with weapons. In other words, powers were designed to maximize the potential of weapons. If it was the other way around, all weapons would have 0 weight. Cloak, snapfreeze, proxy mine, warp, cryo blast, tac scan stasis, etc. all make weapons do more damage. Why not take advantage of it?
Further, other powers are designed to make shooting easier! Energy drain, incinerate, snapfreeze / cryo blast, stasis, submission net, overload, hawk missile launcher, etc. all cause enemies to become stunned, trapped, frozen, or something similar. ie) quick and easy kills with a weapon. Why would I wait for my cooldown when I can now finish them off with a quick shot with the executioner pistol? I can then use the cooldown time to trigger a reload cancel- no time lost but more enemies dead.
Running around creating a splosion bess with the fury / huntress? Cool. Strap on either an acolyte, arc pistol, hurricane, piranha, scorpion, eagle, talon, CSMG, BPP, etc. Even if you have throw (fury) setup to reset instantly after a big boom, it doesn't matter. You will still have time before and after (especially with bigger enemies) to shoot. If I run into 5 enemies, I'll make a big boom, take two shots with a weapon (killing two enemies- I'm a good shot) as I move around repriming for more booms. Now I have two less enemies shooting at me while I'm either waiting for a cooldown or trying to prime something with my field. Less enemies nearby means less chance of dying. Boss enemies - to not shoot is a complete waste of time.
Shadow- are you focusing on Shadow Strike? Bring an acolyte to strip shields and then make the strike do massive amounts of damage through cloak, strike, weapon/power and fitness passives. (go armor damage on fitness!)
Lastly- the use of ammo types to compliment your weapon (and powers!) If you focus more on electric slash for your shadow, why not slap on incendiary or disruptor rounds? You'll get level 7 (assuming your power is evolved to rank 6) fire or tech explosions... all because you fired your weapon first before using your power. Or, use the debuff from ammo types (like cryo rounds) to do more damage (cryo rounds = WEAK armor). Better yet, hit a scion with warp and then unload your weapon when using warp rounds. You'll get the debuff from warp (weakened armor, more weapon damage, more damage to armor and barriers), AND you get the benefit of warps. (Warp IV: more armor weakening, plus your weapon doing 60% more damage, and you'll be doing an extra 100% weapon damage because you primed them first with warp...) That stuff adds up quick!
FYI- my average time for a platinum solo is about 35 minutes. Yesterday, I did a 'no weapon' solo (although I did use rockets for wave 10 targets). The game took 55 minutes. That's 20 extra minutes because I was too lazy to use my weapon...
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