combat powers

I...well, damn, man, you have everything pretty well planned out. If I were going with a soldier build that's pretty much what I'd do except I'd go with fully evolved barricade with electric evo...just to, you know, mix things up.

Why don't you like concussion shot? I haven't used it at all in mea but I like the concept of basically having an underslung grenade launcher on my guns.

I'm not a big fan of barricade personally, I don't think it lasts long enough for what it does.

It only uses power cells if you pick that option in the skill upgrades, by default it just has a cool down

I dipped into it to try it out for a bit and tbh, I found it a bit eh. It doesn't feel like it does much compared to it's cooldown.

Having said that, Throw/Pull/Charge is basically a build I haven't got bored of after 200+ hours, and in that context it had a steep hill to climb against Throw.

Tbh Trip Mines are my fave combat power.

yeah I had the combo pull/throw/shockwave on my Natalie as an Adept configuration which was cool. She was primarily a Sentinel though but I had an engineer and Adept profile set to switch too to provide alternatives in the favourites .But I've got to admit I really enjoyed using those 3 together. I mostly used it when doing missoins like the Archon ship mission though only when I knew I was only going to be fighting Kett or organic enemies though in the game. I can see  myself having great fun with those as my primary powers on my Adept build later when I do it.They won't want to mess with this Sara unless they want to learn how to fly straight into a bulkhead. Because she will toss them into one if she has to. Going to have a go at building a Explorer style build first though with a Scott for my 5th playthrough though. The Adept Sara will be my 6th.

I'm not either tbh on ME got killed  on the last mission controlling Scott trying to use them in that section where you have to cut SAM off from the pathfinder using their sibling. One thing I did manage though which I was very pleased with is that I completed that whole final mission in my last playthrough without dying as it was the first time I managed to do that.

yeah that's one of the reasons why I kind of miss the pause to aim feature on MEA as it kind of leaves yo having to use the hit and hope approach with powers. Stlil most of the time I can stil get the targets I want to hit but it isn't easy. At least I can still use pause to aim when playing the trilogy though.

I wanted to use a combat tree focus for Scott, but just can't seem to care about the active powers in there. It just seems to meh, especially when compared to a technician or biotic build.