Any real use to Mobile Cover?

[Flymetothemoon]

I've just been playing around with powers but I have yet to find a good use for Mobile Cover. The three mods are kinda lame (you usually don't share cover that closely, enemies are rarely right in front of your cover, and pulsing enemies isn't that helpful compared to other powers), I've found it to be really unresponsive if you try and run out and plant it down (I have to throw it ahead of myself), and having it equipt feels like a waste of a slot.

Maybe my build just isn't good for it? My skill power is really high, and all that seems to do is boost the cover's health which seems like a waste. Perhaps I need to use it in combination with a shotgun or something? I have never seen another person use it, so just curious if anyone has gotten any good functionality out of it.

[[NLD] RB-Hitman]

tbh I dont bother with the Security tree skills, Medical and Tech skills are much better imho.

[Flymetothemoon]

Originally posted by <=RB= Hitman:

tbh I dont bother with the Security tree skills, Medical and Tech skills are much better imho.

The skill Smart Cover with the healing mod is my goto ability. At higher skill levels, it nearly halves enemy damage while boosting your own, and it has a decent range if you space it right. I've also seen other players use the balistic shield quite well (that health mod seems weird though), but I've never used it myself.

Mobile Cover is just like... the odd one out. In a game with waist high cover EVERYWHERE it doesn't really seem that great to me. Every other skill seems to have obvious uses to me, but that one doesn't. Maybe if you're doing a challenge difficulty mission you can use it to hide in the corner? XD

[Primus Palus]

Originally posted by <=RB= Hitman:

tbh I dont bother with the Security tree skills, Medical and Tech skills are much better imho.

This.

[Flashfall]

Originally posted by <=RB= Hitman:

tbh I dont bother with the Security tree skills, Medical and Tech skills are much better imho.

By god you must try smart cover. The defense and damage buffs are fantastic, with the right perk you can keep it up indefinitely, and you can mod it to heal you as well.

[GM Pax]

IMO ... Mobile Cover would be much more useful if it were (a) full-height, and (b) slightly concave (from the user's side) so that it protected better against partial-flanking fire.

[Kaslana]

In challenging mission, if your teammate accidentally die (I mean die, not downed) in an open area, deploy a mobile cover in front of your teammate's dead body, and then deploy a revive healing station in the middle between death location and the closest cover.
Revive your teammate behind mobile cover, both of you gain 50% damage resistance for 10 secs thanks to the perk, and rush to the closest cover while the healing station keeps healing both of you. Once get into cover, retreat slowly to a safe location, and counter strike.
Not happen often, but it helps when some super high DPS got downed due to low health.

Typical medic strategy.

[Clandestine]

Mobile cover is good for blocking off doorways, since you, or the enemy, cannot vault over mobile cover.

It's nice in challenging missions against the shotgunners who try to rush you every time.

[GM Pax]

Originally posted by Clandestine:

Mobile cover is good for blocking off doorways, since you, or the enemy, cannot vault over mobile cover.

This, I did not know. :)

[Lyfe]

i like mobile cover personally especially when used with smart cover.

Damage resilience 88.20% to all damage types including nades and such.
http://i.imgur.com/Bmzld4O.jpg

not a bad dps boost either from 37,525 to 60,973
http://imgur.com/a/DUcsT

skill tool tips
http://imgur.com/a/dTqbL

makes me sad most the time the team wont use it so i use it and man such a waste of a boost to my dps. :s oh well.