Talk:Prowl/@comment-100.3.233.73-20151223125527/@comment-17703786-20160331120039

How I never saw this post I will never know.

I can honestly say levelling up melee weapons via survival is one of the worst ways of solo leveling ever. Levelling up melee weapons is as simple as taking Ivara to an Exterminate or Spy mission, and then stealth killing enemies - the stealth damage multiplier will ensure that even the weakest melee weapon can one-shot enemies of appropriate level, and the stealth affinity bonus will rake in a lot of exp. I actually like levelling up melee weapons for this reason: it takes me only 3 missions of 15 - 20 minutes each to fully rank up a melee weapon using boosters, and even without boosters it doesn't take me that long to level up melee weapons.

And Ivara can in fact level up melee weapons extremely quickly and efficiently in such a manner, since if you slot in a Max Efficiency build alongside duration mods like Continuity and Constitution you can have an extremely energy efficient Prowl - for melee levelling purposes I first pop an energy restore, then I activate Prowl once, and then Ivara becomes invisible for the entire mission until I extract, and that's including liberal uses of Sleep Arrow to maintain stealth (to keep nearby or looking enemies from being alerted). For fast movement, I just roll, which allows for fast movement while still maintaining maximum energy efficiency.

The best thing about Prowl is that I don't have to worry about it running out in the middle of an attack - too many times with Loki I line up an attack only to suddenly uncloak in a middle of an enemy group, whereas with Ivara I don't have that fear.

So Ivara is in fact the best frame for levelling melee.