The Shockwave

Its not aweful, it passes through solid objects makes detonating easy.

It was one of the best powers in me3 actually. It had a ridiculously short cooldown and could trivialise any red health bar enemy. The incendiary acolyte--->shockwave combo enabled you to destroy phantoms, marauders, captains...anything. Excellent for staggering, and excellent for detonating incendiary ammo, as well as being reliable at all times. Not to mention that it was also arguably the best detonator in that game, capable of detonating combos that are magnitudes more powerful than a cobra rpg in andromeda. Yeah, definitely one of the best powers in that game. It's a shame that combos suck donkey dick in andromeda. Now shockwave has a stupid animation (can't even see what it is clearly), stupidly long cooldown time of 15 seconds, and detonates combos that are weaker than a round from the avenger assault rifle of bitch slap. I really miss the old shockwave. They done messed up. Now that I think back on it, the human adept was ridiculously overpowered. Imagine the destruction he would do in andromeda.

In ME3 shockwave started out with baseline 100 more damage, 175 more force and also had detonation evolution, it was infinitely more useful.

The fact shockwave ignores all obstacles in both game is the best part I think.

In ME3, I honestly prefered electric / biotic slash over shockwave.


Most characters with shockwave, I ended up using others powers way more than shockwave tbh.

Shockwave seemed to miss targets from time to time in ME3MP for no apparent reason.

"Shockwave seemed to miss targets from time to time in ME3MP for no apparent reason." - and continues it in ME:A. That is, actually, what I mean when speaking of "inconsistency".

Human adept singularity explosion evo will cause BE explosion. Singularity -> warp -> be -> se -> be was my favorite combo at all time.

Batarian Enforcer, I never used much. I hated Batarians and Vorchas. lol

Krogan shaman... awesome class. Yeah. Used shockwave a lot with him... but actually made a hell out of Warp glitch more with him. lol

Hell no. 

It's easier to hit enemies if you take the radius evolution (rank 4 I think?). You still need to make some effort to aim the power though.

For adept, I would use it more to stagger enemies if it didn't have a longish cooldown and if it wasn't the only way for an adept to detonate their own combos.

For vanguard, I see potential for it in a shockwave->charge combo but as we all know, combo damage sucks balls right now.

Shock wave has traditionally been my dump stat. I can't honestly see that changing unless it's changed a little.

It's only good for combo detonators, and as we know, combo damage sucks balls.

I think you just inadvertently solved the mystery of why so much in meamp is craptacular...

Get this: most of the A tier fighters stayed in the milky way, while andromeda is full of trash tier failures with weaker power. Also, many of the weapon descriptions state that they were adjusted for shitty initiative use, possibly made worse.

Aww sheeeeeet!!!!!!!

It's not bad if you spec it for pure utility and run around with someone who can play off it priming after you use it to detonate. All bottom row(b?) Shockwave is pretty good IMO but it depends on if you have a team to take advantage of it or not. If you're hoping for a nuke/big damage skill you will be disappointed.

This would explain everything. The trashcan characters lineup, the trashcan weapons collection, the trashcan powers...everything.