asari adept for platinum

I would play her defensive on Platinum. You still die a lot. Take cover and wait until enemies come close enough for a detonation. She can take out shields of smaller enemies with a single combo, I use vortex, so they fly a bit allowing you to finish them off. Adhis will also start flying which is very helpful. Use a powerful sidearm (I use the Equalizer because it synergises well so you never need to think about ammo boxes) and take out Observers from afar. Don't blindly rush.

I recorded a video, but shitty Shadowplay only recorded it with 50 MBit/s and its impossible to start a lobby - No one joins - I should record a video of a 30 minute empty lobby and send it to Bioware, but I know no one cared. This game has so much potential...

Double Throw is spectacular, multidetonators in general are spectacular.

Biotic Combo is 926 damage on Plat which is a pretty decent chunk of damage.

Mine:

Damage debuffs so 40%, that shield gain from biotic effect and and spam lance. With this built I don't have to think about power recharge speed so I can take max biotic damage boosters.

Haven't try double throw, but I doubt it can make more damage over time compared to lance spam.

And then you have to be as mobile as you can to take advantage of shield boost which equals to more combos.

Throw to 6, Lance to 3, Annihilation to 6, Defense to 6 Offensive Biotics to 5.

Just some tips from someone having fun with her, putting out solid DPS at times but at others still struggling...

[1] Host. Any lag or latency will make for a hard game. You are squishy, even with saving barrier.
[2] Avoid double and triple cloak lobbies. Too much agro will make for a hard game but at least you could be revived a lot,
[3] Vortex is less useful than draining field which applies to your whole team if you camp together. Way too much armor on platinum. If you are that worried about dogs and anointed you probably shouldn't be playing at this level yet and certainly not with this character.
[4] You want the radius on the annihilation field for platinum which means you generally need to run some sort of power efficiency as cool downs will suck. Mandatory for a fun game IMHO.
[5] 20% debuff in Offensive biotic is probably better than 50% more combo damage as thats only 450-500 per pop but this is debatable...especially if double throwing or a team is detonating off you.
[6] Saving barrier is a must.
[7] Throw comes back much quicker than lance which hits harder thus I go for throw and rank it up. But a lance will do more damage because armor does not "collide with world". Its a trade off.
[8] Double throw is very viable as enemies group on platinum so you will often get double combos and rarely ever miss a single. Swift detonation is also nice though. Its debatable. Double throw with bigger radius and the combo damage over the debuff is nice but don't forget the debuff applies to teammates as well. If camping with mates the debuff will probably increase team DPS more unless people are detonating consistently off you.
[9] Use your dash, slide in and combo, slide out and shoot, dash back in once combo cool down is over (5sec or so??). Use cover and structure (buildings, rooms, etc) efficiently.
[10] Siphon weapons (I run a hurricane siphon and a dhan siphon (sometimes burst damage is safer--stick and move)
[11] If you think you need more range run elemental ammo with your power efficiency . Rank 3 lance and still do some damage and set off combos at a distance (problem is the hurricane siphon won't primer properly)...
[12] If you feel super squishy run a cyclonic with your power efficiency.
[13] DO NOT RUN shield powered lance. Not enough things will die with your combos and you'll just kill yourself. SPL is better in gold (more DPS and things dies faster but not platinum).
[14] You will need to use weapons much much much more on platinum than gold with an adept.

Playing this character without shield powered lance is a mistake! The recharge speed nerf from annihilation field is intolerable. You will wait eternally for your power cool down after that single throw and get annihilated... or waste consumable slots with power efficiency mods, just to make it bearable. With shield powered lance, you get to stock up on good power mods and weapon mods, you have your veteran bonus as well and you get to spam lance three times. You have to play conservative and not run wild, but, anything that gets within your field can be toasted. I run a high burst damage Ruzad Siphon. Ruzad-->Lance-->Ruzad-->Lance-->Ruzad Lance. You're basically lancing during the ruzad's fire rate gap to maximise damage in the shortest time possible...This in turn, guarantees your shield retreival. You could do the same with other high damage per shot shotguns as well. Obviously, you need the 20% shields back from annihilation field kill, so maximise its radius. I am currently trying to assess the survivability difference on Barrier 6a vs 6b. There is a learning curve and careful shield management to get this character to work right for platinum, and it can get frustrating, but, AA definitely seems to require a high damage per shot shotgun to the face on platinum if you wanna dent anything. High ROF low damage per shot li'l pea shootin pistols don't appear to be cutting it. Its a good idea to hang out close to somebody. Will post a video of this...

Basically I just tried to make it as similar to Fury as possible. Haven't played a lot yet. Can't compare to double throw from my xp. But I feel like everything on here powers says that she must have shield powered lance.

And no, I play aggressively. Mentioned lance spam and mobility, thought it's clear enough

Maybe I'll make a video tomorrow. If will find some pug without 3 infiltrators.

Necro’ing this year-old thread since I just posted my Shield Powered Lance Platinum Solo vid with the Asari Adept yesterday.

I did go with the PAW Siphon instead or a burst damage weapon that others had recommended here.



It’s interesting to read these old threads about character tiers and usage on Platinum. While some characters mentioned as the bottom of the barrel for Platinum are still not the “best” class — i.e. Kineticist — they are not as useless as people might have originally thought.

True, but I think there was a sort of glass ceiling that had to be broken for people to see that Platinum solos were do-able with any class. People simply thought that there was no way to solo without having a stealth kit. Yes, there was one person who said that he had soloed with a Human Sentinel and a Batarian Scrapper but he had no video proof. And, there was that Turian Soldier solo who died with seconds to go on extraction on Firebase Aqua.

For me, it wasn’t until Zerkul’s Human Juggernaut solo on Vertigo that showed me that it was possible to solo with a non-stealth character. And, it was EclipseMerc’s solo on Sandstorm (Go For the Eyes) which gave me the push to try one for myself. 55 solos later, I’d like to think that I’ve developed some good strategies for most of the maps that people can follow. Had these strategies been developed sooner, I wonder if more people would be soloing, like we seen over on the ME3MP forum.

That said, I am starting to see more people here in Andromeda doing their own solos. That’s great to see!