Tanky Laser Beam

As someone who excels at tracking aim, I never really found myself needing the tac visor builds available to soldier. Instead, I cooked up this setup where you can beam down enemies while getting pretty solid self heals. An added bonus is that towards the later rounds, you won't even need to reload! You can get by with some lower heal support builds, and mercy's blue beam will have you ripping through the enemy no matter the health pool. There's not too much special in the early game, but you'll quickly start building power after round 3.

Here are some fun endgame stats:

• 320 DPS (pulse rifle only, body)
• 175 damage helix (direct)
• 60 HPS (biotic field)
• near 100% biotic field uptime
• 475 effective HP

This build doesn't actually use [Chaingun], contrary to what you might expect. Chaingun doesn't scale very well, the average WP boost you get from continuous fire will range from just ~4-8% considering you'll typically be shooting 20-40 bullets at a time. Unless you plan on just melting shields with [Salvaged Slugs] in the late game, there are other powers that offer more consistent utility.