: They can effectively bottle up a choke point for longer than a frag or
: plasma. I'm not entirely sure why they only let you have one in your
: loadout, though, considering that while they probably do far more damage
: overall the "real" amount of damage you're going to be daeling
: with them is much smaller.

: I think at one point they were going to have an EMP effect as well, which I
: think would have been an interesting move and made them more
: effective--essentially they could have served as a weaker power drain +
: trip mine that way.

Yeaaaaah, their DoT is terrible. You can just sprint right through them in half a second with barely a scratch.