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Barrier Mastery

Barrier Mastery

ME1: Use biotic Barrier 25 times

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How to unlock the Barrier Mastery achievement in Mass Effect Legendary Edition - Definitive Guide

Barrier is a skill that is unlockable by an Adept, Sentinel, or Vanguard Shepard as well as Liara, Kaiden, and Wrex.

You do NOT need a target to unlock this achievement. During gameplay you can cast it whenever it recharges. You can also make a save then cast barrier then reload your save and cast it again and repeat until you hit 25. Reloading is way quicker than waiting.

When your team mates cast Barrier it counts toward the 25.
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13 May 2021 15:53

*** POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD***

Story related achievment, cant be missed.


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28 May 2021 21:42

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Please just write “story related cannot be missed” outside the spoiler...
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By Chaptxr on 30 May 2021 03:08
ill do it just for you :)
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By xHappy Munkeyx on 30 May 2021 04:13
The best way to think of this enemy is a dumbed down version of the Banshee with shields instead of barriers, fast movement but no teleport, poorer range attack poorer melee attack, and no armor. Compared to fighting two banshees in the Ardat-Yakshee monastery on insanity difficulty, this battle is a cakewalk.

Assuming an insanity playthrough, it's good to have disrupter ammo with squad power enabled. If Shepard's career does not include it, I believe this is the best bonus power (it becomes available after the Zaeed assignment). My Shepard was a soldier and already had disrupter ammo, so I got Energy Drain as the bonus power. For this battle, it is worthwhile. If you don't need disrupter ammo as a bonus power, I recommend buying Energy Drain for the Cerberus HQ mission. Not only does it zap the enemy, but it restores Shepard's shields allowing for more aggressive maneuvers.

I recommend taking someone who can carry an assault rifle and equip the person with a maxed out N7 Typhoon--one of the select weapons with enhanced shield damage. I recommend an extended barrel V for 25% additional damage and an assault rifle magazine upgrade V for 80% additional magazine capacity. The reason for this is successive rounds deal increased damage up to a max of a weapons damage multiplier of 2 so you want to be dealing double damage as long as possible.

For EDI and Shepard, I use the M358 Talon heavy pistol--another select weapon that inflicts enhanced shield damage. Both the Typhoon and the Talon become especially lethal when disrupter ammo is used. Moreover, if you use overload or energy drain when using disrupter ammo, you trigger a tech burst power combo that is particularly devastating.

My Shepard uses the heavy pistol for two reasons. His primary weapon is the Javelin sniper rifle. The Typhoon is the heaviest assault rifle and would overload him. Moreover, the Typhoon is very inaccurate when firing on the move and this fight requires Shepard to be constantly moving.

Use energy drain and overload liberally. And keep the enemy under a constant barrage of weapon fire with disrupter ammo. With these tactics, this fight is one of the easiest mission final battles and should be over in less than a minute. The minions that appear are a minor distraction. If you have grenades, they tend to be bunched together. EDI's decoy will also keep their attention away from Shepard until after the boss is defeated.
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By Allgorhythm on 27 Jun 2021 19:40
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Barrier is a skill that can be used by the Adept, Vanguard, and Sentinal class, or by Liara, Kaiden, and Wrex. To use a skill, hold rb.png and choose it from the wheel for whoever has it unlocked. This achievement can easily be farmed by simply casting the skill - it does not need a target to function. Use it whenever the cooldown is up to get it easily.
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