I went claymore volus earlier tonight, batarian gauntlet, stacked mods and incendiary 3 ammo. Powers specced for damage rather than defensively. I went around killing EVERYTHING racking up huge scores but..all my team mates died, over and over again. Really incessantly. Yeah, I could solo, but it was really annoying me. last guy died in a bunch of phantoms, and the recharge on my shield boost was pretty long, took out two of them and a dragoon, I cloaked and went for the revive but..sync killed by a phantom that snuck up on me.
Next match I re-specced for full recharge on powers and shield boost spam. I took a Hurricane VIII and level III drill ammo which melted enemies just as well TBH and I came top again, but this time everyone lived easily and nothing could take me down with the insane DR evolution shield boost gave me.
So basically, do I want to be the douche who solos and wins, or the helpful guy who saves everyone and wins? If I have to follow you spamming shield boost, its because you are so crap you cannot stay alive for half a second.
If you are a decent player and they follow you spamming it I can see how it gets annoying, but just think of the boost to DPS you are getting yourself from not having to duck, dodge and take cover to recharge your shields - that 50% DR for 5 secs is very very nice. It used to remove the effects of seeker swarms though I don't think it does anymore - but that was really helpful.
People moan, but a well played shield spammer volus essentially turns all his team mates into Juggernauts, only you can all move fast, and you can all focus on damage dealing rather than meleeing to keep your shield up. Yes, good enough players really don't need this help - but if he recharges your shields just ONCE the whole match when a phantom is about to get you it saves you from a sync kill. The adept can give bosses a HUGE debuff which causes YOU to do much much more damage, easily enough to make up for the fact he isn't firing himself. This isn't apparent though to team mates and doesn't show up in the scoreboards.
I love playing offensively and dislike the SB spammer, but if PUGs continue to be awful it really is sometimes a better option - dead team mates contribute no damage at all whatsoever. By not keeping them alive I am robbing the team of far more damage potential than if I went solo, strange as it may sound. A good PUG I wont bother babysitting and will strike out on my own - but no wonder other volus users just SB spam, they have learn't from playing lots of bad games to do so. If they have not got a decent weapon on their character, and lets face it his weight limit is low - they cannot possibly do much damage themselves anyway so may as well spam powers. I am very lucky to have a level 8 Hurricane, look at Stardust - huge amount of playtime, almost full manifest, and no Hurricane.
). Hell the game would've went 10 minutes faster because at least the replacement random would actually damage the enemy AND he'd be able to get out of the spawn the team is hitting BEFORE wave 8 starts... He isn't valuable at all, he's more of a hinderance. Without him less spawns would be blocked because he's too slow to get out of them in between waves forcing us to hit other less convenient spawns, enemies would die quicker thanks to someone acutally pressing RT and most of all, I wouldn't have a dick head placing his Hex Shield in front of my Graal Spike Thrower, Stasis, Throw, Incinerate or Overload...
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