heybigmoney wrote...
Grumpy Old Wizard wrote...
heybigmoney wrote...
He's actually a very good boss killer. His dmg passives provide multiplicative weapon bonuses to ppr/csr. With warp ammo he's capable of infiltrator levels of weapon dmg.
Most ppl haven't realized this yet, because they're obsessed with cooldowns and running ridiculous caster setups like csmg/acolyte. He really is a phenomenal weapons platform with good aoe abilities.
On the other hand, some people like to play adepts as actual casters instead of as shooty classes. Imagine that!! 
And yeah, sadly his powers make him a poor boss killer if you are playing him as a caster instead of weapon-centric. 
Shooty classes can melt bosses in 3 seconds flat. The CA will take considerably longer.
Well, there's nothing wrong with that playstyle if you prefer it. I'm just saying that he's a great boss killer. He's better than the other adepts at this actually because he is less penalized for cooldowns and his powers have very long durations in addition to 9m aoe. His cooldowns are going to be long no matter what you use, may as well take something thats worth it like a csr/ppr.
I apologize if I came off as assuming many of you were ignorant of this. But the multiple threads about buffing him and how he is worse than the mid tier adepts has brought my ****** to a boil. Ppl are only claiming this because they are playing one particular style.
TLDR: He's the best shooty adept of all the adepts. Alot of ppl aren't going to like this tho.
With all things considered he is still one of the worse adepts in game IMO. As for boss killing, he is also one of the worse one if we are comparing others who also got an unblockable primer power (DC / DS / Reave)
I was speccing him 06666 after going a 66365 at first. Both builds maxed out gun damage passive with the csmg X.
In case I was missing something about the DS or biased I gave it another run with a 66365, and this time trying out on power damage in passives. Now I am absolutely sure that this kit sucks ass as an power damage focused adept class.
I'm not just looking at the stats on paper but overall effectiveness in field to came up with that conclusion.
So I agree with you on taking gun passives and using a csmg or a car. Not with a ppr because of the long cook up time everything when you needed to throw out a SS to BE save a teammate or something.
In fact, the build I'm suggesting for him is still 06666 with maxed fitness and gun passives. It's a okay mix of DPS with warp rounds and survivibility. I can top the score for arguments sake with no infiltrators around and rarely go down in a platinum match with that build. However -
Drell adept (reave, nice gun passives, fast mobility and nades), Fury (DC, constant BE bombing stepping in and out of AF with shield regain), AHI (better DOT from DC and bigger BE potential with warp), AJA (reave + sphere BE combo and tankiness) are all far superior boss killers than this CA.
Even the old school adept kits without unblockable primers such as the HA, AA are better than him in a biotic team against bosses.
All of that places the CA in an awkward position. He is both "okay" as a team biotic player or a self BE-er. He does prime everything on the way with his DS. But the DOT and BE is just pathetic. None of which could even kill a husk in platinum (a DS -> swarm BE combo)
Unless you split yourself like a ninja or everyone in your team is using warp / incendiary rounds hitting the same area, DS as a power it is not practically going to be much use. People on bsn still like to crunch numbers to me on the DS but I've yet to see one use it without going down a lot or hiding in the back casting whereas time better spent with DC prime and shooting with warped csmg and maybe a few BE to finish the mooks off.
Know that I'm not disagreeing with you on using guns with this kit. I'm in fact disagreeing with everyone going into power passives and DS.
The fact remains as I just mentioned he doesn't shine as either a self detonater nor a team detonater nor a DPSer against bosses with warped rounds.
He freaking needs help.
(Shortening the cooldowns on DS, buffing its DOT and explosion damage. Also reworking the whole silly ascension mode would be a start.)
Retour en haut
and the fact it's going to take you almost as long to set them all off as the cooldown from one cast of DS because of the couple second cooldown on DC;
