New characters from datamine

Someone posted a gif of Warp being used: www.reddit.com/r/MECoOp/comments/6tiop0/what_do_the_new_abilites_do/dll15d6/

Needs to do something (that we wouldn't necessarily see in the .gif) like debuff armor, otherwise it's just a reskinned Throw.

Warp looks cool. Commando is indeed looking pretty awesome! Turbocharge is a great 1-point power, so the build won't be agonizing. Let's hope for good passives!

Looks like Warp's cooldown is very fast - assuming the user wasn't utilizing a high-level efficiency booster - which is encouraging.

per Violent_Jiggler on Reddit:
"I'm not super invested, but when I checked out 1.09 the progression tree for Warp was:

skill_warp1
skill_warp2
skill_warp3
skill_warp4_antiarmor
skill_warp4_cooldown
skill_warp5_duration
skill_warp5_expose
skill_warp6_doublewarp
skill_warp6_escalation
skill_warp6_piercearmor

Pretty much what you'd expect of Warp if you're familiar with it as it was in the Milky Way. This is also probably hilariously out of date. No point in posting specifics (damage values, evolution percentages, etc) from back then; i've not had Andromeda on my radar and I know there's been a few patches since then."


Strange that there are 3 Rank 6 passives?
I would guess that Escalation is a unique passive that applies damage resistance (or other effect) when certain conditions are met, similar to ascension mode on the kineticist.

Also potentially a fallback if they're trying to do something unique with escalation but can't get it to work by launch. We know they can properly code pierce armor effects so it kinda seems like a safety net.

As for what escalation does, I bet it had something to do with combos because it's been the go-to combo power for as long as combos have been around. Maybe detonations caused by warp have a biotic echoes effect?

I think it was for the two kits with remnant armor - juggernaut and artificer, neither of which has warp.

I think damage penalty on the enemy is more likely than a reave-type DR buff. If I were BW and wanted to draw parallels to reave, I would actually call the evolution reave. Then again I really have no idea and it's anyone's guess right now.

What I really want to know is will armor weakening persist for the full duration of warp or will it end if it is detonated.

That is really the only question.

The biggest problem with Warp in MEA Multiplayer is that it's not showing up on pure biotic casters so far. Even if we assume that these are not the last characters bioware will release, their plan of releasing a character a month means we probably won't see a biotic caster kit with Warp until next year.

Which is bullshit. As is their lack of willingness to swap out lance on some existing characters for Warp.

That is exactly right. I do remember it being the remnant armor now that you mention it.

I sincerely hope it lasts long enough to detonate itself. So during singularity downtime, prime and debuff with warp, spray with turbocharge, if it's still alive, detonate with warp.

Doubtful, but would be cool.