But with the DLC I mentioned earlier I found a perfect solution: the Geth Plasma Shotgun. I tend to medium to long range in my gun fights, if I can't use effective melee I don't want to be anywhere near you. Personally shotguns have never been my favorite, in anything let alone Mass Effect. Shotguns - Either you love them, or you hate them but the shotgun is tricky to master. It does the most base damage, second highest initial ammo capacity and deals 1.5x damage to Armor, regular damage to Barriers and Shields. Now like many ME2 fans I downloaded all the extra content I could grab and in one of the weapons packs is the M-5 Phalanx Pistol. When you're low on clips and pinned down only then should your heavy pistol come out, and not before.
Heavy Pistols - This is, and forever shall be, your back up weapon. I will also include general strategy at the end. I will go through what powers, weapons and bonus squad power I choose to play with. Soldier is still a lot of fun in ME2, but it has it's troubles too.
So in Mass Effect 2 I of course transferred over my save data on the Xbox 360, and Soldier (while now changed) was my class once more. Soldier might seem boring to some, but what drew me to the class back in Mass Effect 1 was that it fit Shepard's personality more so than any other class available. Mass Effect 2 My favorite class in Mass Effect 2 and how I like to play it.
