User blog comment:Sperez2012/Earth DLC Characters/@comment-5197448-20120718145141

I have been stocking credits for the Earth DLC. Was able to get all new characters but the Engineer. Shadow is alot of fun to play with. I have her running with a Talon 8 and nothing else. Current build focuses on power and melee damage with cloak evolved to rank 4, I did not select the shield drain option with this build as I am focused on sheer single strike damage. That being said, the tighter maps such as Glacier, are a breeze. The electric sword slash reminds me of Shockwave from ME2. Great for crowd control and can be cast through walls and cover. Couple cloak with ranged sword strike and if the enemy is still standing a shot from the talon finishes them off before I need to focus on the next target. First build with Fury did not have any points in Dark Channel, evolved the Field to see its true effects. Only played 2 matches with her as I critically failed to enable longer range biotic explosions by not having Dark Channel built up at all Do not play as a soldier as much, and as such did not care for the new N7 soldier. The boost to weapon damage and ammo is nice, but I was running that build with a Harrier and the boosts meant that I was out of ammo in roughly 10 seconds with continous fire. Tried the Vanguard. Don't care for that class much anyways, most of the powers work off shield strength or in some way seriously impact shield strength. Since I never played with a human Vanguard I have never mastered the Nova/Charge combo. The Biotic hand cannon did not feel natural. Probably have to practice on silver to get comfortable with this character. Have not brought out the sentinal yet. Really enjoy being able to move through walls with Fury, and the sheer trauma infliction by the shadow. Also the shadow (have not checked with the Vanguard) is able to perform a series of sword strikes in regular melee which can be finished with a heavy melee, this attack can be redirected as the melee is occurring, useful when surrounded by Husks. Anyways, day one experimenting....see what day two has once I get off work and put the boys down for the night.