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[Roxlimn]

I've also usually found that fight kinda easy. No need to come in close to kill the Shield generators - you only need to shoot them, and guns are ranged weapons.

[sedrikhcain]

Arde5643 wrote...

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VirtualAlex wrote...

If someone could specifically name a situation where shockwave is the best spell to cast I might think about it. The most obvious situation is vs a line of un-armored husks. But even though singularty, pull field and throw field would all be better.

The main advantage of Shockwave is that it's the strongest biotic ability if you're throwing it wildly.  If you're tactically using your powers to maximum effect, it's poor, but bluntly most players don't play that way.  A lot of players have no experience with shooters, and it wouldn't surprise me if a majority of people who play this game have some amount of difficulty with normal.  At that skill level, Shockwave is king, and it's a very well designed power with that in mind.

But for a FPS-experienced, cooldown maximizing player who knows how to curve Pull and place Singularities?  Not useful at all.

Sadly, this doesn't surprise me at all -most people probably tried to use shockwave in hardcore and insanity the same way they used it on veteran and below difficulties.
Close and medium range combat while they're getting shot at - basically, the worst place to use shockwave.

Um, I kept Jack with me for her shockwave abilities at Horizon and the portion of the suicide mission -- both featuring quite a bit of close to medium-range combat -- when you're under the biotic specialists' bubble. After struggling with both stages on hardcore without it, I cleared both easily on hardcore with it.

I'm not arguing that it's the best way to do it. I'll leave that to someone else. But it is NOT worthless.

There is more than one way to do things.

[brokit808]

i would rather use 2 pull fields rather then 1 shockwave. you can get just as many people maybe more. the plus side is that the rest of your team are going to shoot all the guys in the air. if they are on the ground the vision might be blocked.