Platinum Tier List

Ran 15:08 minute platinum last night (personal fastest): it would have been faster but we had a wave 4 hack.

2x Scrappers, 1x Insurgent (ME), 1x Avenger

Of the ones i have, the cyclone, hesh, and thokin have been my go-to siphon weapons. the siphon effect is dramatically more noticeable/useful with higher dps weapons. once i get a hurricane siphon, i will probably never use anything else.

Also: two short cooldown combo detonators.

Yep, top tier on gold, high tier on platinum. 
REASON: Scored poorly on other weighting criteria (besides DPS) such as team support. You can throw out as much DPS as you want, but, without team synergy, you' still a li'l worm on platinum son.

i would say 50% of my plat games are with 1-2 friends and 1-2 pugs, and i fully pug maybe 20-25% of the time. and i pretty much following these rules when picking my kit:

1. If there is no stealth grid, i play avenger

2. if there is another stealth grid and no debuff support (batbro, operator, human engineer), i play batbro

3. if there is another stealth grid and debuff support, i play whatever pure dps kit i'm the mood for. usually hsol, tsol, kromerc, or thavoc, 

4. if everyone else is stealth (avenger/huntress/inf) i either leave the lobby or play avenger
 

You can go head to head with beserker twins (no problemo) on gold with a Asari Adept, human vangaurd, Krogan Gladiator, etc, easily. That might give you the confidence that you're good to go for platinum. But, the twins or triplets or anything else may manhandle you in so many different ways and turn you into pulp on platinum. Be careful with that tip of yours 

Oh boy. TSol has a lot more utility, then just throwing down high dps. I can rush in the middle of tons of enemies lure them together and stun the shit out of them with a well timed fortify purge, priming all for tech combo. I can do the same to save teammates that are surrounded or flattened. He might not as good with revives as cloak/stealth grid characters, but comes very close.  With fortify i can almost constantly stun and prime group of enemies for tech combos for my team, and if no one is around to detonate, i can either 1. escape, 2. finish a complete group with my frag grenades if they are clumped up together, or 3. stun them again. Because by the time the stun effect wears off, the cooldown of fortify is almost finished. I can literally survive on my own with my TSOL and draw all enemies away from hack objectives with my TSOL.  Not even mentioning his high weight capacity, so i can literally carry almost what i want, and on top of that his turbocharge. Try a turbocharged hurricane... Few days ago i had a spree of 10 successfully plat extraction with it. If this character is not top tier, i don't know what is.  It's one thing to dislike certain kits, because in the end it always comes down to personal preferance. But if you create such thread that is read by many, you have some kind of responsibility not to give false/bad advice. 

Raptor and Cyclone are my personal favorites right now. Combined with even rank 1 turbocharge they put out shocking dps for uncommons (and are easy to rank up to X)

Will get back to you in 27 years when I get all the rare siphons to X.

Assault turret is pretty ineffectual, it's only redeeming quality on plat would be the rank 6 cryo ammo armour debuff. I'm skeptical of how reliable that even is tho.

Sandstorm, halberd, carnifex, and others are all pretty useless no matter the kit.

Everything else is "viable" but effectiveness is a whole other thing.

Trash-tier weapons are trash-tier on every difficulty. I suppose that is exacerbated on Platinum.

Assault Turret is terrible but you should never be putting more than 1 point into it anyway, so no change from Gold to Platinum there.

What about Cryo Beam? On Gold it's awesome, but on Platinum can you stand up long enough to get good use out of it? Admittedly I've been too scared to try the Human Engineer. Would enjoy seeing some video of a well played HumEng on Plat.

Krogan Gladiator... I'm sure you can get some utility out of Pull + melee, but running around with her isn't going to work like it does on Gold. Ergo she is less effective on Platinum.

Krogan Vanguard, same thing, you can do some short-range charges but you're not going to be a murderball like on Gold. Ergo less effective.

Human Vanguard can be played as a powers class anyway so he seems less affected by the jump to Platinum than the Kroguard.

Assault turret is terrible?!?! Its the single power that makes the human engineer and the angara insurgent high tier on platinum. With the expanded omni-link radius post patch 1.09 and the cryo debuff (rank 6), it is an excellent power. CryoBeam needs to be specced for cryotrap (experiment with cryo trap mechanics) and full armor debuff. The squishy li'l engineer can defend himself against entire mobs by his placement, assault turret and cryotrap in platinum.  (Never pick a character with assault turret if you're not the host however). Guess i should post a video of the squishy li'l girl taking down two beserkers and a behemoth.

GIT GUD!! 

P.S.
Gladiator is platinum trash. Krogaurd does better as a weapon/power focused build and tactical use of tech armor. You can't be meleeing around like on gold, but he can definitely squeeze into high tier in the right hands. Human Vangaurd is midtier, too squishy without rage an tech armor.

Human Kineticist: her usefulness is too situational on Platinum, and Pull+Throw gets you killed while trying to *Pull* it off. It's quite hard to maintain Ascension. But maybe I should just git gut.