Works good on gold, but on platinum it is not a good idea to be detonating tech armor constantly because it often fails to stagger the hardest enemies. Just get a nice shotgun like the wraith to safely get all those pesky bosses and you are good.

Plus the heavy melee bonus, giving 20% damage reduction after a heavy melee kill/increasing melee damage by 75%, is very easy to acquire when in game and is useful. Also, the heavy melee also staggers, which means that if you detonate tech armor then go into heavy melee on say a phantom you are still safe because they will still be staggered. If you are set up for some melee damage then a heavy melee follow up will finish off any basic enemy even on platinum/insanity. The stagger coupled with the very fast cooldown of Tech Armor means that it will actually be safer for you to detonate tech armor when the enemy is near than to keep tech armor active for the damage reduction. Also, unlike a lot of area of effect powers, it will affect ALL enemies within range, it does not have a max (compared to a power like shockwave that can only affect 3 enemies at most). But the benefits of Tech armor is that it staggers ALL ENEMIES EVERY TIME with the exception of the banshee, atlas, prime, which it staggers about half the time. When the armor is destroyed, it sends out a pulse of energy, knocking back and. If you want to be good with a sentinal, then DETONATE TECH ARMOR!!! Tech armor does a decent amount of damage. Tech Armor Rank 3: Generates an energy armor suit that boosts your shields. The power cooldown penalty is also noticeable enough that it can be an indicator. If you're playing on single player, you might be able to go by the powers that are active on the power wheel. It's kind of easy to miss, so I've at times set it off when I was trying to activate it. Tech Armor is less of a buff to your shields than similar abilities like Barrier, but comes with two useful abilities that set it apart. In my experience, there's kind of a faint glow that surrounds you when you've got the armor activated. Every type of Shepard (Biotic, Tech, Soldier) gets some form of defensive buff over the course of the Mass Effect trilogy, and the one gotten by Tech Shepards is simply named 'Tech Armor'. This class of power is really intended so that you can soak up damage while you get up close and personal, and then get a quick damaging attack when you go in for the kill. The second time you push it, it detonates, doing damage to enemies around you.

Wearing the full set won't grant any additional bonuses. Armor Sets provide players with protection and resistances against all types of damage. Ariake Technologies Armor grants the followingimproves Melee damage and can only be used by Commander Shepard. The first time you hit the button to activate the power, damage taken will be decreased but your power cooldowns will also lengthen. Ariake Technologies Armor is an Armor Set in Mass Effect 3. (Fortification and Defense Matrix come to mind as being very similar) It's a little confusing though since I think in previous iterations there weren't any powers that worked this way. Tech Armor is a two-stage power, of which there are several in this game.

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