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Probably just an App thing. In game it's 75.

I watched Nathan on the Bio twitch stream today using the Artificer and the Sovoa. I could not get a feel for how the powers worked together, and Nathan was really showing off the Sovoa. I did see the defense drone blow up a couple of NPCs, and it looked pretty cool. It's not a tank, and I didn't see him use melee once. It does have a good slide/jump/speed setup.

Guess I better get busy and get one...

It was Bastiaan...

I leveled her up to 18 (XX) and she's okay. The drone is a good CC and great against the damn dogs. She's okay, nothing like the Jugg, though.
The Sovoa is absolutely meh, boring and pretty shitty damage. I really wonder why Bioware hates assault rifles so much.

Id bet my bento box that whoever the person is that said, "Hey lets remove the built in mods on assault rifles, make them less usefull than smgs, and make it so either they fire 2 bullets per second or make them so inaccurate they hit everything but what's in the reticule." Is the same individual that thought variant weapons times 10x3 was a fantastic idea.

Not sure if you get 35% from elemental tech. But Melee build might be better built on a juggernaut.

Jugg has Snap Freeze (ability), not the Snap Freeze evo (of Cryo Beam). He's certainly more survivable in CQC, but he won't get those sweet cryosplosions.

Had a strange Bug last Game. The Drone was completely missing. Not only a visual glitch, even the defense pulse was never triggered when an enemy approached.

Unlocked her but haven't played her yet. She does not look that interesting to me.

She feels quite tanky with 5 points in passives. The drone is ok. Other than that I use invasion and hurricane+distruptor ammo. Snapfreeze seems to be a waste of time on gold vs most enemies. I only use it vs. krobros and dog parties. I have not tried plat with her, she is not levelled up.

The Artificer is certainly an interesting character. I've played a few rounds with her and I like that she can take down mobs pretty easily, but isn't completely ineffective against armor. I had a few questions about her abilities. I thought about starting separate threads, but I thought I would ask here because since it's in the context of playing the Artificer.

1) How does the spread of Invasion work? Is there an incubation period or something? Or does it immediately start spreading upon "hit"? Does it jump targets like Dark Channel? I ask because Invasion seems to spread most of the time, but sometimes not (probably out of spread distance or lag issues). There's also the outbreak evolution, which seems to increase the number of initial targets (I think)?

Edit:  I tested Outbreak myself.  Trade-off between cool down and hitting multiple targets per cast.  Unsure which evolution is best.  More often than not I'd rather have cool down, but the few times I manage to hit a cluster of enemies with Invasion, it's worked out pretty well.  Still not sure how invasion spreads after it's been cast.

2) What's the damage on the Invasion explosion? What bonuses increase the explosion damage? Tech/power damage or combo damage?

3) Similarly, what increases damage on snap freeze explosions from Cryo Beam?

I appreciate any help I can get.

Also, bummer that the defense drone's stun attack sometimes fails if the enemy has stun immunity (from beings stunned recently). Also bummer that Berserkers don't seem to really care about the stun attack because the only time it triggers on them is when they have stun invincibility from their charge attack. I guess we wouldn't want to make things too easy no would we?

For a Platinum Team Support Build, I was thinking something along the line of taking Drone up to Rank 4 for either Cooldown Reduction or increased Drone health. Then maxing out Defense Drone going for Drone Recharge, Defense Systems and Drone Support.
Maxing out Invasion with Outbreak, Weaken and Virulence seems almost like a no-brainer - but I'm not yet sure how to divide points between Cryo Beam and Offensive Tech.
Haven't made a choice yet concerning weapons and equipment/boosters either...