Gold is fun Platinum is not.
Two capable Juggys on GIANT/Plat with a fury or geth Infiltrator is fun with myself as a fully shielded Destroyer with Typhoon and AP 4 ammo. I generally just play a lot of gold and I won't touch Plat unless it's with a group of friends that are capable of getting the task done. I have only solo's Plat about 3 times tops.....I don't necessarily care for the boss spams and Phantom overloads on plat....
Definitely. The Justicar is one of my favorite kits in the game and I found long ago Reave + Pull scale exceptionally well to Platinum. A great gun just makes it even better.If you can effectively chain combos together, power-spam on plat can still be effective and enjoyable. Alas, the average PUG is not reliable in this regard.
It's probably becuase to do well in platinun, you need a kit/weapon that melts armour/bosses. The main reason my friends and I dislike platinum is because it pigeonholes you into using said classes or else everything is a bulletsponge and it takes forever. In my opinion, most of the difficulty in platinum is arbitrary and quite honestly, annoying. Gold is much more balanced and allows you to play other classes, which in my opinion, are more fun to play (i.e. power classes). That being said playing gold with 3 or more friends can be too easy, and as a result boring, so I can understand the appeal of platinum for those who play in full parties more often.
You can do really well in platinum with all the kits in the game and you don't need a gun like the Reegar, Harrier etc to do it, just look at all the crazy speed runs people do with the Venom (which is far from the best gun for boss armor). The worst enemies on platinum imo are the mooks - hunters, pyros, marauders, collector captains etc are the real killers (imo at least).
Definitely. The Justicar is one of my favorite kits in the game and I found long ago Reave + Pull scale exceptionally well to Platinum. A great gun just makes it even better.
That's true for all the difficulties.
But it still doesn't change the fact that if I wanna bump into one of those 2.5X headshot modifier enemies on platinum, I need to go around looking for them with a goddamned magnifying glass.
do you use an Acolyte?
I can hardly think of pull being effective without it on platinum
On the contrary, it's very effective. The only situation in which acolyte is better than other guns is when you have 2 shielded mooks next to each other. Since I have Area Pull, i can take care of them in one shoot-pull-reave cycle, whereas with another gun, I'd need another shot or reave after that. Then again, that other gun will probably have better DPS against bosses.
Edit: In fact Acolyte is better for Gold, or if you want to make it a bit easier to deal with on-host phantroll DR BS on any difficulty.
On the contrary, it's very effective. The only situation in which acolyte is better than other guns is when you have 2 shielded mooks next to each other. Since I have Area Pull, i can take care of them in one shoot-pull-reave cycle, whereas with another gun, I'd need another shot or reave after that. Then again, that other gun will probably have better DPS against bosses.
Edit: In fact Acolyte is better for Gold, or if you want to make it a bit easier to deal with on-host phantroll DR BS on any difficulty.
It would be great if you could take two weapons
It would be great if you could take two weapons
.... without having to always switch them - yes I agree ;-)
maybe you are getting me wrong:
I actually want pull to be effective on gold/plat and would be glad to hear strategies to make it viable.
(other than with the Acolyte)
so, how do you do it?
btw, I only said Platinum because there the shields and barriers are even bigger and cannot be removed just like that.
.... without the beloved Acolyte
maybe you are getting me wrong:
I actually want pull to be effective on gold/plat and would be glad to hear strategies to make it viable.
(other than with the Acolyte)
so, how do you do it?
btw, I only said Platinum because there the shields and barriers are even bigger and cannot be removed just like that.
.... without the beloved Acolyte
Hurricane, piranha or executioner remove anything just like that; faces, shields, armor, butts, eyes, etc, and that's without any boosty gear. Add boos/ty gear and you'll be ****-talking FTL in no time, also the above are also great for shooting levitating people.
dual wield claymores
do you use an Acolyte?
I can hardly think of pull being effective without it on platinum
While I do use an Acolyte most of the time on my Justicar, I will switch on occasions to the Talon, Arc Pistol, Venom, Lancer, Disciple, Paladin, Executioner, CSMG or Hurricane, and probably a load more. In other words, you don't really need an Acolyte to be effective on Gold or Plat, but it is still arguably the best gun on her.
What is less arguable is that a kitten dies and an angel cries every time a Justicar goes to war with no points in Pull.
acolyte is the most OP and broken weapon in the game. get some self respect and use something else
maybe you are getting me wrong:
I actually want pull to be effective on gold/plat and would be glad to hear strategies to make it viable.
(other than with the Acolyte)
I picked the Disciple cause it is one of the more non-cheesy Shotguns. Venom or Graal or GPS would of course be much better. Or you can take a pistol with power mod, or Hurricane, or Saber. or whatever rocks your boat.
Strategy - shoot a mook's shields off, apply pull, then reave and move on; reave will finish it off(even on Plat). If your gun is not that strong, apply reave first for some extra damage from warp ammo.
Pull is a reliable quick stagger, especially the area version - it's harder to dodge. It will stagger any mook short of pyro and goon (I'm not sure about the pyro, it might stagger it as well) and will certainly trigger either the flip or the bubble of a phantom. So you stagger them until one has it's shields off, then a quick BE and you start a chain of destruction. For bosses - Reave, Bubble of Love, Reave for double BEs.
Make use of your dodge - it's super fast.
Always keep something reaved for DR.
Anything else is just sensible tactics that apply to any other kit - spawn control, movement, avoid getting surrounded, and so on and so forth.
Acolyte will of course be one of the best guns on her, as it makes any kit with short primer or detonator shine, and killing phantoms is one of the best ways to deplete the wave budget fast. Still, something with high DPS against armor can be just as efficient, seeing as how, especially on Plat, phantoms are not the only thing that force you to respond with high priority.
acolyte is the most OP and broken weapon in the game. get some self respect and use something else
Sure, let's forget about the Reegar and the Venom.
I have only ever pugd platinum..... it is by far, the worst experience you can have in this game. Gold is fun.
That's the only one thing that would make me preorder MEA.
I only ever play platinum occasionally with a team of friends, it's quite enjoyable as it offers a different challenge to gold. Only time I've pugged it was with a team after doing a couple of decent gold games first. For the OP, looking at your manifest, I'd look at something like the Turian Sentinel or GI with Piranha and Acolyte (for phantoms). Just make sure to use ammo or weapon mods to let you deal with armour.
You just described the Wraithhaha.
sometimes I wonder if the Claymore Fetishists would still love the gun if it was light like a feather, pinpoint accurate, and wouldn't have to be reload canceled.
^Manly guns need to sound like actual boomsticks of death, not like I'm cracking open a can of suds.
Retour en haut