I'm not wrong; it's my opinion. The way I see it: yes, playing with bad teammates in pugs is a good way to improve at the game, and in some cases, you are essentially soloing due to the lack of quality teammates. I've done this plenty on Gold and even some on Platinum.

 

The difference is, even when you are killing virtually everything and your teammates are either dying constantly or just not a factor, they're still there drawing aggro and changing the flow of the game. You don't have them as distractions when soloing. 

 

I'm not doubting your ability to solo or to carry pugs; my only assertion is that while clutching waves helps, the only real teacher for soloing, is soloing.

Completely agree.  I learned this after a while.  Even with bad teammates, it is still easier than a solo.  The beginning of a clutch can be crazy though, as you have to gain control of the enemies locations.  But the critical difference between soloing and clutching is the need to sustain your play over time, as opposed to bursts.  

I can recall times when team games that felt like solos (teammates dying not long into the wave) still gave me somewhat of a break:  time to plan the rest of the wave.  And before they all die, you can be much more reckless than you could be during a solo.

Huntress.

Phantoms can be easily forced to flip or to put their bubble on at which point they are stationary. Once their barrier is down they retreat. Goons die like no tomorrow. 

 

Generally the scenario goes like this: 

 

1. Couple of Praetorians come flying in. 

2. Pugs trigger their bubble. Praetorians keep flying in the bubble, unlike Banshee or Phantom.

3. Praetorians get shot, but they have so much health and they are so fast that they almost always reach you before you kill em

4. They fire laz0rs. You can't RHA at that point. Scions drop nades and if you leave cover they shoot you, stagger you and take down your shields for a long time. Possessed Abominations sprint in and they are not safe to kill (unless you get guaranteed HS or want to troll your team) Seekers come in erratic patterns and have too much health too - they take down shields and powers. And there's always that PUG with no dodge kit that can't avoid A-bombs, thus killing the whole team.

5. Pugs drop like flies and revive chain starts. Captains pepper those who dare to revive. 

6. Some whip out missile launchers. Oh guess what. 1 missile is often not enough to kill a Preatorian. 

7. Praetorian almost dead. But hey, he chooses to get possessed and gains more health. So do half of his team. 

8. Praetorian fires more laz0rs. Praetorian finally dies, but his beam still manages to kill something even after it's dead. 

9. Now Pugs start shooting Scions, because there was no time or safe position to counter them before everything else is dead. 

 

Wave over. PUGS have no medigel or ops packs and spend a quite a few rockets. 

Lmao....that was hilarious because it so eerily mirrors matches I've been in.

GI.

Right after you get Tali (Haestrom), you get a message "approving" the transfer.  At the end of the message, it says

"Should any harm come to her due to negligence on your part, this board will take severe and appropriate action."

So, if she dies on the suicide mission, does something happen in ME3?  Are you unable to procure the migrant fleet as a war asset?  Anything?

Every Asari

Warlord

Vanilla Human Adept

If the Slayer is hosting, and it is a larger map, he will win rather easily.

 

If the Slayer is off-host and they are playing Glacier, then the Fury wins

 

And there's a sliding scale between those scenarios

 

Pretty much a well played Slayer will have the edge

Forgot about host advantage.

Assume both have identical, host-quality connection.

All melee...

all day...everyday.

...who wins.

Assume unknown/unknown.

I don't use it at all.

...

Lancer sucks.

Did my first two gold solos in one day.  I still remember how exhilarating it felt.

Platinum.  Died on W11 before extraction on my first try.  

Extracted the second time.

Bump.

Krolord knows no equal.

Bump.

Huntress Cloak

Reave

Shockwave

Huntress passives

Krolord health tree

Asari Huntress body

N7 Shadow dodge

OP : Cain Mines, Flamer, Stim Packs

 

Underwhelming : Throw, Pull, Sentry Turret

Wait.  Doesn't throw detonate pull?

EDIT:  Yep.

This.

 

I'd co-ordinate with the other engineers to lay entire fields of turrets, each just far away enough from the next that you couldn't just clear them with the AoE from a missile, then sit back and laugh as anyone who popped out of cover got shot to shreds like Alex Murphy.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

I spent a lot of time using every imaginable build.  

Skip EH.

Collector Captain.

Simbapls.

Bonelesswng pls.

it'd be overpowered.

- Said BSN...about everything.

How about as a trade-off, it disabled additional shield gear/consumables (shield booster, cyclonic, etc.)...

...and DOT.

Discuss.

PS3 babby.

I thought of about a dozen little things that completely nullify any conclusions made from this post. Too lazy to post them. Nice try, though, OP.

Compile something of your own, delineate your "little things" for discussion, or stfu.