What's the most recent build/set up that you've discovered?

Don´t underestimate him. He can kick arse.



Build I use: Lancer BF3. Asskicking guaranteed.



No AR? Interesting. Will give it a whirl sometime.

OMG, you've never skipped AR?

Concussive shot build with either tech burst or cryo soldier is pretty good. Allows you to walk around the map with near impunity. You can also switch it up and go Cryo with a diff weapon, like the CSMG, or even the Avenger.

Perfectly acceptable, although AR will interfere with CS.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. 

No. But he doesn´t do it worse either.

I tend to prefer Falcon, Krysae, or Acolyte on a cryo-sol for the AoE. I seem to recall something about cryo armour weakening not playing nice with armour piercing (one overlaying the effective damage boost of the other), but it's been a while since I looked into it.

I used to use the BFSol as a similarly built fire-sol (skipping AR), but eventually came to the conclusion that an AA armed with an incendiary Claymore was better in every respect, even if it wasn't for the IA/warp cheese.

A fun "Winter Soldier" build -- if you can bear to forego Marksman that is -- is this Concussive Shot-take on the TSol . Now, before the screams of blasphemy! kick-in  , I'm not saying this build is superior to a traditional Marksman build on the TSol; no, it just adds a bit of variety to the game and uses up some of those pesky Cryo rounds that we've all got lying around gathering dust. Here's a vid by Bwnci (whom I ... erm  'borrowed' the idea from) on the very chap:

 

I spent a whole match on Reactor trying to despawn enemies off the map with the HAdept, it was HILARIOUS,  and EVERYBODY must try it sometime.

Destroyer does a fine job with Scimitar. It is ok...

GI does lovely with it, but that's like saying that Picasso can paint with a brush.

Scimitar was awesome in ME2... I was really disappointed with the gun in ME3, too much of a downgrade.

I have failed enough with melee HA, that, as a melee enthusiast, I have found a limitation in my game that I have to live with at this point. One can only do so much gitting gud.

"Let me sing you the blinding song of my people" - Geth Trooper #29784765

But personally, as annoying as it is, it is nothing compared to screenshake powers. I so love missing because SHOCKWAVE. Or BIOTIC/ELECTRIC SLASH in yo face yo.

I don't see people using characters with shockwave that often. Though Electric Slash is annoying. While not as common as Geth trooper/Vorcha, people who use the Shadow by constantly spamming electric slash as annoying as hell. Like she has so many other tools to be effective, but people mindlessly spam electric slash constantly. I especially love it when they have it specced to do no damage whatsoever or don't at least try to set up tech detonations.

And thanks, that makes sense. Dragoons and Phantoms were pretty easy with Crusader with Warp ammo 3. Geth still are a constant annoyance as the Fury though.

The Drone glitch has happened to me several times, but only on White, Reactor and Vancouver. I love it if it happens to be during a Guardian-intensive wave myself, as they're always the ones who hold up my Cerberus challenge completion.

I do agree with you about Flamer and ES on the Shadow, which I have vowed to skip for all time, but have no desire to open that particular can of worms again - I know I'm right and won't be persuaded otherwise! 

I also agree with what others have said about screen shake in general (Venom aside, although I'm unlikely to equip it myself if the host is sniping), but I regard the Jugg's large Hex Shield as the single worst power in the game, by a country mile. There is no justification for its use which doesn't include the word scrub. It's a horrible, horrible violation of other players' enjoyment and will make me quit if I have to shoot through it more than once or twice. 

As for the TSol, my favourite build is 65564, which seems to give me the best of both worlds. I ran a few games recently with the Krysae (lore and all that) and found the balance between dealing with mooks using Cryo CS spam and Marksman for instant reloads when the bigger enemies show up to be almost perfect. Ultralight Locust for Guardians.

And talking of the Locust, I also ran a full damage specced 66653 Asari Huntress with just a Locust. While I can also heartily endorse DistigousForest's Crusader Huntress as something similar to what I usually run as an alternative to the Claymore, Talon or CSMG, I wanted to see what she was like with DC absolutely maxed in every way possible, and the Locust with power booster and piercing barrel allows for that without leaving her with any obvious weakness, other than the slight pew-pew-pew nature of the gun. I chuckled with delight when we rolled Collectors, and my off-host score was around 180k with 50 Biotic kills and 20 headshots quite early on.