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[Dr. Tim Whatley]

Well, I'm on Xbox too and I just so happen to have a video of the Arc Pistol vs Geth with my 3/5/6/6/6 build.
 

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Unimpressed. The TSent + Arc pistol isn't rare. Show me a melee Salarian Engineer with a Hornet, and we can talk.

[ALTBOULI]

Unimpressed. The TSent + Arc pistol isn't rare. Show me a melee Salarian Engineer with a Hornet, and we can talk.

Well I know what im going to try later

[dumdum2]

Reegar + Incendiary Rounds against Reapers. Kill a Banshee in one clip, kill a Brute in half a clip. Probably the easiest 20 minute Gold solo you've ever made.

[Excella Gionne]

Reegar + Incendiary Rounds against Reapers. Kill a Banshee in one clip, kill a Brute in half a clip. Probably the easiest 20 minute Gold solo you've ever made.

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[dumdum2]

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I'm on Xbox and I killed a Banshee on Platinum in one clip with the Turian Sentinel Reegar. So nah, it works on consoles as well.

[Excella Gionne]

I'm on Xbox and I killed a Banshee on Platinum in one clip with the Turian Sentinel Reegar. So nah, it works on consoles as well.

Probably for Peasetree it doesn't work. Xbox does have better frames, but can you turn off the motion blur? I noticed that the 360 version has motion blur.

[Pheabus2009]

Dunno about solo, but Saber is all my way to go on him, also if you're fighting Cerberus, bring a Scorpion for Phantoms

[stysiaq]

Be a true Turian, use a Kreeesayyeeh!

[Deerber]

Be a true Turian, use a Kreeesayyeeh!

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[RealKobeBean]

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[dumdum2]

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How are you doing man!?

 

Now I miss Hobocommander (A Wild Snorlax) and Waffle Cat (Wesus), good players, lots of fun 

[JRandall0308]

CSMG + Inc + overload create fire explosion (one or two) every 3 seconds, in that time you prime the next target, The get scanner and the CM can be swapped if you feel confident to run without it, the warp+Eagle is to work the enemies with armor....

 

While I like "caster" or powers builds, the Turian's weapon passives are so good that I feel like I should be using something meaty. That said, I'm a fan of the Collector SMG -- I used it on a Human Sentinel when I play Platinum. Not as much of a fan of the Eagle, though.

 

Harrier with piercing mod ext mag and incendiary ammo. Cheesy but effective

 

You are going to be moving  around the map and all the ammo boxes are yours + you have 6 thermal clips

 

Excellent point. On Gold solos, you should have plenty of ammo for even the most ammo hogging weapon like the Harrier. (Platinum solos, I've never tried, but from what I've seen the ammo boxes are stingy.)

 

Two pages? Did nobody suggest the Particle Rifle? C'mon now.

 

A couple of people did, but it won't do me any good because the Particle Rifle is the one and only weapon I don't have unlocked. *sigh*

[JRandall0308]

I attempted the solo last night. Unfortunately, I wasn't successful, but it was good run right up until the time it went horribly wrong.

 

Warning: LONG!

 

Spoiler

Turian Sentinel on Giant vs. Collectors (failed on Wave 8)

 

Turian Sentinel -- 6/6/5/6/3, full Tech Armor and (mostly) Powers build

 

Lancer III with Extended Magazine and Piercing Mod

Acolyte X with Ultralight Materials and High Caliber Barrel

 

Ammo Bonus: Incendiary Rounds IV

Weapon Bonus: Assault Rifle Rail Amp III

Armor Bonus: Adrenaline Module III

Gear Bonus: Barrage Upgrade V

 

Gold solo on Giant vs. Collectors (failed on Wave 8)

 

Packages, Hack, [n/a]

 

49:01

105,099 points

5 Waves Survived, 20 Headshots, 75 Kills, 25 Tech Kills, 50 Assault Rifle Kills

 

Used: 1 Medi-Gel, 2 Ops, 1 Missile, 0 Thermal Clip

 

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Argh! This game was going so well, and then I made a pair of stupid mistakes and paid for it (synch-killed by a Praetorian at the start of Wave 8).

 

If I had known how often I'd be using Overload, I would have put the full 6 ranks in it, and taken points out of Tech Armor. But otherwise I was satisfied with this build.

 

I did take Warp 4a Damage rather than the usual 4b Detonate, on the theory that I wouldn't be detonating that many explosions with Warp. And that turned out to be true: I detonated a fire Fire Explosions with Warp, but for the most part I used Overload to detonate on-fire humanoid enemies, or I used Warp first and then the Lancer with Incendiary Ammo.

And yes, I abused the Warp / Incendiary Ammo glitch. I take every advantage I can get on solos.

 

Barrage Upgrade as my Gear may have been a mistake. The additional Stability did seem to help -- I got 20+ Headshots -- but the Thermal Clip Capacity was wasted on the Lancer. In fact, given how much time I spent near ammo boxes during this solo, I might have been better off with the Harrier. But the Harrier is considerably heavier than the Lancer, and I like being able to use my powers at a fairly rapid clip.

I like the Acolyte as a sidearm, but it wasn't truly necessary against Collectors. Sure, you can use the Acolyte to take down the Barriers of Praetorians and Possessed Scions, but you can just as easy Warp or Overload them. I did sometimes use the Acolyte against Abominations, because it's hilarious to watch them go flying.

 

To prepare for this solo attempt, I played two team games on Gold and another on Platinum. That got my comfortable with the Lancer's behavior -- I wanted to know intuitively when it was almost out of ammo so I didn't overhead it -- and also got me comfortable with using my powers appropriately. When I thought I was ready, I started the solo.

 

I know Giant is a generic map for solo-ing, but again, I take every advantage I can get. Hey, at least I fought Collectors instead of Reapers!

 

You know how people say you should kill as many Abominations as possible because they deplete the wave budget and are easy to kill? Yeah. That totally worked for me. Abominations are fast, single minded, and super easy to kill with this build. Overload to knock them on their butt or stagger them, then put a few Lancer rounds into them to set them on fire, then either Overload against for a Fire Explosions or just let them burn. On some of the later waves I probably killed 20 Abominations.

 

I tried to start each wave with line of sight to both the LZ and the Bunker area, to prevent spawns there. That forces the enemies to spawn far away, so you have time to shoot them a bunch as they walk towards you. Then you do the usual Giant map cycling: Bunker to Cargo Transfer, down the ladder to Terminal, run across to the ramp up to Connection, then into the Control Room, and finally across the Exterior back the LZ/Bunker area.

 

I had a dumb, avoidable Ops Pack use on Wave 1 when I let several Collectors catch me in a hail of bullets. Then I had a dumb, avoidable death on Wave 2 while on my way to the ladder down to the Terminal. But after that I got into a nice rhythm; I was able to sense how long to stand and fight in each area before I needed to displace to the next area.

 

Wave 3 Packages was fairly easy. The first one spawned in the Terminal area, where I happened to be standing after finishing Wave 2. I picked it up, went up the ladder to the Cargo Transfer, and took the back parts of the Bunker to the LZ drop-off zone. I think I may have been sprayed with bullets once by a distant Collector, but otherwise this was the safest Package delivery I've done in ages.

 

The second Package spawned in the upper Exterior, near where you get a Hack sometimes. That could be troublesome. Because I was already at the LZ, I hung out there for a while and lured the enemies into that corner. Then I quickly cycled all the way to the opposite corner, realizing that I couldn't very well deliver the Package with a bunch of enemies at the LZ. (Oops.) Once I drew them over to the ramp up to the Connection room, I raced out the other side, down the ramp, picked up the Package, and hoofed it to the LZ. (Adrenaline Module III was a huge help.)

 

Wave 3 also brought the first Praetorian. Good grief, those things are a pain to fight. As soon as you hit them with a power, they put up their mega-bubble. So you spend a lot of time hosing down their vulnerable area, and (at least for me) right around the time you do enough damage to get them to flip over, other enemies are upon you and you have to retreat. You can try to leave the single Praetorian for last -- on waves that only have a single Praetorian -- but sometimes fighting them is a lengthy process, because by the time you get back to the Praetorian it has regenerated its Barrier.

 

Sometime around Wave 3 or 4, I ran into an interesting and favorable glitch. Near the ramp up to Connection, there's also a ladder. When you're hanging out in Connection getting Right Hand Advantage (RHA) against enemies coming up the ramp, you have keep an eye on that ladder, because enemies can climb up it while you're focused on the ramp.

 

What happened in this game is that two Seeker Plagues got stuck on the ladder. It looked like one was trying to climb up while another was trying to climb down. (Why the heck flying swarms of seekers need to climb ladders is a mystery only explained by Space Magic.) Once I realized what had happened, I was careful never to target those Seeker Plagues with anything, because they blocked off that ladder. That meant I could use RHA against enemies on the ramp up to Connection without worry that some nasty Collector Captain would climb up the ladder and ruin my day.

 

Anyway, I breezed (relatively speaking) through Waves 4 and 5. Lots of cycling the map, lots of Overload against humanoid enemies, lots of Warp and Incendiary Ammo against Scions and Praetorians.

 

Wave 6 Hack in the lower Terminal area. Well, it's not the worst Hack location on Giant. (That would be the one in the upper Exterior area.) But I had two very close calls here.

 

I had done about one-third of the hack when it got too hot for comfort, so I ran for the ramp up to Connection. To my horror, I ran directly into a Praetorian coming down the ramp. He melee'd me, and I mentally resigned myself to a synch kill. But unwilling to go down without a fight, I purged Tech Armor and also used an Ops Pack. One of those two things must have worked, because the Praetorian neither picked me up nor melee stun-locked me, and I was able to backpedal down the ramp and then race past the ladder (with its stuck Seeker Plagues) up the shallower ramp and back around to the LZ. Whew!

 

I lured the enemies to the LZ, then went back to the hack location. Got about another third done. This time I checked that the coast was clear before I took the ramp to Connection. But as I ran through into the Control Room, I saw a Praetorian just entering from the other side. Ack! I couldn't use the ladder that the Seeker Plagues were occupying, so I used the other ladder that leads into the hallway. Fortunately, there were no enemies nearby, and I was able to make it back to the LZ again.

 

On my third pass into the hack, I finally pulled out a Missile and used it to clear away a pair of Praetorians that were about to push me out of the hack circle. Then I was able to hold off the lesser enemies while those Praetorians respawned somewhere far away.

 

At this point I felt pretty good about how the solo was going. Yes, I used up a couple of consumables early, and yes, I got really lucky to avoid the synch kill, but I still had the bulk of my consumables, including 5 more Medi-Gel and 5 more Missiles. Bring on the Wave 10 Targets!

 

Well, I had to get to Wave 10 first. I cleaned up Wave 6 and moved on to Wave 7. Ho hum, more of the same, cycling the map, killing lesser enemies while avoiding the big guys. This wave took a long time and I started to get tired, which may be why I made a pair of poor decisions.

 

At the end of Wave 7, I had whittled the Collectors down to a single badly wounded Scion. He had just followed me up the ramp to Connection. Now, I knew that I wanted to get back to the LZ/Bunker for the start of Wave 8, but in my impatience I put a few Lancer rounds into the Scion.

 

And the Incendiary Ammo damage over time (DOT) killed him.

 

I ran for the LZ, but was not in time to prevent a spawn in the enclosed room of the Bunker: I saw a Praetorian and some other enemies in there. I was just contemplating a Missile of that spawn point, when I started to take intense fire from behind me -- it was the humanoid Collectors and Captains who had spawned near the Control Room.

 

I thought I had enough time for a few Overloads and Lancer shots against those guys before the Praetorian could get out of the Bunker. Spoiler alert: I didn't.

 

Actually, I'm not entirely sure that the Praetorian that killed me was the one coming from the Bunker spawn. Yes, Praetorians are pretty fast, but I got killed over by the ammo box and I don't think it could have arrived there so quickly. Also, I got melee'd and then synch-killed from behind, so I almost think another Praetorian spawned at the LZ.

 

Ah well. My first mistake was to kill the final enemy of Wave 7 before I got into position for the next wave. And my second mistake was that I didn't immediately abandon the compromised LZ/Bunker position, but tried to fight it out. Even though cycling the map is a good strategy, you can't be so fixated on a particular path that you're unwilling to deviate from it.

 

 

I haven't decided if I will this same solo set-up again, or if I will re-spec my Turian Sentinel to use the Arc Pistol.
 

[dumdum2]

I haven't decided if I will this same solo set-up again, or if I will re-spec my Turian Sentinel to use the Arc Pistol.

 

 

Or you can just use Hurricane/Acolyte combo. That will take care of all your problems. Also, your fire explosions will do more damage if you have Overload at a higher rank.

[NuclearTech76]

I'm on Xbox and I killed a Banshee on Platinum in one clip with the Turian Sentinel Reegar. So nah, it works on consoles as well.

It doesn't work as well on console. Probably can one clip a banshee though because warp incendiary stack with each other. Warp has insane damage versus barriers stacking with the incendiary and the it hits armor and it's game over. Atlases are more problematic, I think I remember about four bars of armor with one Reegar clip and an inferno nade and that was hitting the lower third of the canopy in the sweet spot.

[NuclearTech76]

My advice is just rocket a couple of double Praetorian spawns on eight and let the chips fall where they may. You got a hard cap of six of those crustacean fuckfaces that wave and it's easily the most difficult Collectors gold wave. You should have a lot better time etc if you do that. All of the other waves except nine if you don't account for the possessed Praetorian should be cake. Just concentrate on taking out the abombs fast and you'll get to the budget cap quickly. 

[dumdum2]

It doesn't work as well on console. Probably can one clip a banshee though because warp incendiary stack with each other. Warp has insane damage versus barriers stacking with the incendiary and the it hits armor and it's game over. Atlases are more problematic, I think I remember about four bars of armor with one Reegar clip and an inferno nade and that was hitting the lower third of the canopy in the sweet spot.

 

Not as well, but it still works. You have to get the timing and the aiming right if you want to one clip a Platinum Banshee, and it is really hard but it is doable (I've done it a couple of times). Most times though one clip only takes her down to three bars of armor. Probably has something to do with me not being good at headshots with the Reegar or something.

[capn233]

Not as well, but it still works. You have to get the timing and the aiming right if you want to one clip a Platinum Banshee, and it is really hard but it is doable (I've done it a couple of times). Most times though one clip only takes her down to three bars of armor. Probably has something to do with me not being good at headshots with the Reegar or something.

 

Are you setting up double hits sometimes?

 

edit: What mods on the Reegar?

[dumdum2]

Are you setting up double hits sometimes?

 

edit: What mods on the Reegar?

 

Think I used the Extended Barrel and the Shredder Mod. HVB + Capacity would probably be better though.

 

Also, I have no idea what double hits means in this game, never paid attention to that.

[capn233]

Think I used the Extended Barrel and the Shredder Mod. HVB + Capacity would probably be better though.

 

Also, I have no idea what double hits means in this game, never paid attention to that.

 

Eh it probably actually isn't relevant with that level penetration.

 

But you can double hit a Banshee if you get her to put up her hand.  Basically with enough penetration you hit her twice per one shot, sort of like an Atlas.

 

I am fairly sure I have done it with 1.5m, so I was wondering if it might work with only 1.3m which is possible on Reegar.

 

Anyway the other thing is that I think if Incendiary Ammo DOT gets combined with Warp and you cause her to do power block it will cancel the IA DOT I think.

[dumdum2]

Eh it probably actually isn't relevant with that level penetration.

 

But you can double hit a Banshee if you get her to put up her hand.  Basically with enough penetration you hit her twice per one shot, sort of like an Atlas.

 

I am fairly sure I have done it with 1.5m, so I was wondering if it might work with only 1.3m which is possible on Reegar.

 

Anyway the other thing is that I think if Incendiary Ammo DOT gets combined with Warp and you cause her to do power block it will cancel the IA DOT I think.

 

Well, if I do kill her from full barriers in one clip it means that she isn't blocking. She comes screaming (lol, nasty) and while she is teleporting I throw a Warp at her and then shoot her while aiming for the chest/head area. No hands involved 

[capn233]

Yes but I am trying to come up with ideas why you didn't kill her every time doing that.

 

So clearly sometimes the damage applied was greater than other times.  If it was from the fps problem with the Reegar it would mean the fps is volatile enough to make a substantial difference in the damage.  How much does it change on xbox?

 

If you are really going with the 1.4x damage from headshots, maybe you just are landing less pellets on her from aiming at her head.

[JRandall0308]

My advice is just rocket a couple of double Praetorian spawns on eight and let the chips fall where they may. You got a hard cap of six of those crustacean fuckfaces that wave and it's easily the most difficult Collectors gold wave. You should have a lot better time etc if you do that. All of the other waves except nine if you don't account for the possessed Praetorian should be cake. Just concentrate on taking out the abombs fast and you'll get to the budget cap quickly. 

 

Rocketing the spawn on Wave 8 would've been possible if I hadn't messed up the end of Wave 7. Oh well.

 

I'm not a fast player by any means -- but yes, burning (heh) down those Abominations makes relatively short work of the wave budgets.

[NuclearTech76]

Rocketing the spawn on Wave 8 would've been possible if I hadn't messed up the end of Wave 7. Oh well.

 

I'm not a fast player by any means -- but yes, burning (heh) down those Abominations makes relatively short work of the wave budgets.

7 is not that bad if you keep the Scions clustered together. The 3 of them always spawn together. There's a captain and four abombs as well. You can get out of line of sight of the Scions and just farm the Abombs to make that wave an easy one. Run away if the heavies get close. 

[Miniditka77]

"I did take Warp 4a Damage rather than the usual 4b Detonate, on the theory that I wouldn't be detonating that many explosions with Warp"

 

Just FYI, Warp 4b only affects biotic explosions, not tech explosions.  It's pointless on a solo with the Turian Sentinel, who only has one biotic power.  It's the far superior option on team games with other biotics though.