Powers, Skill Trees and Active Abilities (Official Thread)

Allright, level 36 now guys.

These 2 are my go to profiles:

Explorer with turbocharge, tac cloak and charge. Tac cloak with the angaran heavy-hitting sniper rifle and adrenaline fusion mod instant resetting tac cloak and turbocharge instant reloading the SR never gets old. charge and asari sword melee never fails to amuse either with andrenaline resetting after the melee kill.
Infiltrator with turbocharge, incinerate and energy drain. This lets me shock and fire combo all I want, and rain a turbocharged death upon my enemies with the vintage revenant (specced for maximum accuracy and stability) and bio-condensor sticky-grenade sidewinder.

I have 2 backup profiles (but haven't worked these out yet fully, due to lack of skill points ).

Soldier with trip mine (will be specced for priming), turbocharge and concussive shot (specced for power cells) for that quick takedown of the big bosses.
Adept with singularity, annihilation field and charge. For - quite frankly - a ridiculous amount of biotic 'splosions. Also. Singularity-ing a group of enemies and then launching grenades at them from either my sidewinder or my soldier profile really brings out the sadisticity in me.

Although true that many passives apply to all types of powers. Adrenaline fusion mod (resetting cooldowns on kills) mostly trumps all of that in practice.

But still, good point to keep investing in all passives

I'm using overload, cryo beam and backlash as my main powers, with a sentinel profile. My secondary profile will be an engineer with Remnant VI, and I'm planning on unlocking tactical cloak to use with an infiltrator profile for bosses. Right now tho I'm still on Voeld so I haven't unlocked enough powers to worry about switching.

Tech powers do seem to pack a punch this time around. Well, combo-wise anyway. Biotic (explosions) are also good, but they require a significant amount of investment in the passives. 
Cryo combo isn't worth the investment, sadly... Fire explosion for the win! Tech explosion if you want to remove shields.

And if all else fails? Turbocharge. God I love that skill.

The penalty is actually pretty tolerable considering how often you make a kill.
Also, you can research a cryo pod which cuts fusion mod penalties in half!

A little adrenaline mod advice: 
- tactical cloak, sniper rifle with vintage augmennt. Cloak yourself, fire and make a killshot. Your SR will overheat, but TC resets because of the kill! so while it is overheating, re-apply cloak. Then you have ample time to re-aim your SR for the next killshot. Repeat untill all is dead.
- if you use a power to detonate a combo (either) and the combo kills the enemy, your power is reset instantly! Great for chain-casting.

All right, some observations, and a question.

Vanguards are still insanely OP. Frankly, that's a little bit disappointing. I like a challenge, and feel like I shouldn't have to handicap myself to achieve it.

This is the first ME game where the tech stuff looks really interesting, especially the passives, possibly more so than the biotics. I'm usually much more interested in biotics, so I'd say that's a welcome change. So, great job there.

Cloak + Energy Drain (or Overload) + Incinerate and it feels like every possible situation is taken care of. It's actually a bit too good compared to what a pure biotic gets.

I'm not a huge fan of the Cryo Beam, think I preferred the blast.

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OK, next, something I'm hoping people in this thread can help with. Bioware games almost always have some power-related bugs (like the shatter bug in DA:I). I'm wondering whether all the powers in MA:A work as intended.

For example, Throw can be specced into Swift Detonation, which increases "Combo Detonation Damage" by 30%. This seems to suggest it should increase ALL combo damage as long as Throw was used to detonate. But I kind of suspect that it only works with Biotic Combos (ME3 had something similar going on with Throw).

Offensive Biotics passive evolution called Detonation is supposed to "increase the radius of all combo detonations." Does that mean that if I prime with Incinerate, and detonate via Energy drain, the resulting combo will be affected by this passive? Despite it being purely a tech combo?

If anyone has any sort of insight, help a brother out. I have my reasons to be suspicious of these descriptions, but I haven't rigorously tested them by any means.

I'm a level 6 Sentinel.

Backlash
Remnant VI
Flamethrower

I'm a level 6 Sentinel too!

As a Sentinel enthusiast, I approve of this skill set up

You need a restorative skill: either energy drain or charge (I'd choose the latter), and a profile which boosts either your mobility (explorer) or your stamina (sentinel).

Throw can also do double duty