Ranking Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Characters (with N7Kurrupt)

[@Capta1nAsh]

Timestamps 00:00 - Intro rambling and disclaimers. 03:00 - Asari Justicar - B Tier 07:05 - Asari Adept - B Tier 10:10 - Asari Vanguard - C Tier 12:35 - Batarian Soldier - A Tier 15:20 - Batarian Sentinel - D Tier 18:50 - BF3 Soldier - Why? 21:30 - Drell Adept - C Tier 23:20 - Drell Vanguard - D Tier 25:30 - Geth Engineer - A Tier 27:55 - Geth Infiltrator - S Tier 28:55 - Human Adept - A Tier 31:35 - Human Soldier - B Tier 33:03 - Human Vanguard - C Tier 35:10 - Human Sentinel - B Tier 37:03 - Human Engineer - B Tier 38:57 - Human Infiltrator - B Tier 41:22 - Krogan Vanguard - A Tier 42:38 - Krogan Soldier - A Tier 44:38 - Krogan Sentinel - C Tier 46:36 - Alliance Infiltration Unit - S Tier 48:20 - Asari Huntress - A Tier 50:15 - Asari Valkyrie - A Tier 53:55 - Awakened Collector - C Tier 56:55 - Batarian Vanguard - A Tier 59:20 - Batarian Adept - A Tier 1:00:48 - Cabal Vanguard - C Tier 1:03:36 - Drell Assassin Infiltrator - S Tier 1:05:00 - Geth Juggernaut - A Tier 1:07:25 - Geth Trooper - S Tier 1:08:46 - Krogan Shaman - B Tier 1:10:35 - Krogan Warlord - B Tier 1:12:37 - Quarian Marksman - C Tier 1:15:43 - Talon Mercenary - B Tier 1:19:50 - Turian Ghost - S Tier 1:21:47 - Turian Havoc - C Tier 1:22:50 - Turian Saboteur - B Tier 1:23:42 - Volus Adept - A Tier 1:24:50 - Volus Engineer - A Tier 1:26:20 - Volus Sentinel - F Tier 1:28:18 - Volus Vanguard - D Tier 1:29:58 - Vorcha Engineer - C Tier 1:32:25 - N7 Demolisher - B Tier 1:34:57 - N7 Destroyer - A Tier 1:36:13 - N7 Fury - C Tier 1:38:15 - N7 Paladin - S Tier 1:39:40 - N7 Shadow - C Tier 1:41:46 - N7 Slayer - C Tier 1:44:07 - Phoenix Adept - A Tier 1:45:19 - Phoenix Vanguard - D Tier 1:48:07 - Quarian Male Infiltrator - A Tier 1:48:55 - Quarian Male Engineer - A Tier 1:49:53 - Quarian Female Infiltrator - A Tier 1:51:00 - Quarian Female Engineer - A Tier 1:53:49 - Salarian Engineer - B Tier 1:54:53 - Salarian Infiltrator - A Tier 1:56:08 - Turian Soldier - A Tier 1:57:57 - Turian Sentinel - A Tier 1:59:15 - Vorcha Soldier - C Tier 2:02:10 - Vorcha Sentinel - B Tier 2:02:47 - Recap

[@FilmCritictheone]

Vorcha solider is an easy A tier character go all in to bloodlust and the flamer with armor damage and you'll barely go down and melt through brutes in one go

[@Call4Fire]

Man we need me3 mp on legendary

[@Mark-vv1dy]

I'm so sad it wasn't included. Would have had so many potential new players. It totally holds up, too. And it didn't even need server commitments because of the P2P connections. After playing through LE, I went back and installed the original ME3 so I could play some MP again. It was really something special.

[@highhorseo7875]

It's still somewhat active on 360. I just start soloing and eventually people start joining

[@Capta1nAsh]

EA dangled the carrot though, didn't they? All the MP fans were like "no thanks" and EA/Bioware said "we might add it later", and some people were suckered into buying LE

[@murlocmaster6192]

​@@Capta1nAsh so like, buying me3 separate from the legendary edition wasent a big deal for me as RN its on sale for mega cheap as well as dragon age and the ME games seperantly. Actully pretty sure a few dragon age games are bundled with all 3 mass effect games probaly including all the dlc. Steam has always had by far some of the most batshit insane sales ever. Spend the 20 bucks. Well worth it

[@dredgephantom4212]

My dad and I used to play this game a lot when i was a kid/early teen. My dads fav characters were geth trooper, geth engineer and vorcha, my fav was n7 destroyer, slayer and drell assassin. Was taking a trip down memory lane with this vid.

[@Capta1nAsh]

I’m glad to provide nostalgic memories 😁 ME3MP is still hanging in there (just about…) if you’re interested in playing the game. There’s still people playing and discussing it! discord.gg/BjYE83Na2E

[@D0ntTaseM3Br0]

Your Dad? Bro how old are you because your making me FEEL OLD

[@dredgephantom4212]

@@D0ntTaseM3Br0 24

[@mcteeryy]

As a newbie player thanks for this. Great videos 😄

[@danielpayne1597]

Enjoyable ME3 MP discussion. This list definitely shows a slant towards Infiltrators and against Vanguards, though. I think a lot of the list earlier in the video makes sense, and then eventually just fully went off the rails. The Volus Vanguard is my favorite Volus--you can zip to any ally taking damage and refresh their shields while keeping yours up at all times. Any damage added from there is just icing. And while the Juggernaut's not the most thrilling with gameplay and the damage output is limited, I would put it in S for the top survivability in the game. All the Infiltrator dps gods need something to soak hits for them, after all.

[@shadedergu9921]

Honestly If anything Krogan Warlord should have had immunity to getting instakilled like the Juggernaut, he would be so good. At the very least while he is raging. Cause with how this guy is described as the Apex Krogan, an unstoppable killing machine, he really seems the type who would just not care about getting fucked up by a Banshee.

[@Capta1nAsh]

Getting sync-killed is his balance. It be like giving Juggernaut the ability to sprint.

[@shadedergu9921]

​​@@Capta1nAshalso true He would just curb-stomp everything without anything that could stop him if he was immune to that. Actually yeah, looking back into platinum play and he would just walk through it if he could not be Sync-Killed (such as using a mod for it)

[@ramsenc]

Nice, could use timestamps though.

[@Capta1nAsh]

If I have time I might add some at a later date

[@Capta1nAsh]

I finally did it. Took me long enough didn't it?

[@MrClone219]

​@Capta1nAsh Never too late though, thank you for timestamps

[@nybethobdilord6912]

I'd put the collector at least in B tier. His best builds are definitely weapon based builds that rely on weapons he gets boosts with and just use the Dark Swarm for a def boost. The ascension mode is just not worth using on higher difficulties. The fact he gets a damage boost with the Particle Rifle and can improve his def with Dark Swarm is great. I mained the character back in the day on the 360.

[@Capta1nAsh]

I haven’t watched this video since it’s been uploaded, I’m a little shocked I put my favourite adept in C. I usually spec for power damage. The collector weapons do good damage, even without the specking passives towards weapon damage

[@nybethobdilord6912]

@@Capta1nAsh I agree but honestly as an actual "spell user" the Collector is kinda weak. It can combo own its own to do huge damage but it's completely reliable on Dark Swarm which has a very long cooldown. Cuz of this it's better to completely focus on improving weapon damage and ignoring its abilities as otherwise it'll struggle in Platinum. It can at least perform decently well in Gold.

[@Capta1nAsh]

@@nybethobdilord6912 yeah, I treat collector more as a hangback primer. I rarely detonate combos and leave it to other teams. Treat more as a DoOT specialist

[@luminatrixfanfiction]

​@@Capta1nAsh Your list is good but I would also suggest a few tweaks as some characters are better than you mentioned. I would put the Volus Adept as S tier because it's honestly, the strongest tank in the game if you can believe it. It has better survivability than Geth Jugganaut, Alliance infilt unit and Turian Ghost. It's almost virtually indestructible if you know what you're doing with it. The trick is to chain shield boost, followed by a few seconds of heavy melee which activates shield bubble, followed by shield boost vice versa. For about 1.2 seconds, shield boost makes you invulnerable to anything, followed by the shield restore and regen. Then the heavy melee shield bubble gives you a split second of invulnerability in between each second or pulse, however I never use it longer than 1.2 seconds because that's all you need by the time shield boost cd ends. On top of that, normal melee gives you a few seconds of cloak. Seriously, I had two brutes whaling on me up close and about 6 other mobs all attack me, and I was tanking it like a boss on Platinum. Oh and fun side, shield boost increases your shield regen, but so does using heavy melee shield bubble so they stack on top of each other. So your shield regen flipping fast. And you can do about 5,000 to 7,000 damage with Executioner Pistol thanks to stasis debuff which can sometimes one shot heavy mobs like brutes. Also I would put Turian Havoc as A tier, because Havoc has a short cooldown, you get about a 1-2 second invulnerability during execution of Havoc, and best part is, unlike Biotic Charge where Banshees Brutes Atlas or Praetorian one shot melee you in the middle of it, Havoc protects you from heavy melees. Havoc also buffs your heavy melee and you can chain havoc and heavy melee consecutively without any interrupts.

[@nicksalehi97]

I just go with The BF3 soldier like 90% of the time i play. Who i named Blackburn....Because why not.

[@fabiantaveras8458]

Lol Im guessing you're a big fan of Blackhawk down?

[@nicksalehi97]

@@fabiantaveras8458 Oh not so much sorry. Actually never saw the whole thing

[@BenignAndaHalf]

The human soldiers are my preferred in the class. The rest have steep downsides while the Juggernaut is for hacks.

[@christopherhall5361]

I'd put Justicar in A tier at least, even though you can't pull everything to get a combo, Reave does some nasty damage and hits a decent area, on top of detonating any biotics an ally has like Dark Channel, Singularity or Warp. I'd say drop the bubble, max out the Reave damage, power damage perks in your passive and max health/shields

[@mcriggity1131]

Turian Havoc being C tier is criminal. Fantastic character with shotguns and I can routinely make phantoms my bitch with Havoc Strike. At least y'all put some respect on my TSabo (:

[@leonardodavinci7425]

Acoylte is my favourite pistol in the game

[@Capta1nAsh]

it makes a lot of classes really useful to lesser players imo

[@calluxdoaron1903]

Talon is a beast. It might be heavy for a pistol, but it shreds anything even without mods. With mods it turns into pocket combination of Katana and Paladin.

[@marloaleman9539]

Was a Male Engineer for me before switching to a female vanguard for I when I passed that fun game to me back then for I.

[@Victim5]

When I saw the time stamps and saw the amount of good classes in C Tier I was like WTF, but overall maybe tiers S-C are good and D-F are poop. Goes to show how great the classes in this game are. And the strong variety you can have.

[@bubbajoe117]

Gotta always keep in mind too, end of the day any class can be good if you toss a Cerberus harrier on them

[@Victim5]

@@bubbajoe117 *gets killed running to ammo box*

[@bubbajoe117]

@@Victim5 If there’s anything left alive before you run out of ammo that’s your own fault unless you’re just making due with a level 1 harrier. Like me Dx

[@Victim5]

@@bubbajoe117 I dunno, sometimes the spawns and the number/type of enemies can overwhelm, even with the Harrier. Was playing the other day, had like scions and praetorians coming around the corner. Had to use a couple thermal packs but I don't like using multiple back to back

[@GeneralDingo]

Keep in mind that C tier is supposed to mean middle of the road. "Good" is very suitable for C tier.

[@nybethobdilord6912]

Coming back to this the Quarian Marksmen should be in A tier when used as a support class rather than a damage dealer. Sabotage is one of the must busted moves in the game cuz of it's rank 6 vulnerability upgrade which increases tech damage to target by 50% for 10 seconds. This makes tech combos insanely op. Couple this with the damage boost of Tactical Scan and you have the highest supportive damage boost for your teammates. Toss sabotage and tactical scan on any boss like banshee and watch the Sentinel Paladin destroy her.

[@Capta1nAsh]

I did repec him as my AI Hacker buiild, with 4 points in Scan/Marksman. Honestly, Against Geth and Cerberus he's pretty fun and you can stun and line up headshots with sabotage too

[@nybethobdilord6912]

@@Capta1nAsh Thing is. Is that Sabotage's damage increase effect is active regardless of whether or not they are protected, are unarmed or are bio. So it's actually effective against everything. The downside is that Bioware seemed to be aware of how busted the move is as no class that has Sabotage can use it for their own tech combos outside of the Turian Saboteur which has to rely on grenades.

[@Capta1nAsh]

@@nybethobdilord6912 correct, and even then the debuff doesn’t increase damage of the turret or grenades. It does boost the heave melee on quarians and T.Sab though

[@nybethobdilord6912]

@@Capta1nAsh Actually the homing grenade counts as a tech ability for some reason. It does allow the Turian Saboteur to get a powerful tech burst off of the backfire from Sabotage. However, I'm not a huge fan of grenades as you have to make constant ammo trips. But put the Quarian Marksmen with a group that can perform tech combos and everything will die.

[@Capta1nAsh]

@@nybethobdilord6912 Yeah, though all grenades are a detonator (even Lift apparently if it's health targets about to die) Don't think it's a "Tech" power. Never had a Tech Medal from Homing Grenade kills. Data and number crunching isn't my thing. You should join the Mass Effect Multiplayer server. This is where the kalence dev team communicate so they'd be the best people to discuss this with. discord.gg/BjYE83Na2E Yeah. I understand the Quarksman and your setup. Honestly he's grown on me a lot during the last year. I do like him for a niche role. I use my Sab for the same reasons you use Quarksman. Being able to stack the scan debuff and sab debuff is dirty. A shame that Sentry Turrets, Grenades and Flamer don't benefit from Sabotage's Tech Vulnerability

[@Cabbage22927]

Vorcha solider c-tier is criminal

[@DarthNov]

SOrry for asking a dumb question, but how would you spec the n7 paladin ? :) Could you send me a build suited for plat ? Or what S Tier class/loadout would you recommend :)

[@Capta1nAsh]

When I’m home I’ll get you more detail. But 66644

[@DarthNov]

@@Capta1nAsh thank you so much. And could you send me a setup for the drell infiltrator as well 😇 maybe including weapons and stuff 😇

[@Capta1nAsh]

Here's the 2 characters as requested. Here's my go-to set ups on these guys. N7 Paladin Snap Freeze: 4 - Reach, 5 - Cyro Explosion, 6 - Damage and Weakness Incinerate: 4 - Radius, 5 - Burning Damage, 6 - Freeze Combo Energy Drain: 4 - Radius, 5 - Drain, 6 - Armour Boost (Doesn't work off-host) N7 Paladin: 4 - Damage and Capacity Shield Mastery: 4 - Melee Damage (Could do durability, it doesn't matter tbh) Weapon: Hurricane with Recoil dampener and Power Amp Gear: Armour Piercing Rounds, Strength Enhancer, Power Amp and Expert Package ------------------------- Drell Infiltrator Tactical Cloak: 4 - Damage Homing Grenade: 4 - Damage Recon Mine: 4 - Radius, 5 - Damage, 6 - Invasive Scan Drell Assassin: 4 - Weapon Damage, 5 - Headshots, 6 - Weapon Damage Fitness: 4 - Durability, 5 - Shield Recharge, 6 - Fitness Expert Weapon: Valkyrie with Mag Size and Damage Barrel (If you prefer to snipe, ditch homing grenades, but I like to use AR's and Shotguns on this guy) Gear: Armor Piercing Rounds, Assault Rifle Amp, Adrenaline Module and Barrage Package.

[@Capta1nAsh]

So, as for a "Platinum S tier builds" Geth Trooper: can be built pretty much in any way you want, it's very flexible. I go for 65555 with Acolyte and C.SMG, stronghold package and Power Amp. Dirty class. Sexbot/TGI: 66660, you don't need fitness. Cyclonic 4, Cloak and their healing powers will carry you. Wack on your best rifle or shotgun and do work. Cloak, Power, Shoot, repeat. Geth Infiltrator: A class that makes all weapons viable. If you're gonna snipe you want a 66660 build or have proxy mine at 5 and fitness at 3. If you're looking to use any weapon, 46664 is popular. I'd suggest going duration cloak. Weapon damage on hunter mode, debuff on proxy mine and weapon damage/headshots on passive. Wack on a piranha, javelin or black widow and start fucking them up. Fair warning though, he's a glass cannon.

[@DarthNov]

@@Capta1nAsh Thank you so much 😊

[@cestandmuni3849]

Please add multiplayer to Legendary edition

[@andjikkuu9006]

N7 Fury - C rank? Realy?

[@Capta1nAsh]

I need to rewatch this since it’s been over a year. But I’d say so from personal experience. If you’re picking the map and faction sure it’s B or above but on larger maps she’s a pain to play. Not good for unknown/unknown if you get a bad combo. Her strength is CQB combos and with her being squishy you end up walking around corners and eating it. Will watch this video again at some point to elaborate

[@Capta1nAsh]

I rewatched the video because I'm doing time stamps. I pretty much said good class but hard to use.

[@fabiantaveras8458]

Tbf N7 fury is the ultimate glass cannon. If you have no idea what you're doing she's C tier if you know what you're doing she's easily A tier

[@riker127]

I’m hoping ME4 has multiplayer

[@OriHutcherson-l6w]

Geth trooper build?

[@Capta1nAsh]

65555. great damage with some survival thrown on kalence2.github.io/#20!4706525!2308515!33X54323!D76BCS

[@OriHutcherson-l6w]

@@Capta1nAsh thank you, do you know if I can play it on Xbox series x? I don’t have a pc

[@Capta1nAsh]

@@OriHutcherson-l6w as far as I’m aware, Mass Effect 3 (the non-remaster) is backwards compatible

[@OriHutcherson-l6w]

@@Capta1nAsh thanks for the quick response

[@Capta1nAsh]

@@OriHutcherson-l6w No worries, you caught me at a good time where I’m at work not doing work 😅 Feel free to join the MEMP discord server. There are some Xbox players in there discord.gg/BjYE83Na2E

[@joshuapeters4052]

If you did a ranking list by class it might be easier. I did watch all of it. Disagree with only a couple points. Though I pick characters by map or enemy.

[@Capta1nAsh]

I've now added timestamps. I think this tier list had the images in alphabetical order. (with exception to a few DLC characters)

[@Jeff-z3c9i]

This game would have been a lot better if they made all the characters close to equal. Buff the lower tier and nerf the upper tier. You would have a lot more variety in the characters people played, and it would be more fun.

[@jacobcarlson4889]

The problem with this statement, is any game with different kits is going to have a curve of strength. No buffs or nerfs will change a characters kit