Is there meta builds for mastery?

[Drake Platinum THE WORLD]

Been doing mastery in finite crisis to get ready for fear and duality as I did a mission in duality and it was kinda brolic. While my deadshot kinda melts and hold his own. My Harley is decent but could use more damage output, boomerang is okay as well but again needs more dps and my king shark just struggles to kill on these higher difficulty missions. I like to rotate the four in play but I've been leaning more on deadshot and harley since they hold their own a bit better with my current loadouts. Any solid builds especially for king shark?

And how do I go to episode 1 instead of 2. Im only allowed to pick between finite crisis and episode 2 from the main menu and the nexus doesn't let me switch worlds (at least from finite I'll have to try from episode 2)

[Ziluth]

So for builds, figure out what each character wants based on their talent trees, I haven't messed too much with king shark but bane's tier 3 is probably going to be where he lands due to his reliance on traversal and melee.

For episode 1, I had a bit of confusion with that myself. Episode 1 is now only the incursion missions and the mayhem mission, the over world is now set to episode 2 (I don't love this decision, but it is "live service"). So just do the incursions and mayhem and unlock joker. Honestly I would just skip the rest of episode 1 as the poison gimmick isn't very fun but you do you.

If you are struggling with build ideas, you also can go and look on the leaderboards, and look at the top two for your character for each episode, might give you a bit of an idea on how to approach one.

[SirWaffleSprouts]

This Dev Update from Rocksteady has a few vids that highlight the strengths of each character.
https://www.suicidesquadgame.com/en-us/community/developer-update-march-15th

They've done other Dev Updates which highlight streamer builds. For example, there's a shield harvest build that was shown during "Finite" which is still really effective for the new Duality episode. I'm easily working thru the GL shields & constructs even though I have NO poison effects.

Also remember, you might not have enough gear to properly kit out each character. Maybe focus on just one other character until you get the gear you want for it.
Also, do the side missions from Finite as those will unlock the ability to craft certain gear. Hack's neck bomb and traversal mod are extremely helpful if you decide to go for shield harvest build.

You switch episodes, while in the open world, from the Nexus tab. If you are in Duality (episode 2), tab over to left so you highlight Fear(episode 1). You should see a new prompt at the bottom of the screen which was not on Duality screen. Press the button and you are now in the Fear episode. If you're currently in Fear, then tab right for Duality and press the button for the prompt that appears.

For anyone that doesn't know, switching episodes is handled differently from how you switch seasons. To switch seasons, you currently need to back out of the game to the main menu. From there you can select the launch/original season (which is where you find Finite) or select season 1 (for Fear&Duality)

[Drake Platinum THE WORLD]

Thanks. And yeah you are right by playing all four characters and gearing them accordingly I suffer by barley surviving these higher mastery levels. It wouldn't be so bad if I got better drops but idk man the rng is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on me in this game. As for the crafting yeah I need to get better blueprints or something all the stuff I can craft suck compared to the bane gear.

[SirWaffleSprouts]

You'd be surprised by how effective some "lower level" looking stuff can perform. In practice, some legendary gear can be more destructive than the "named gear" stuff.

FYI; keep any legendary weapons that drop with "STACKED DECK" in the name. Stacked Deck shotguns are the best since the perk works off of every pellet that connects but smg's or ar's can perform well too.