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[Chief Capo]

How can I effectively PWN sh*t with the Electrical hammer on the sentinel? 

On platinum I mean ofc.

I wouldn't be able to do it against the reapers huh?

I've tried soo many different specc'ed builds with electrical hammer, and it just isn't effective at all against reapers / armoured bosses ..

[Ferocious Panda]

It's not worth it. Even if someone is spamming snap freeze, you'll kill stuff faster with biotic hammer.

[Chief Capo]

Ferocious Panda wrote...

It's not worth it. Even if someone is spamming snap freeze, you'll kill stuff faster with biotic hammer.

Very upsetting ..

[Melee or Die]

I use it. But you shouldn't use it to kill bosses. That's what Biotic Hammer is for. The Electric Hammer has more of an impact radius, can prime fire explosions and is good against shields (I don't use a sidearm, just my Wraith). I mainly use it against anything with shields. If there's a boss with lots of shields, I go in with EH to take the shields down and prime my FE on the boss/whatever is around it, then finish with the BH.

The Biotic Hammer is gonna usually be your go-to, but the EH isn't so bad, either. I like it because it makes him a true Sentinel; not like that Melee-Engineer, masquerading as one!

[Creator Limbs]

Man, fuck what these scrubs say. Electrical Hammer is awesome. How are you speccing it?

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

Electric Hammer is all I need.

It works fine against bosses.

[didacuscarr]

EH sucks, it's ok against Geth.. Anyway, I recommend skipping passives, if you want EH, because BH is just way better for armor and his power bonus is meh and you'll be meleeing most of the time anyway.

[MGW7]

A3 Reks wrote...

I use it. But you shouldn't use it to kill bosses. That's what Biotic Hammer is for. The Electric Hammer has more of an impact radius, can prime fire explosions and is good against shields (I don't use a sidearm, just my Wraith). I mainly use it against anything with shields. If there's a boss with lots of shields, I go in with EH to take the shields down and prime my FE on the boss/whatever is around it, then finish with the BH. 

These two points don't mesh together, the problem is that electric hammer is only potent against shields, but deals damage after melee, and his melee normally removes the shields of non-bosses, so on anything that isn't a boss the damage it deals is relatively useless, even when used against shields it doesn't necessarily do more than biotic hammer,

it simply has no viable niche and is utterly dominated by it's competitor

If it dealt it's damage before melee, it would be 100x better, and might be able to compete with biotic hammer in terms of usefulness on tank builds

Modifié par MGW7, 10 décembre 2013 - 09:22 .

[Fiddles dee dee]

I've never had a problem with EH, I use it exclusively. Be aware it is more for crowd control than Biotic. Wipe out the mooks then shotgun your way to victory against bosses with a few hits from EH as well.

[The Don's Hound]

I don't use the Krolord, get grabbed too much.

I once got grabbed through two walls by a Banshee, and then I raged and never used him again.

But when I did.

Biotic hammer bro.

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

MGW7 wrote...

A3 Reks wrote...

I use it. But you shouldn't use it to kill bosses. That's what Biotic Hammer is for. The Electric Hammer has more of an impact radius, can prime fire explosions and is good against shields (I don't use a sidearm, just my Wraith). I mainly use it against anything with shields. If there's a boss with lots of shields, I go in with EH to take the shields down and prime my FE on the boss/whatever is around it, then finish with the BH. 

These two points don't mesh together, the problem is that electric hammer is only potent against shields, but deals damage after melee, and his melee normally removes the shields of non-bosses, so on anything that isn't a boss the damage it deals is relatively useless, even when used against shields it doesn't necessarily do more than biotic hammer,

it simply has no viable niche and is utterly dominated by it's competitor

If it dealt it's damage before melee, it would be 100x better, and might be able to compete with biotic hammer in terms of usefulness on tank builds

Electric Hammer removes shields from surrounding enemies. It is AoE. Consequently, it strips shields off of multiple targets, as well as detonating any primed ones.

Damaging multiple targets at once, staggering crowds, and detonating multiple explosions adds up to a lot of damage, and compares very well to Biotic Hammer.

Modifié par Jeremiah12LGeek, 10 décembre 2013 - 11:50 .

[MaxCrushmore]

Biotic hammer FTW

does more damage .. and it does have a small radius also ..

[VaultingFrog]

Jeremiah12LGeek wrote...

MGW7 wrote...

A3 Reks wrote...

I use it. But you shouldn't use it to kill bosses. That's what Biotic Hammer is for. The Electric Hammer has more of an impact radius, can prime fire explosions and is good against shields (I don't use a sidearm, just my Wraith). I mainly use it against anything with shields. If there's a boss with lots of shields, I go in with EH to take the shields down and prime my FE on the boss/whatever is around it, then finish with the BH. 

These two points don't mesh together, the problem is that electric hammer is only potent against shields, but deals damage after melee, and his melee normally removes the shields of non-bosses, so on anything that isn't a boss the damage it deals is relatively useless, even when used against shields it doesn't necessarily do more than biotic hammer,

it simply has no viable niche and is utterly dominated by it's competitor

If it dealt it's damage before melee, it would be 100x better, and might be able to compete with biotic hammer in terms of usefulness on tank builds

Electric Hammer removes shields from surrounding enemies. It is AoE. Consequently, it strips shields off of multiple targets, as well as detonating any primed ones.

Damaging multiple targets at once, staggering crowds, and detonating multiple explosions adds up to a lot of damage, and compares very well to Biotic Hammer.

This.

[MGW7]

VaultingFrog wrote...

Jeremiah12LGeek wrote...
Electric Hammer removes shields from surrounding enemies. It is AoE. Consequently, it strips shields off of multiple targets, as well as detonating any primed ones.

Damaging multiple targets at once, staggering crowds, and detonating multiple explosions adds up to a lot of damage, and compares very well to Biotic Hammer.

This.

The problem is that mooks aren't a problem, his sprinting melee is absolutely lethal, and his default melee hits three targets, while EH can only hit four, if you have tight clustered enemies then it still doesn't do much, unless you have 7/8 enemies on the map hugging each other, in which case you could kill three and remove the shields of four, where as BH hits anything that survives the first blow and kills it, it is theoretically possible to kill five healthy enemies with one hit, but there simply aren't enough crowds of low tier enemies for EH to fulfill it's true potential much above silver

His health regen is at it's most useful when fighting crowds of enemies who cannot immediately gate him, bosses are the only true threat, and EH is underwhelming when used on enemies who take up the entire range of the ability

EH does work, it just doesn't offer the same level of ability as BH because his melee does the same thing on it's own,

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

Electric Hammer is extremely effective on Gold and Platinum.

It is extremely good at crowd control, and there are plenty of enemies vulnerable to AoE, not just mooks, because detonated explosions work on everything.

And it works very well against bosses, mixed with priming weapons fire.

[Beep Boop Pew Pewer]

Electrical Hammer sucks.

[Tantum Dic Verbo]

It's rare to see such uniformity in opinion on these boards.