"Swap hits with a thresher maw" care to explain that ? i thought the Thresher Maw were those big wormy animals.
No i'm not on PC so i can not give myself cheat armor
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It's pretty straight foward, Shock trooper soldier with master immunity and Colossus x heavy can take something like 20 hits from a Thresher Maw (yes the big wormy thing that will totally trash the Mako.) So pretty much god mode. An infiltrator will not do quite as well since they only get medium armor.
Back on the old BW forums, there was a guy that actually did a video of his shock trooper soldier build meleeing a Thresher Maw, one of the most damaging enemies in the game and let it hit him while hitting it with melee attacks. He took around 20 hits before he went down.
The only time my master immunity/heavy armor commando soldier died was on Luna getting stun locked by rocket drones. If you aren't stun locked two medical exo x's plus the soldier's health regen from class skills go a long way let you pretty much just tank your way through anything. This works pretty well for an infiltrator as well.
If you're interested in the math of how weapon damage and damage reduction work I pulled over the calculations from the old forums as well.
http://forum.bioware...r-calculations/