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

Let us agree to disagree. I love Justicar character not only for her mp capabilities, which are downright impressive (reave + crusader + warp ammo is bona fide armor destroyer) and unique (Big Blue Bubble. Need I say more?), but also for what she represents in broader Mass Effect universe - justicars being basically powerful, uncompromising samurai warriors, while Samara's lifelong search for her rogue daughter bringing another layer of emotional bonding with player, aka me, a parent. All the other mp kits are just that, mp kits, but justicar to me IS Samara. Nothing else comes close.

Been experimenting with other kits lately.

I found out I really like this build I made for the N7 slayer. Not that I dislike phase disruptor but it's unfortunately one of those powers, where it works best on host, instead of off host, in order to avoid delay. And anyone who knows me well, would know I play off host like 99% of the time

I actually really like biotic slash, hit things behind walls decently hard, without any danger of counterplay (Most of the time) from any faction you're facing. I also found in hacks to be really useful, for example the top left hand corner hack in firebase dagger when you look out from the tower, if you have reapers you can start tearing them apart from the opposite side where the big big tower structure is.

Arc pistol works well, you can release the charged shot while in mid animation of biotic slash, as a little combo that does it more damage than just biotic slash by itself. Ammo choice I don't think matters, if I wanted to go with the theme of wall haxing I'd pick drill rounds.

Overall I like the slayer in general, teleporting through walls with the heavy melee, and making cool escapes.

On some side notes, I don't know if other charged weapons, can do this but you can release a charged shot from an arc pistol while using your kit's dodge animation, if you want some fancy outplay and get a headshot while backflipping as an N7 shadow. It'd be cool to release a charged kischock harpoon shot mid backflip with the N7 shadow and land a headshot on a dragoon in the process.

Also not sure if this is well known but, biotic slash and electric slash have this unique feature, the first few seconds when you start the BS/ES animation can detonate a primer, and a second primer a few seconds afterwards with the shockwave that comes out after finishing BS/ES's animation. BS/ES is essentially double throw but you'd have to have to be directly in front of the enemy. So for example you can detonate an AIU's incendiary ammo primer with the initial animation and then snap freeze with the shockwave.

Sorry for the double post, but this wasn't really a build I discovered, but I finally used my favorite build on Platinum a little while ago, Crusader/Fury. I was too much of a wuss to use this build because I didn't think I could handle some enemies without the Venom. It was a three man on London, and it was also totally by accident. I assumed I had Venom on. But I didn't realize I hadn't changed it from when I played with DistigousForest a few days ago. So I didn't even have the right mods on for my usual Fury/Crusader. And I was surprised I did pretty well and even without mods the Crusader was doing damage.

It was against Cerberus, and I thought Phantoms would be a nightmare. But they really weren't. It was Dragoons and the Pyros/Hunters that were the most troubling. I even solo'd a wave with the build when my team went down. I might bust this out more often for platinum now. I still need to work on my aim though. I was missing several shots because I took a break from the gun.

I actually knew about these. While I don't play the Slayer a lot, I play the Fury a ton. So I have been looking out for places where she can teleport. I just can't decide which teleport looks cooler when you heavy melee between the Slayer and the Fury though. The Fury's scream or the Slayer's stealthily cutting in.

Though I have to ask, what exactly is wrong with Vanguards off host? Also, why do people prefer to play off host? I generally prefer hosting and have never joined someone's game. I only ask because I have issues with Vanguard on host, like charge not coming out or not getting my shields back from a successful charge. And the Slayer is so squishy that both of these are part of the reason I don't like him.

My biotic charge doesn't go off sometimes when playing vanguards off host.

I don't know why you're the opposite because my biotic charging is pristine when I'm hosting. I just press charge and bam no issues at all.

I prefer playing off host, so people don't have to deal with my red john host connection, with my best potato net plan from Australia  . I don't know if people feel the same way, but I like to play off host, because I feel like if I get too attached to host advantage, then you just get instantly demoralised when you play off host, and everything doesn't feel as smooth unless your host is like in the same country as you, next door neighbour or at least somewhere in close proximity.

My only response to squishynss of the slayer and the sometimes unreliability of biotic charge, is just to git gud  . I recently survived a rubberbanding, red johnning host connection, while playing the N7 slayer with no cyclonics, while playing on an open map like firebase condor (I top scored on that game too lmao). Despite all that I still kept playing N7 slayer. And just come to terms that I play the pug lottery and get a terrible host connection sometimes

Yeah, Phase Disruptor was underrated at start AFAIR, and now... i dont even know how Biotic slash is specced.
Probably a really good power, especially duoing with a biotic primer with this juicy 5A BE boost.
Do u guys also have multiples BEs in the way shockwave does ?

U sure about those double detonations @bestvolussupportau ? And do the projectiles of BS detonate separatly from those 2 ?

I m failing a lot of solo atm, should try stuff like that

Biotic Slash (And Electric Slash) both have two components, the first does not trigger a cooldown, and only has a range of a normal human's heavy melee, and does still detonate. The resulting shockwaves both behave exactly like Shockwave, in that each cascade can detonate an additional target. However, like Grenades and other AoE detonates, multiple enemies hit by the same cascade will only be detonated once, and primers removed. Admittedly, this is a small detail, but with things like Cluster Grenades that face the same dilemma, it can be quite frustrating (I always skip radius on them, but take shrapnel).

Cryo Scorpion is also fun on the Destroyer, HE or GE also make good use of it as well. I think I recently ran a Gold game with it on the Human Sentinel as well and it worked pretty well. It's a pretty underrated weapon and a great side arm if your an infiltrator or soldier as host in plat for the pesky Phantoms.

Personally, I find the Scorpion more reliable than the Venom, particularly off-host. There are less variables to get "lost in transit". And yeah, only reason to stick Scorpion rounds on people are A ) Ammo Priming, and B ) Hilarity, using them as proximity mines is more efficient. It's also lighter, meaning it works as a sidearm on many more characters.

Incendiary Scorpion has to be tried for lols, all the incendiary panic when stuck to the enemy then *boom* barbequed enemy.

I believe in practice (as opposed to theory), on host phantoms still have SOME DR in their bubble stance (they do lose their accumulated DR though), whilst staggered enemies seem to suffer bonus damage. In most cases, this wouldn't really be noticable (beyond the shedding of accumulated DR), so it's often better to trigger the easier-to-obtain bubble stance than try to stagger her, but with a scorpion, staggering phantoms and dragoons is the easiest thing in the world, they do all the work for you.

As to people not using Shotgun Huntress, most that I have seen that aren't using a Warp Ammo Kishock use Power Mag attachments. That said, I've seen quite a few Talon Huntresses, and one of my PS3 friends swore by the combo. I might have to try Claymore Huntress on my PC account, I lack in particularly good guns for power users there.

Um wait what? She's a legitimate melee character? I used the claymore on her, but on with fire rounds and her sticky grenades for tech explosions. I didn't even know this.

Yep, that's the build in all its glory, though I think I currently have 4a in Passives - in practice I don't think that choice makes any real difference. I also frequently use Shocktrooper Gear because of the enormous power of her Stickies (on Psions in particular), even though I recognize that the only thing better than melee is MOAR MELEE!

It's probably worth noting that this is one of the few builds in the game that I think makes it worth having more than one account on the go, as her Kishock/Sticky/No Fitness build is every bit as devastating - no hipfire penalty on the Kishock maximizes the Sticky damage. And of course that build works with classic weapons like the Widow and Mantis too. But ultimately the High Lord option is my favourite.