Question about Ponytail build for Plat

If you're going to put 6 ranks in Shockwave for her, armor damage is always the better option. You've already got two much better CC powers.

I personally still don't see the need for more than 1 rank in it. Then again, I haven't played her in plat.

I switched one of my adepts to Shockwave 6A from 6B and just put one point in Pull. While I love neutralizing red bars with all three Adept powers in Gold, there were just so many armoured enemies in the platinum Apex remnant missions I have done thus far. If you can get your Adepts to Rank XX, shockwave will be even more powerful.

That's the question - whether the 6a is worth it on plat. On paper it looks attractive. I'm running her at 53666. Thanks for the input!

If you're expecting Shockwave to do appreciable damage to armored or shielded enemies on Plat, well... good luck with that.

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(reminder of enemy health/shield values)

What I'm saying is that's like me giving you a penny and asking if you have more wealth now.

I mean...yeah, but...

Lifting shockwave doesn't really make much sense when you have no other detonators. Radius pull is much more effective and faster for setting up combos for both your teammates and you.

This makes sense.

Missed the point, if your choosing between punch and sparkle, go sparkle. Damage is not an effective use for any powers in the game. If any case where anyone can say your powers damage path are > your weapons doing the damage, or a special effect like stun, freeze, radius, ect...they are either in bronze or follow a mass effect religion. Your powers are for cleanup, crowd control, support ect.

Lifting shockwave, althought not needed (I can argue with that on platinum), is still a great way to temp disable all redbar enemies, as well as set them up for detonations.

Tell me how that turns out because I will never ever use human adept in Platinum.

Not saying you cannot.

I will just stick to my trusted Tactical Cloak and Sticky grenades which continue to prevail with minimal stress in Platinum.


I play Platinum only for credit and not for the process or fun... so that works fine with me.

Too much crap in plat is either shielded or armored to actually do any meaningful CC on HA. Sure, you still get a bunch of assist points for tossing singularity on top of destroyers or just placing it in a hallway so every mob that runs through it gets primed and then nets you a bunch of points, but the actual contribution feels lacking. I am sure a well coordinated group can get a massive use out of HA, but in PuGs its largely a wasted potential.

And I never use sniper rifles on my infiltrators. Cloak is for positioning, objectives, damage, revives, escape. Most of the time on plat I use it to reposition behind the enemy line and take out the snipers/observers which are tearing up the bunched up players who are hammering at those berserkers/destroyers/other crap with ton of hp. Also, who needs to aim the grenades? Stealth, come literally on top of the enemy, toss the grenades and walk away. Watch the enemy explode as you cackle on the way to the next supply crate!