Mortiel's Guides: A New Way To Look At Builds

not according to the 11ty million dogs

They are if you want them dead before they interrupt/bite/splode you. This is pretty much impossible unless a) you happen to spot them in the distance and kill them there and then (happens rarely) or AI pathfinding screws up (happens more often)

Two questions/comments about your Salarian Infiltrator build:

(1) Do we know for certain that the energy drain effect on auxiliary targets actually triggers tech sabotage on them (and not just on the primary target)? It may not be clear that it works the way you've stated, because this game treats aux targets differently in certain situations. For example, overload chains don't detonate combos, even if the chained enemies were primed.

(2) I'm not sure I agree that the Scorpion is the best sidearm for an infiltrator. Due to the delayed explosions by the sticky bombs, do any of them (or any past the first bomb) even receive the cloak damage bonus? It seems like you'd get better results with the Talon (an alternative you suggested), where you can get at least 2 shots off before the cloak bonus expires.

I'll concede that breachers sneak up on me...but Adhi and Wraith???..not a chance...I attribute anytime I get caught in a gator chomp from a dog in this game is due to latency.  If they bite me I am able to evade instantaneously.

I just think that shock barricade is a waste, especially if you like to play gold.  I can be twice as aggresive with Regeneration

1. Let me preface this by saying I have not datamined anything, so my experience is entirely qualitative. That said, how I came to the idea that it does work was actually from fighting Destoyers, as the turret are considered entirely separate entities as Energy Drain is concerned. Before I took that AoE effect and after hitting the Destroyer with debuffing Energy Drain, the turrets would shred me in a second if caught out in the open. With the AoE effect (Energy Drain targeted on the Destroyer and hitting the turrets at aux targets), it would take a nominal amount longer. I then repeated this with a pair of Observers and it appeared to be the same. Being that this was merely qualitative observation, it very likely could merely be misinterpreted events.

Oh, and thanks for reminding me that I'm salty as hell about Chain Overload not detonating multiple primed targets, by the way lol.

2. Honestly, the Scorpion being chosen over all of the others I listed was largely thematic, as the Scorpion is a Salarian. It works well enough even on Gold, but I still am annoyed at how little stagger the grenades generate compared to ME3MP. The Talon overall is the better choice, I will concede.

Exposure works on enemies affected by Biotic powers, not just primed. I say this based on initiating a fight with a Biotic Combo (thus temporarily removing the Primed state) and enemies still take the same enhanced damage.

I'm literally just killing all the things and use my barricade as a safety blanket or during objectives...

Asari Sentinel is up. Note on this one: Anyone know how Backlash determines what is Reflected versus Absorbed versus Ignored? Best I could glean was Aegis health, but I don't have any hard evidence to back it up.