Salarian Infiltrator Help

It's great as a do-all kit, using Energy Drain for support (Passive for team buff), cloak for duration for devices/awkward uploads and weapon damage.

Sticky grenades are great, but limited capacity unless you spec for it makes them very...Eh. I skip them altogether.

Skip Combat Cloak for Escape Artist on cloak, it lets you get out of some super hairy situations with pubs and readjust safely to...Well, ready yourself for a 'fun' solo.

I personally run 30% recharge speed so I can hit up devices for my usual team, but, 40% weapon damage isn't bad for pubs either.

Extended Drain and team drain on energy drain are a given. Priming and supporting your team are both very valuable asset skills for managing mobs and I personally prefer 'Effectiveness' over recharge speed just for those emergency 'Oh shit' moments - Energy drain, cloak, run.

Overall, it doesn't excel at anything, but, it makes for an amazing support infilitrator that's worth at least some respect.

I think he's decewnt. Just go max sticky grenades for damage, capacity anti armor and then + 30% power damage to armor in the passive tree. Go full damage and combat cloak. Take rank 6 in the passive tree where you get a 30% damage boost for 5 seconds after using a power. Then make sure you spread out your power usage so you have that buff active as much as possible (aka don't energy drain from cloak for example). Use energy drain to keep yourself alive, not to strip shields.

The + 80% damage to armor stickies and full damage cloak straight up nukes armored targets like fiends, hydras and berserkers. The burst damage is really high. Te 30% damage boost 5 seconds after using a power makes up for his lack of + weapon damage passives a bit.

Finally I go 3 points in fitness and 5 points in energy drain (recharge speed + the duration thing).

For weapons you can really use anything you want, anything that can make full use of the 2 second window like vanquisher, hurricane, piranha would be good.

So yeah his niche is pretty much that he has the most powerful grenades in the game.  don't really understand why they removed proxy mines though, would have made him more unique, do we really need 3 sticky nade infiltrators? Alltthough power cell abilities are arguably moe pwerful in cmparison to cooldown abilities now since proxy mine probably would have a 15 second cooldown....

I use a similar setup on my Human Infiltrator. Have you figured out how Cloak's damage bonus applies to Sticky Grenades since throwing them doesn't break Cloak? Do you need to manually break it after throwing a Sticky by firing a weapon or does the damage bonus apply for the entire duration of Cloak?

It seems to me that if you toss them from cloak but you don't break the cloak they don't get the damage boost. However if you toss 1 or 2, then break cloak with your gun, and they then blow up right after you fired your gun/meleed/whatever then they do get the damage boost, but it seems like you need to take rank 6 combat cloak and you have to make them blow up in the 2 second window by breaking cloak manually.

I tried testing it vs remnant a while ago when I levelled my first infiltrator because the damage boost didn't seem to get applied to stickies when just thrown from cloak without firing your gun or having combat cloak. Pretty sure I did the same damage as I did uncloaked. But if you do the method described above they definately get the damage boost. 1 80+ armor damage sticky used like this pretty much takes off 1/3 of a berserkers health so they are pretty powerful.

He's gold ready as soon as your passives are maxed, so I really don't see much of an issue.

Give him a good weapon(s) and he's pretty much able to take on any opponent or any mission subset.

It's nice to take an infiltrator that doesn't render down to the hyper boring two button mantra that 3MP relied on for meta.

The human infiltrator is superior because of munitions training and 5 stickies. I was having so much fun I maxed both sexes back to back. Playing salarian sucks when compared to the humans. Too weak.