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It so seems that I fall into that 5% who beat the legendary alone, and although sometimes I wondered why the hell I was doing it and I think there is something wrong with me, mother of god help me! By the end of it I had picked up some basics, heavy weapons (with the exception for the rocket launcher for air vehicles) dont even bother with, they woulnt even damage elites and you will have a hard time getting a shot off at a pack of grunts before you find yourself, well, er, dead. Instead pick up your two best friends, which will be the DMR and the plasma pistol. The DMR (can be the pistol or needle rifle if ones not available)is great for headshot'ing the grunts and brutes (quick note, the brutes if they dont have shields are no harder to kill with headshots than helmeted grunts, as soon as you see their helmets come flying off you know its only one more shot, even of legendary)however against those elites, the best thing to do is to either sneak up and assassinate them (not recomended, at all, unless its too good to give up) or (what is highly recomended) is to shoot them with an over charged plasma pistol than quickly shoot them in the head with the DMR.
As for times that these tricks just simply just arnt going to work you turn to your AI character as a shield and extra arm. Think of the AI as a sort of yo yo, that you have to throw using your body, it stays there for abit, and then comes back to you. In the mission right before you enter sword base there are two hunters (even so i dead nearly 30 times) run up to where ever one is and make sure the AI is fallowing you (I think its Cat) and by AI i mean a noble team member since they (odly enough) dont die, so they are just sacks of guns and meat. So let them do most of the damage while you lob grenades at them, you will still die plenty of times trust me, and it will take some time but its the only way ive found to get the job done, (also, there are going to be grunts and elites inside the garage thing, you might want to take them out first if at all possable)
Next up is USING CHECK POINTS! this is the biggest and greatest way of getting through any level, be as sneaky as you can and use your Noble team as meat shields. Sometimes going to the "Boss" will actually be your best shot, because most of the time a checkpoint happens right after, so take out the grunts (because even though they might not seem it, theyre gunfire kills you more than anything) In the level where your protecting Hasley in the underground cave is the best example of this. the turrets are your friends, so keep them up and running, but you dont love them enough to die for them, so keep the ones that dont have swarms of enemies coming at them up. As soon as the game starts forget about your fellow team mates (THEY MEAN NOTHING!!!!) grab a jet pack and fly into the rocks on the right, that is going to become your home for the remainder of this mission. you can peak your head out and get some headshots off on the grunts and if you notice any of the elites having no shields well take them out too. The only time you have to leave your little home is to destroy the wraiths that are droped LUCKILY your little rocks make a nifty path to where the first one is dropped (alone with to two of the turrets)and then by the time your running out of ammo your going to be heading back to where noble team is anyway and if you continue left up onto the building and than down onto the platform with the wraith you shouldnt have to many problems.(remember hop onto the back of the wraiths to destroy them since the gunner will kill you if you hop on the front) ALL the while that this is going on remember to check the left hand side of the screen for the "checkpoint" as they happen quite often, most of the times you get a turret back up and running in fact.
On legendary I found that the armor abilities are really just something extra that save you. Really there is no RIGHT one, except for the jet pack when it is given to you as you will defintetly need it for the mission. However use what you are most familiar with and can react fastest with, for example I went through using armor lock and bubble shield since I react fastest with those. I will say though that I used holograms quite alot because it seemed the enemy fell for it every time and gave me better shots at their heads.
EXTRA TIPS: when killing jackles shoot their gun which causes them to be stunned then go for the headshot
When taking out wraiths, dont bother with heavy weapons unless they lock onto it, as somehow it will manage to dodge them, instead take out the gunner as is it almost always a grunt or brute and than sneak to it using as much cover as possable and then hop on either the front or the back (never hop on the front if the gunner is still in there, you will die)
if i sniper rifle is avalable DO NOT WAIST IT! use it to take out the brutes with shields and the high classed elites with heavy weapons.
Needle weapons ARE YOUR FRIEND! this is more towards the needle rifle than the good ol' needler, the needle rifle against brutes causes them to explode after the certain amount of hits no matter where you hit them and the scope "plume" or what ever the acuracy thing is called goes down much faster than the DMR.
and finaly TAKE BREAKS! I know its tempting to play all the way through but take breaks, hit start, hit save a exit, and take a short break even if its for 30 seconds, it will help you focus.
Thats all I can think of for now! send a reply if you have any in detail questions and I'll answer back as fast and as best as I can, thanks!
[Edited on 10.09.2010 9:28 AM PDT]