You get automatically high to-hit-chance attacks with a sort of built-in Run and Gun, but you get notably less damage than with a shotgun and, most important for me, you have to run all the way up to the target in order to execute your moves. The main difficulty with Blademasters for me is the way the weapon works.
especially given the high single-target damage of shotgun rangers. My rangers tend to shoot up to Colonel anyway since the last pod doesn't require concealment and sometimes the 6th attack comes in handy. It's not as if they end up never progressing. I like being forewarned (and alive) enough to accept the missing ranger attack contributions with no problem. It could save all your squad from a wipe with a critical forewarning or just keep your ranger ineffectually scouting the wrong terrain or hiding out the entire mission. As situational as stealth may be, you never KNOW how useless or potent it will be in any given mission until after the mission's over. The way I've been playing I prefer Phantom every time (as well as Run and Gun) because it's so effective straight away. And a further consideration (that I heard from others haha): you could take Phantom at first and build your ranger with shotgun skills to have a stealthed ranger at game start but then later use the Advanced Warfare Center to retrain the same soldier as a Reconcealing Blademaster so that you'd maintain a stealthy ranger from game start while also having them become a Blademaster. So technically you could have a Blademaster that stealths and scouts, just later in the game. You can sacrifice Run and Gun higher in the rank skills to get Reconceal which is essentially Phantom but allows your ranger to choose when to be concealed at any time (once per mission) even after having attacked. Only you really know your playstyle and the kinds of soldier actions you find most effective or otherwise preferable, so only you'll ultimately know which works for you.Īnother consideration is that the Phantom/Blademaster dichotomy is somewhat false. Short answer is you'll have to experiment for yourself regardless.
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