Kill the bosses first?

I thought it was named such way because of synchronized animation triggered when the effect kicks in. lol

It's always been my understanding that you kill the lawyers first. Then the bosses.

Depends on the enemy, and your squad.
I snipe alot, and sometimes melee.

Against outlaws, I think I can objectively say you should;

1st. disable hydra sensors on sight. Saving barrier won't save you from a direct salvo of that crap. They're more of an obstruction than a threat after that.

2nd. lizard-dogs. They often won't give you a choice but to kill them on sight anyway. Will get melee killed in a clusterfuck.

3rd. Raiders->Sharpshooters if you have melee squadmates. They put out the most DPS on people when you're in the open, and if they're left alone. If you don't have melee squads to look out for, kill berserkers. They seem to have a nose for anyone equipped with a sniper rifle, and just piss me off.

Funny. Huntress with vanquisher does all 3 of those things at once.
Been my go-to for pug work for a reason.

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Unless I have to hold a position for whatever reason (finishing a upload, help a teammate revive) and the position it is actually holdable, I focus on small schmuzzies

That was in ME3. In MEA bosses don't respawn, except in objective and extraction waves, so both strategies now work. I still kill mooks first, but it can be a good idea to focus fire on a strong enemy like the Fiend.

Huntress is definitely great, especially for pugging. In my example though, the kits are more specialised for specific roles - this way you can also boost those specific roles by using specific boosters and gear. Like focusing on sniper and weakshot damage on one, and cooldowns and shields for another etc.


Nothing rivals the kineticist for clearing trashmobs fast though - ascension mode combined with double pull AND throw means you can grab multiple enemies and launch them for miles over and over with absolutely no cooldown - Sure, your ascension mode fails if you take a big enough hit, but with double pull you can get it back in a couple of throws off the map and maybe a lance to the face of another.

For pure damage purposes, an infiltrators cloak is better than stealth grid overall simply because of stealth grids finite number of charges, though inversely - stealth grid is king with objectives due to no cooldown and helping team mates.

Literally anything with a vanquisher is gold-worthy anyway. Its the Claymore of MEAMP. Back in ME3MP it was the norm to just take a Claymore on low level characters and reload cancel, corner camp and headshot your way to victory..

Currently, gold doesnt really require quite this level of co-ordination - at least against outlaws. Imagine Platinum level Kett though..

Depends on the weapon I have equipped. If I have a decent sniper rifle it's kind of rewarding to kill the bosses first. However if I have one of those several weapons-which-are-great-on-silver-but-shoot-tampons-on-gold equipped, I won't bother much with the bosses initially and let the Vanquisher-guy have his fun (did anyone notice there's always someone with a Vanquisher in pugs by the way? ).

This. I strip off the breakable bits from the bosses with stickies, then focus on the mooks. Usually I try to keep some pugs between me and the bosses as well. Things go bad, I pop cloak, flee to refill my stickies, then flank the boss while it's busy sync-killing the other guys.

I think you're right.

Bosses do respawn during an objective waves but only once. The second fiend you saw was the last one that would have spawned.