Strong silver and gold builds?

Not really, just get your gun skill up and you'll likely do fine.

If you want to do silver or gold on the cheap do a human vanguard. It is a common so you get upgrades in the basic pack for the character card and it can play with any weapon. A long ranged weapon is probably best for taking out observers and enemy stacks without going in when it is a bad idea on gold, on silver the enemies don't do enough damage and you can let your team mates handle fiends and ascendants.

How I skilled my human Vanguard (might not be optimal but it works fine for me):
6 (a,a, <--- Most important
6 (a,b,a)
4 (a)
4 (
6 (a,b, <--- Second most important

Basic idea is to never run out of shields and if your 25% hp auto shield triggers your charge should be back out of cooldown and you can get out. The bonus melee equipment being sold right now is very good since you melee hit a lot, you don't have a good weapon.



If you have a good sniper rifle, pick an infiltrator and max the invis to revive and cap points. Then snipe stuff. Pick sniper on soldiers, engineers and adepts as well since it does more damage than their combos. Only class it isn't the best weapon for might be vanguard. Soldier sniper can be strong with more ammo per clip.

We did silver with 3 level 1 and a level 4 without any major problems yesterday having 1 vanguard and the rest doing snipers on various classes.



Those are the two things that are very strong right now. Other stuff works but isn't as strong. As long as you have good range damage and some way to stop the enemy melee from killing you it should be fine. Outlaw gold isn't extremely hard if you just want to farm that.

Asari adept is an OP biotic combo goddess.

Find some doorways, and play with others.

With Rank X you can do 3+5 or 6+1

Yeah, manguard is the poor man's kroguard, but it works exceedingly well. Mine's like this:

6 (a,a,
6 (a,a,a) - either armor or shields damage works, shields is probably better for kett and remnants, armor for outlaws
1
6 (b,a, - last evo is 20% CD reduction, for more better charging
6 (a,b,

I think it was Kronner who said, remember the ABC of vanguarding: Always Be Charging. Charge gives you 30% melee damage, which on top of the 33% from a melee optimiser, the 30% from your passive and the whopping 75% from the Juggernaut Shield adds up to... a hell of a lot. This is what Mike Tyson would do if he was born in the 29th century. And like Tyson, the build is a one-trick pony. The idea is to walk (or jump) up to enemies and unload your Nova. This primes them for your Charge, and after the detonation you just start punching away, which hopefully will keep replenishing your shields until Charge is off CD (if it's not enough, barrier 6b will save your ass once every 10s)  Rinse and repeat. Using your gun is only for targets like Observers which, by the way, are the bane of the build as apparently punching upwards is beyond this guy's mental capacity.

Go forth and break some faces.

I'll try it out on the male human vanguard I am doing after I maxed the female and a few other characters.

Considered doing 6 in shockwave for a long range primer to then charge into instead of the shorter range nova?

Nope, I hadn't considered it, but it sounds interesting. It probably makes life easier when dealing with scumbag Observers, and HtH performance shouldn't take much of a hit. I'll try it on the female.