Kill the bosses first?

Consensus in ME3 was to deplete the wave budget killing enemies with high budget cost and reasonable killspeed and kite the boss lest you focus too much and get killed by loly mooks.

Mooks first seem to be the way to go, I will try this and see if my pug extraction rate improves.

Thanks guys.

Remember to use the pugs as bait! That way you'll be able to move in on the bosses and finish them off, get those last hits which finishes them off and claim the kills as your own

Yes, it's the executions. Fiend can do it too.

Yup thats what it is. Fiends, Ascendants, Hydras can do it

I focus on the Lieutenants first, get rid of Snipers, Krogans, machine gunners, invisi-turds etc while kiting the bosses and nailing mooks in-between.

In a proper squad however, sometimes I specifically play a character for taking out the trash for synergy with another player specialized in high burst damage. For example, one of us plays Salarian infiltrator with a sniper for taking out the special enemies, while the other plays a human kineticist and throws all the dogs, mooks etc off the map with zero cooldown. An angaran avenger works great for cloaking the squad on uploads etc and extraction.

I know that any person can take out the mooks, but it really helps having someone watch your back from dogs and mooks that appear behind you - especially when you are staring down a scope popping heads from a distance.

Fiends first, infantry, then ascendants.

Breathers, observers, everything else depends on proximity and positioning.

Krogan, anarchists, pariahs, saboteurs, infantry, hydras.

most of the time, the bosses aren't the units that kill you (unless it's a wall hacking fiend), it's the 1-2 raiders shooting you from behind and the side. my kill priority usually goes dogs -> mooks -> everything else.

I cobra pulled targets. Levitating mother fuckers are scary.

This is actually really interesting for objective waves:

In ME3 there was a limit of how many boss mobs could be out at once. So killing banshees/brutes/whatever was poibtless bc another would spawn immediately.

I need more extensive testing to be sure but when we've killed boss mobs on MEA on objective waves they do not respawn. I don't know if just more mooks spawn to compensate but if this is true the best way to take on kett upload is nuke the bosses first then go do objective.

Can anybody confirm?

I can confirm that they do respawn. Yesterday I got a W6 upload that dropped a Fiend right on top of my circle. Rocketed it, and less than 20 seconds later, a second Fiend showed up. I only had two rockets left, so it ate me.

Objective waves are an exception to the no-boss-respawn rule, apparently. Makes sense.