I do best with reyna. She can support with her over shield and also has decent single target damage.
I managed to get close to ISAC’s damage using Kleese in Renegade. What really helped was setting four linked rifts at the spawn point of the first wave in the last defense location. Everything that spawned there insta-died. Second and third waves my four rifts were surrounding me and ISAC at the entrance from the other spawn location. We tore through everything that spawned there over the other two waves. He ended with 220k damage, I was at 200k, and only 15 kills behind him.
SO MUCH OSCAR MIKE that it hurts. Seriously. OM is the PvE GOD.
I put Whiskey Foxtrot in a close second, though Mike’s stealth generator and airstrike are the edge there.
And while I don’t recommend trying to snipe with it, taking the ranged scope CAN be advantageous for the mid-range game. Being able to put a much higher % of your shots on the critical spot against, say, GEOFF/ARACHNIS? Goes down faster than … [insert misogynistic beer-in-a-can saying here]
Works even better on Whiskey Foxtrot, whose rifle tends to do better damage right out of the gate.
I DO love me some Benedict, and he’s BRUTAL against bosses and minibosses (GOD he totally WRECKS H3NCHM4N), but the overall DPS-and-survivability champ for PvE is Oscar Mike IMO.
Considerations, though: I dig mid-range DPS over brawlers and snipers–gives me some standoff, and ability to do damage at ranges where AI enemies get a little inaccurate (especially with slow projectiles that can be dodged), and I love having an area-denial weapon system (grenade launchers with NAPALM!!! Where was THIS awesomeness when I was in the Army???), and Oscar Mike’s stealth thing is SUPER helpful for getting out of trouble when I screw up and draw too much aggro. If you’re comfortable being the enemy’s center of attention, you might do better with a brawler. The arenas in this game aren’t always friendly for true long-range fighting, so I dodge the squishy sniper role (also, time spent in MWO has turned me off to the “I like to play long-range support” thing).
My PvE experience (outside of CTT and Beta) has been all solo, though. Finding a niche for other roles within a team MAY be more up the OP’s alley.
After having played pretty much every character so far, I’d have to say they can all do really well in PVE - some, I could never do all that great with in PVP, though, at least not consistently. Caldarius use to be my fav, but for the life of me, I just can’t help but feeling like he’s weak in PVP - hard to do well with and easy to kill. Mellka is currently my favorite, though Oscar Mike is the first to come to mind for those looking for a character that easily performs well in both PVP and PVE. As for PVE only, yeah, I’d say there’s a lot of options. You just have to find the one you personally enjoy the most, the one that best fits your playstyle. Might want to check out characters with solid AOEs which are great for laying down a ton of damage. Just go a little way through a private episode and see which ones you do well with, are fun to play, and seem to fit.
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…Agree, seems any player can get used to him quick and he’s the rubberband-man for his team.
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