Poll: Mass Effect: Which character class is your favourite?

[Battleaxx90]

Personally, I like to play the Soldier class. Not only does it mesh well with my RP'ing style (Knight in Shining Armor), but IMO it's the most straightforward of the classes: Point gun towards enemy, activate Adrenaline Rush, pull trigger, win. Also, it's the only class in ME2 that can equip my favourite gun in the game: The M76 Revenant.

BTW, I haven't gotten ME3 yet. Just thought I'd let ya know. No spoilers, plz.

 

[Terminate421]

What the hell is Bastion? Some subtle advertisement for the game?

Soldier class, I like having all my weapons available at once. Though the multiplayer has taught me that the Engineer is useful.

 

[Goofguy]

What the hell is Bastion? Some subtle advertisement for the game?

Soldier class, I like having all my weapons available at once. Though the multiplayer has taught me that the Engineer is useful.

I think he meant Sentinel. Bastion was a sub-class of Sentinel in ME1, if I remember correctly.

And I too have to go with Soldier as I like being the grunt with all the weapons. However, I preferred playing Vanguard in ME3 multiplayer.

 

[LetalisK]

Soldier for me. The AI of your squadmates sucks balls when it comes to shooting their weapon, but is very accurate with their abilities, so I relegate them to casting as I handle all the shooty bits.

 

[Terminal Blue]

Engineer.

Bear in mind, I formed most of my opinions on this in ME2, which I still think is the overall best game of the series.

I used to play sentinel a lot because I figured it was good to have some to deal with anything yourself rather than having to rely on your squadmates and their derpy AI to take down shields or barriers. Plus, when I tried to play an adept I found myself missing the lifesaing properties of tech armour on higher difficulty levels.

Then I played engineer having been turned off tech powers by their mediocreness in ME1, and holy shit.. it was awesome. I went demolisher, I maxed out incinerate, cryogenics and overload and got myself an exploding robot friend, and the entire game was just non-stop power spamming fun. No long cooldowns, lots of dealing massive damage and exploding frozen people with tech combos, and best of all low cost research meant less time spent dragging the scanner around random planets.

It's very difficult to play any other class now.

I find myself wanting to replay my engineer playthrough just because the combat was the most fun. Then again, I'm probably more of a tactical combat person so my definition of fun may be in the minority.

 

[Vault101]

after playing the games over and over as a solder...

Ive recently found that infiltrator seems to work best for me, since I never even took advantage of the solers special abilities (except for the sniper rifle)

 

[Eddie the head]

For single player infiltrator, but if I am plying on line vanguard mostly. Asari and Krogen kind of switch out between those two.

 

[Indecipherable]

Single Player: Vanguard

Multiplayer: An equal bit of each of these - Salarian Engineer, Salarian Infiltrator, Geth Infiltrator, Asari Adept

 

[Andy Shandy]

For single-player, Soldier.

Multiplayer, however, it's between Adept (specifically Asari for me) and Infiltrator

 

[Wayneguard]

Vanguard since ME1. For some reason, I really like the shotguns in ME (especially the scimitar from ME2 and ME3).

 

[Scow2]

I love Soldier: I can use ALL THE GUNS!.

In ME1, it was awesome: Immunity+Overkill+Shield Boost = What "cover-based" shooting? I kill ALL THE THINGS!.

Unfortunately, my idea of putting Explosive Rounds in my Assault Rifle didn't work out well at all.

 

[Zhukov]

Vanguard by a mile.

Nothing beats a hyper-aggressive, telekinetic wrecking ball with a shotgun.

In ME3 they were rather overpowered due to being able to fully recharge shields with a charge.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

It depends, In Mass Effect 1 its easily the Adept, due to Biotics being super Overpowered.

In Mass Effect 2 its the Sentinel due to the fact that its a goddamn tank, and can adapt to a lot of playstyles, eg My mate used is Sentinel as a long range support character, I stormed rooms with my Katana Shotgun, dropping synthetics and mercs like they were flies.

And for Mass Effect 3 its the Infiltrator, and when coupled with the Valiant or Black Widow, the Infiltrator becomes impossible to kill

 

[Dr. Paine]

Tough call... I feel most comfortable between Infiltrator and Vanguard (with a sniper rifle in 3. A maxed-out Black Widow is all I need to get through the game now).

 

[Jitters Caffeine]

I've always played as an Engineer, so that's what I've been comfortable with.

But if we're talking about the ME3 Multiplayer, I've been having tons of fun with that, too. Despite it being broken currently, the Krogan Vanguard is still TONS of fun, and I've been having lots of fun with the Drell Vanguard, too. But I've gotta say, since I finally picked up the Carnifex, the Asari Adept and Asari Vanguard are headshot MACHINES.

 

[devilofthemist]

infiltrator, just because (excluding me1) the series sniper rifles are just so cool :3

 

[RedDeadFred]

Spamming powers with 200% cooldowns as the Vanguard is pretty fun. You feel really powerful just constantly flying around the battlefield.

 

[Tomeran]

Singleplayer: Soldier, the most straight-forward class.

Multiplayer: I'd have to say human engineer. Very comfortable class able to quickly deal with both armor and shields/barrier. Without loosing agility like with the turian sentinel.

 

[Joccaren]

In ME1: Soldier. Regenerating Health, and skill in every weapon, as well as heavy armour is really helpful. Since I was the only one that needed to stay alive, this was a must. I let my squad do all the casting - under my command of course.
ME2 and ME3: Vanguard. Charge, and Charge and Nova, were just far too fun to take assured life over them. In ME3 I was able to charge once every 2 seconds, restore half my shield in doing so, and 25% of the time charge twice in a row instantly. My fights didn't use guns. I was the projectile, and the enemies never stood a chance.
In ME2 its a fair bit harder as the Vanguard, and requires more careful charging, but in ME3... Carrying just a shotgun with Frag Rounds, I was literally a Biotic Wrecking Ball.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Infiltrator or Sentinel. Infiltrator for the slowdown sniper, and Sentinel for not fucking dying.