User blog comment:LilyheartsLightning/The MEWiki Arsenal Awards 2012/@comment-60.240.209.220-20130124133108/@comment-4310096-20130124151850

Please stop all-capping and generalizing. The Acolyte is a very good gun on characters that lack shield-stripping powers. It's a niche weapon, that is meant to take down Shields and Barriers, so that your primary gun or powers can take down the target afterwards, use it on Biotics that cannot take down large amounts of shields easily. If you're using this gun as a sole firearm without having a character to make up for the lack of firepower, then you're doing it wrong.