Cryo Combos are a joke in Andromeda

I think it's decent, but I've only been running Silver.

Hitting a Cryo Combo freezes anything that was within the combo radius, so this means you could potentially chain it indefinitely with Disruptor Ammo if you didn't kill the target (which you probably will, you Vanquisher-wielding, melee-bashing, meta whores!) (THAT WAS A JOKE). I will agree with the paltry damage, though.

Judging by your feedback it seems the developers see powers and power combos more as a utility now and not as a main damaging ability like in ME3MP.
I can understand that decision, but I can also understand the frustration of power combo-fans. Maybe they'll buff combo and power damage a bit in a future patch.

I really don't get what all the complaints are about. Do people want Power Combos to instakill everything they touch? The game would become laughably easy.

1- Are you guys raising Power Ranks? In ME3MP, the higher the Ranks of the Powers used to create the Combo, the more powerful the Combo. There's no reason to believe this isn't the case in MEA. Raise those up to Rank 6!

2- Are you taking Passives that increase Power damage?

3- Are you equipping a Power Damage Booster?

4- Are you playing a Power-oriented Kit?

5- Are you speccing the Powers themselves properly?

Let's take my Asari Sentinel as an example. She has Max Rank 6 in all of her Powers, taking Damage and Force wherever possible. She also has Rank 6 in her Passives, again taking Damage and Force wherever possible. (She only has 1 point in Tech Armor, as there is no Power synergy there). She wears either an Incendiary or Cryo Ammo Booster, and a Power Damage Booster. And I'll tell you what, starting an engagement with Energy Drain+Throw will strip the Shields of whatever primary target she cast them at, create a massive Tech Burst that damages Shields of surrounding enemies, staggers them, and leaves an AoE electrical effect on the ground that stuns any enemies who are standing in it or walk into it. Then it's a simple matter to mop up with her weapon (I've just been using a Charger X, it's perfectly fine even on Gold) with her Incendiary/Cryo Ammo, then detonate that with Throw as soon as it becomes available again. Honestly, if her Powers and Combos were any more powerful, she wouldn't need to shoot at all.

So there are kits in ME3MP who can rely exclusively on Power Combos. This isn't ME3MP. Powers here tend to have longer cooldowns. The boon is that they have separate cooldowns. Use your Powers and Combos as a utility, and then don't forget to shoot your gun.

Let's compare my Asari Sentinel to my Human Sentinel. Instead of Power-oriented Passives, she has Weapon-oriented Passives, and takes every available Evolution for Weapon Damage/Weak Point Damage/Accuracy/Stability. And instead of a Power Damage Booster, she wears a Weapon Damage Booster. Now her Powers and Combos aren't quite as strong as the Asari Sentinel's, of course, but she makes up for it with better weapon skill. Bottom line is that the two do comparable damage to the group of enemies, they just have different things they are slightly better at. Key word being SLIGHTLY. If the Asari Sentinel could instakill everything with Powers and Combos, why would anyone play anything else? Likewise, if the Human Sentinel could instakill everything with one shot from her gun, why would anyone play anything else? (The guns themselves are irrelevant, as each of these kits is perfectly capable of equipping the same guns, so moot).

TL;DR Powers and Combos are fine IMO and the game has much bigger issues that need to be addressed. Gold is already getting pretty darn easy, and literally the ONLY reason it ever fails is in pug matches where the Wave 6 Multiple Upload happens and everyone is either running all over the map, dead, or stupid. It's already getting to the point where if you have one reliable friend to team up with, Gold is almost a cakewalk. It will get even easier as we unlock more of our manifests.

TL;TL;DR Game is easy enough. It doesn't need to be any easier.

Yes. Bring back snap freeze!

1 streamer I watched was speculating that combos are bugged since they appear to not scale in damage when you level up the powers involved like they did in me3.

Would be nice if some of the descriptions gave more info, for example damage over time doesn't tell actual seconds duration on some skills. Knowing things like this would help with figuring out if a build I'm going with will work or if worth the points to spend.

So left in the dark because some descriptions are too vague. Just like guns don't show reload speed so have to do trial and error to see if it takes 2 mins to load a gun or not. Anyway just saying room for them to improve the info in the game itself.

I tend to leave cryo blast at level 3 and it chews through armour pretty fast on bronze/silver, I haven't tried on gold though with that kit...

I wouldn't want to since the turret is only useful for 3 seconds every 30..... what it needs is a supper hp /armour buff or a cd of zero between uses because right now that char is a liability /

otoh the barrier/zap throw guy is pretty handy at tossing out tech splosions and they work nicely enough on making stuff stand still