User blog comment:Sperez2012/Earth DLC Characters/@comment-3570755-20120722130311/@comment-1388547-20120726164902

I haven't played Platinum at all, but I'm quite pleased with the Shadow on Gold. And I would disagree about the "made of wet tissue paper" comment, in practice -- I took the damage reduction and shield drain evolutions on Shadow Strike, and she dies very infrequently. She's not the greatest straight-up damage dealer -- Shadow Strike does a lot of damage, but it's pretty slow, so I get better DPS by shooting things with the N7 Valiant -- but she's excellent at distraction, picking off key enemy personnel, reviving other players, and snagging objectives. (Ironically, while she looks like she's a stereotypical lone wolf damage dealer, I think her best role is team support.)

As for the Slayer, I haven't played him much, but I was unimpressed with Phase Disruptor, so I rebuilt the character around Biotic Slash. It's a very effective attack -- basically Shockwave on steroids -- but he's still basically an improved version of a Shockwave-spec human vanguard. I'm thinking I'll probably bring him out as a detonator if I have a couple of other adepts on the team; that'll be a fun change from my usual characters.