Talk:Prisma Shade/@comment-50.131.152.9-20150829183757/@comment-26355183-20150901111405

Well... it DOES have the (by base damage alone) third weakest weapon. It also uses secondary weapon mods, which is even worse than it using rifle or shotgun mods as you're more likely to bring a secondary along and you either have to have doubles of your mods in secondary entirely, or not bring a secondary.

For the Sweeper/Laser Rifle, you can easily just use a rifle while you use the Sweeper and use a shotgun (thanks U17!) when you use Laser Rifle. The Laser Pistol sticks you in a rut where you have to decide on making a second set of mods, not modding it with the big mods, sacrificing your secondary weapon for the sentinel weapon, or simply switching to another sentinel weapon. (The last one is the most likely.)

Also, for a VERY long time, the Ghost ability was riddled with holes like swiss cheese. Even currently it has a very small activation radius and only activates on your sentinel's LoS, meaning if they're for some reason not looking towards any enemies or another enemy who's halfway across the room, they won't activate the cloaking.

It's by far from a blind opinion because relying on something else (that isn't your warframe or your weapon) to provide sudden effects (that are rather unreliable in the first place) can be argued if it is skill or not. I don't believe that hoping for the off chance that your sentinel cloaks you when it sees the right enemy before it sees you is skill.

I'm not saying Loki's Invisibility requires skill, but it's INSANELY more reliable than the Sentinel that, for some reason, was made for stealth and is even outclassed in it by a Kubrow.