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

I now have every character except the Fury. (But my mate got her, that's why I can talk about her, too) My impression so far is: (For platinum of course, don't play anything else) Destroyer, Fury and Demolisher are very useful. Destroyer with a hard hitting, high RPM rifle like the Revenant, Hurricane or Typhoon deals very high amounts of damage. The Piranha for close quarters seems to be the best choice in my opinion because it puts down the enemies ridiculously fast. Fury is basically another Asari Adept, or at least a Human Sentinel which means biotic explosions all the way. Demolisher's Tech Burst when throwing an Arc Grenade followed by a Homing Grenade is also quite good not only against shields. Paladin could be useful, too, if you concentrate on Shield Drain and Incinerate and neglect his main ability: The shield. He is very helpful then when it comes down to shielded and armored opponents. I have to admit: I haven't played him too much, because of the uselessness of his main ability. I hate characters I can't play as they were meant to be played.

BUT: I tried 4 different builds for the Slayer and Shadow each and I have to say: They're useless on platinum! Be in close combat with them and you're dead! Using Slash is also suicide. It leaves you vulnerable for too long. Yeah now you can say: The Slayer has his Biotic Charge to recharge his barrier. But it's also useless... You charge in on an enemy, gain full barriers but before you can do anything else, your barrier is shot down again. So, the only thing you have accomplished is having no shields and standing right in front of many angry troops who want to kick you in space. You could spam Slash through walls of course. I admit, that's effective, but it's not how they are meant to be played... And it's boring. If this is the only reason for them, why do they even have their other skills?

Maybe I'm just playing them wrong, but spamming slash is just so boring...