Blood Pack hit squad - a fantastic team build. U/U/ Gold tested and approved.

To start, I love the Volus Engineer. He has quickly become my favorite class to play, despite the dismal scores the player who wields it puts up. Also, I rarely play platinum so I do not know if this strategy would work well on it. Use at your own risk.

A group of guys I play with have been messing around with team make ups and stumbled upon a gem of a team makeup - assuming you have a group of guys to play with.

The Players:

1 Vorcha Soldier Spec'd for health, flamer, whatever is convenient

2 Krogan Sentinels, Vanguards, or Soldiers Specc'd for Health and Damage Reduction

1 Volus Engineer. - Spec'd for shield spamming as fast as possible. Carry an Acolyte X to help take down boss's shields, and spec it for cryo or incendiary rounds to help with fire explosions.

The Game Play:

We picked a party lead (in our case the vorcha) and everyone made sure to stay with the vorcha. The vorcha controlled where the group went, making sure not to run faster than our lumbering Krogan friends could go. To be clear: The volus must focus only on shield boosting during cluster fuck situations. Often times I didn't even fire my weapon - I just made sure I was close enough to the damage dealers. A well ran Volus makes these 3 tanking classes invincible.

Because we were all staying with Senior Vorcha, everyone stayed within range of the Volus' Shield boost.

The result:

An orgy of fire explosions and melee death. The Krogan's tasks were to annihilate bosses with weapon fire and grenades, the vorcha got mooks. We were on Reapers, so whenever a sync capable boss came, we backed onto a ramp and let Krogans go to town melee style while the vorcha used flamer.

We pushed through Gold Reapers using almost no consumables in about 26 minutes. Almost no one went down and it was a hell of a lot more fun then sitting behind a desk.

No matter the mission (Pizza Delivery, Escort, Sensors) as long as the group stayed together and the vorcha didn't sprint - we were unstoppable.

Give it a shot - it was a metric shit ton of fun.

Quick Aside: For another fun novelty round, Three Destroyers + Particle Rifles + Volus Engineer and an Acolyte results in unlimited mayhem and melty bad guy goodness. The Particle Rifles prevents the need to get Ammo by everyone but the volus. The volus strips shields and the PRs

Basically, we stayed clustered together and the Stagger Proof Destroyers rained death down upon everything. A well placed recon mind providing a 25% damage debuff added to the speed at which legions fell before us.

Give it a shot!