Build Title: Turian Renegade

Class: Turian Ghost Infiltrator

Map Difficulty Rating: This build has the potential for Platinum gameplay

Power Evolutions:

Tactical Cloak: (4) Duration*, (5) Recharge Speed, (6) Assault Rifle Damage

Stimulant Pack: (4) Damage, (5) Duration, (6) Weapon Damage

Overload: (4) Damage, (5) Neural Shock, (6) Chain Overload

Armiger Legion: (4) Damage & Stability, (5) Power Damage, (6) Damage & Stability

Fitness: N/A

*I choose Duration on Cloak to help with the Objectives, but I’m a team-oriented kind of player. With Damage on Cloak, it is 100% bonus Assault Rifle Damage for a few shots which is nice, but personally, I feel that we get more out of Duration than Damage. Use your preference.

Weapons:

Cerberus Harrier. Hands down the best Assault Rifle in the game. Use Extended Magazine and Piercing Mod/Extended Barrel. Other substitutes for players who haven’t been blessed with the Cerberus Harrier include the Phaeston, M-96 Mattock, M-99 Saber or the M-76 Revenant all with Extended Magazine and Piercing Mod/Extended Barrel. The first two are Uncommon, the Saber is another Ultra-Rare which I prefer on the Turian Havoc and the Revenant is a Rare.

Gear:

The Ammo Bonus should be either Armor-Piercing or Incendiary Rounds. Armor-Piercing is for boss-killing but Incendiary allows the Ghost to do Fire Explosions with Overload (like my Geth Engineer build). Use an Assault Rifle Rail Amp and a Cyclonic Modulator for Weapon and Armor bonuses. For the gear slot, Warfighter Package or Grenade Capacity as these affect the number of Stimulant packs you can carry. 4 Stimulant Packs with Warfighter Package IV or V and 7 Stimulant Packs with Grenade Capacity V. After the recent nerf of Stimulant Pack, you’re better off taking the Grenade Capacity gear.

Strategy:

The Turian Ghost Infiltrator was BioWare’s answer to two questions we have been asking since the beginning: “Where is our Turian Infiltrator” and “Why isn’t there an Infiltrator with Overload”. Luckily, they’ve done it with one, an incredibly powerful character which will decimate its opponents. We’ll go over the powers, then strategy against the enemies and end with the flaws of the build and how to overcome them.

The first thing you’ll notice is their are no points in Fitness. This is common with my Infiltrator builds as with Cloak there is less need for it. You also have Ops Packs and Stimulant Packs so Shields are not necessary. On Tactical Cloak, I run all my Infiltrators with Duration, 40% additional damage is still respectable and it means I can do the objectives effectively. Since this is not a Melee build, forgo Melee Damage and go for Recharge Speed. Assault Rifle Damage on Cloak differentiates this character from then other Infiltrators, boosting that 40% to 60% and then about 6-8 more seconds of 20% Assault Rifle Damage. The Ghost gets all this extra Damage from Stimulant Packs, which are evolved for maximum damage. You get an additional 20.50% Cerberus Harrier Damage for 9 seconds, and this isn’t including the passive power yet. That’s insane! The great part is you also get 1200 shields are a result of using a Stimulant Pack, giving you that extra shielding you need in certain situations. Since the release of the Collectors, Overload should be evolved in one way. Damage, Neural Shock, Chain Overload. This way, Overload damages all enemies and stuns unarmored trooper enemies, deals maximum damage (increased by 40% when Cloaked and by 17.50% when Stimulant Packs are used) and hits another target. For Armiger Legion, Damage & Stability gives you 30% Weapon Damage and 55% Weapon Stability when you evolve it for both those options at Ranks 4 and 6. You could go for Headshots at Rank 5, but increasing Overload’s potential is a better option.

An intelligent Ghost will have no problem with trooper-tier enemies as long as he isn’t surrounded and by himself. Overload fries the Shields and Barriers of Centurions, Nemeses, Phantoms, Geth Hunters, Rocket Troopers, Geth Pyros, Geth Bombers, Marauders, Collector Captains and possessed Collectors (Abominations, Troopers, Captains). The Infiltrator can then follow up with sustained Harrier fire to annihilate the targets. You also have your Propulsion Packs to get you out of the way quickly or your Melee which staggers its target. For armoured opponents like Brutes, Ravagers, Dragoons and Scions, your weapon is where its at. You need to Cloak and fire. If you have Armor-Piercing Rounds on, you’ll shred them. If you chose Incendiary, add in an Overload and creat Fire Explosions to damage them as well. If the Scion becomes possessed, switch to Overload and then the above strategy.

Heafty boss-level targets (Atlases, Primes, Praetorians and Banshees) should not be a big issue either. Using Overload to strip their shields will work well on Atlases and Primes and Banshees but the Praetorians have that Spherical Barrier than they can bring up which heavily weakens power damage and reduces weapon damage. Switch to weapons at that moment. Once their shields are down, use the same strategy for the armored targets. Don’t get in too close to these enemies Altases and Praetorians can sync-kill you after their melee attacks, Banshees can sync-kill you if they’re in their Biotic Charge stage and Primes can stunlock you and rail you with their Pulse Cannons.

The Turian Ghost Infiltrator is a thoroughly well-rounded character, which can do the Objectives as well as destroy the enemies. His only issue is his defences and his dodge. While that dodge is useful, if it goes the wrong direction or backs you into a wall, the animation is quite long and can easily turn a dangerous situation into an even more precarious one. Be aware of your surroundings at all times. He has 750/500 in terms of defences which becomes 1950/500 with the use of Stimulant packs for 9 seconds. He is harder to play now, as BioWare nerfed Stimulant Pack but by taking more with you, you should be able to compensate. You will go down if you make silly, Bronze-forgivable decisions. Like above, be aware of your surrounds and the number of Ops Packs and Stimulant Packs you have. A Stimulant Pack won’t save you always and it doesn’t come with that 1 second Immunity that the Ops Packs do. 1 second can be all you need to get away sometimes.

N00b Rating:

3 - Not hard to play, not hard to succeed with but frail none the less. The difficulty comes with deciding when to use Stimulant Packs. They are evolved for maximum damage but can count as a lifeline when you’re near death. It’s safer to use an Ops Pack in that situation unless you’re sure with the Damage and Shield boost from Stimulant Pack you can survive the encounter. But do not waste all of your Ops Packs before round 3, not before round 6 even (of course, if you can only take 2 to a match, that’s an issue). Use your Stimulant Packs often, but always be wary of how many you have left.