mp:why are most of the guns and powers so weak!?

I made a post on this last week.. I agree that most weapons are pea shooters and only a few characters that I've personally used seem viable for gold. I miss the whole -200% cooldown and random/random exp and credit bonuses.. there's more emphasis on combos but from what I've seen a lot of powers just don't hit hard enough with a power build, me3 was an almost flawless multiplayer so they should that some try to go back to their roots.

People built up their ME3 weapons and skills over time.

Essentially starting again means everything is weak, which is largely down to being 'reset' to noob weapons and skills.

If weapons were stronger folk would be complaining about how easy it all was, once they levelled up their weapons and skills.

TL;DR:

It's because you are restarting and it's ok.

Powers are weak but still useful in staggering an enemy and teamplay. I like the gold difficulty as it is now and I frequently use powers. I'm okay if it takes one throw and one or two shots of a pistol to kill primed* armored enemies (except for mini bosses).

True, starting from scratch again everything seems weak.. I guess I miss old weapons like Cerberus harrier and when the revanat felt more like a heavy mg.. I'll just have to wait and see what I find works for different situations etc.. 

You should give the asari adept a go with pistols only, currently she's so much fun to use on almost all enemies and is also a XP farm god (35k against the kett on gold is my record). 😉

Yeah the Asari Adept is very strong. Make sure to level up your anni aura first and then proceed to auto prime everything in proximity 🙂

@SofaJockeyUK The problem with this statement is that ME3 also got progressively more difficult over time. New enemies were added (geth pyro, dragoons, etc.) And even if that wasn't true, ME3 NEVER had bullet sponge problems. Sure if you were using an un-upgraded avenger without mods/weapon damage on gold you weren't gonna kill things fast, but now unless you use a select few setups, you're *. The commons in ME3 were easily silver viable, now they aren't, which makes getting to a decent power level insanely tedious. Powers are just *, gimped versions of that they used to be with triple and sometimes quad times higher cooldowns (rip singularity) and less damage. Yeah, things weren't as easy in ME3 as they are now, but it 100 percent wasn't nearly as bad as this, coming from a ME3 veteran with a near maxed out manifest.  

Yeah I'm quite sad that there is literally 3 worthy weapons to use. Equalizer, Vanquisher and black widow.
I was hoping the shotguns would be decent atleast but nah.. Its like tickling the enemy with a feather.

@Jandeboi For me the Talon is the "Vanquisher" of the pistols. Detonated targets can only take 1 or 2 shots of that on gold.

@Tuinbonen Oh yeah, I totally forgot the talon. Four viable weapons. I use the talon when playing (very rarely) the krogan vanguard.