Talk:Specter/@comment-73.50.25.245-20141231015748/@comment-98.89.8.205-20150120150804

I second this. The Lancer Specter is far and away the best due to its leech weapon that keeps it alive. It's also the only one that's useful for (slightly) more mobile missions, like Survival, again because it's so self-sufficient.

But I will say that the Osprey Specter is good for guarding Cryopods. Deploying one of each will allow you to solo a defense mission 5 starting levels (or 1 extra wave) above what you could otherwise handle on your own (especially since the Osprey will shield you, the pod, AND THE LANCER, making it last even longer.)

And since they are from Arbiters of Hexis and Cephalon Suda, there's no reason you can't have both. That, and the Synoid Gammacor and Vaykor Marelok are (usually) the 2 best Syndicate weapons, so it's not a bad idea to ally with those two, get the guns, and then spend 25k excess reputation on several of these.