Kozaro wrote...
I use the BW on my Salarian Infiltrator on gold all the time and manage to get 100k + points.. I beat anyone carrying a Widow simply because I can kill at least 2 trash mobs every clip. If I headshot Guardian through his shield, it's an insta-kill. Body shot while cloaked kills off Assault Troopers. Cloak > ED > body shot to centurions and nemesis will kill them too. Cloak > ED > head shot >headshot to Phantoms kills them off too.. that's a little harder to pull off, but it has happened.
Yes, using it on another class without a way to strip shields or increase the damage through cloak, makes the BW pretty useless compared to widow or javelin, but in the hands of an infiltrator, I'd argue that this is the best sniper you could use.
Just got out of a gold game with a friend and two pugs I played a Salarian Infiltrator with BW 1 and the PUG was a Human Infiltrator with a Widow VII.
made with around 120k points and he took 90.
decided I was bored so I went Human with BW 1 and from a Premi Pack he got a BW 1. We went again and I went 130k and he went 60k.
did another gold I went back to my Salarian and put on my Widow IV. Went 120k and he went around 80k.
It all comes down to the skil of the player and what they perfer. TBH with you I didn't like the Black Widow starting out but you get used to it. And even them you might still perfer the widow/javelin and that's just the players playstyle.