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The scattershot just doesn't do enough damage on its own. If you use this specific setup, you should combine it with a melee vanguard setup where charge has bastion, and the shotgun upgrade buffs damage to melee damage and vice versa, that way you can put out more damage and still keep full shields at all times. Maybe pair it with the asari sword which may attack slow, but does massive damage and has invincibile frames. You should also test this shield recharge setup with a DHAN shotgun (kett weapon and strongest shotgun) with the vent heat augment which turns any weapon into a recharge weapon like the rem weapons.

Biotic Charge: the go-to answer for everything. Krogan? *Biotic Charge* Exiles? *Biotic Charge* Kett? *Biotic Charge!* Reapers? *BIOTIC CHARGE!*

I love this game, anybody can play how they like & use any means/builds necessary to take down foes.

I'm pissed I can't have the Power Armor Tech ability that Vetra has

I actually have a Tech build with Overload, Incinerate, and Turret. This works well because I think a lot of enemies have shield + armor, you can take down shields + armor real quick with this build and you can clean up the mess with weapons with explosive rounds augmentation

@Rizzit hyey great build man, try it with Barrier in Biotics makes you dam near invincible with your build and this and rank 4. 5, 6 powers all top ones too, playing on insane and haven't lost my shields once

good job, thnx for this, its making me think more about possible combinations now.

glad I'm not the only one who found this, you can also put seeking Plasma on to get more range out of it and lose the arc of the projectile but it makes the charge shot do nothing still amazing! Edit: ah nvm saw thats what you did on you later save.

the CLIP SIZE MODS do matter with REM. WEAPONS ...it gives you extra shots before it over heats ...I've tested it!

After playing for 65 hours I find that the endless ammo of the Remnant weapons is kinda pointless because there are ammo crates EVERYWHERE. I used the Dahn shotgun and never had any trouble keeping full ammo.

Man i just wanna say that this is impressive stuff keep it up ill follow you now

I found a build that's enjoyable. I haven't tested it on Insanity but I love it. I'm calling it the "Biotic Assassin" build. Tactical Cloak and Combat Tools are the main focus points. Might sound odd but I'll explain. Being an assassin, you need to use cloak to make maneuvering easy. And the reason behind combat tools is for the martial arts (increases melee damage). Reason being is because you'll be using the asari sword. While your cloak is down, you'll being using Charge for gap closing and damage. Barrier is another ability that's key due to being in close combat 90% of the time. And the rest is up to you. I like to switch between Energy Drain, Shockwave and Singularity depending on the situation. The profile that's best suited for this is Vanguard due to the synergies with melee attacks.

I wish in the future mass effect games they let you change your race.

Me two seconds in: "Holy shit it's Reyes!"

You have some pretty interesting key bindings for powers

My take on vanguard (Biotic Ninja): Skills: -Charge 100%, -Anihilation -30% penalty, lift (huge cc), -throw(cdr) Weapns and armor: -asari sword (crucial) - powerful and mobile weapon, unlike this krogan club, takes time to get used to the blinking effect but its worth it -shotgun - whatever, this build focus on melee (i use crusader), -hyperguardian set (or n7 but hyper is better (cdr is easy to get unlike melee dmg, and hyper looks much better). -Some long range weap for architects -stack lots of cdr. on weapons (cdr from sword augments is always in effect) and barrier power in armor + epic augs, (u dont need biotic damage or weapon dmg at all, skills are just for mobility and cc for you to go melee) Playstyle: Always on the move, use charge on cooldown, use biotic explosion for area dd and cc, charge + melee with sword kills most of the things (even with shields and armor). Focus on melee attacks, use shotgun just for bonus melee damage from shotgun skill tree synergy. Lots of CDR is crucial to keep your shilelds up by charging. Very fun, very powerful and very fast build, squadmate of your choice, everything dies before they react. U need decent level (like 30) for it to get full power and fluidity but its ok to start from lvl 1 with it (i did). By lvl 40 with tier 6 gear you are pretty much immortal Blinking around an killing stuff. I guess its Genji build o_O.

Just an FYI but clip size = amount of shots before cooldown in quick succession. Bigger clip size means more shots before cooldown occurs. On a one-shot shotgun, this might not be a problem but on anything else, it's a big deal. Also, come back after level 53 once all your squadmates have maxed out all their skills. Also, the extra cryo pod perks of fusion mod support (50% less penalty for fusion mods), the augmentation perk and actually using the double mod extension is a huge boost to weapon performance. I run a Sentinel/Tech build (only for the Sentinel Tech Armor) and I almost never have to think about shields/biotic barrier going down.

The only plus for this is that you don't have to worry about ammo. If you were playing on Insanity, good luck taking bases with that weapon. You'll be dead before you can take down the first enemy, especially when 1 makes more than 25% damage on shield or health that you recover with this. Shotgun is not the weapon you want on you when challenging yourself with the hardest difficulty.

Nice find dude, keep it up. Thanks!

I`ll say u certainly need overload and/or energy drain equipt when playing higher then normal. Otherwise fighting shielded enemies becomes a pain in the ass. since u cant controll squadmates u need smth against shields equiped Most Biotic powers are useless against shielded enemies. . Playing on insane , and i think a combination of/ overload /incinerate so far is the most effetive. U can go for a third Power that will immediately trigger fire explosions f.e concussion shot(with shield damage). Shoot >overload ->incinerate-concussion shot-fire explosion- death - u can also upgrrade your armour doing inferno damage when making air -melle attack - doing that combo on a bunch of enemies -u kill all of them with a final melle attack is effective and fun :)

Use a piranha with the vintage heatsync augment. It is more dmg it gives 7 shots and cools down while using abilities and its full auto so you can just spray into foes, rinse and repeat.

Since you can max out everything in this game my rotation in this game will be mix ups with n7 biotic set up kett unity soldier set up and a mix of both for explorer

For all energy based weapons : CLIP SIZE MATTERS. ofc it's always on 100%..but how much is that 100%? Example: 1.Paw Remnant Rifle raw...no mods ..no skills in rifles ..no passive clip improvements => can fire for 3.7 seconds until overheating .. 10 rounds per second => 37 rounds (it even shows you in the weapons info that it has 37 rounds per clip) 2. Same rifle with all the rifle clip size passives from skills and turbocharge active (with 80% more clip size for last skill) => more than 10 (TEN) seconds of continuous fire before overheating => that is more than 100 rounds with around 55+ dmg each for my lvl 31 char ( and it's not even optimized) => 5.5k damage before a 1 second recharge time (you can't miss any rounds because of the seeking plasma sistem augmentation => just melts everything) => YEAH CLIP SIZE MATTERS (as it is with all sizes in life) BUT in this case .. with this shotgun you actually want 1 round per clip so you can abuse the shield oscillator augmentation => you can abuse this even more with pistols that have one round per clip by default and even faster reload speed by simply using the vintage heat sinking augmentation => faster rate of fire => faster shield recharge (PS: those pistol usually have more then 500 dmg per shot too :D and great precision)

Wow really nice!... have you tried with charge-nova with that gun? It should work osom

Piranha +Seeking plasma + bio converter (name?) = win

Annihilation,Charge,Lance. combined with this shotgun. = deadly on insanity. as long as your fighing. Annihilation full time primer, Always active during combat ( upgraded for when enemy dies recharges shields ), Lance detonator ( upgraded for using shield cost ), Charge for moving distance and shield reset . The " Uh- OH" button. Nothing can damage you while this is being used.( upgraded for restoring shields ). Melee weapon Asari Sword( No damage taken during melee animation ). with this build I have torn through the game in insanity mode. Rem armor , scorpion , and / or shotty for situational.

U could use battlefield assist module to get more damage too, thanks for sharing this

in biotics there is a skill called I think anniliation try it out I run a shotgun charge build and they compliment each other well

Oscillator---"Ossalator" the way it's sounds

Try incinerate for your third ability. Both charge and energy drain detonate a fire combo with it. Been using those three abilities with an asari sword on insanity. As long as you know how to kite you shouldn't have too much trouble.

Nice find.

just charge in, singularity, punch, charge... and use the electricity ar to remove shields and the infinite ammo one to destroy armor and architect legs and heads. makes you want an "insanity 2" difficulty setting because you cal face roll anything... last time i checked all companions had 32 skill points that i never even cqred to use because they dont do anything at all (even wish i could simply go lone wolf without their crappy banter to annoy me)

What did you put into the other 2 Augmentation slots besides Plasma Charge & Shield Oscillator?

hello, why then u shooting ur % drop from 100 to 0, and my is going from 100 to 50 adn then 0 % ?

I crafted my shotgun just like yours but added plasma seeking and it does NOT fire one shot, it has like 8 shots before its at 0%. Did i do something wrong?

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Neat!

That french accent : REMARQUABLE

Energy drain, tactical cloak, turbocharge with automatic bio converter hurricane assalt rifle is beyond broken even in insanity. Tech skills got buffed in MEA for unknown reasons 🤣.

just started new game + on insanity level 132 and i'm running with charge energy drain and incinerate and it's extremely op right now

His frame rate is sooo smooth :o

how is it on Insanity ? The higher damage DHAL with plasma charge suits me well, but I'm gonna try this one.

OP gun like all Relics guns

Did they patch this? Mine only drops 25% each shot.

How do you have so much research data?

They patched this. At least in the ps4 version. Now when you make this gun, each shot takes 50% of the guns energy so it takes longer to build your shield now.

Black widow sniper rifle with mods, kill whole squads of enemies through walls before they even get a chance to hit u. Nuff said.

What mouse are you using?

amazing, thanks a lot

What is the augmentation you used to make your shots automatically go to enemies?

Someone should try Vintage heat sing on dahn with the sheild oscillator and seeking plasma (or normal plasma) system

This isn't working for me unfortunately. It takes my gun 7 shots to get to 0%. I don't understand why.

It all comes down to play style too, that build doesn't mean it's the strongest in the game. I've seen many people use long range tech and weapons to shred enemies down rather than get up close because half the time getting so close on higher difficulties isn't always as effective as your build. Sure that build would work for the lower plebs, but that wouldn't work so well with people that play the game with skill and not stupid builds of weapons/armour/etc.

It only work so good on revenant weapons or on all ? I dont like the damage of that shotgun I would consider something with bigger damage.

"Normal" Vanguard does indeed work on Hardcore, you just gotta keep moving. Insanity may be a different story, but no doubt some crazy idiot out there is making it work.

You didn't tell us your armour dude.

lol cute. use cloag turbo and invasion with an infiltrator. use the shield oscilator on the armor and get a n7 piranha shotgun and or the black widow. give the guns the mod that refills the clip when empty using 5% health and get passive skills that regenerates health. no bullshit grenade mods or so. use the asari blade with it.

How did you take off your helmet on a planet I can't do it

this gameplay style won't work on insanity sorry, i have finished the game on insanity and did a lot of trials and errors , you would be dead in 3 seconds , you can't replenish the shield as fast as you take damage, so the "Rambo - Terminator go in and shoot like crazy" does not work on insanity ...definitely not ; just try it in a level where there are many "Anointed" , "Destined" and "Chosen" on the map or just try to kill an "Architect" with this combo you are showing... i think it would take a long time with that damage... sorry but this build is good and fun but on lower difficulties.

So, you basically missed the opportunity for biotic combos ? Ineffective Build IMO

This guy sounds like t’chala

A melee vanguard build (Asari sword / Krogan hammer ) has way more damage, and even better sustain than what you just put out there. and it works on insanity and everything just dies. (ALOT faster) than your build. or even a tech build where you go into shield recharge and health regain has better sustain than yours, i mean the remnant weapons are interresting sure, but the shotgun is just trash.

I would use incinerate and overload with charge and that shotgun

not working anymore... i did the gun with plasma charge and schield. it has 5 or 6 shot. still very nice gun

How in hell can you have that much Vanadium?

Does it work the same with other remnant weapons?

Ridonculus! xD (i meant the typo btw)

whill we ever akimbo wield to bloody revolvers ffs

great find, but it does look like a bug to me, does anyone know for sure?

cet accent français ! 👌

The strongest build is this: 1. Overload 2. Energy drain 3. Tacticle Cloak / Infiltrator. 4. Black widow sniper / vintage heat augment 5. Maverick armor / Fusion mod of adrenaline. 6. Repeat, because all your powers are recharged thx to the OP Fusion mod of adrenaline. Strategy. 1.Cloak, 2. charge your Overload and combo instant with energy drain. 3. The Overload stuns your enemy long enough for an easy headshot since you cast while scoped in. 40% damage increase from the Cloak, 30% damage increase for the tech combo, depending on the level up to 60% weak shot damage increase trough infiltrator perk and maverick armor. Insta-kill on all random enemies with exception of the kett big fiend, remtech nullifier and destroyer.

Why do people keep ignoring the Vintage Heat Sink augment? It makes Dhan a monster in the hands of a Vanguard - 2 shots, melee , charge ... and the next 2 shots are already finished cooling down!

If you want powerful weapons play on easy

"this is on hardcore" lol

that is pretty weak build if you ask me lol good survival but not good dmg. I went Full Advanced Window / Black Widow + Maverick set ( weak point dmg bonuses ) turbocharged and cloak for extra damage and I can 1 shot most guys. Heavier units take 3-5 shots lol

how did he get his helmet off

not at all the best build... want to really see crazy get singularity, biotic charge, use a remnant cryo fist, spec for vanguard. use all n7 armor and heleus champion helmet. you will not even need a weapon to kill stuff! but in any case get the assault rifle from remnant and make 2 of those, one with the mod that deal health dmg to you to instantly reload and the other with the electricity mod.

My problem is having enough resources to craft things.

What difficulty is this on?

What armor is that ?

Boring playstyle but effective

This video should be 2min not 12

Is this insanity difficulty?

trash build cant defeat the giant remnant(forgot the name) on hardcore and you'll end up a walking target since shotgun can't hit far enough and also it'll take days to kill it since low dam output. would prefer the black widow with the explosive bullet converter augment makes it hit enemies so hard it could potentially one shot enemies, i think the isharay sniper could do better than black widow too since 900 dam on lvl 5 too. Mod your character to shield healer vanguard would be better with a lvl 6 backlash makes your character to a walking tank with a nuke on their hands if you use those weapon instead with the sweeper modded seeker bullets makes it better.

takes way too long to kill anything. widow + cloak + headshot is way better

Meh still screwed against an architect. Otherwise, great work!

thats not the "most powerful Build" ... i have a skill tree and weapon, with i can two shot the Rylkor without taking any dmg. Sniper Explosive mode (not a sniper weapon anymore). :D

That shotgun looks useless. It has no damage potential at all. I mean wtf 150 damage or whatever it said. A carnifex pistol first level does 209. Any other shotgun would kill better. then you don't need shield recharge per hit.

if its the best build why would you be playing on hardcore