Flame barrier + any cutter sword does great damage
until you get killed

Ray of Light works best as a barrier. When you're kiting, fire the beam sideways and hide behind it. Enemies will get stuck and pile up on each other, leaving them wide open for a charge attack.

using moving haze bomb as a center of attention for first spawns, so all monster targets me while other party member could kill them one by one. Taking turn on doing angelic aura seems op as well.

On side note, possibly in future we saw battle sprite skilly only vana kills >_>

this probably works best on solo when all the mobs are attracted to you, if you're about to go down throw on drakon's flame barrier, while you're emergency reviving the barrier will remain on and continue to obliterate all the mobs standing around you.
It's also just generally good to get some extra damage if you get trapped in a corner or something and are gonna die anyways.

Use (maxed) Flame Barrier to set fire to stuff, with a Drakon.
What you do is activate the Barrier, then walk anticlockwise (or whichever way the orbs aren't rotating) around the target to tag them so many times and probably set them on fire.

Use Flame Barrier against Compound minis.
They do so little damage, right? So activate your maxed Flame Barrier, and shield-walk into the middle of the crowd. It does a fair lick of damage. This lets you do damage while shielding - as it happens, it even works if you die, so if you have an Emergency Revive and you'll die in 1 hit, activate the barrier and go die next to something slow-moving or in a mob. That way you can do damage while dead and, incidentally, invulnerable. Neat, eh?

Shield-bashing with Flame Barrier.
Simple. Use the Flame Barrier, then shield-bash to get Stun and, hopefully, Fire combined on a group of your choice, and a nice little clear area around you for you to charge in.

Slaughter Gremlin mobs (with Menders) in T3, with a Maskeraith.
This is especially helpful. Equip a Shadow-damage harness, max out Caustic Quills, and Gremlins are dead. As soon as you see a Mender drop an area healing rune, then fire the quills into that obliging Gremlin mob, and you have the world's best display of friendly-fire bar anything with Quicksilvers and a Shock plate.

Oh yeah, shocked Quicksilvers do damage to enemies they hit. Including un-shocked Quicksilvers. So Shock them.

The IMF room on the second floor where you turn all the lights on. With the Quicksilver en-masse spawn. With a Maskeraith.
Use a Maskeraith's Shadow Cloak to go invisible just before pressing all the switches. They won't target you, so they won't go towards you, and shielding works while you're cloaked. This room is now officially easy.

@Zeddy

Excuse me for derailing, but does this mean that Skolvers without elemental resistance take more damage than, let's say, Demo? Does this mean that, at least damage wise, Demo actually has innate resistance toward shock?

Does Shock resistance also decrease shock damage? Or is that just duration?

Now, on topic:

I need to try it, but if my theory is right, Drakon's Flame Barrier increases the amount of hits your shield can take, letting you tank out big hits. (So if you walk up to something with your shield, Flame Barrier can do its damage and you can have boosted defense at the same time.)

It's also sorta handy when charging into the fray and assassinating a healer, though Maskeraith seems much more optimal for this. In theory, you could take on the whole group using Drakon's Firestorm + a sword while under a healer's support. (I don't have Firestorm yet, so this is a guess.)

After learning that shield bash doesnt remove maskeraiths cloak I have just been running around and bashing people in the face. This combo proves very effective on Trojans or tightly packed groups while also being extremely safe. Another use for it is to slow down fast enemies (grievers and devilites) and makes fighting them just a bit easier (anything that makes fighting devilites and grievers easier is great in my books).

Edit: I was running EFSC with some random people, luckily one of the other player had a lvl 100 mask and deadly cloak. I told him about the shield bash (he didnt know about that you remained cloaked) and we went around and looked for a trojan to test how effective deadly cloak and bash were together. I have never felt so bad for a fiend, poor thing could barely move then having two blitz shots in the back killed him.

1. Pick a target to load up with neutralizer charge shots
2: Cloak up
3: shield bump your meat-bomb where ever it's going to do most damage
4: casually uncloak and fire your detonating shot.
5: Laugh maniacally as you do close to 800 damage on every explosion.

Undoing the dark retribution nerf with Deadly Cloak:
1: place three DRs wherever you think they'll do most damage (works best on immobile targets and spawn points)
2: immediately cloak up
3: your DR hits now do 50% more damage

-In between Vana stages, place a Firestorm right where Vana will walk to. If done correctly, you will aggro Vana and not cause extras to spawn. You could do this with a haze bomb, but Firestorm is 3 times a haze bomb in a small area, tripling the chances of early aggro.

...Drakon is just too simple to have any interesting tactics. I will say that Firebolt is a very good switch-hitter.

-Theoretically you could keep the adds from stage 1 and 3 of Vana and Frenzy Firestorm them, then help Vana blast off.

What uses does Firebolt have because the only time mobs swarm is in FSC and I don't want to stand still for two seconds when I can be charging my Combuster against Greavers.

Warning:(must have two members with disintegration ray.)

-Place one electron/graviton vortex down.
-Have two users use disintegration ray directly in the middle of the bomb. (not in the same spot, across from each other)
-Use Maskeraith's caustic quills when enemies appear. Any type is fine.
-Use Blitz/anyBrandish/anyTroikalineweapon charge attack.
-Watch everything collapse in 1-3 seconds even on elite.
Won't work on dashing enemies for obvious reasons.

Also two beams can literally "pin" down an annoying opponent. *cough*Menders*cough*

Another I was thinking of was using scorching barrier from Drakon with a fang of vog charge? if anyone uses that upgrade path.

I find that easier to execute when going against the dreadnaughts than trojans. Their charge attacks are telegraphed well enough for me to know when to move and I often use the ray of light to finish them. Surprisingly, you can also immobilize Almirian Crusaders who tend to block my sera's ray of light for its duration. During, I ready a charge of my melee weapon to do some serious damage to that same crusader from behind.

I would like to mention more but I will wait until I get mine to level 50 while gaining a better understanding of the shield. Otherwise I have often found my sprite to be useful.

Sometimes I forgot the dash. But it seems to work too.

using flame barrier in a vortex is pretty funny, but I wouldn't do it on tier 3. Maybe if you have Scorching Barrier, but I'm going for Backfire, and my Drakon isn't even level 50 yet.

As for my level 100 seraphynx, for most of its skills, there are no "tactics" apart from "spam when surrounded", really :/ Violent Heart Attack is still bugged, and Seraphic Aura doesn't really combo with anything specific. I tend to use it when I or a teammate has a broken shield.

Does it break quiils?

This strategy needs one mask user two drakon users and 1 sera user (or two masks and two drakon users)
First drop virulent or vengful quiils, get a drakon usee to circulate enemies to break the quills spreading posion then drop a firestorm then heart attack.
Or drop Virulent and venfful quills, get a drakon user to use the flam barrier, then drop a firestorm, the enemies are weakened because of posion so enemies drop quickly.

#Zeddy rocks

This will be very helpful with vengful or virulent quills, in mendee circles!

#Zeddy rocks

My seraphynx's and its beam has been rather helpful lately in surviving the compounds.

With the proper harness and type of swarm, I just have to start the beam across the path dust bunnies or the other elementally-weak swarms are due to travel moments ahead, and charge while their attacks are halted, the first wave die off, and I can charge up whatever I have awaiting them.

More specifically, the beam is not perpendicular to the swarm's path but rather at an angle where the beam's emission is slanted in my direction a slight. If I have the beam emitted at a perpendicularly then that leaves more of a chance for whatever little dust bunnies are heading after me to just hop over while taking one hit and... well... NOT getting caught up in the beam's remains.

In 10 seconds or so, repeat. It helped when I only had a black hawk and a silversix equipped with the phynx's golden harness.

Finally found a good move for Backfire Barrier,
Hold shield -> Hold attack -> release shield immediately (while still holding attack) -> Backfire
By the time you finish dashing, with ctr max, you're ready for a charge. Good for confronting puppies, I guess.

I've found that a clutch way to save yourself from death is to pop your shadow cloak right before taking an inevitable hit. Say you're frozen in place and a lumber is about to smash your face in. Activate your shadow cloak, get bonus defense, and you (usually) survive. Or better yet, pop invisibility right when you get frozen so aggro turns away from you until you're unstuck, then proceed to slap those baddies around.

With the introduction of Barriers, here's some new stuff.

Maskie Ghost Nuking - Activate Cloak, go into midst of enemies, activate the Artillery Strike.

Artillery Strike is slow, but should inflict notable damage considering the monsters are all just standing around. A safer and surer method than simply summoning Artillery Strike willy nilly.

Maskie the Silent Killer - Activate Cloak, activate a Barrier (it won't break the Cloak), walk around inflicting damage and status effects on enemies.

Drakon Eye of the Storm - Place a Vortex Bomb, activate Drakon's Barrier and a Barrier pickup.

Inflict notable damage and status effects. And you're still free to attack or place down more Vortexes.

Seraphynx Eye of the Storm - Similar to the above, but use the Kitty's third skill, the Aura. It does less damage but you're safer.

Maskie Eye of the Storm - Similar to the above, but use Maskie's third skill, the Haze (preferably Chaotic Haze). Not as safe but you can inflict more statuses.

Maskie Second Eye of the Storm - Barrier + Haze Bomb (alternating if you have 'em) + Chaotic Haze. And for good measure, do Shield Bashing. You can theoretically inflict 5 statuses on your victims, assuming they stay alive long enough.