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A well played Shadow with mele focused build can rock every dufficult.Her gameplay strategy should be as every drell,hit and run.She deals a ton of damage with SS and the right build and equipment.What was this nonsense about QFI.Guys,pls...

I don't really understand why anyone would play her as a sniper, because although she has that boost to sniper rifles as her TC evolution, to me, there are much better snipers out there (if you're bad at sniping - SI or QFI, if good - GI; IIRC, with AHI, the Cloak bonus applies only to powers and not to weapon damage - might be wrong here though).

I think Phantoms don't really care about TC, especially if you're soloing (in this case, all enemies don't really care about your TC, because they are cheaters) - they can see through it, if I'm not mistaken.

I like doing a cancelled ES after a SS - it doesn't drop your cloak, but it still detonates the combo. I still fail to time it right sometimes though.

I'm a noob, so if you wouldn't mind me asking, could you please share your Shadow build? I have a 64655 build right now, but I'm still wondering if there's a better way to build her.

Thanks a lot! I'll definitely try it out as soon as I get my Wraith to a decent level - right now it still is at I, so it's quite on the heavy side. And I definitely see why you wouldn't use her in team games - the chances are someone will mess your pace up, and while for a player like you it wouldn't be much of an issue, for a scrub like me it is straight up death sentence.

...and that's exactly what happens almost all the time. Since a lot of players have their overloads/shield drains as go-to powers (aka I see a target - I press that button), and those who don't have these powers use Acolytes or Reegars or even Adas Washing Machines, anything harder than silver becomes very tricky.

Oh, I also like the Talon on her the most, because it's technically a shotgun that is very lightweight and lets me slap both Power Mag and Melee Stunner on it, which boost both SS and ES. Too bad I have it only at V. The Piranha didn't really cut it for me, because you have to choose between ArPen and Smart Choke, and the latter is a must on this gun for me. The Wraith should be great, because it's a beautifully balanced gun AND it's a non-DLC weapon, which allows you to put both Omni-Blade and HVB without adding any weight. But again, the TrollStore blessed me with this weapon only once, and at lvl I it's still somewhat heavy. However, the Acocane combo is also very good, especially on higher difficulties, when you can charge your Acolyte, cloak, release the shot (which doesn't drop your cloak) and then use SS or ES.
Phantoms are cheaters. They can see through your cloak, and if you're soloing, they'll simply go ahead and check your position. Dragoons are technically melee characters, which pretty much means they do not give a single damn about TC, too, so they'll go and find you. Both of these things are not so great, to put it mildly.

I don't find the Talon/Shadow that effective on Platinum though. I take the Piranha there. When you get the Talon at level 10 you will appreciate it a lot more. Its pretty great on gold even without pistol damage increasing mods (though I take heavy barrel and power amplifier mods for it). As for the Piranha, I think armor penetration is not needed. Just use armor piercing rounds. I use her with the smart choke and omni blade and its served me well with AP rounds. And yeah, I am actually just going to goof around with the Shadow next time and just use the Acolyte with fire rounds as I can think of some fun stuff to do with her.

And yeah, I noticed this. Cerberus in general can be annoying because of this. I thought the devices with the Shadow (I have her on 11 second cloak) would be easy. But nope, somehow Dragoons follow me exactly where I am yelling "SQUAD GET MOVING" and attacks me exactly where the objective.

Distigious,pls.There aren't any goons on the objective waves on Plat.

I can understand why people hate so much the goons on objective wave,but they are my favorite enemy in the game.They are agressive,expensive and fast.That means fast waves. If you learn all their tricks they are pretty easy.They are dangerous only if you don't watch your back.It's my opinion,tho,don't get mad at me guys and gals.

Gotta be more careful  

The Talon/Venom was just to show that you lost damage on both heavy melee and SS with a Power Mag/Stunner instead of just the Shotgun Omni-blade. My main is the Venom because Venom is love, Venom is life If weight matters take a Wraith. With the damage build I SS kills every mook/captain out right, it's more for the bosses like Scions and Brutes since duration cloak SS still takes out Phantoms. I just don't like how with duration cloak I can't Cloak>SS>Heavy melee a Brute, which I think you can with damage cloak. I'll have to spend a respec to see how I like it and see if what I said about Cloak>SS>HM is true.

EDIT: I just looked at the SS Calculator and even damage cloak SS won't OHK a Possessed Captian without DoT.

I actually noticed this recently. But I think in this particular run I was playing on Dagger. I know I had killed two Dragoons, and I'm assuming since its a relatively big map, the other didn't appear right away. But he did after I was nearly done with a device. He forced me off the objective, I cut his face off and then finished after that. But thanks, this is good to know.

Thanks for the build link!
In fact, I haven't yet tried the Venom at all on anyone - it's just that a lot of people seem to be complaining about the fact that it makes the camera shake, so the snipers and other people going for headshots will hate me.
And IIRC, her SS is glitched and benefits from both Power AND Melee mods (so by slapping Power Mag and Melee Stunner I would still get something), but please correct me if I got it all wrong.

I haven't yet taken this girl to Platinum - she's way too squishy for a scrub like me, so I'd just spend all my time eating concrete and admiring that sexy ass of my Juggy friend, which is nice, but not really the way I'd like to play this game.
And I completely forgot about those AP Rounds - probably because I tried this gun on Silver first, which most likely means I didn't use any consumables. Now that I think about it, this setup should be very, very good.
But I did take her to Gold, and found that an Acolyte shot is very helpful when dealing with shielded mooks, because it allows you to one-shot them with your SS. What I like to do now is to find a group of mooks, pick a shielded one and an unshielded straggler, release my Acolyte shot and take out the former, then manually cancel the cloak and take out the latter - and then take cover for some 2 seconds until I can cloak again, rinse and repeat the whole process. It doesn't work on bosses though, so I take a Hurricane to deal with them.

Oh, I am a noob, but not as bad as not to know who muahmuah is - I've watched a ton of his videos, and I really admire how great he is (although it's close to impossible for me to achieve that level of greatness because I'm bad with guns)
I also find the Shadow very enjoyable - she's the character that lets you enjoy the game and not struggle - you can play a sync-killer, a space ninja, a medic - whatever you please, and she's equally good for all these purposes. She's probably one of those characters I really want to get good at playing.

I have her TC specced for duration right now, and I can tell it's a must for me to stay alive. Also I love to revive people, so there's also that. And as you also say that the Piranha is great on this girl, I'll definitely try it out the next time I take this character to Gold.