Batarian Scrapper Flak Cannon Vs Concussive shot

Flak cannon by far. Its not even close. Rank 4 +3 allows for 10 flaks as well.

Concussive shot cancels yoursnap freeze debuff and should only be used when it will be a fatal cryo combo or close to it.

I run a 66661 build at times but for our speed runs I take fitness and skip concussive shot. 16666

If you play mostly gold and lower 66661 is a non brainer.

Flak cannon in action: 12:20 platinum run....it just melts stuff... +3 capacity, armor and DOT


I honestly haven't tried shredder on platinum but DOT is strong.... +100dps for 8s = 8damage not counting any power bonuses or armor debuffs....its a lot of damage

I don't know anyone who actually runs shredder...

But what do you skip? Can't run all three without dropping hold the line/sustained fire?

I run one of my soldiers with shield concussive shot and armor names. Nice best of both worlds build but sadly no snap freeze debuff

Flak Cannon over concussive shot for the reasons mentioned above. The most important reason is that it doesn't detonate Snap Freeze and thereby cancel the massive armor debuff.

As for whether to spec into concussive shot at all, my vote is no. It's still a useful power, but a one-point wonder for cc and detonating, and you don't really need the extra damage or lack of cooldown vs lesser enemies. Meanwhile, both passives provide a lot of value, particularly Hold the Line when combined with a Siphon weapon.

The last two ranks of Flak Cannon are mandatory, don't drop those. They're what provide the ridiculous armor damage (or cc if you go that route).

Sustained fire is a must, it completes the debuff package of the batarian. I usually just 1 point survivability. I find its much more effective for me to drop 3 observers shooting me from cover fast as possible, rather than try and survive it. Hurricane prime tech combo 1, flak cannon another to drop all shields and disable/stun them and anything near them. Finish them all off with weapon. Takes about 4-5 seconds for most I've done 5 enemies. I use this on all redbars.

If I see more than 2 enemies already red bar I toss out snapfreeze instantly without even thinking about it.

Some players do, but imo you shouldn't build to survive against enemies in platinum, you should build to walk over them for the win!

Never.

The rank 5 and 6 of flak cannon are where it's power is. It's not really that good at rank 4, might as well be skipping the best power in the game entirely at that point.

Snap freeze and flak are both monsters at six, but not that good at low levels, still very strong base abilities to be sure, but not killing platinum blaze hydras in 10 seconds solo amazing. That is what they do together at 6/6

Concussive is the weakest power on the scrapper in terms of it's maximum potential, it is very good at 4, but the only thing worth skipping out on if you want to use it are his still very good passives.

The scrappers biggest build issue is that there is no weak link. Only strong, very strong, and brokenly strong ones.

My fault, I mixed it up with shrapnel. Shredder for sure.

I finally got him last night. Yet to use him, but I'll likely follow the suggestions.

Concussive shot does close to 2000 damage per shot to armor with Rank 6 armor bonus.  With flak, the shrapnel damage is unpredictable depending on how you hit it. You can spam concussive much faster than the flak cannon and its a homing shot (much more accurate) unlike flak. It is a great power for other characters. It just doesn't synergize well with the scrapper because it ends the snap freeze debuff at 1st shot.

I played my level 1 Batarian X for the very first time in Gold..

Just went in with Maxed Flak Cannon and topped the score.
(It was so easy. Flak kills everything. Snap freeze do perfect CQC for anything that gets too close. Concussive shot is wonderful at level 1 as detonator)

...So.. yeah... If you not gonna Max Flak cannon.... you just gimping all Flak Cannon classes. It`s that good..