Commando/Guardian builds

Enjoy it while you can. Power damage is missing an entire scaling vector that weapon upgrades provide so they fall drastically behind by endgame.

The commando is legit powerful, though some score hogging happens thanks to singularity assist points.

I'm playing with Rank XX:
Sing - Duration, Recharge, Expanding
Turbo - 1pt
Warp - Recharge, Debuffduration, Double
Offensive - Guns, Combos, Guns
Defensive - 4a, 5a, 6a
Equipment - Power recharge 25%
Guns - ... so many options. I was using double remnant weapons. Using warp on CD makes "waiting" for the gun to recharge a non-issue. Usually a slight delay after each warp is enough for Shadow to recharge. You also have turbocharge if you get impatient.

I definitely would agree with the opposite take on singularity as well (radius and exploding). The fact is that on Gold if something gets hit by just one combo explosion while floating, the singularity explosion is going to finish the job for you (at character rank XX). You can also just manually explode it right after you combo off of it. It also does significant force when it explodes as someone has already mentioned.

The key to this kit is warp spam. Set up those combos, detonate those combos, make the sub-berserker targets dance in panic - exposing themselves from behind cover. Warp's panic dance is a critical advantage for the commando! The 35% more damage taken debuff by armor targets is also a win.

That's my take on the commando.
*EDIT - Replaced debuff with duration since the damage taken debuff isn't actually working.

I like both the Commando and the Guardian a lot. I was sort of unimpressed with the Artificer, but the Juggernaut is probably my favorite character. So, 3/4 on the “new” characters is pretty good. I’m not sure I’d take Commando or Guardian into Platinum (assuming I could get a game) - I’ve only ever taken the Avenger, Huntress, and Juggernaut and I find it really hard to live without on-demand cloak to escape jams, or insane amounts of damage resistance. But they’re good characters and I like them.

I wish we were going to see more... One of the big problems with this game is there are way too many guns and not enough characters. And it seems like making new characters would be super easy. They have a lot of armor models and abilities coded up. It seems like it would have been really easy to have double or triple the number of characters.

I haven't played since before the last two characters came out, but just FYI I saw a post from pedro in the testing thread that expose is broken and does nothing.

It seems like any power that does DOT damage. Yeah, you can just let the enemy sit and take damage over time. But, in that same time frame, you could also shoot and kill the enemy.

Similar to getting kills using Incendiary's DOT; except Incendiary tracks targets better than Warp does. If you aren't looking at the target, the Warp will usually just cast off into oblivion.

I still don't see what is so great about the H-Commando compared to the H-Soldier.  It just seems that on paper, Nade/Concussive will always excel the DPS of Warp.

EDIT:  Going to Respec and go for a pure power build.  See how it goes.

Also soldier is not enjoyable playstyle for me. I like to play, not score (in the game).

You know, both suggestions for ammo have caveats right?

Inciendiary ammo will NOT deal any extra damage to armor (or anything else) as long as you shoot, the DOT is ONLY applied after you stop shooting. Which means most of the time, you'll kill the enemy without any extra damage from Inciendiary ammo...

Cryo ammo is bugged and overwrite Armor Defense Debuff with a value of 0. No matter how much Armor Defense Debuff you stack, Cryo ammo will NULLIFY it (equals zero). Thus, you deal no extra damage whatsoever with Cryo ammo...

Of course, I'm not talking about the base "X% damage" bonus on ammo types. I'm really talking about the tooltip that says "extra damage against armor". Perception makes you see things that aren't there in reality, but I blame Bioware for misleading us...

Overall, you are right though. The Commando's skills synergize pretty well together. Shockwave is so damn shackled in a ridiculous design that the Commando easily surpass the Human Adept. But hey, "Shockwave can detonate multiple targets" like Bioware devs repeated so many times to defend against our inquiries... then they release Double Warp that surpass Shockwave in every way... go figure!

Please list all of the nerfs the devs have done to Andromeda after a power or gun has been released.

Vanquisher nerf, annihilation radius nerf, annihilation shield restore on enemy enterin the field limited by time, juggernaut nerf, there's quite a few more, but i can't be bothered to remember them. Not saying some weren't warranted, but hey, you didn't ask for only unjustified nerfs  

A good breakdown.  I played some rounds doing 6-1-6-6-6 and has decent success.   I still think that the Warp tracks targets in an inconsistent manner, but considering the lower cool down compared to Incendiary; I'm enjoying it.   I was apprehensive about just 1 point in TC, but having Combat Fitness 6A - Hold the Line saves your butt in a ton of situations. 

I was rolling that kit with my friend who was using a Juggernaut, and they sync really well together.  Cyro - Warp - Shockwave - Singularity - Warp = BOOM

The Human Engineer specced with Snap Freeze in Cyro Beam. Allows you to do the shatter thing with cryo ammo instead of having to use Snap Freeze. You lose the Cryo Beam debuff, but those multi-chain cryo explosions!