Been playing an Adept all the way to level 20 and I'm having lots of fun. But, when I hit Silver / Gold level, I'm starting to wonder what's the real use of an Adept.
Most people say that crowd control is the way to go. But, the problem is that MOST of the ennemies are either shielded or armored and it becomes pretty hard to pull, singularity or even stasis anyone. The first waves are pretty easy, but once hitting wave 5, it starts to become harder and harder to control anything and just throwing warp/reave hoping I don't get anything close.
Removing shield with a SMG or Assault Rifle weapon help, but, still hard to get anything done fast enough. I find myself relying heavily on my teammates to start the job so I can finish and "steal kill" everything.
A character I like to play with is the Drell because of its biotic grenades helping a lot with shielded and armored ennemy, but the low amount (3) of nades AND the low shield is a bit of a gamble since anything can pretty much one shot my barrier.
So, does anyone have tips on playing an Adept on silver/gold level and been successful with?
Best Answer
Keeping in mind my favorite is the Asari Adept:
First off make sure your stasis is rank 6, specced for bubble; this is very important for huge/prolonged crowd control. Yes this spell has no affect on stronger armored oppenents (besides the phantom of course) but this is not the point of crowd control. You must use your crowd control to stop as many of the little guys as you can from targeting your team as they focus fire on the big guys. Once the big guys are taken care of you can move onto the less deadly little guys.
Now that we have the most important part of an Adept covered, we can move on to something else. When it comes to damage you should realize your weapons will be practically useless in silver and gold. You will only need them to kill off a few wounded enemies. Your damage will completely stem from your powers and creating as many biotic explosions as you possibly can to wreck the enemies shields and armor. Also if you are carrying weapons that reduce your power recharge at all you are weakening yourself. You should be capped at 200% and never look back.
You seem to be worried about kills as an adept when you should be focused on winning. I get more points as an adept from assists then I ever got from trying to kill enemies as I throw out large amounts of AOE damage at the enemy. And really you get more money from winning and that's all that matters.
Here's how a basic gold wave goes for me and my team. I'm in front with my adept keeping up stasis on any enemy I see so as to never let them take cover or fire upon anyone. Everyone else targets the enemy and drops anything that walks into my bubble. Of course our infiltrator is in the back picking them off one by one. Next are the big guys, kiting them as fast we can we fallback one bottleneck at a time. Me throwing down a wall at the entrance keeping the little guys from interfering with my team picking away at as many banshees, brutes, atlas, or primes as dare face us. Ravagers are handled by the infiltrator and I like to put a bubble at the Ravangers feet to kill the swarmers that pop out.
Adepts are an amazing class, very powerful and a must have for any silver/gold team.