#particularly useful to warp Collector barriers and weaken heavily armored targets and such

[husband-steve-cortez]

#with Kaidan. Reave is canonically a new thing he can do#but I'd say realistically he can still pull and throw enemies around#much better than Miles can#but warp+throw is all you need to tear through an atlas mech#and I like the idea that in *that* regard Kaidan may actually be weaker

I generally like the idea that "biotic power" is more a matter of how much you can do without wearing yourself out than like, any kind of brute power thing.

So I like the concept that really, even despite the migraines, Kaidan can rely on his biotics more heavily than Miles can, and Miles has to be much more controlled and precise about when and how he uses his biotics because he can't go all day, but he can really tear through certain targets quickly when pressed and that's really what he's gotten good at using his biotics for, while tech shores up his other weakness.

I also like that as a possible reason that in me1 he uses barriers but switches to tech armor in me2; he has better implants (because why not with everything else we're giving him) so he can use his biotics more offensively rather than mostly sticking to passive; a bastion sentinel "uses biotics for defense or opponent immobilization", and really I mostly imagine Miles in me1 fighting similarly to a Vanguard, mostly using biotics to barrier himself and tank while only occasionally lifting or throwing, and not doing so as well as Kaidan.

(and I kind of pretend stasis isn't there despite definitely using it a lot)

Doesn't help that I feel like sentinel's role kind of changes a lot over the course of the games…mostly that a tanky sentinel in me1 is going to be more biotics focused while 2 and 3 have more of a tech focus with tech armor. You also lose your biotic crowd control options in favor of cryo blast; I guess throw is kind of crowd control, but not really.

I can never decide whether Miles canonically still has these talents or if he never had them. I love the concept that Miles/sentinel Shep only has *so* much biotic potential but he's able to apply it in an effective way. But then cool biotic stuff...