The All Purpose [BF3 Soldier Build]

The BF3 Soldier is a pretty neat class. It makes a nice weapon platform with AR and has caster class tendencies with Carnage, and since we're short on build with him I wanted to share mine.

It's two-fold:

Raider and AR reload cancel

and

Acolyte and Carnage instant-KO

The Build

Explanation

Why the Raider and not the Claymore or Wraith?

The Raider's two shots cause more overall damage, allows for certain ammo powers to kick in faster buffing the overall damage, and with the laggy shot you can pop out 4-6 shots in a row. The Claymore can't match it's dps and the Wraith's RoF is a huge turn off.

Why only 4 in AR?

AR has a 50% weapon damage bonus and Hardening rounds it off and allows you to be more aggressive. Rank 5 and 6 aren't necessary for a reload cancel build.

What do you mean by caster?

Since AR hits extremely hard, stacking weapon damage bonuses isn't necessary, but if you want to take advantage of Carnage you'll need to lower your cooldown.

Carnage has great synergy with the Acolyte. You can easily put down Phantoms, Hunters, and all other troopers with a Acolyte, Carnage, Acolyte combo. Priming fire explosions, Incapacitating unshielded enemies, and DoT are nice mechanics as well.

Grenades

These are what puts this guy over the top. They have great synergy with both approaches. Carnage and Frag Grenades cause easy fire explosions. Tossing a armor specced Frag Grenades after the unloading 4 Raider shots causes an obscene amount of damage, especially if you're using Warp Rounds (that debuff).

This guy is a sleeping giant, and you should really give him a shot.