So soldier with Avenger and turbocharge is gold viable? And infiltrator with Viper? My weapon selection is really limited but I do have both of those maxed. I've been running the Avenger with my Atari on bronze, haven't tried the Viper since IV. Heck I haven't tried silver yet but if these setups are decent on gold I may finally dip my toe in silver.
More or less. Like, I wouldn't want to do it, but I got away with it once. Haven't tried infiltrator viper on gold, though, I'd sooner turbocharge the viper. As I said, it's a workable weapon, but only just.
Shared cooldowns were the worst idea Bioware implemented in ME 2. It completely kills some potential combinations.
And i have not said that there were no synergies in ME 3 MP, but way less than now, for example Asari Huntress is solely made as a support class, Asari Adept is fully synergistic with heavy buffs for team mates etc.
Powers are also potent right now, i can kill Hydra on Gold in two cooldowns on my Human Infiltrator.
Combos have to be weaker, because you can do like 5 of them in one second with proper team, if you could do that in ME 3 it would broke the game.
No, shared cooldowns were a great idea. Let's say you have an engineer with drone, overload, and incinerate. Because of the shared cooldowns, each individual ability can be powerful and you actually have to coordinate with your team or have insane cooldown times to get tech combos that are far more powerful than ME:A's. In ME:3 overload in its own right can strip shields, so it'd be the first thing you'd use on shielded enemies, and then when you got to armor, you'd use incinerate repeatedly. There was little point in using overload on a health enemy or incinerate on shields, they'd have their role and do it well.
Now, that same combo of powers has less use. Getting a combo does very little, overload sucks even against shields by itself, incinerate does fuck all on gold except for being able to finish an enemy if you need to reload. Not to mention incinerate only combos if you use it first before another power.
And you're acting like ME3 didn't have purely support classes. Do you actually remember the classes? Cause it doesn't seem like it.
As for your hydra points, even on gold Hydras are easy. My turian havoc soldier can get a gold hydra in one-two clips of the vanquisher+turbocharge(well, it doesn't go down as fast with other weapons, mind).
Otherwise, the game is starting to feel like ME3 MP again and is a lot of fun despite the obvious balance issues.
