*** BIOTIC WHINERS THREAD ***

Ability of BSN to make innuendos of innocent things always amazed me

As if there's any other place to do it

I used to pug a lot when I used to play and usually changed classes accordingly depending on the team composition. My go to characters towards the end of my time playing were Asariguard, Krogan Shaman, Melee Quarian Female Engineer, N7 Shadow and Quarian Female Infiltrator.

If more than two other pug players were biotic I'd usually take something like the Shaman or Asariguard - because I had become so bored of all the other adepts, even drell adept which used to be my favourite character. Shaman was the most fun krogan character, despite a dull set of powers, and Asariguard had the best of the visual control I enjoyed (at least you could see things ragdolled with lift grenades and charge, or use stasis to hold chokepoints and headshot).

Edit: I should have added - yes I remember that gameplay had skewed so much towards pure weapon damage being more efficient than anything else. In any case in a biotic team it was the same monotonous explosions over and over. If at least the sound effects were more varied from say a Throw->Stasis explosion compared with a Throw->Warp explosion, it would have gone a long way to easing the monotony (I know the gameplay effect is different). Or at the very least make new combos like Warp partially debuffs the enemy armour allowing Stasis to work on it with reduced duration or something.

I kit with Stasis, Pull and Throw.... Can prime and detonate all defenses except armor.

This is why you have a gun.

This kit would control a battlefield well, and unless the Drell was played by an ace, this kit easily tops most scoreboards. It would be a fun kit to play.

What is your point again Sailears? I am definitely not getting it. At all.

I am a biotic whiner, I want those nice looking, sweet, powerful blue explosions always. the more the better.

And while I do understand the underlying game mechanics being referenced here, and yes, a combo of biotic and tech explosions are the most powerful, I want more biotic explosions.

Sadly I almost never find a group which feels the same

I love playing as the Justicar but i wish she had a something other than that damn stoopit bubble.

Biotic Focus, Annihilation Field, Dark Channel, Throw, whatever. Anything other than that damn stoopit bubble!

If the biotic bubble actually blocked incoming projectiles it could have been interesting.

But it looks like we're getting Biotic Aegis to do that job so that's one box ticked.

Edit: For the record I think the bubble is a great power that synergises very well for biotic explosions with the justicar, as well as debuff and control of enemy flow allowing you to **** whole chokepoints. I should clarify when I say it is not as "interesting" as it could have been if it destroyed projectiles (and maybe once it takes a certain amount of damage it dissipates).

To add to the point, even though it would wreck all the mooks and phantoms, you're still left with only shooting when it comes to an Atlas.

In my opinion that is bad design to make powers either very powerful or totally ineffective beyond stagger.

For example if pull lasted 9 seconds with a 2 second cooldown and one hit left a debuff that reduced the effective mass of an armoured target for those 9 seconds, a second hit doubled the intensity of the debuff, allowing a third hit to treat it as if it were health, disabling the target for the remaining 3 seconds. I don't like this method but it's just for illustration.

Alternatively the power key could be held/charged up with each additional second ticking up intensity but reducing lockdown duration - if released after 3 seconds fires off a pull projectile that works on armour, but with 3x the cooldown and a third of the effect duration.

Ideally there ought to be varying thresholds in the effective mass so not all "boss"/armoured units require the same power intensity to overcome their threshold in order to be affected. For example a ravager could require charging for 2 seconds, but a brute might need a more powerful cast and charging for 3 seconds to be affected.

Stuff like that while perhaps not necessary or only situationally useful would for me add another layer of depth to the variety and skill in gameplay.

You rang?

1°. Warp
2°.Throw
3°.????? (#SpaceMagic)
4°.Boom
5°.Profit

because Biotic explosion spam and pure damage is boring

Technically it's someone else's opinion, I just thought it was an appropriate answer to your question.