10 Character Builds That BROKE Video Games

6. Adept - Mass Effect

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Bioware

There’s an argument to be made that the most overpowered build in the original Mass Effect is the Soldier class where you can spam immunity and overkill, but no one can deny that biotics were basically gods before they were rebalanced for the remainder of the trilogy. If the aesthetics alone of making every bad guy and piece of furniture float around like it’s nothing doesn’t scratch that itch, the decimation you bring to every room you walk into should. Popping barrier and unleashing singularity, lift, warp, throw, and stasis on your foes essentially incapacitates them.

Especially because biotics ignore shields, there’s very few things that will be able to go up against you.

The Adept class is particularly good because it reduces the cooldown of biotic powers and ups biotic protection meaning you’re a very short road away from being a total god. If you want to up the cool ante, you can team up with Kaiden and Liara, your biotic power-wielding companions, and just unleash biotic hell at anybody who looks at you sideways.

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