Invasion and Tech Sabotage

Pretty sure it does neither. Otherwise the Operator (and Artificer) would be overpowered!

Okay, thanks. Well, sad face. I finally got enough cards in my Operator to make him exciting for me to play and I was really hoping Invasion was that awesome on him.

In fact, I believe it so awesome that I went back to a fully-fledged Invasion and just 1 point in Fapsneeze on the Artificer, after having tried vanelsa's build, which did exactly the opposite...

Many good build possibilities for the Artificer. My Platinum solo build works well for solos, but for a team build, I would bump up the points in Invasion. If you can survive with just one point in Defense Drone, can you also max out Invasion, Cryo Beam, and Remnant VI; just be sure to in cover at all times!

I played the Operator so much (second most next to the Avenger) that I got to know the ins and outs of Invasion quite well. Both Virulence and Sabotage in fact are good as Rank 6 options. 15% enemy damage debuff doesn’t sound like a lot, but I have found my Platinum team runs are smoother with it. 30% enemy damage debuff for 8 seconds with Tech Sabotage and Overload is situational, but could allow you to survive a Blaze Hydra rocket barrage in some situations.

Be sure to spec into Offensive Tech 4A to increase your Shield Boost duration and Support Systems 5A to increase Shield Boost and Invasion’s debuff to 60% (instead of what’s listed as 40%). Lots of talk about Invasion in the Numerical Damage Tests thread stickied in this forum.

Interesting... I like the Artifisher character, and have played it a bit. After a lot of testing on gold PUGs, I found SG to be more useful than Invasion. The ability to recover your shields while in SG can keep you alive. The Invasion animation leaves you briefly exposed, and you can get hosed in an instant. I still like Invasion, though, and this discussion makes me want to try it again.

This. Do not think she's a powerhouse in DPS, be a team player, help debuffing with massive debuffs! Cover, escape, invasion, cryobeam from far away, shoot, move, cover...
Exposing her will get you killed fast but damn if she's a team player kit.

Btw, if it's the ability to vanish on demand that makes the difference for you, then why are you comfy with the Huntress but not the Avenger or other characters with Tactical Cloak?

If you are comfortable with guardian and juggernaut there's no reason you can't also play scrapper and kromerc.  Scrapper has snap freeze + flak cannon which is an amazing combo for all the armor in plat, kromerc has concentrated fire and flak cannon + is tanky as hell, not quite juggernaut level but close.

Expand your horizons a bit, and spec that flak cannon aab ftw

They're both definitely Plat-viable.  Admittedly, I've solemnly been playing Juggs on Platinum but I wouldn't say I do that because he's less squishy.

I do that because he can walk up to anything on Platinum and engage it... like a gasoline huffing monkey!

Typing on cell phones...

30m radius? Isn't it just 6m with 4B?

Most people with fast firing guns don't benefit from the gun bonus, since Ambush Grid isn't like Combat Cloak (where it stays active for 2 seconds after the first shot). Powers possibly, but most don't know to use melee while cloaked. And, in a group Hack, most people just keep on firing right after they get cloaked.

You're precisely right. And this is why Ambush Grid is great in theory, but worthless in reality. Lets take your average OP Plat gun in the Rozerad or Hurricane or Silhesh, Ambush Grid offers half a bullet bonus, from a gun that takes a clip or two to drop the biggest enemies, it doesn't really achieve anything.