Shredded and Beheaded
Finally! Had a REALLY rough match on the 'dome (vs Collectors) while experimenting with the Turian Soldier and Piranha - while I certainly did some damage, I definitely got at least as good as I gave and spent more time floored than usual. Thanks to some wave 10 heroics (and a good amount of epic bobbing and weaving) we somehow managed to hack all four devices (how JRandall got the 4th is still a mystery) and get the objective done, despite having little to no equipment left.
Afterwards, I decide to play something more my speed and pick the Shadow. JRandall had to leave (DAMP!!!) so it was down to me, a friend and 2 pugs. UUP gives us Condor, and I have to say I'm looking forward to it after the thrashing I had just received in the match beforehand. Anyway, the first pug, a volus, did typical volus pug things (like not using the Saber?!) and the second pug, an AIU, was likely glad to have brought a Lancer along for the ride. Neither, unfortunately, did much damage - but the AIU was resilient at least and moved well enough.
My friend (Human Soldier), on the other hand, proceeded to explode things in fiery fashion and wiped spawn after spawn. I, meanwhile, Shadow Striked just about anything I could get my sword on (I especially relished decapitating those phantom ladies) and spiked the hell out of Banshees and Primes with SS and Wraith/Heavy Melee reload hiding. Anyway, thanks to my and my friend's collective 400k+ effort and no missile usage we had an easy wave 10 and 11 which led to -------------------------------> FULL EXTRACTION. Something which has - what with some of the the Random McDaniels that I've encountered of late - become a rarity.