L2Venom

Charge the venom only vs mooks.Don't charge vs the bosses.Also many players think that it works only if you aim at the ground.Sometimes is better to aim at the enemies body,especially when they are in group.Venom is love,Venom is life.

Bouncy bouncy BLOP SWOOSH, it works, me like it. Thanks guys.

Follöw yöur teammates aröund and shoöt at their feet.

My L2Venom issue is that it feels very situational. With other guns I have some idea of how much damage they deal depending on mods, consumables and character. The Venom seems like a lottery ticket at times.

A few shots and it clears a goon rush or a couple of Phantoms. Or, a few shots and I end up with a sword in the belly 

I absolutelly love Claymore,but can samoeone explain to me how the heck you can call it "High Lord"?A weapon which is totally helpless vs phantoms on host.They just laugh on him.High Lord should destroy everything with no exceptions.For example Black Widow is both destructive and stylish or Widow.They deserve much more that title.Venom is not stylish,but rules vs everything.I love Claymore because requires skills,but can't call it "High Lord".

Like i said,i like Claymore,in fact my second favorite shotgun alongside with Venom.My favorite is Wraith.I use Venom only on host for speedruns for obvious reasons.There are weapons which are also heavy,stylish and classy,but everyone has that Claymore obsession.That's the interesting part.Widow is a part of ME lore before phantoms and multi too,but very few people like it.At least not at that level.

Like I mentioned before I think that Claymore "name" was already a thing before MP and ME3 and just got a bit out of hand to the point where it's sometimes actually meant this way and other times also used as kind of a meme. The Claymore also basically initiated the whole "reload cancelling"-debate in ME2 because you really HAD TO learn how to reload cancel this beast. It's obviously useful for other weapons as well but things like biotic charging into the Colossus on Insanity during Tali's recruiting mission were unthinkable without proper reload cancelling so the Claymore made a name for itself back then.

I loved the Widow just as much in ME2 and it might even be on that same level today within the community if it wasn't for what Balbock was saying: shield gate annoyance in ME3 which basically killed off single shot sniper rifles until phasic rounds came around. I remember being totally frustrated during my first SP playthrough. On top of that they introduced the Javelin which is super awesome from design to sound to damage and wallhax and the Black Widow. Otherwise the Widow might also be called some funny name nowadays I think. Personally I see the "High Lord" term mostly as a meme, even though I totally love the Claymore. But for overall usefulness I'd put the Wraith over the Claymore as well. Still I prefer to use the Claymore whenever I can but I wrote in some other thread how I once equipped ALL kits with the Wraith as default starting weapon.

I remember, munching me Pepperidge Farms...

I entered a lobby years ago, with my trusty Level 1 SI, one point in TacCheat and one in Erectile Dysfunction, with M98 Phasic, Targeting VI 4, Operative Package, some other useless consumable.

Had two kick votes almost immediately from players with much lower N7/CP. People still used mics then, so I mic'd up - "I won't harm the team and will probably be on top of the scoreboard." I would have kicked me, hearing that, but they let me stay, and I ended up soloing waves 4, 7 & 9 and absolutely crushed the scoreboard... We had drawn Cerberus, and I had multiple double/triple kills in that game including multiple double Guardians (still a favorite).

Damage is king! Single shot weapons are loved because they are powerful and take some sort of skill to use. They reward you for your effort.

Has anyone mentioned hosting?

The Venom is one of the weapons affected most while off host

Don't really care for neither claymore nor weird-ass grenade launcher masked as shotgun, but widow is pure love; so there's that.