My post in someone elses thread sums up my thoughts, but I will interject here. I actually think enemies are too easy, and specific ones need buffs. Such as nullifier. My biggest issue with balance in particular is the shoehorning into specific playstyles/weapons. You are better off meleeing (VG's, Angara Avenger), or sniping than anything else. The vast majority of weapons (which there are a giant amount of) are supremely outclassed by a very select few. Weapons need a massive damage boost. I disagree about shotguns, SOME are viable you just have to mix it with other skills such as shotgun to finish off a charge, etc. Combo's and most skills also too weak, and need a big buff. Some classes such as Krogan engineeer - which would be good in theory is trash in higher skill levels since it's skills are mostly based off combo. Combos and skills are pretty much useless except for CC. Enemies do not have too much health, you can tell if you have one of the viable weapons, just, like I said, the vast , majority of weapons, and powers are hugely underpowered. Some weapons can become viable to some degree if you have characters with skill points HEAVY in weapon damage (Turian havoc, turian soldier, human soldier).
EDIT: If you are soloing a bunch of dogs and having trouble in melee just jump and hover over them or dash away and shoot them down. Especially in bronze you should have no problem burning them down. Not very hard to not get into a dog grapple situation either lol.
Got the N7 Valkyrie today, thinking maybe MAYBE one of the ar's would be worth using since it is the literal n7 rating ultra rare and it is also complete and utter garbage. I was struggling to kill breachers! I did a gold with my havoc X with as much weapon buffs as possible (barrel IX. reciever) and it still took a literal century to down anything WITH TURBOCHARGE. That's +19% damage from the barrel, from turbocharge +35% damage, 40% rate of fire. another 18% damage from havoc passives among a long list of others....ALONE 72% base DAMAGE!....... Yes, it is a level 1, but you'd think it would do more than that I mean comon. It is so weak I feel like it would struggle in bronze! A burst fire AR you'd think should have strong burst... My god ar's are broken right now. I mean I still scored over 18k points on top, but my god it was a pain in the rear. I had to use turbocharge on cooldown to kill even assemblers.
