So in essence, you're locking out your cooldown for very little effect. If you start playing on the harder difficulties, you'll see that your shields will go down often, and quickly. It has a 12-second recharge time, during which you can only fire weapons, and lasts for 60 seconds, giving you a boost of +100% of your base shield strength. Lets look at Barrier, first and foremost. Stasis for the aforementioned reasons, and Slam solely to set up Warp Bombs without wasting points on Shockwave to unlock Pull. In fact, the only bonus powers I would EVER recommend to a vanguard are Slam and Stasis. In regards to Charge, let me assure you that Charge is so incredibly strong, that you should only use your cooldown on anything else in special circumstances. Any class with a Geth Plasma Shotgun can fire a charged shot and leave it with a sliver of health left. If you use Stasis on the final enemy on the battlefield, all of your dead companions will resurrect as they would after combat.ДЄ Soldier with a Widow can one-shot an YMIR mech using Stasis. So, if you shoot an enemy as it falls to the ground, you are, in essence, shooting at an enemy with the toughness of one from Casual difficulty, AND getting a +100% damage boost. As such, they lose all of the HUGE buffs given to enemies on higher difficulty. As it wears off, the enemy 'ragdolls', meaning that you do an extra +100% damage to them, which is compounded by a 'bug' with the way Stasis works: an enemy held 'In Stasis' is basically tagged as a 'friendly' target, like a shopkeeper. It allows some of the most powerful enemies in the game to be one-shotted. On fights like the Disabled Collector Ship, you can Stasis one Scion which will then fall to its death, making the whole fight easier. Like Slam, it performs its function best with only a single point investment, freeing up valuable points for core skills.

There are a few things that make it incredibly useful in fact it's in many respects the best bonus power you can choose. There's currently a bug with Stasis, where you cannot select it at character creation, but are able to select it after Horizon, when the Advanced Training opens up in Mordin's med bay. Hi there, and thank you for not being too offended (or at least not lashing back), I'd never heard of your blog before, hence my 'random blog' comment. He mentions the other skills, but thinks that the knockdown part of Dominate may be a plus, manages to completely undersell how amazing Improved Flashbang is (no idea how), doesn't recognize Inferno Grenade for how terrible it is, and once again. I don't mind bad-mouthing some random blog author, but I try to have much better courtesy towards people here.Д®DIT 2: Just saw the 'hidden' page 2. The only ray of light in there is that he recognizes how shitty Fortification is.Д®DIT: If you did this, OP, then I apologize very much for being rude. He mentions Slam being useful for Collectors on moving platforms (again, playing on Normal or lower) but forgets to mention what makes it actually good it's a super-fast recharging way for classes without Pull to set up Warp Bombs. He doesn't mention the best thing about Neural Shock (easy headshots, even for people that can't aim well with a TINY cooldown).

He also doesn't mention how on Insanity, Area Reave will leave ~1 armor point left on a Husk, so even though it looks like you can use Biotics on it, it'll fail. He doesn't mention how the Insanity power-duration penalty affects Reave, which is a pretty fucking important thing to know. Barrier has a 12 second base cooldown, compared to 5-and-some-change for Charge.but he thinks that Barrier is great, without even mentioning the ONLY THING that barrier has going for it that it has no animation, so you can activate it while being staggered. He's recommending Barrier for fucking VANGUARDS. Look at the section about Armor-Piercing Ammo 'This ammunition is very useful when fighting un-armoured enemies like Mercenaries and LOKI mechs' Firstly, Shredder Ammo is king against unarmored enemies, and this statement alone shows that he doesn't have any experience outside of Normal / Casual if he thinks mercenaries and mechs are unarmored.

He doesn't even mention them all! Where's Stasis? Where's Flashbang? Where the fuck is DOMINATE?! That's not even DLC! (See edit 2) This list is, to be blunt and a little rude, complete crap.ДЇor starters, it offers no real insight on each of the abilities, instead he just paraphrases the tooltip.

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