New Game + ...how does it work exactly?

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@mcsupersport wrote:

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@Qwii01 wrote:

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@mcsupersport wrote:
Architect get much easier on lower difficulties when you use the biotic reflecting shield. I ran a normal new game and maxed all biotic and started using the shield some and it was extremely effective. I don't know how it will fair on Insanity NG+ that I carried it over too, but we will see.

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you're talking about those giant 3-legged Remnant that end up floating around the planet when we defeat them? If so, love those fights. Only had one give me any real trouble ...the one on Voeld, because even after you fix the planet the area you fight him is still a  Hazard level 2 zone and you can't always be inside the safe building area to fully fight him. Other than this one, I had no issues with any of them. I just swapped thru my fav'd profiles during the fights for certains skills and they went down easy peasy 

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If you are playing mostly Biotic, there aren't a whole bunch of direct damage, long range abilities that work on him.  You, can't lift,  throw, Charge or Annihilation , and Lance or Singularity are only somewhat effective....you are also sometimes limited in what weapons you are dragging along depending on what level you are, and how much you have put into combat to increase it.  So after all this, you end up facing a monster that laughs at most of what you can do, and may not have weapons to really face him with any speed....then you find and use the reflective shield(sorry I don't remember it's real name) and you can stand there and reflect damage back at him....even the annoying grenades he throws by bunches....and basically shoot him at leisure dodging only the massive area attacks.  When the Remanent bots show up as filler, the Nullifiers bolts can be reflected back at them, as well as observers and basically anything that doesn't Melee.  So all in all, this whole battle becomes MUCH easier for a Biotic once the reflective shield is maxed and used.  NO you don't NEED it, but it makes it easier.....well at least on Normal difficulty it does...will find out how well it does in Insanity in a bit more time.

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well tbh, I do love my biotics but when fighting an architect I don't use one of my fav'd profiles only because it's purely biotic and I know this profile is best used in other situations. There's no reason for me to charge, nova into a shockwave on an Architect. It's just not that kind of fight. My other profiles are set up with Tech and Combat moreso, though Biotics do factor into two other profiles. I tended to sniper more than use skills ...my skills were more used on the spawn phases than the Architect itself. I may have made the fights go longer but meh, I didn't die on any but the Voeld one due to the environment issue I stated earlier.

thrown a load of grant xp's out for the replies on this thread.   all really good info.  thank you very much for taking the time to detail it.

One last thing with Architect.. don't forget to interface with it after it dies, run to it's head and use.. you get some decent loot.

First few times I just watched it fly off and didn't even know it dropped loot.

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@rugster wrote:

One last thing with Architect.. don't forget to interface with it after it dies, run to it's head and use.. you get some decent loot.

First few times I just watched it fly off and didn't even know it dropped loot.

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So you ignored the comp who told you to "Quickly! interface with it."? luls