Balance and ME:A

I used Pull, Throw and Overload. I don't remember him giving me much trouble (albeit, that was early in the game). If you use cover in between cool downs and your weapon(s) should be a straightforward chip-away.

Ya, i pretty much abandoned all plans to make use of Biotic combos. Combos in general just don't really do enough damage, and I don't think they go off of health percentage anymore. 

Powers, especially damaging tech powers, suck. They do no damage whatsoever compared to weapons while still having 10-15 sec cd.

More importantly, unlike biotics, THERE IS NOT A SINGLE PROFILE THAT INCREASES TECH POWER DAMAGE.

The supposed dedicated tech profile, Engineer, sucks. Constructs do no damage whatsoever; a Carnifex gun (the worst gun in the game) does more damage than a construct.

This is made worse by the fact they split construct damage apart from tech power damagem (so tech power damage on crafted armor and weapons does nothing for your constructs). Tech power damage should be merged with construct damage, and engineer should gain a 50% tech power damage increase at Engineer rank 6.

Moreover, engineer also sucks because the combat drone sucks. It gives the same exact recharge rate as infiltrator and explorer give, except if an enemy gets close the drone explodes to stun them and your recharge rate is lost, while explorers and infiltrators always keep their recharge rate.

Add to that the fact that combo detonations do no damage whatsoever. At NORMAL difficulty, a combo detonation takes around 60-70% of a regular red mob's life bar. It's that pathetic.


The other problem is biotics got a really raw deal with priming. Since they don't have Warp in SP, biotics can't prime mobs outside taking Nova or Singularity. Nova is a vanguard playstyle spell, and singularity is a humongous 24 sec base recharge.

Most biotic powers suck against armored opponents, who happen to be among the strongest opponents in game.

A Lance specced for bonus damage against armor or a Nova at the risk of melee range still does much less damage to a Fiend than shooting a single shot of my piranha or black widow, let alone an isharay.


In this game you play weapon based builds or you are way worse off.

The problem is adept is not gonna use Nova unless he's also forced to take charge to support the risk he takes by elaving cover to go into melee range. And at that point if you have charge and nova, you might as well play vanguard.

Shockwave has always been a shitty skill anyways, most people hate it.

I would trade throw for warp in a heartbeat.

Alternatively they can reduce the base cd of Singularity down to 15 seconds base to make priming armored opponents easier.

Dude, the game is already released.  No matter how they wash it, the stank will always be on it.  The stank that deserves to be there.

The Cardinal is weak against guns... powers; even biotic charge is not very effective although I do that for fun.

Easiest is to just sniper her, piranha, hornet and valkyrie works very well too. Turbocharge is probably the best power to use against her.

Next time I may try cobra rpg

Eh... Scropion... the Salarian pistol? Never used it. Try the Valkyrie or if you need a pistol - Hornet is good (takes longer). 

A key to ending the fight fast is to always remember to fully reload your gun and be in position to go all out crazy on her when the orb is about to go down.

Well, this troll thread has lasted long enough.

Maybe... also try using Lance and Shockwave instead of throw? That should further improve time to kill

Throw is also a primer. The window to detonate a combo off of it is short but it can be done. I throw then charge mooks all the time for biotic explosions.

They have a point on powers being awful in the game though. They really are, and I'm quite thankful I've always been more of a soldier/tech build over biotics because ofpowers getting less effective each game since ME1. Andromeda takes it to a whole new level though on really restricting powers though.

personally though I see an issue if people are letting that specific fight take so long considering I can get it done in 10 minutes or less with a widow and piranha. They're either trying to force the powers to work, or neglect the effectiveness of the weapons regardless if they want to use them or not.