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[akots1]

I'm trying to complete all challenges in a meaningful way. It is progressing slowly mostly due to Outsider waves. Drell are great, even phoenix vanguard seems to be fine. I think I'm reasonable with volus sentinel against geth. But the only character which eludes me completely is volus vanguard.

The was some guide by a lazy guy which I tried to follow. However, this guide was apparently written for PS3 with no frames and I have trouble surviving in lol-silver solo repeating things on PC with reasonable frame rate of about 60 fps. Of course, it is possible to just skip the charge and play him with a heavy gun like tanky volus adept without stasis.But I'm looking at some meaningful way to do these waves. I tried two builds skipping fitness and skipping passives with CSMG. Both attempts ended up just shooting the gun from some respectable distance away from the enemies after a few painful deaths.

His charge is very weak in force and damage, his recharge rate is horrible, he is squishy, his weapon damage in passives is very low, etc etc. Any advice on reasonable way to play?

[FasterThanFTL]

Reegar.

[TheJimMan]

The only real way to play him is as the flying biotic bowling ball of death. Slap a high DPS, close range weapon on him, Radius/Damage/Bonus Power charge. Cloak, charge spawn, empty clip. With bonus power, there's a 50% chance you can SB as soon as you need to. He takes a bit of practice, but he's very viable on Platinum when played the right way. He has awful passives, but I've never had a problem with a cooldown on him. Just got to get the timing right.

[FuriousFelicia]

I'm sorry but I don't have any good advice to offer except that you can hatesurf with him, though that won't get you far as far as solos go.
This is probably not the best approach but have you tried the venom?

One question off topic though...are you AirQuotes?

[coelacyanth]

 try this melee nutpunching build..

Its ton of fun on gold... cloak charge and nutpunch.. .. one nutpunch easily kills sheilded mooks on gold, even phantoms can be destroyed with one wraith shot followed by cloaked charge and then nutpunched..

[Pearl (rip bioware)]

FuriousFelicia wrote...

One question off topic though...are you AirQuotes?

Out of curiosity, why would you think that?

Basically do what TheJimMan said.

[akots1]

FuriousFelicia wrote...
One question off topic though...are you AirQuotes?

No, I am me.

[akots1]

FatherOfPearl wrote...
Basically do what TheJimMan said.

No-no, that does not work at 60 fps, sorry, no way. I don't have 5 seconds before enemies start shooting. It is less than a second. Sometimes, there is not enough time to activate shield boost, it is less than a second. The group that you charge is somewhat staggered but those enemies that have los to you after the charge, kill you instantly. He cannot dodge a rocket in close quarters or ravager shots, not fast enough, not drell.

[akots1]

FasterThanFTL wrote...

Reegar.

That is always a possibility.

[Derpy]

You can start by never using volus characters and throwing them out the airlock.

[FuriousFelicia]

FatherOfPearl wrote...

FuriousFelicia wrote...

One question off topic though...are you AirQuotes?

Out of curiosity, why would you think that?

Basically do what TheJimMan said.

Dunno, haven't seen the man post here in ages, and akots1 does ring a bell, irrelevent. I won't be pursuing it=]

[akots1]

coelacyanth wrote...

 try this melee nutpunching build..

Its ton of fun on gold... cloak charge and nutpunch.. .. one nutpunch easily kills sheilded mooks on gold, even phantoms can be destroyed with one wraith shot followed by cloaked charge and then nutpunched..

Thanks, will try skipping the orbs, seems very reasonable with conservative accurate play.

[akots1]

Nate_Assassin wrote...

You can start by never using volus characters and throwing them out the airlock.

I'm bored, nobody wants to play the 100 enemies mod.

[Pearl (rip bioware)]

FuriousFelicia wrote...

FatherOfPearl wrote...

FuriousFelicia wrote...

One question off topic though...are you AirQuotes?

Out of curiosity, why would you think that?

Basically do what TheJimMan said.

Dunno, haven't seen the man post here in ages, and akots1 does ring a bell, irrelevent. I won't be pursuing it=]

He got permabanned, made a new account, and got permabanned again.

Modifié par FatherOfPearl, 13 février 2014 - 10:03 .

[Excella Gionne]

 You can try this build, I really like this build. Or you can do this one, I'm currently using this one, but have been wanting to change back once I get more respec cards.

[HeroicMass]

akots1 wrote...

coelacyanth wrote...

 try this melee nutpunching build..

Its ton of fun on gold... cloak charge and nutpunch.. .. one nutpunch easily kills sheilded mooks on gold, even phantoms can be destroyed with one wraith shot followed by cloaked charge and then nutpunched..

Thanks, will try skipping the orbs, seems very reasonable with conservative accurate play.

I wouldn't skip the orbs as they will provide a 30% recharge bonus vs. the 20% from 6a on the passives.  Just put three points into it.  This is how I play the guy.  Build is at the end

Volus Punchguard

[Flexx4400]

Nate_Assassin wrote...
 
You can start by never using volus characters and throwing them out the airlock.

 

QFT

[Moby]

Link below. Reegar with incendiary or Piranha with Barrage gear and AP ammo, very deadly.

[Dr. Tim Whatley]

Hoochie???

[ALTBOULI]

b00g13man wrote...

Hoochie???

[Simba501]

Venom.
Incendiary rounds.

[MGW7]

What are you doing if you have terrible recharge on the one character with the best possible recharge speed for charge?

I play this,

He is incredibly tanky, and even his base melee can do quite well, if properly used

Modifié par MGW7, 13 février 2014 - 11:09 .

[Miniditka77]

akots1 wrote...

FatherOfPearl wrote...
Basically do what TheJimMan said.

No-no, that does not work at 60 fps, sorry, no way. I don't have 5 seconds before enemies start shooting. It is less than a second. Sometimes, there is not enough time to activate shield boost, it is less than a second. The group that you charge is somewhat staggered but those enemies that have los to you after the charge, kill you instantly. He cannot dodge a rocket in close quarters or ravager shots, not fast enough, not drell.

I don't really like Volus, and I don't play at 60 fps.... but I will say that being invisible helps.  You should make sure you're cloaked when you're doing this.

[MGW7]

Miniditka77 wrote...

akots1 wrote...

FatherOfPearl wrote...
Basically do what TheJimMan said.

No-no, that does not work at 60 fps, sorry, no way. I don't have 5 seconds before enemies start shooting. It is less than a second. Sometimes, there is not enough time to activate shield boost, it is less than a second. The group that you charge is somewhat staggered but those enemies that have los to you after the charge, kill you instantly. He cannot dodge a rocket in close quarters or ravager shots, not fast enough, not drell.

I don't really like Volus, and I don't play at 60 fps.... but I will say that being invisible helps.  You should make sure you're cloaked when you're doing this.

Adding to, WHAT WEAPON are you lugging around that your recharge is 5 seconds, His recharge on charge can be reduced to 2.3 seconds if you really want, and even with a claymore it can get to under 4 seconds, so unless you are making yourself into a heavy weapons guy you shouldn't need to stand for 5 seconds between charges

[TheJimMan]

akots1 wrote...

FatherOfPearl wrote...
Basically do what TheJimMan said.

No-no, that does not work at 60 fps, sorry, no way. I don't have 5 seconds before enemies start shooting. It is less than a second. Sometimes, there is not enough time to activate shield boost, it is less than a second. The group that you charge is somewhat staggered but those enemies that have los to you after the charge, kill you instantly. He cannot dodge a rocket in close quarters or ravager shots, not fast enough, not drell.

I forgot a very important part in my derp-ness: The Heavy Melee. In the case that you don't get Shield Boost immediately, go to a heavy melee, especially at 60fps. You'll lose some shooting time, but you'll get rid of your survivability issue. You get, I think 50% DR from the HM, then 40% for a few seconds after Charging. Those stack. So, if you can't survive with 90% DR for 4-5 seconds and a Piranha/Reegar/Hurricane/Talon/whatever other weapon you want, I'm not sure there's much I can do.