I promoted my human engineer and have an Asari Vanguard up to 14. Got my new human engineer up to level 6 from one multiplayer game. I want to get the Vanguard up to 20 to promote the next time they do that weekend event. I think I’ll mostly stick with the engineer for now (and hopefully get a Turian Sentinel soon like I had in the demo. Overload and Incinerate or Warp is a really good power set for tearing down defenses.
I just tried out vanguard, and holy Crom it’s awesome! (once I got the hang of it, that is)
I’m personally really loving the Quarian Engineer, the turret they can throw out comes in handy quite a bit, especially when you fully upgrade it to get the flamethrower, that plus incinerate is awesome
I’ll usually run with just a Carnifex IV that way my powers will recharge really fast as well
Wait, weapon choice affects your recharge time?
Never played multi, but in single player weapons have weight, and anything more than a pistol and/or smg will start to affect your recharge time.
yep, notice if you equip two weapons, especially heavy ones there will be a bar center of screen saying “Recharge time -%200” and if you only pick one and make it light it’ll be positive
I’m not sure if the stats are the same on Multiplayer, but on single player, you can get an Ultralight Materials upgrade to drop the weight of your SMG. At level 5, it drops the weight of the SMG by 90%, making it take almost no weight.
Cool, thanks. I wondered what the big deal was with the ultralight materials. I never bothered equipping them because I didn’t understand the need.
And picking one weapon isn’t always the answer either. On my single-player Infiltrator, I have a SMG and the N7 Sniper Rifle and my recharge is still in the +190% range. I don’t get quite that high in multiplayer, but on my Engineer there I’m using a Locust for most stuff and my best heavy pistol for better damage against armor (while I’m waiting for my Incinerate to recharge 
) and I’m still in the 160% range even without Ultralight Materials.
In single player, as a Vanguard, I have done very well with just a good shotgun, and a light pistol with a decent capacity. It keeps the recharge rate in the +160% range, so I can use fast recharging powers like Pull and Charge pretty much at will, and gives you a good amount of firepower with the shotgun.
In multiplayer I have found powers to be not quite as good since you can’t pause the game, although some like grenades are not affected by that too much. In that I tend to go with heavier guns with more capacity.
Huh. I never really used the power wheel for anything other than directing my squadmates powers. I would occasionally use it to try finding an enemy, but not really all that much.
With my engineer in multiplayer, there were rounds (especially against the Geth), where I used more powers than bullets. Maxed out Overload with both chain upgrades = lots of assists against Geth. 
I just got an Asari justicar in multiplayer … The barrier is pretty cool, she is not as streamlined looking as the other asari
I just got my Asari Justicar on Friday night but I haven’t used it yet, b/c I’m still holding out for the regular Asari adept and I love playing MP w/ my Asari vanguard. Stasis bubble and lift grenades make for a high kill count at higher levels. I don’t even bother leveling biotic charge with her because I only use it to restore my shields.
Does anybody else love Firebase Hydra as much as I do? It’s become my favorite map, so much so that I give up the XP bonus of the unknown map and just search for matches on it most of the time.
Hydra is a top tier map. That and the one on Tuchanka with the AA guns are the best maps in the game.
I like Hydra, but Condor’s a complete pain.
I know a couple tricks with White, but I’m a bit sick of it.
I think my favorite is Glacier (the Cerberus base one).
I do so love the Hydra map. Tuchanka is a fun map but I’d really like one of Thessia, at least then it would make sense when my Asari Vanguad yells, “For Thessia!” at the end of the wave.
Glacier is a fun map. Hydra is still my favorite though, and I think everyone I’ve encountered feels the same about Condor, it’s got a really bad layout and at times you have to run around the entire map to find where the enemies are at.
I like Hydra and Dagger, they have the best sight lines, and I need all the help I can get. Condor drives me crazy though… glad to hear I am not the only one. I will look for you guys online to see if you are on multiplayer. My gamer tag is A for Amaze.
Condor feels like I’m running around in never ending really large circles to search for the enemies. It’s enough to make a person dizzy at times.
This picture is giving me emotions I don’t fully understand. More here.
Still working my way though the game, and enjoying it more and more as it goes.