Maxing out UR weapons?

Stickies don’t benefit from Tactical Cloak either, do they? And besides, Stickies don’t break cloak when you toss them. It is the combination of stealth on demand plus stickies that do massive damage even w/o a cloak bonus *and* don’t break the cloak that makes the Avenger so insanely good - the best character for Solos in my opinion.

Now, I’m now saying it’s *wrong* to leave Stealth Grid at 1 point. Even at 1 point it’s insanely good. But I find it worth going into Stealth Grid most of the time for the damage boost and the capacity and duration boosts. I completely agree it is more important to spec into it on the Avenger than the Huntress (my Huntress is 6/4/4 in Throw/SG/Lance, and 6/1/6 sounds very cool and interesting). I also can see the argument for leaving SG at 1 and going into Avenger Strike on the Avenger - that’s a great ability. My play style tends to shy away from melees though, so I generally leave it at 1.

Actually, my favorite way to go into Avenger Strike doesn’t work in Platinum at all, but is fun as heck - leave Stickies at 1 and get Cloak and Dagger on Avenger Strike so kills get back power cells for the cloak. Then boost recharge speed and just fly all over the map shanking everything. It’s great fun. (Generally though, you want Disrupting Strike - it is also great and works much better on higher difficulties).

In no situation, besides solo, is a stealth character greater than a debuff character. If a squad needs to stealth, don't play platinum, play gold. Not trying to sound "leet" or anything, stating facts. There has not been a single game where a stealth character has outperformed the full squad DPS debuff on bullet sponge enemies. Avenger is literally = or worse than human soldier when it comes to debuff/overall effectiveness.

Also, as stated before, if you "need" a stealth character to "survive" your not playing the game for $$$, your playing to beat a difficulty, and more than likely turning the speed run into a regular pug run. Not arguing against people wanting to beat platinum, but if your still in the "potential to fail phase" playing platinum, just spam quick golds and get $$$ that way. If you can get a squad that happens to get reliable <15m platinum runs with a stealth character, more power to you, but been playing for a while and have yet to see any stealth outperform debuff.

The only time stealth means anything is if your playing solo.
Sorry stealthers... I don't like you...

Lets also not forget. With the new change to Monthly Apex Celebration Missions now, you can also add a +1 (minimum) Free UR per month, and more if you save up for it as well. That'll help narrow it all down much more quickly.

I agree, though there's always room for any character stealth or otherwise so long as all the major debuff roles are filled.  Really snap freeze + invasion are the 2 heaviest hitting debuffs, past that additional debuffs are fine if there's synergy with those 2 but there's diminishing returns.

But yeah definitely agree that debuffs are king in plat and without them it's a lot harder than it has to be.

Also I think the problem with stealth in plat is more when players that are not ready for plat use constant stealth as a crutch.  A good player won't really use stealth in plat outside of objective waves, revives, and other important situations.

Huntress have great AoE stun and good damage output. Slap Disruptor Ammo on PAW, max out Throw and Lance and destroy everything. Use SG only to revive and for pizzas/devices.
Avenger have poor damage output, even with nades spam. Also wasting time to run to ammo boxes. I use her only on Hand to Hand missions.
Infitrators have great damage bonus when decloaking, so you only need to cloak for a second. One burst from Shorty and 2x Incinerate (if you fire it close enough, both projectiles hit same target) can kill Berserker on platinum.
Flamethrower and Flak Cannon are better with armor damage bonus than damage debuff and stun for platinum IMO. Better suites my play style.

I pug almost every time and bringing a stealth character can be the difference between successfully extracting and failing on mission 2 in Plat. Unless I've played a Gold/Plat match and I know I've got a good team, only then I am confident enough to bring a debuffer.

BTW, I respecced my Huntress with 1 SG and BOY did it make a difference!

But I think from now on, I'm just going to play for fun/improving my skills, with less focus on collecting.

Yes. She's just awesome as SassaMFG said! Observer gets downed with disruptor+paw = shields off, 2 mm off from the red bad, lance -> KABOOM. Next observer, same but throw. Lance has now recharged, repeat. Run along with Juggernaut or Commando, or just about anyone who can also prime and double throw around.

I prefer combo damage and radius evo over double throw, because that applies to all combos, not just biotic, also take duration evo to prime I; it will make bigger electricity AoE and stun/strip shields to more enemies.
Example
Group of Anoiteds; prime one, Throw, will lift it and tech combo will almost strip shields from others, Lance the floating one and biotic combo will leave others with less than a half health, then just finish them off.

without combat cloak the window where stickies benefit from tac cloak is only .5 sec (iirc).  

The main "combo" for stickies + tac cloak is with combat cloak, at close range, 2 stickes then immediately shoot will usually cause both stickies and your gunfire to all benefit from cloak damage boost.  You can burst down armor very efficiently this way if taking all the + damage to armor evolutions available to the kit.  

Not that there's anything wrong with incinerate, of course.

Why would anyone pick other one?

Like I said, better suites my play style. I don't like to run around picking ammo.

Just would like to share, I completed my first Platinum Solo.
Firebase Zero, Outlaw (Go for the eyes). Devices, Devices, Boss. 29 minutes completion.
Asari Huntress, Hurricane VI, Equalizer (Siphon) X. Boosters: Incenery Ammo II, Targeting II

I was very lucky I didn't get Upload or Hack so it wasn't too stressful. Definitely used Hurricane far more to prime enemies quickly. I guess my strategy was to be patient and not get too trigger happy. Keep moving around the map and shoot from a distance. I've never completed a Hack or Upload solo on Platinum so that might be my next goal.