The Mantis is pretty legit on Gold, on an infiltrator.
Just slap on the HVB and some phasic and you're good to go.
It works well on soldier with short duration adrenaline rush build. Slightly lower damage then infiltrator with SR damage boost but AR will instantly reload it and turn it into a two shot SR.
http://kalence.drupa...104535!!!F..AGG
Justice
I knew I was in trouble when I joined on Wave 1 just in time to save the solo Geth Engie host from Mission Scrubbed as he bled out. The announcer even said as much right as I joined, but allowed me to clear the Wave and continue the match.
Sometimes during Wave 2 or 3 we got a third member, a Quarian Male Infiltrator. The host had gone down nearly every wave, leaving the Quarian and I to carry Wave 6 devices. I used up 5 of my missiles trying to keep Praetorians and Scions off the Quarian as he cloaked the device, but they kept spawning nearby, and every time they did, he got off the device. Moron.
Wave 11 came around, host got grabbed by a Praetorian with 26 seconds to go, right as I ran past. I said "sorry I used all my missiles carrying Wave 6" even though I had one left.
Why start the game solo if he can't carry it? Back in the lobby, he had a Shuriken SMG IV.
Lag can not defeat us!
The Mantis is pretty legit on Gold, on an infiltrator.
Just slap on the HVB and some phasic and you're good to go.
I find the SI is the best infiltrator for the Mantis on gold: energy drain means you can get away with other ammo type than phasic, which increases your damage output considerably against bigger units: disruptor rounds are great against geths (tech bursts everywhere) and cerberus (cloak, ED, headshot will kill most mooks, plus disruptor rounds buy you some time by staggering enemies), while warp rounds are great against reapers and collectors; inc. ammo is also a good choice, for the extra fire explosion damage.
That said, the Mantis on any infiltrator is totally viable on Gold 
It works well on soldier with short duration adrenaline rush build. Slightly lower damage then infiltrator with SR damage boost but AR will instantly reload it and turn it into a two shot SR.
I would suggest a hybrid concussion shot / AR build for example, a Mantis vanilla HSol using disruptor rounds can one-shot nemeses and centurions with a headshot + conc shot, with the advantage of a much shorter cooldown than using AR, easy-ish reload hiding, and in the case of the centurion, a tech burst. Against bigger units, going shot - conc shot (tech burst/fire explosion) - reload hiding - shot - AR - shot is a lot of damage... and conc shot is invaluable in tech teams too.
My problem with this build is that ever since I tried the double-tap Claymore, no other weapon feels right on an AR specced HSol 
Overpowered
I was on silver (goddess/reapers) mind you to test this build out http://kalence.drupa...34O53384!0GGE.K and I felt like such a score ******. No consumables and ended up at the top by far with like 115K...onto gold tonight with this babe.
Invisible Geth.
Not the whole time, thankfully, but for the first three or four waves, we seemed to trade off which enemies were invisible (including Glacier's Hazard being invisible for the host.)
Between Geth Trooper and Vorcha Sentinel, it turns out to be surprisingly doable to fight invisible Geth.
Ran into ErzPaladin
Did he write you a love note? Man is a poet.
edit: Euros 2016, fingers and toes crossed to get out of the group, come on Éire!
Volus, volus everywhere!
Giggling like a girl already, having played my NutPuncher van Volus for a few games. Got a PUG in my lobby who immediately changed to a volus, as well. We load in game and what are the chances... a third player rolls in at the same time as another volus! And that's how we rolled!
Dementia
So I like try to do the Earth mastery challenge so I play as N7 Paladin to get extractions. I went down a lot and I thought: "Why the heck is this going so bad? I don't remember him being this squishy before." And then I realized... I had forgotten to use the god damn Energy Drain. How does that happen? I also spammed Incinerate instead of Snap Freeze... while Snap Freeze is the one I have fully leveled and Incinerate has only like 3 points in it. In addition to that I forgot his Heavy melee. *sigh*
Did he write you a love note? Man is a poet.
edit: Euros 2016, fingers and toes crossed to get out of the group, come on Éire!
Not this time, I quitted instantly.
Not this time, I quitted instantly.
Ah. Still impressive that he continues to be a bada$$ on the mean streets of silver. No man/woman's inbox is safe.
Brought the geth stunlock engineer, drell adept, and the quarian bombadeer into gold today. It was a really good time though I did get disconnected with the drell run. Reconnected and still climbed to second place from zero. Woot! Quarian match was against Geth on FB White and as usual, it was super tough. Sneaking up and stunning you all the damn time. I managed to get through with 0 gels and 0 ops pack though. 2 of the pugs were really green so we had to carry the entire match. I hope they learned a lot though!
Catharsis
Finished the last common, the Katana. How can that shotgun be more painful than the Shuriken? I was doing more damage with my Phalanx w/melee stunner than with the Katana even though I had shock trooper V and a shotgun rail amp.
I guess it's the accuracy or something. I can put Phalanx rounds into targets but the Katana's pellets scatter too much even with smart choke. Even played a follow up game with an Eviscerator and did a LOT better with that one.
Oh well, not going to do that again for awhile. My Wraith is back in business. MUAHAHAHAAHA!!!!
LOL.
I just unlocked the particle rifle 1 on PS3. 
Yes mods, I know I'm in flagrant violation of the site rules by only posting one emote. But trust me...
It captures the feeling of the last pug I had poignantly and succinctly.
And now my last pug in one picture...
Whenever I'm about to DC (I can see it coming) I'll often take a screenshot before it dies. In this one you can even see the shadow of the message popping up lawls. Anyways, actually a rather nice shot, very brief. Didn't even have time to take off my missile launcher.
Given the last few pugs I think tonight the gods are against ME3MP for me...
Perhaps D3 will assuage my need to destroy everythingplay games.
Really weird
A good buddy and I opened a lobby up. 2 guys join, noobs, one had a mic. However, they were totally competent players. Guy on the mic was asking alot of questions about the game, etc. Seemed like a totally nice guy. We did 2 golds, bumped to Plat for 2 games. No problem, but w9 of last plat he just starts talking massive s*** about f***ing my mom in the ass or some ****. I thought he was joking at first, but he said something similar again. I called him all kinds of nice things and he said the other pug had messaged him to troll us because we were rude the last time we played with him. Had never played with the other guy before. The non mic pug leaves after the match and messages my buddy that that was BS. And the guy talking **** starts complaining that I'm being rude. I politely call him a f***ing c*******er and tell him to GFY, multiple times. Just really strange considering that for 38 out of 40 waves he had been cool. So if you PS3 folks run into butt_buster beware, he is a trolling piece of ****** ****
I have met him and his friend (leslie nielson or something like this, yes, with an "o" instead of "e") in the past, exactly the same happened, totally nice people until the end of the match, when they start to talk crap out of the blue. That's how they "operate", if anybody drops in their game just quit, or mute the TV, when they start it.
I have met him and his friend (leslie nielson or something like this) in the past, exactly the same happened, totally nice people until the end of the match, when they start to talk crap out of the blue. That's how they "operate", if anybody drops in their game just quit, or mute the TV, when they start it.
Small people with small minds and lives, clearly.
Thanks for the heads up guys, will keep an eye out.
At least ErzPaladin is amusing, he calls you a newb AFTER you carry his scrubby behind to the credits 
I remember carrying him on Dagger with my alt account, he spectated about 4 times that match. And my <200CP (at the time) alt carried him, and outscoured his Slayer. I bet that hurt his ego a little. Yet he still send his noob spam.
I would suggest a hybrid concussion shot / AR build
My problem with this build is that ever since I tried the double-tap Claymore, no other weapon feels right on an AR specced HSol
Ash build, huh? Works in plat too, just reload hide all the shots with concussive shot and you're golden. Tech bursts and CS provide some nice crowd control and CS DoT destroys organics. You still have Adrenaline Rush extra damage against Banshees and bubbled praetorians.
LOL.
I just unlocked the particle rifle 1 on PS3.
What happened to PC master race?
^^^^^^^^^^^ CPU over-clocking way too hard. I need to figure out how to tune this cpu in order to run the game. It plays but stutters way too much for my liking. My brother-in-law is going to help me with it this weekend.
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