Soldier or widow?

[Alpha Man]

Hi I'm looking to start either a soldier or widow.

 

I am looking for meta builds for both and influence is no object. I know a few people in the community have an opinion on what is the "best" build for both.

[KaizenSoze]

2 hours ago, Alpha Man said:

Hi I'm looking to start either a soldier or widow.

 

I am looking for meta builds for both and influence is no object. I know a few people in the community have an opinion on what is the "best" build for both.

 Are you looking for mostly melee or ranged?

[Alpha Man]

16 hours ago, KaizenSoze said:

 Are you looking for mostly melee or ranged?

Either one honestly. Both lol

[KaizenSoze]

56 minutes ago, Alpha Man said:

Either one honestly. Both lol

There is actually a multiple varieties. If one catches your fancy. Ask for specifics.

 

Fort melee/range hybrid. Scrapper/controller with a nuke.

Night Widow melee with a bit of ranged. Stalker/Tank/Support. Tied with Banes for the fastest placate recharge in the game.

Crabbermind: Ranged with pets. Mastermind/Lite tank with uncontrollable pets. If you can keep the pets alive you are a damage god, but it's hard to keep them alive.

Huntsmen(Bane or Crab): Ranged/debuffer/support/controller. They do have melee attacks, but ranged IMO is their sweet spot. They are great at immobilizing mobs.

Banes: Melee, but with good ranged. Stalker/Debuffs/Support

 

[tidge]

19 hours ago, Alpha Man said:

Hi I'm looking to start either a soldier or widow.

 

I am looking for meta builds for both and influence is no object. I know a few people in the community have an opinion on what is the "best" build for both.

 

You get 3 builds for each character. The only subtle issue is that for a VEAT character that picks "Crab", all builds will be stuck with the Crab backpack.

 

My personal preference is a Huntsman/Bane, but I used to take my body-swapping Fortunata/Widow through a LOT of crazy content. I preferred the Fortunata (despite it's reliance on Psi and Epic attacks) because of the extra amount of controls I baked into it.

 

The most annoying to play for me was a Crabbermind. It was a fun proof-of-concept but I found it to perform at a lower level than a Hunstbane.