There is simply no other skill that a soldier can take that outclasses it. (Even your melee strikes hit like wrecking balls when you add up armor bonuses with that kind of multiplier). It operates like the range modifier it multiplies the total damage, not the base damage, meaning that instead of doing +155% of your weapons base damage, it's doing +155% of the modified damage adding up ammo powers, headshot bonus, armor bonus, upgrade bonuses. Other skills calculate their bonuses as a bonus percentage of the weapons base damage, which makes most individual bonuses underwhelming when taken on their own.Īdrenaline Rush is a different beast. It's hilarious to melee groups of husks to death.Īnother thing most people don't know about Adrenalin Rush is that it calculates damage totally differently than any other skill. Oh yes, it also doesn't slow your movement or melee attack speed so you can sprint like Usain Bolt and melee like a machine gun (your melee also gets the +155% damage boost).

What's the cooldown on such an amazing skill? THREE SECONDS. The downside, is that while Cloaked, you're 'debuffed' and can't regenerate health or shields, and while you're invisible enemies tend to hide behind cover until it wears off, and has a 6-second cooldown.Ī Soldier using Heightened Adrenaline Rush and the Commando Specialization deals +155% damage not with one shot, but with EVERY SHOT FIRED UNDER ADRENALINE RUSH. He doesn't have fancy powers like an Adept, but he doesn't need them Adrenaline Rush is so powerful, and on such a short cooldown that to use any other power would (outside of rare situations) actually result in less damage being inflicted on the enemy.Īn Infiltrator using Assassination Cloak with the Assassin Specialization has +90% weapon damage for one shot. He has access to every Ammo Power in the game, and every nearly every weapon in the game. The Soldier is simply the most powerful class in ME2. Mass Effect 2 A guide for playing the most powerful class in Mass Effect 2.

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