User blog comment:Sperez2012/Earth DLC Characters/@comment-3570755-20120722130311/@comment-3325589-20120727101302

When I say "made of wet tissue paper," I should clarify that I mean the Shadow can't take hits, not that she has low survivability. In fact, she's one of the easiest characters to keep alive in the game. Second to krogan vanguards, salarian infiltrators, and not much else, but that durability is almost entirely based on avoiding damage rather than soaking or mitigating it.

If you're looking for DPS, electric slash is probably your best bet, for similar reasons to biotic slash. It won't take out individual enemies as quickly as shadow strike or a good weapon, but it can do considerable damage to several enemies at once, especially with the range upgrade. I find it's one of the best non-grenade methods to do damage to clustered enemies, and the bonus power upgrade of cloak gives you a lot more leeway in choosing targets, thereby circumventing its range problem.