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

I don't take it very often, but it's good fun when I do. lolConsole sniping can be a real PITA at times so shotguns are my weapon of choice. 

For me I always bounce shots with the Falcon, I find it more reliable than trying to hit targets straight up. Added bonus if you pretend it's like a bouncing betty . Ammo application probably appears less finicky with the Falcon because the Venom can have terrible shot registration off host and I've died several times from that crap. 

i m loosing a lot of venom single shot while soloing... i almost charge every shot now, but those on armor pools. I never lost a falcon shot, but i dont think i ever picked it for a plat solo

I don't know why it took me so long to try Fury/Wraith. But man is it effective as hell. I put the Crusader down for a minute to try this. I went into platinum with Wraith/Acolyte. It was super strong.

I also have tried every pistol minus the Scorpion on the Shadow. Is that gun any good for her? I like to run Talon alone on gold for her, but want to mix things up a bit. But I don't think the Scorpion is a solid boss killer. Unless I am missing something. I only have it at level 4 currently.

Tried it, didn't like it. I think having two weapons on the Shadow is something I don't like. Even though she is my favorite infiltrator, I only really like two weapons on her from what I've tried. The Talon and Piranha (Piranha only for platinum). I would like the Carnifex or Paladin, but they aren't great boss killers without pistols mods to me. And the Paladin's three rounds isn't too great for her and I only have it at level 4.



Also tried the Havok with three different shotguns. The Claymore, Raider, and Piranha. I think I liked Claymore the most but I liked how much faster the recharge times are with the other two shotguns. I know you shouldn't be spamming Havok Strike with him, but Cryo blast is still sorta slow with Claymore. I also tried Destroyer without Devestator mode. He is actually still really strong, but I miss his DPS against bosses.

And I believe you. I played her with pull and people were telling me its unneeded, but I just don't use the extra weapon damage for her and put pull on level 3. I still think she's strong this way. And of course, I play Geth Engineer with everything maxed except his sentry. I put a Geth Plasma shotgun on him (sometimes Javelin) and he is pretty awesome. But as I said, it just doesn't feel like a Geth without eye strain mode. But I assume Geth Trooper can be played very successfully without it.

Really? I don't put a lot of points on electric slash (again only to level 3), but that power just looks so cool on her and it helps to thin out enemies and makes cryo ammo fun on her. I have tried the Shadow many different ways (melee, sniper, etc), but I think I really love her with the current build I have. She is probably my second or third favorite in the whole game after Fury bae and Cerberus smash bro.

Ok, I will try the Vorcha Engineer this way when I play again later. I actually have subnet maxed, but not incinerate. I'll try your way. I don't recall what weapon I had on him, but I think it was the Punisher SMG. And my hatred for flamer originates from other players who love to obscure my vision with that obnoxious power. A few days ago, I had a vorcha soldier join my game and he kept following me around like a lost puppy flamering everything and was generally being annoying. He was even toasting abominations of both kinds near me when I can simply do heavy melee with the Shadow and kill them cleanly. Its always fun when you are playing really well and people like this start doing stuff like this.

The sad part was, his DPS was actually really poor for whatever reason (only 20K by wave 9) and I refused to pick him up when he went down. Like I said, the Vorcha Sentinel is alright in my book. 

Yeah, I get that. It makes perfect sense. It's just a personal thing for me - I don't like any of the Shockwave-type powers much, although I do enjoy the Smashguard but that's as much because of the novelty of using a Bonus Power spec. I do appreciate your 'totally all style' approach, but I've simply played with too many bad Shadows, hiding behind walls and spamming ES, to ever want to risk annoying someone else the way they've annoyed me over the years. I'm not suggesting you play like that at all, but for me, I've honestly never felt the need for anything more than my Piranha and Omniblade. I like the relatively simple approach of balancing the precision of SS/Melee with the brute force of the Piranha. 

I hate shockwave spam also. Its one of the most annoying things in this game next to flamer spam in your face. I have seen the types of Shadow players you are referring to. I ran into a Slayer who did this and I wanted to punch him in the face. And I know why you like Piranha with the Shadow. It is super effective. But I don't think two handed weapons suit the Shadow. She strikes me as a one handed weapon kind of girl. I don't know how to explain it, but the Shadow with just a pistol seems the most... "right" to me. It just looks weird if she's using a two handed weapon and sword on top of that. Yeah, I know I'm weird. 

But on platinum, I have to use the Piranha because Platinum is not kind to her.

But do you still play MP on 360? I can show you how my Shadow rolls. 

Yeah pugs are gonna be pugs, even in the rare event they play sweet kits instead of boring TGI/AIU/Melee Jugg they never know how to do it right anyways, and Vorcha pugs are often especially pitiful (mainly because silly pugs clearly think Bloodlust makes them tanky, so they show up on Gold or Platinum and try to stand out in the open and just lay on the Flamer, blinding everyone and dying constantly in the process). Cluster grenades are crazy good, and the Vorcha Sentinel has no reason not to take the rank 5 +2 grenade capacity evo so he's particularly suited to grenade-spamming everything into oblivion. Add in some incendiary cheese and a good priming gun (*cough*, Venom, *cough*) and just carpet-bomb everything that moves with fire and explosions- now that's some proper Vorcha-ing. 

But yeah the speed is sort of the key premise for playing the Engie this way, that plus Raider plus melee makes for a pretty fun, frenetic CQC playstyle that feels differentiated from the other Vorcha and other Engineers. Definitely lots of fun potential in SubNet+Graal/Arc Pistol/whatever and other builds, but like I said this way feels more Vorcha-ey to me (and I usually use the BatSent for the SubNet shenanigans anyways).

This is a fun Sentinel build, every now and then I'll run a set-up like this with a pistol/smg with Power Mag+ Power Amp IV for some insanely strong Flamer/Clusters (just did the other night, the last time I played ME3mp in fact)- very good stuff. And yeah, skipping/not using cluster grenades is just complete and utter madness, but then again, pugs are gonna be pugs 

The Vorcha Engineer, my favourite pyromaniac, and he doesn't even have a flamer a couple of themed challenges have made me a firm believer in using the Kishock on him. Here's a build I like to run. Everything he does adds ticking damage, so he is basically the king of DoT, especially if you want to go a little heavy handed and use inc. ammo on him. I like having regen on vorchas, it allows them a little leeway in sticking their necks out of cover and staying aggressive - a necessity IMO - but that extra burst of speed from rank 6 of bloodlust is too good to pass up. Since the Kishock can be hip-fired at no penalty, he can close range as well, and add a little melee into the mix.
Subnet is, at least on-host, an underappreciated power IMO, especially on the Vorcha Engie, capable of cc'ing groups of mooks (the BatSent, who can tank for days, has perhaps less use for it) - plus, thrown on the ground it can defang phantoms

I have a lot of fun with him on gold, though I would not want to take this build pugging off-host.

Edit: Arktinen, I think you can get the flamer to stop by dodging. At least, that's what I do when I get hit with a seeker swarm, and suddenly I cannot turn that damn thing off manually anymore!

I just wanted to quote this to emphasize the Bloodlust spec here. I can't see any reason to skip the movement at rank 6, on any vorcha, with any spec. It's just too damned awesome. That little extra regen wont help you nearly as much. I might vary rank 5 depending on how I intend to play them, but rank 4 and 6 are set for me (I don't melee enough to dedicate more than Martial Artist and Rank 6 of bloodlust to it, but I like having the option there).

I also have to agree with the sheer utility of SubNet on him (and agree that it is slightly less useful to the BatSent, but that still makes it a good power). Vorcha Engineer has arguably more CC than any other Vorcha, and is definitely up there by even Engineer standards. And if you couldn't tell by now, I value CC (DPS is important, too, but dead people aren't much use).