Best class?

[Mr. E]

What class is the best for inferno and such?

[Salty Peanut]

there is no best class. you can be good at all of them. it's also highly dependent on the missions whether a specific class will have an easier or harder time

[☪︎ Leinad Zdc ˚ ☾]

Fencer!

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

What kind of utterly unbalanced trash games are people playing these days that make them think they'll ever get an accurate, straight answer to questions like this?

[Aldrakir]

Originally posted by Totally Innocent Chatbot:

What kind of utterly unbalanced trash games are people playing these days that make them think they'll ever get an accurate, straight answer to questions like this?

It's not that uncommon for games to have classes that are better than others. You see it in most games to be honest, even games that are not designed around being competitive in multiplayer.

I like to think this game is extremely well balanced in that regard though. But there is probably one class that are better than the others if you did the math. I would but my math is complete ♥♥♥♥ so.

[Elgareth]

General consensus among console veterans seems to be:
1. Fencer
2. Wing Diver
3. Air Raider
4. Ranger

Fencer has insane mobility with dash cancelling and the javelin catapult, you can basically get away from almost anything while killing stuff with blasthole spears, making him the most useful while you have low-ish armor.
Wing Diver also has great mobility, you can regenerate energy with flight speed when you hop just right, has great AoE and Sniper weapons and can reload her weapons while using the other one, so you have no downtimes. But she has problems against hectors and flyers because she can't dash to reset the aim of them.
Air Raider has great support tools and can mow down single big waves via Airstrikes. His tanks make good snipers but he has problems aiming too high with them. You can use some cheese strats with helicopters on some levels, the main problem is his vehicles don't gain armor and are very flimsy overall because they have huge hit boxes, and he is a sitting duck without a vehicle out, and his limpet guns don't cut it on inferno.
Ranger suffers from low mobility, he does have good snipers and missiles for flyers though. So as long as you have a fencer or wing diver kiting the enemies for you he can be powerful as well.

This is just a general guideline though, there are specialized tactics, for example napalm grenades in tunnel missions make great AoE tools for rangers, using a Balam can make a great tank out of the air raider in the right missions etc.
It's just that Fencers when played right can deal with almost any situation, while for example rangers just can't get away and gets overrun in some missions.

But you don't have armor limits on inferno, so with enough grinding you can just tank just about anything with any class in the end.
That's why Hardest with Limits on is generally considered more difficult than Inferno in the end, and on Hardest Fencer has the most Armor, while especially Wing Diver suffers from a very low armor limit.

[KerZerBer]

Ranger, because back in my day we didn't have no fancy technology for movement, flyin' and summonin' tanks!

If you wanted to get somewhere, than you had to steal a civilian air bike, or by god you had to roll!

[ACSMAX]

1. Wing Diver
2. Air Raider
3. Fencer
4. Ranger

[Gemini Holo]

Air raider is where it's at if you like to spend 70% of the game not doing anything.

[Zeddy]

And the remaining 30% blowing up every enemy on the map simultaneously.

[emberember]

I play on inferno a lot lately, and I can fairly say that I see a lot of air raiders doing very well, while my main is a wingdiver and I have not seen a new weapon for like 40 levels. Still run around with lv70 weapons at max. I´m breakfast for the giant insects, basically the most annoying red bees which one shot me.

[Exto]

Easily Fencer.

[Aki87]

Fencer, once you learn to dash cancel you are faster than a Wing Diver, while keeping firepower and defense. Even just a shield and dash cancel you can be devasting - watch some japanese players on youtube.

The superiority of Fencer is a reason i dont play this game much anymore and why my friends quit.

Ranger is by far the weakest and is only good when double wielding heavy snipers. Then it just becomes boring.

[☪︎ Leinad Zdc ˚ ☾]

Originally posted by Elgareth:

General consensus among console veterans .

And pc veterans
And logic veterans lol