Basic Classes in Terms of Difficulty?

Also depends on your aim. The soldier and infiltrator are not as forgiving if you're a bad shot.

If you're a good shot, they're gold ready with a mantis.

They are all very good as have been pointed out above.

Most difficult in the beginning would be the Vanguard as they require a bit more timing, and it's one of the more difficult kits to play on Platinum, the Vanguards also suffers to most off-host so make sure you host if you play them.

At the start you're best off with the power damage kits, especially the basic adepts since you then can do a lot of damage not relying on the guns you use, the Soldier and infiltrator are excellent but highly weapon dependant.

Of course I read the guide

Yes, of course I am a bad shot! I do want to get better & play through all the classes, but overall, I feel that I have a long bright future in Bronze Tier as an Engineer

So, it looks like maybe it is:

Engineer, Adept, Sentinel (?), Soldier, Infiltrator, Vanguard then?

I love the Engineer its good because I think tech explosions increase in damage the higher difficulty you go or something like that... I think... dont take my word for it but im sure someone told me that at some point
Anyhow, the engineer is my favorite class in the game hands down and it has the benefit of like not being weapon-based so its good no matter what weapons you have... I just take a locust which gives me a quick cooldown
It also has the benefit of combat drone... so you have a little friend to help you

Also ive been dragged (by sadists) to platinum before and I used the engineer and because im nowhere near platinum-level-good (silver tops) I just died and chain overloaded everything... chain overload is super useful because even if youre out of your depth when it comes to difficulty you can contribute by stunning things I love chain overload its my favorite power in the game

Ive actually never used the sentinel at all and ive tried the vanguard once... im actually not a fan of the vanguard its like youre constantly... living on the edge I guess constantly recharging your shields just to get rid of them again and it causes me to die often because sometimes biotic charge doesnt work

I love the adept though thats awesome a lot like the engineer but a biotic version but without a little friend to help you... but yeah explosions and stuff happen

The infiltrator I love I mean just use a Mantis and its great on silver on gold it starts to uh... I dont know... like it doesnt feel to do enough basically in comparison with something like the Widow even at I when the Mantis is like X... so id say if youre gonna use it for gold you should take some armor piercing ammo and a sniper rifle amp III just to be sure you can do enough damage.
The thing is with infiltrators what I dont like is having 2 powers which kinda fight for cooldowns. With the human infiltrator it has tactical cloak, cryo blast and sticky grenade and what I feel happens is cryo blast slows things down... kinda. You have 2 choices basically you can either cryo blast an enemy then use tactical cloak then shoot (at which time the enemy might have gone or rolled or done something)... or tactical cloak then cryo blast then shoot but cryo blast deactivates tactical cloak... so personally I go for the grenades because they do quite a lot of damage and theyre good against things like brutes although lots of people would probably disagree with me but eh

The soldier im not really a fan of. Because on my pc and ps3 I dont have a great deal of weapons at high levels... it doesnt deal enough damage. Something like the Avenger or eventhe uncommon weapons like the Vindicator just dont do enough on higher difficulties... it would be good with like... I dont know... a weapon which deals a lot of damage that I dont have yet (which I hope exists) but even with the damage boost that adrenaline rush gives it just feels definitely lacking with all the guns I use... I find the Turian Soldier a little better but im not generally a fan of the soldier class (apart from the Juggernaut of course )... the problem is that theyre weapon based and when you havent got so good weapons theyre just not damaging enough in comparison with something like an infiltrator (even though its weapon based tactical cloak is awesome and the mantis deals a lot of damage anyway).


So yup those are my thoughts on the basic classes

Erm... why does hosting impact the gameplay? Does the party host get higher threat?

Hosting is important for Vanguards and Adepts like Fury. Just because eveything is more responsive and your powers work and are visible. Off-host your powers frequently don't fire off in time or become invisible. 

But hosts also have to deal with Phantom damage reduction from hit-scan weapons while they are moving. So playing on host and firing a whole clip of Typhoon into a Phantoms face and for her to not die is pretty common, while off-hosters can take her down with a lvl 1 Shuriken in couple of bursts (slight exaggeration)

And yes. Because the calculations are done on the hosts computer - he becomes the primary target, just because the A.I. will react much faster to his actions. And if he's playing on less than 60 FPS on PC - the off-host players can basically walk past enemies and not get hit. 

You only need to have "orange brackets" around the enemy to target them with powers, so the Singularity should track them if you do that. You can of course place it in the doorways to lay a trap. 

2Me, Infiltrator is the easiest class.....somethings scares you, cloak & run away from the monster and lead it to someone else.

I also feel some classes have more success against certain enemies...for instance...every god damn time i'm a biotic and search for U/U...and get Geth..is always a tough fight...as opposed to rolling Reapers or Collectors with an adept = cake walk.

Engineers dominate geth & cerberus.


Vanguards are, meh x's 1000...Im really over the whole charging thing. cept 4 me Slayer...cuz it's me Slayer.

Cool beans! Can't wait to try out these tips. Ha! I guess tonight is going to be Adeptability night I am so excited I might bounce! I so don't want to be stuck in the office right now.

Alas, no. I am a proud owner of Mantis VIII however.

Mantis is good for the Infiltrator too!