Mass Effect Legendary Edition - New Players Discussion

You're right I'll clean up my posts.

The series was a blast.  it has officially replaced Dragon Age as my favorite series of BioWare games.  Yes, I intend to make different choices, but not recruiting Wrex is tough one I love that guy.  In my first playthrough I went full paragon although in ME2 and ME3 I made some Renegade choices, but the Paragon choices outweighed the Renegade choices.  One of the hardest parts I can see is resisting Liara's and Tali's charms, like I said in my review thread I am history buff and tech geek in real life, so those two I instantly like.  Another hard one is what to do with the Council's future.  In my first playthrough I chose humanity.  No I did not get the Singularity achievement.  But I will go for it now.  I'm still deciding what class to pick this time.  The Sentinel class sounds good as well as the vanguard.  I did not know that in my second playthrough of ME1 I get to choose a bonus power.

Thanks that is great advice.  I still haven't started a new game I am stumped on the other classes besides Soldier, Engineer, and Adept.  There are so many choices and yet I don't fully understand what they do.  I may just start with the class you recommended Sentinel.  But I will try and avoid that bug you spoke off.  Also any tips on how best to use a Sentinel?  My first character was a Soldier so it was pretty much straightforward.

This thread has a lot of good stuff rescued from the closure of the old forums. It's for the original release, though; and a few minor differences do matter:

bsn.boards.net/thread/1625/effect-trilogy-mechanics-character-compilation

Before Legendary Edition, a character couldn't hit the broad side of a barn when shooting a gun without skill points invested. The guides will accordingly value weapons. Now, in LE, these penalties have been removed. This means any Shepard is pretty good with any weapon.

In my opinion, it's now best to just ignore weapon skills on most Shepards. I play on Insanity, and I've not missed weapons skills one bit on my Sentinel; and I now have more skill points to put elsewhere.

I've likewise done the same for an Infiltrator, ignoring both Pistols and Sniper Rifles. I use the saved skill points to instead round out my tech skills. This Shepard ends up being an Engineer in medium armor with the Immunity talent. Pretty cool.

For a Sentinel, there are a couple of ways to go. They have a good assortment of tech skills and biotics by default. You could add Assault Rifles and call it a day; but like I said, I think those are wasted skill points.

Instead, you can fill holes in your tech or biotic capabilities. You said you wanted to play a biotic, so grabbing a biotic ability fits well. I recommend Singularity. In ME1, it's incomparable in terms of crowd control.

If you do so, you'll essentially be an Adept who can also do all his own Decryption and Electronics work. You'll be able to use Sabotage and Overload, which are always useful. You'll even be able to use Stasis in a unique way; and your Barrier skill will be the best in the game. (These last two require picking Bastion as your specialization after the Rogue VI mission.)

The only things an Adept will have that you won't is Pistol training (who cares?) and Warp. Warp is good, but doesn't compare to the long list of stuff you get as a Sentinel + Singularity.

^This
I skipped Pistol and Tactical Armor on my Adept and wrecked everything on Insanity.

With Immunity nerfed, Warp is far less useful than in original game, so I agree with Singularity as bonus.

talyn82, Soldiers get a pass on investing in weapons since that's their thing. 😉 Your Sentinel probably won't feel as damaging with a gun as your Soldier. You likely won't care, though, as you suspend hordes of foes in the air, throw Krogan like ragdolls, etc...

Sounds great I'll check out the guide in your signature. 

Crap, I didn't realize I posted in the non-spoiler thread. Sorry!