Commando/Guardian builds

Backlash is designed for very aggressive players who like to shoot their shotguns (Piranha for instance) point blank at melee range. It helps you get close while causing absurdly high amounts of damage to the enemy shooting at you (softening em up for the finish off). Once you're in point blank range, most enemies are less dangerous than otherwise. Beserkers don't flak you that close. They just try to melee you which can be easily dodged. Same goes for Anointeds, etc, etc. Most of them lose their lethality at close/melee ranges. Mimic a Pariah's motion to some extent.

If you're a timid creature holding backlash up from a 100 yards away, you quite simply don't understand the beauty of backlash. May this knowledge i shared enlighten you.

You make some decent points. I'd been treating Shield Boost as a 6-rank skill by fiat, but he's got a lot of survivability without and does feel a little offensively underwhelming. I may respec and give a 1-point build a try.

Based on my own experience, what you're describing is probably not lag, just blink's wonky mechanics.

This isn't super-easy to articulate, so apologies if this is a bit unclear, but I noticed this a long time ago with the Assguard:

Even if you're hosting, if you're near enough to -- but not right up against -- a surface that your normal teleport range (i.e. your "dash range," or the distance you'd travel out in the open, not through a wall or other obstacle) wouldn't traverse completely, you'll see that effect. Standing or crouching right up against a wall or cover seems to consistently allow you to teleport as you should, but any appreciable gap will cause you to rematerialize in the same position.

The effect is especially noticeable when there's an elevation difference involved, e.g., the center area on Zero. If you run up against the wall below and teleport forward, you'll consistenty appear on top of the raised area. If you try to teleport toward that area from a small distance away from the wall, nine times out of ten you won't go anywhere.

Blink has a definite learning curve to it, but once you get it down it's easily the fastest way to traverse most maps (other than Charge/Avenger Strike). For someone like me who takes great pleasure in getting to every objective before my teammates, it was well worth mastering.

I hate biotic blink, it is the most unpredicable dodge ever. On bad host I have absolutely no idea where I will end up after the dodge ...

Awesome hint there, poultry! I ate so many missles or fiend fists by side/back blinking into the same spot that i simply just stopped playing any such classes. I'll give the guardian another try and see if i can make it work. Though it still won't help with dodging attacks in actual cqc scenarios :/

That's great advice. Jump-dashing lets you pick direction better, and you can keep up backlash until you dash. On the floor too, but a failed blink usually means death if you're under fire.

I would need to see some solid numbers before sacrificing double warp for escalation. The crowd control is great, putting all mooks to dance regardless of shields or armor. But if it's actually a debuff, which the description fails to mention, it's OP as hell.

I'm playing again. I've got 4 characters to explore

For blink: Anyone noticed you can blink under ramps if you try to dash the ramp upwards? I noticed this on Paradox at the ramp to the left from the spawn an at the lowest ramp on Nimbus.

Both kits are very nice, I think I love Commando

Zero. Search the Numerical damage thread for "backlash". It's all there. I personally don't think rank 6 of backlash is worth it. 6A is really intermittent and 6B isn't nearly enough.

I'm not getting this feeling whatsoever.  They can't withstand a lot of punishment.  And DPS wise, a Human Soldier can grossly out perform a H-Commando in most instances.   Concussive shot/spam (assuming you go Evo 4b) is a great detonator, and can reach around cover better than Warp can.

If you aren't using Turbocharge, and just wanna focus on Warp; then I'd say the Guardian is a better option for the defensive mechanics.   Considering the Commando doesn't have a Biotic Tree to coincide with Warp and Singularity.  I just don't see the Commando being viable in Platinum.

I have to concur as well.  The Commando is quite the beast even in platinum.  I've played around with Singularity & Warp, and Turbocharge & Warp as main methods of attack; both do extremely well in platinum.  The Guardian does fine but lacks that offensive edge the Commando has.  The Guardian does it's best, in my opinion, when it synergies with other teammates in providing backing and hold actions.