Very effective N7 Shadow build that I've been using on gold

M-22 Eviscerator X with damage and bayonet mod. Berserker Package

Tactical Cloak: Duration, Melee Damage, Bonus Power

Electric Slash: Edit: Damage

Shadow Strike: Damage, Electric Damage, Damage

N7 Shadow: Power Damage/Capacity (just for the capacity)

Sword Mastery: Sword Damage, Martial Artist, Edit: Shield Damage I thought about it and I realized shield damage would be a lot more effective against Cerberus, because the only armored targets are atlases, which I can barely hurt anyway, meanwhile almost everything is shielded and I can't one hit kill a few things, but having shield effectiveness allows me to. I know the flaming sword is cool and all, but the electro sword is much more effective.

I also took rank 5 of N7 Shadow and put it into rank 4 electric slash because of this fine gentleman's inquiry

So what you're probably thinking is "why the hell would you choose duration over damage", that is because if you cloak and shadow strike right away you can get two kills in one cloak cycle, and more importantly remain cloaked after the first kill. If you were to pick damage over duration, you would get one cloak cycle with 140% damage (assuming martial artist is active), also leaving yourself completely vulnerable afterwards. With duration, you can cloak and shadow strike and still have at least 5 seconds of cloak remaining, which you can use to get a 100% damage bonus (w/ martial artist) or finish off anyone with a heavy melee that will also do 100% extra. Most mooks, including phantoms will die after one cloaked shadow strike along with the electrical damage afterwards, thus the 40% damage bonus is redundant.

Another thing is if you do what I did and don't evolve electrical slash, do not detonate tech bursts sourced by shadow strike with it, it will do very little damage. It is better to heavy melee or shadow strike again. The only reason I keep electric slash is because one cloak>shadow strike will leave a turret with about 4 bars of armor, and standing next to a turret yields bad times, but if I cloak>electric slash>shadow strike it will kill it straight up.

Another thing, don't shadow strike atlases with shields up because you won't do much damage and you will probably end up dying. I have yet to been grabbed by a banshee if I cloak>shadow strike>back roll>shadow strike>repeat.

The insane power that shadow strike can do with this build