Adept was probably the best class in the original game, just for the fun of throwing stuff around with biotic powers without getting yourself killed by Biotic Charging into groups without any real way to defend yourself once you got there - something that only really got fixed in later games. I had a blast as a Soldier in ME2.īut I played Adept in ME1 and thought that was crazy fun, and it didn’t really get any worse across the three games - it’s just that other classes, like Vanguard and Sentinel got better. But I loved Soldier in Mass Effect 2, because only Soldiers got to use the Revenant in that game, and the Revenant in that game is a firehose of bullets that makes it unnecessary to even equip a heavy weapon - it can kill heavily armored boss encounters against horrible Reaper monsters by itself.

If you go into this release intending to play the same Shepard across all three games, Vanguard might just be my favorite class. Vanguards are a remarkably fragile class for someone who literally throws themselves at the enemy, and it doesn’t really get good, in my opinion, until Mass Effect 3, which has the best and tightest gameplay of the trilogy. It might honestly be more shocking when I say Vanguard is a solid backup option, but the thing is? You’re getting three separate games here, and not all the classes in ME play the same across all three of those games.Įvery class has its perks, and each changes as Mass Effect progresses So if I tell you to play Soldier when you get the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, well, it’s not going to be a surprise. I’m the guy who has played the same class in World of Warcraft since 2004. I’m the guy who recommends Barbarian every Diablo 3 Season.

The answer is unfortunately dependent on a lot of factors - which of the three games you’ll be playing, your personality, or if you’re playing Mass Effect 2 and therefore the answer is always Soldier because Soldiers get the M-76 Revenant, the best weapon in that entire game which just does oodles of damage, and if you just can’t live without using your own body as a projectile.

You may well be wondering which of these classes is the best.

That means picking a character class out of the game’s six options - Adept, Soldier, Engineer, Vanguard, Sentinel, and Infiltator. If you, like me, are looking forward to the upcoming Mass Effect Legendary Edition then you’ll have to accept a simple fact - in order to play the game, you will have to, well, play the game.

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