User blog comment:Tali's no.1 fan/300-M. The Worst Gun in The Game?/@comment-2244951-20110511073015

It is completely useless for soldier, IMHO. No way to use it at its best. Although I dont see reason for it to be blamed by vanguard, who can get extremely close extremely fast and deal significant damage. Best way to use it is hit-and-run. Always works for daredevil tactic, especially notable on insane difficulty-used nothing but it (although I usually play as sentinel and thus, I am not a very good charger. Still, claymore allowed to compensate my skills). Ofcourse, little firing distance makes it redundant compared to eviscerator or geth shotgun, but only if you plan on sitting in one spot for long. In close combat, damage compensates everything. As for Grunt, with his health amount I always let him charge forward, paving a way for my sentinel to follow up. Again, claymore is very effective. Overall, I prefer it to other shotguns-it is just too damaging in close combat, despite 1 shot-per-clip.