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[SmilingMirror]

blank1 wrote...

Reave does do a little more damage than Warp, but its selling point is that it's a life leach when used on organics too. Also, picking up warp means you don't need to have points in Throw either, which is nice.

yeah, but the alternative of not spending points in throw or warp means your spending points in cyroblast.

[bfawcet]

warp ammo owns all.

[Lord Exar]

I went with Armor-Piercing Ammo and it worked really well. Warp Ammo is good, too. I definitely think you should use an ammo on a Sentinel, though.

[Darnalak]

I went warp ammo, I truly beleive the only good choice for a sent is some kind of ammo, they have everything else covered.

[matt654321]

SmilingMirror wrote...

Reave is so over-rated....
warp does double damage to armor and barriers too, its immediate damage, its only less than 50 points weaker and it explodes other biotics like pull. most importantly warp curves allowing you to hit people without choosing area reave

When it comes down to it, you either bring Miranda in to warp your reave or you bring samara so her reave is warped.

Reave's damage is instant against barriers and armor. How can you call it overrated when you clearly haven't even tried it?

Whenever a pull/singularity + warp would kill an enemy, reave will also kill the enemy.

[Ender1221]

Another selling point to Reave is that it's instantaneous and stuns them for quite a few seconds. It's nice that warp curves, but while it's in the air and curving, the enemy can still shoot at you. Anyone that has played insanity knows that a few seconds of relief is a godsend. If you happen to find yourself without cover for some reason, Reave>Warp.

[lazorexplosion]

An ammo power (warp or AP). Everything else is too redundant with the powers you already have.

[themaxzero]

matt654321 wrote...

SmilingMirror wrote...

Reave is so over-rated....
warp does double damage to armor and barriers too, its immediate damage, its only less than 50 points weaker and it explodes other biotics like pull. most importantly warp curves allowing you to hit people without choosing area reave

When it comes down to it, you either bring Miranda in to warp your reave or you bring samara so her reave is warped.

Reave's damage is instant against barriers and armor. How can you call it overrated when you clearly haven't even tried it?

Whenever a pull/singularity + warp would kill an enemy, reave will also kill the enemy.

Incorrect. Warp also detonates Biotic abilities. You can easily see it in the first video by Gatsby.

[Feops1]

I like AP ammo. Armor is very popular on enemies like husks and warp isn't really spammable. Reave and drain are okay, but are small upgrades for abilities sentinels get for free. I'd consider reave much for useful for an engineer and drain useful for an adept. Plus sentinels already have more than enough options at any given moment for powers, so a passive gun skill is always useful unless you use squad ammo.



A great combo I found was AP ammo + throw on baddies like husks. A regular short burst from an AR with AP ammo will strip its armor, then use throw (level 2) to knock the husk over and kill it. Throw refreshes very fast so you can just alternate short bursts and instakills. Chews through husks very quickly without waiting on warp cooldowns or expending overmuch ammo.

[Astalder]

Early on I recommend Reave until you fill up the other trees. Once you're high level I recommend respeccing back to 2 Throw/4 Warp, and get something else. AP ammo seems like an obvious choice, but if Dominate can be detonated that sounds pretty tempting... being able to detonate biotics is Warp's counter to Reave's life leech.

[Sigh_Blaise]

I liked warp ammo.

[Inferno Sock]

SmilingMirror wrote...

Reave is so over-rated....
warp does double damage to armor and barriers too, its immediate damage, its only less than 50 points weaker and it explodes other biotics like pull. most importantly warp curves allowing you to hit people without choosing area reave

When it comes down to it, you either bring Miranda in to warp your reave or you bring samara so her reave is warped.

Warp doesnt do X2 Damage does it?

[BanditGR]

Feops1 wrote...

I like AP ammo. Armor is very popular on enemies like husks and warp isn't really spammable. Reave and drain are okay, but are small upgrades for abilities sentinels get for free. I'd consider reave much for useful for an engineer and drain useful for an adept. Plus sentinels already have more than enough options at any given moment for powers, so a passive gun skill is always useful unless you use squad ammo.

A great combo I found was AP ammo + throw on baddies like husks. A regular short burst from an AR with AP ammo will strip its armor, then use throw (level 2) to knock the husk over and kill it. Throw refreshes very fast so you can just alternate short bursts and instakills. Chews through husks very quickly without waiting on warp cooldowns or expending overmuch ammo.

Thread winner. AP ammo is one of the best (if not THE best) bonus power for a Sentinel on Insanity, with warp ammo coming very very close to it. The thing about AP ammo that makes it so good, is the fact that the bonus damage is vastly superior to other ammo types, especially if you go for Tungsten. If it worked on barriers as well, it would probably be OP. Other than that defensive abilities like Barrier/Geth Shield/Fortification etc are all nice and everything but that fact is, you shouldn't need any of them, since you already get tech armor which is very powerful in itself. It's redundant. Same goes for Reave. It's an excellent ability but only slightly better than warp. Sure you save a couple of points if you don't intend to use throw and it has a slight "stun" effect, the temporary health boost is nice but nothing particularly exciting. Again, redundant to a certain degree. Generally, it's all about maximizing damage output as early as possible, since you will be stuck with the pistol/SMG until the Collector ship.

[rumination888]

Reave Pros:
Does 20% more damage with the Biotic Duration upgrade making it slightly more damaging than Warp.
Heals health.
Saves you 3 skill points

Reave Cons
Has a 0.8 total damage multiplier on Insanity making it weaker than Warp without the Biotic Duration upgrade.
Uses up your bonus power slot

On a related note, can anyone tell me why people praise Reave's ability to stagger enemies even though Warp does the same thing?

[Inferno Sock]

Reave can stagger groups and for longer

[rumination888]

Inferno Sock wrote...

Reave can stagger groups and for longer

The stagger duration is the same. I suppose if you evolve Reave into an AoE that would set itself apart from Warp.