Geth insanity down! Extracted lone survivor by the skin of my teeth.
Now I just need Reapers and... *shudder* Collectors.
Lork and I almost beat Reapers on insanity, but wiped on the final hack objective. It also didn't help that we had one completely useless guy on our team who by the end of 10 waves only scored 10,000 points and only achieved a "5 assist" medal. Thats not even an exaggeration.
We also had a guy named Pro Asian Gamer but he didn't really live up to his namesake.
Well he was more pro than that other guy I guess.
That was a good introduction to platinum, even if we didn't win. It demonstrated that it is within my grasp as long as I'm with a good team. I'm a long way from being able to do it in a PUG or solo though.
Dudes, I had two gift packs in my multiplayer store and one of them was a krogan warlord!
Why'd I get this stuff, did everyone get it?
yes. also, the warlord has health regen like the vorcha. and he can't take cover....not that you'd want to
Is it ok I ain't give a shit about tech armor for him, or should I spec something into that?
no it is not ok. you spec tech armor for extra melee damage and you put 0 points into tech hammer and full points into biotic hammer and everything else.
and then you proceed to smash down EVERYTHING.*
*until you get sync-killed for being too awesome to live. this will happen a fuckton.
I disagree :P
Tech hammer is civilization! Get's four charges and a 300% multiplyer for shields and barriers. So any small mooks, shielded or not? Pyros, Phantoms, Bombers? Tech hammer.
Boss enemies? Tech hammer for shields, then Biotic Hammer and melee cancel out of the animation. Way faster than spamming Biotic Hammer against shields!
After further testing I find that the Blood Pack Punisher is not that bad. However, as with all SMGs you'll want the AP barrel. That leaves one mod slot. It has a low size magazine and enormous recoil, so you'll want both the Magazine mod and the stability mod.
I hope they either increase the magazine or lower the recoil through balance changes.
CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Ok I just... I just did Warlord all wrong, ok? I won't touch him again until I get a respec card.
Hopefully I'll still be able to get in on matches on one of the other classes.
Also, finished Omega. Can only echo what others have said. It's excellent, but too short for the price. Also a gyp that you can't visit omega after you're done.
CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Also Shepard is RIDICULOUS with the Reeger. I haven't played with the Reeger at all now except single player, but I am no longer embarassed at how much I suck in multi knowing that most o' yall have that sucker to play with, you whoresons.
I think one of the big keys to learning to use the Warlord is getting a feel for exactly how much damage his various hammer attacks do. Especially the biotic version since you'll most likely be using it against enemies who will have a sync kill. Basically knowing how many bars of health/armor an enemy needs to be under in order for the heavy melee to be a kill shot.
So quick question about the lodestar thing since i cannot find the mass effect 3 home page at all with this new DLC released. How do you do it? Is it every time you play or just randomly?
Ahaha, already did crazy party, but quiet party is equally delightful
Shepard: OK, what are you guys doing?
Zaeed: Don't tell him, he wouldn't understand!
Garrus: It's just, well... One man's decorative glass wall fixture is another man's explosive glass wall fixture
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
So quick question about the lodestar thing since i cannot find the mass effect 3 home page at all with this new DLC released. How do you do it? Is it every time you play or just randomly?
I mean it's not a huge deal, just ruins my plan to replenish all the consumables I used tonight with the cash from the last match
I did a silver mission to complete the 4 evacs. I had about 500 credits (had just purchased a last pack) when we started, when we finished I opened the free pack. I only had 500 credits total after completing the Silver Reaper map. No credits from running the mission at all.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
So quick question about the lodestar thing since i cannot find the mass effect 3 home page at all with this new DLC released. How do you do it? Is it every time you play or just randomly?
Can't quite believe it, but I jut managed full extraction on collector/white/platinum, with randoms. Had a geth jugg tanking sync killers, a salarian engie tech bursting everywhere, and a destroyer paired up with my ghost for dps. It was glorious
"Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination."
God damn you people, making this DLC sound so amazing. Now I've gotta try it.
I haven't even played Leviathan and Omega, though. Are they both worth it?
Also, can I just play all the DLC near the end (got a save before the point of no return) or should I start a new playthrough and spread it out a bit more?
Geth insanity down! Extracted lone survivor by the skin of my teeth.
Now I just need Reapers and... *shudder* Collectors.
Lork and I almost beat Reapers on insanity, but wiped on the final hack objective. It also didn't help that we had one completely useless guy on our team who by the end of 10 waves only scored 10,000 points and only achieved a "5 assist" medal. Thats not even an exaggeration.
We also had a guy named Pro Asian Gamer but he didn't really live up to his namesake.
Well he was more pro than that other guy I guess.
That was a good introduction to platinum, even if we didn't win. It demonstrated that it is within my grasp as long as I'm with a good team. I'm a long way from being able to do it in a PUG or solo though.
Come to think of it... it could be that one player may have rage quit, and the really low scoring guy was just a late join.
I just can't see how its possible to score only 10k points and get 5 assists after 10 waves.
How does everyone spec the warlord's fitness tree? The melee bonuses and health bonuses both look so good.
Melee and survivability for the most part yes, and everything in Biotic hammer.
I managed to complete one Platinum Cerb with a random group but it's just horrible, Hex shields is the worst skill in the game because every Jug player uses it to heavy melee enemies through the shield and just stand there not thinking about the others.
Get him to stand in the corner and think about what he's done, so that you can kill all the harmless enemies around him.
Just standing there is kind of Juggy's thing.
Possibly minor complaint during Citadel's actual story mission:
Any other Infiltrators find out their cloak doesn't actually make them invisible to the enemy? Made that first battle in the restaurant a huge PITA. Then I bumped the difficulty from Insanity to Narrative, because damnit, this is shore leave and I want banter.
Big Boss' cloak managed to stay intact after her gun was fired too. Made everything more "fun".
Dudes, I had two gift packs in my multiplayer store and one of them was a krogan warlord!
Why'd I get this stuff, did everyone get it?
yes. also, the warlord has health regen like the vorcha. and he can't take cover....not that you'd want to
Is it ok I ain't give a shit about tech armor for him, or should I spec something into that?
no it is not ok. you spec tech armor for extra melee damage and you put 0 points into tech hammer and full points into biotic hammer and everything else.
and then you proceed to smash down EVERYTHING.*
*until you get sync-killed for being too awesome to live. this will happen a fuckton.
No tech hammer? argh, I already messed up the spec then.
I use the tech hammer.
Tech hammer is for mooks. Biotic Hammer is for heavy armor and bosses.
Dudes, I had two gift packs in my multiplayer store and one of them was a krogan warlord!
Why'd I get this stuff, did everyone get it?
yes. also, the warlord has health regen like the vorcha. and he can't take cover....not that you'd want to
Is it ok I ain't give a shit about tech armor for him, or should I spec something into that?
no it is not ok. you spec tech armor for extra melee damage and you put 0 points into tech hammer and full points into biotic hammer and everything else.
and then you proceed to smash down EVERYTHING.*
*until you get sync-killed for being too awesome to live. this will happen a fuckton.
I disagree :P
Tech hammer is civilization! Get's four charges and a 300% multiplyer for shields and barriers. So any small mooks, shielded or not? Pyros, Phantoms, Bombers? Tech hammer.
Boss enemies? Tech hammer for shields, then Biotic Hammer and melee cancel out of the animation. Way faster than spamming Biotic Hammer against shields!
You know what's faster that spamming Tech Hammer on shields, though? The Reegar.
Pyros, Phantoms, and Bombers can all be one-shot with the Biotic Hammer if you're Raging and have a Juggernaut Shield on.
Tech Hammer might be better for CC, but it is absolutely not necessary for smacking down shields
I do admit I need to do some tests with it though
Only problem is figuring out what to sacrifice for it, because those power damage boosts are cray-cray on your hammers
Possibly minor complaint during Citadel's actual story mission:
Any other Infiltrators find out their cloak doesn't actually make them invisible to the enemy? Made that first battle in the restaurant a huge PITA. Then I bumped the difficulty from Insanity to Narrative, because damnit, this is shore leave and I want banter.
Big Boss' cloak managed to stay intact after her gun was fired too. Made everything more "fun".
The Stealth section is bunk.
Cloak counts as power usage which auto detects.
The enemies have vague and really wide view cones and insta alert every enemy on seeing Shepards pinkie.
Dudes, I had two gift packs in my multiplayer store and one of them was a krogan warlord!
Why'd I get this stuff, did everyone get it?
yes. also, the warlord has health regen like the vorcha. and he can't take cover....not that you'd want to
Is it ok I ain't give a shit about tech armor for him, or should I spec something into that?
no it is not ok. you spec tech armor for extra melee damage and you put 0 points into tech hammer and full points into biotic hammer and everything else.
and then you proceed to smash down EVERYTHING.*
*until you get sync-killed for being too awesome to live. this will happen a fuckton.
No tech hammer? argh, I already messed up the spec then.
I use the tech hammer.
Tech hammer is for mooks. Biotic Hammer is for heavy armor and bosses.
5/6/6/3/6
I really hoped to have a radius on the hammer but it only hits one enemy at the time, even with the biotic burst.
Also I found out Banshee's can sync-kill you halfway your heavy melee, she grabbed me a moment before the hammer would have hit her.
Ok I just... I just did Warlord all wrong, ok? I won't touch him again until I get a respec card.
Hopefully I'll still be able to get in on matches on one of the other classes.
Also, finished Omega. Can only echo what others have said. It's excellent, but too short for the price. Also a gyp that you can't visit omega after you're done.
Cambi there is no wrong way to spec the Warlord
Just take him into battle and use him however you want. Give him some kind of melee mod on his weapon (pistol or shotgun) and beat everything to death. It is super liberating. When you're learning the ropes of using him, maybe spec his Fitness for survivability (with Martial Artist at level 5). Spec for melee damage if and when you are more comfortable with him.
Also what class Shepard do you have?
Because whatever it is, it now has Flare
Wyborn on
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
OMG dis fukin game you guys.
I'm sorry that was better than Shadow Broker for me. Best DLC ever. And I haven't even done the social stuff yet!!
If you're using the warlord, you should definitely spec damage 4 dayz: Also note that you can do the Krogan backhand if you're sprinting and use heavy melee so you don't have to wind up the hammer of doom on things like husks/cannibals/unshielded things. I GENERALLY keep electric hammer up specced for chill for shielded things and use biotic hammer on bosses. I don't have a Reegar yet but I am getting off reserve packs and onto arsenals so ... hopefully soon.
As for sync kills, if people are focusing the boss you're fighting, I don't think it's all that bad of an idea to just go an hero on them once they're at half health. People SHOULD be able to kill it if you get grabbed for the sync kill (or if it's a praetorian, stagger it) also note that there's a 3-hit melee combo that will use up your hammer charges on the third hit.
Dudes, I had two gift packs in my multiplayer store and one of them was a krogan warlord!
Why'd I get this stuff, did everyone get it?
yes. also, the warlord has health regen like the vorcha. and he can't take cover....not that you'd want to
Is it ok I ain't give a shit about tech armor for him, or should I spec something into that?
no it is not ok. you spec tech armor for extra melee damage and you put 0 points into tech hammer and full points into biotic hammer and everything else.
and then you proceed to smash down EVERYTHING.*
*until you get sync-killed for being too awesome to live. this will happen a fuckton.
No tech hammer? argh, I already messed up the spec then.
I use the tech hammer.
Tech hammer is for mooks. Biotic Hammer is for heavy armor and bosses.
5/6/6/3/6
I really hoped to have a radius on the hammer but it only hits one enemy at the time, even with the biotic burst.
Also I found out Banshee's can sync-kill you halfway your heavy melee, she grabbed me a moment before the hammer would have hit her.
There is a radius, it's jsut very small
You will sometimes kill two Dragoons or a Dragoon and a Phantom in a single hit
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That was a good introduction to platinum, even if we didn't win. It demonstrated that it is within my grasp as long as I'm with a good team. I'm a long way from being able to do it in a PUG or solo though.
Rectifying.
...Once I remembered how a Crusader works.
I come home in May, we can be awful together
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
I disagree :P
Tech hammer is civilization! Get's four charges and a 300% multiplyer for shields and barriers. So any small mooks, shielded or not? Pyros, Phantoms, Bombers? Tech hammer.
Boss enemies? Tech hammer for shields, then Biotic Hammer and melee cancel out of the animation. Way faster than spamming Biotic Hammer against shields!
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But I just noticed I only have 80k in credits?
Um... that seems wrong...
Did you only get one pack for completing both challenges?
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Naw I completed the regular last night. I got both packs.
But how do you complete a Platinum game and end up with only 80k total in credits? Doesn't Platinum alone give like 120-140k?
so if you got dropped into a game in like wave 8, you only got credits for the wave 10 objective
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
I mean it's not a huge deal, just ruins my plan to replenish all the consumables I used tonight with the cash from the last match
I hope they either increase the magazine or lower the recoil through balance changes.
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Hopefully I'll still be able to get in on matches on one of the other classes.
Also, finished Omega. Can only echo what others have said. It's excellent, but too short for the price. Also a gyp that you can't visit omega after you're done.
Also:
Zaeed: Don't tell him, he wouldn't understand!
Garrus: It's just, well... One man's decorative glass wall fixture is another man's explosive glass wall fixture
If you restart ME they should appear.
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You mean the multiplayer challenge?
I did a silver mission to complete the 4 evacs. I had about 500 credits (had just purchased a last pack) when we started, when we finished I opened the free pack. I only had 500 credits total after completing the Silver Reaper map. No credits from running the mission at all.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
Yes that one.
I haven't even played Leviathan and Omega, though. Are they both worth it?
Also, can I just play all the DLC near the end (got a save before the point of no return) or should I start a new playthrough and spread it out a bit more?
Come to think of it... it could be that one player may have rage quit, and the really low scoring guy was just a late join.
I just can't see how its possible to score only 10k points and get 5 assists after 10 waves.
Melee and survivability for the most part yes, and everything in Biotic hammer.
I managed to complete one Platinum Cerb with a random group but it's just horrible, Hex shields is the worst skill in the game because every Jug player uses it to heavy melee enemies through the shield and just stand there not thinking about the others.
Just standing there is kind of Juggy's thing.
I found this when looking for the fancy armours:
Big Boss' cloak managed to stay intact after her gun was fired too. Made everything more "fun".
I use the tech hammer.
Tech hammer is for mooks. Biotic Hammer is for heavy armor and bosses.
5/6/6/3/6
You know what's faster that spamming Tech Hammer on shields, though? The Reegar.
Pyros, Phantoms, and Bombers can all be one-shot with the Biotic Hammer if you're Raging and have a Juggernaut Shield on.
Tech Hammer might be better for CC, but it is absolutely not necessary for smacking down shields
I do admit I need to do some tests with it though
Only problem is figuring out what to sacrifice for it, because those power damage boosts are cray-cray on your hammers
Cloak counts as power usage which auto detects.
The enemies have vague and really wide view cones and insta alert every enemy on seeing Shepards pinkie.
That section annoyed me a lot
I really hoped to have a radius on the hammer but it only hits one enemy at the time, even with the biotic burst.
Also I found out Banshee's can sync-kill you halfway your heavy melee, she grabbed me a moment before the hammer would have hit her.
Cambi there is no wrong way to spec the Warlord
Just take him into battle and use him however you want. Give him some kind of melee mod on his weapon (pistol or shotgun) and beat everything to death. It is super liberating. When you're learning the ropes of using him, maybe spec his Fitness for survivability (with Martial Artist at level 5). Spec for melee damage if and when you are more comfortable with him.
Also what class Shepard do you have?
Because whatever it is, it now has Flare
I'm sorry that was better than Shadow Broker for me. Best DLC ever. And I haven't even done the social stuff yet!!
As for sync kills, if people are focusing the boss you're fighting, I don't think it's all that bad of an idea to just go an hero on them once they're at half health. People SHOULD be able to kill it if you get grabbed for the sync kill (or if it's a praetorian, stagger it) also note that there's a 3-hit melee combo that will use up your hammer charges on the third hit.
There is a radius, it's jsut very small
You will sometimes kill two Dragoons or a Dragoon and a Phantom in a single hit
Not as often as it needs to be though
so empty! also the rigging seems to have fucked up during the taking.
Haha...
I like how everyone is just looking around like "Where is everyone else."
Its actually different than the photo I have.