The Asari Sentinel is now a goddess

Started playing her before the 1.06 and she was really strong already back then (with Talon). But now she's a monster. Just drain*stun, stun, stun, stun + one shot everything. Can dance with Krogans all day and laughs at the Kett. Amazing kit. Biowar plz dont nerf.

Backlash is a milion times more useful than barricade. This is a pure mobile kit that fits perfectly in ME gameplay, even more so in MEA. It is a bit situational yes, but very handy when you need it, I use it quite a lot and it only takes 2 seconds of Annointed machine gun firing at you to remove his shields (if you didn't do that already with the tech burst / on cooldown) which drains less than half of your Backlash hp, and you can keep cycling. Really survivable and great cc.

If you remember Asari Sentinel from ME3 she had a similiar kit as well, tough she relied on her aoe field+throw only, the third power was tech armor but now she gets that as passive and an energy drain primer instead of limited aoe for ranged stun and heal, and improved Paladin shield 2.0 which is now mobile and also reflects damage... Both of these classes were already top-notch picks for ME3 platinum (with Rehgar+Warp ammo on asari sent), but now they got even better (in an easier game). Of course she's a total monster now.

Fuck, I have to force myself to try her as power user. It sucked so much pre-patch, it's hard to believe it's viable now.

I'll try to settle this: I wholeheartedly agree that mobilty on Backlash vs zone control on Barricade is entirely a matter of preference. I actually see the merrit in both.

The issues I mentioned are real though (confirmed by other posters here and on reddit) and just because you don't experience or notice them, or have found some workarounds that sometimes alleviate the issues doesn't make them go away.

If you agree that it's a matter of preference, why didn't you just say that? Oh, Barricade isn't without it's own issues. You can't set it up on an incline, or with enemies (or obstacles) in your way, leaving more than enough time to get you dead. So...

Couldn't have said it better.

You played her as power character before?

I don't have Ushior, so I've been using Talon and a secondary light pistol to keep 100% recharge. As for the cons, just power recharge pretty much. Level 2 (30%) is good enough for easy gold runs against anything. The new Ushior would probably be amazing tho. I wanted to try Piranha but at lvl 1 it's too heavy. Maybe some day.

I mostly use her to set off combos (because she's the combo queen) and the best way to do that is to have a high rate of fire assault rifle/pistol and a cryo or incendiary ammo. Right now I'm using Equalizer because I don't need to reload it, but I'm thinking I might change it with Revenant or Hurricane.

So I just shoot enemies until they're primed, then blow them up with throw or energy drain. Lots of fun.

How is this any more beneficial than just doing a Tech Burst that stuns them all on the ground and you can easily shoot them

Offhost there seems to be common occurance of Backlash being visual effect only

Same as literally every other skill in the goddamn game

Asari Sent is more combo-centric and mobile defense
Human Sent is more weapon-centric and area lockdown

it's preference and a bit of situational utility



MEAMP Combo Damage doesn't care how many Ranks you have in the Powers.

But devs posted on reddit that it does. Said something about weak, medium and "strong" combo detonations...

I always chose damage & shield restore before patch 1.06 for all Energy drain.

...but with patch 1.06 making combo awesome
I guess it`s foolish not to go with 30% recharge reduction... right?

Asari Sentinel feels really good..

I might go 6/6/6/6/0
To maximize combo damage + burst weapon damage boost.

......0 on tech armor... bad idea?

You actually can. The point in passives isn't system assigned.