Overload/Energy Drain + Throw; Incinerate/Cryo Blast + Warp (specc'd for damage since it has to kill). Dunno if Dark Channel/Reave can detonate Electric Bursts as well (someone aware me).
Enemies hit by a tech power are also free to move around, making them harder to hit than a lifted enemy.
Biotic chars can therefore detonate Tech Bursts with their regular skillset, while Engineers cannot take part in any Biotic combos unless they take Reave/Slam as their bonus power (and forego some other option). Cool-downs are also longer for Tech powers, making Tech Bursts do less overall DPS than Biotic explosions. Tech squadmates also have insane cool-downs on their powers. Tali's Energy Drain comes in at ~5s, with all recharge bonuses. Liara's Singularity comes in at ~2s, and also CCs.
Tech is definitely weaker than Biotics. Again. Do drones make up for this? I find them to be a colossal waste of time on Insanity (fun to play around with, tho).
So Biotics can set off Tech Bursts......
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Disciple888
, avril 19 2012 07:23
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Posté 19 avril 2012 - 12:09
Omondio
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Tech Powers are kind of an addition to help you kill enemies with your guns faster (like draining shields and then killing with a one-shot sniper).
To get the tech burst throw is indeed the best ability by far, having almost no cooldown at all. So yeah. If you want those you need a biotic at your side who will be able to do his own biotic explosions and detonate your tech bursts without much additional delay. If you have you'll see quite many tech burst kills
To get the tech burst throw is indeed the best ability by far, having almost no cooldown at all. So yeah. If you want those you need a biotic at your side who will be able to do his own biotic explosions and detonate your tech bursts without much additional delay. If you have you'll see quite many tech burst kills
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Posté 19 avril 2012 - 07:21
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Dun dun duuuuuuuuun!
If you take Garrus and Liara you can continually alternate between Tech Bursts and Biotic Explosions with basically any class. That's 50% less repetitive than just biotically exploding everything with Liara and Javik/Kaidan.
As for damage, base damage for Tech Bursts and Biotic Explosions are allegedly the same. However, biotics cooldown faster (usually) and more importantly many of their powers have big bonuses to detonation damage.
A quick Sabotage w/Tech Vulnerability is a good way to maximize your tech damage though.
If you take Garrus and Liara you can continually alternate between Tech Bursts and Biotic Explosions with basically any class. That's 50% less repetitive than just biotically exploding everything with Liara and Javik/Kaidan.
As for damage, base damage for Tech Bursts and Biotic Explosions are allegedly the same. However, biotics cooldown faster (usually) and more importantly many of their powers have big bonuses to detonation damage.
A quick Sabotage w/Tech Vulnerability is a good way to maximize your tech damage though.
Modifié par capn233, 19 avril 2012 - 07:22 .
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Posté 19 avril 2012 - 08:00
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While you can certainly use them like that, I find that explanation misleading. Both tech and biotics are wildly overpowered in the game. Don't pretend tech powers can't kill by themselves. I was able to walk all over things on insanity with an engineer using just tech powers.Omondio wrote...
Tech Powers are kind of an addition to help you kill enemies with your guns faster (like draining shields and then killing with a one-shot sniper).
So yeah, the OP has a point about it being a bit weird how tech powers can't detonate biotics (it seems to me the devs have always been biased in favor of biotics). However, tech powers are now stronger than ever before. Like I said, they are overpowered. And by a huge margin.
Don't let the fact that biotics are also wildly overpowered ruin tech powers for you. No biotic gods required on any difficulty level.
Modifié par termokanden, 19 avril 2012 - 08:01 .
