its like the game wants me to use it.   I am out of shotgun amps so ran targeting (budget).

My favorites are:

- All the Volus. Can't get enough of those rotund goofballs. I particularly enjoy the Protector Vanguard; great to follow Krogans around as a pocket healer.
- N7 Paladin Sentinel. Snap Freeze is my favorite ability in the game. Slap that Geth Scanner and you'll be killing everyone behind walls.
- Geth Trooper Soldier. All that damage boost plus Flamer plus Reegar Carbine. Everyone in your team will hate you, but you'll be melting Banshees in seconds.
- Asari Valkyrie Sentinel. It is just a better N7 Fury. Feels great with a N7 Piranha.

Valkyrie is objectively better.

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Fury and Shadow because I'm a whore for biotic booms and decapitations

Huh, I didn't know it happened then. I always thought it happened when you got Shield Boosted mid reload.

AVS is a better character for me,but i am a fanboy. No matter of the enemy/map/difficult.She requires more skills IMO,despite the fact she is more tanky.Fury can be better on a lower difficults,but on Plat AVS rules.I've done a tons of speedruns with both characters(with AVS much mire ofc ) and the average time with AVS is faster.Hell i even remember my last game on London with her.It was a duo with Lvca_gr and we rolled vs geth(plat)His host was capped at 120FPS and i died 2 times.I just love her.If i have to be honest,i like Fury as well.She is great,but for me AVS is the master.