Your Juggernaut Build

Yup, I can confirm it works, tried it on Glacier against Geth. And the surf is fun!  Thank you, both.

My Juggy build, a.k.a. "The Babysitter"

Pretty much the only actual "tank" strategy that's viable on platinum. Mostly, your job is to tank Phantoms and heavies so that your team can kill them without getting sync'd. Someone above suggested Adrenaline Module for extra mobility; I agree, and also take Fitness 5a since the heavy melee shield drain means that your shields will never be recharging naturally. The GPSG is a pretty good weapon - it mounts an omni-blade, works at any range, provides stagger, and doesn't leave you at -200% cooldown (You have shields and turrets to deploy) - but you'd much rather be in melee range so you can drain shields.

Unlike the other builds in this thread, this one makes you very much a support to your team instead of a massive damage dealer, but no less valuable. Leave the DPS to the Furies and TGIs, since they're going to be better at it anyway. =P

I just find that 5b does actual nothing for you - you always recharge your shields by draining instead of by waiting, so your shield recharge delay is completely irrelevant. It could be 10 seconds and you wouldn't mind too much.

5a has a chance of doing something, possibly allowing you to reposition or get to an ammo box a little quicker if you happen to get a killing blow.

You only are recharging your shields with heavy melee, in my opinion, for lulz and either an Arc Pistol charged headshot (another great choice for Siege Juggy) or a Siege Pulse to the face.

I try to heavy melee very rarely with big robot, he is a weapons platform/ammo detonator for me, lots of movement and soft cover abuse, constant turret deployment (occasionally with flamethrower turret for moar FE's) and rare but useful Hex Shield deployment, can be very helpful on larger maps to have the small shield as some form of cover while your lumbering ass is trying to get to some form of safety.

Therefore, 5b.

I like to spam Siege Pulse and I normally give my Juggernaut Incendiary Ammo for Fire Explosions, or Disruptor Rounds for Tech Bursts when fighting Geth or Cerberus.

I roleplay with the Spitfire :

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I consider rank 4 and 5 of Hex Shield mandatory for how I like to play (that is doing the maximal number of different things in a match), and from a pure efficiency point of view the staggers and priming it gives is great when chased by a group of Dragoons / Phantoms or GRT / Pyros, etc. There's no real interest to push the turret beyond 3 ranks IMO (that's either 3 or 6 to me, but since I already prime everything for FE with the Spitfire, the Flamethrower is partly redundant), it already distract enemies at this point and I find the little shield regen is enough in almost all situations.

When I'm seeking for max effiency with him, I go with the Reegar.

I like this build. I really do. I've seen few Juggernaut builds are good as this one. Probably even better than my own. Seems like a Frontlines Combat Engineer. You're totally right about Turret, despite the fact I usually favour it, there is little difference between 3 ranks, and 5/6. And the Shield has quite a few utility purposes (Especially specced like that).

It's not often somebody gets me to rethink my Jugg speccing, so well done, was considering promoting my Soldiers anyway, so we'll see how it goes

I always take the Damage on Rank 6 of Devastator Mode, even with my no-fitness builds.

Yes, I take rank 6 Fitness on my Juggernaut, I often solo with them, or solo with corpses (Leeches), so yes, I need my Fitness, he's too slow to skip it.

I hadn't played him in a while, so I gave him another run. I really do enjoy that build. In general, there will be a few waves where there is enough relocation to make the slow speed a bit annoying, but never enough to overcome how fun it is to mow things down without dealing with shield gate.

And fitness 3 ranks 4 lyfe!



Edit: And I ran into Smeckie. Do we have a thread for that yet? O.o

Weapon on passives. Protection on Siege Pulse.

My favorite for gold & platinum is the Swiss army knife of Juggernauts.
- PPR for range and free roaming, independence from ammo boxes.
- Reegar when boss gets into your face.
- Turret for shield regen and recon, flamer not really used with these weapons (but see further down).
- Siege pulse is for damage protection and emergencies.
- Hexshield mainly as I won't put points into Health 5/6, but has it's uses. (like devices)
Adrenaline, absolutely, so you can run circles around Banshees.
Demo:


Alternatively, with lighter weapon load
you can better afford the siege pulse cool down, this way
- siege pulse is constantly used to detonate tech burst (ammo) and fire explosions
- set up by the turret flamer
playstyle is like TTT's Jug solo, except allowing for the turret: