Krogan Engineer vs Angara Exemplar

You know what's not fun on the Angara Exemplar? The kit and lots of his skill points freaking gated behind UR unlocks that the mere mortals of us will never grind to 10.

Until then... Krogineer for life.

It's not about whether you can or cannot play it (playing almost all URs on unlock 1 currently) but that super annoying choice by Biower to gate the skill points.

You can say it fills me and my Krogineer... with RAGE. 

It is annoying. The best way to deal with rank 1 (IMO) is 6/6 in passives and then 5 in whichever tech power you feel like better- Overload for damage and shield stripping or ED for survivability.

The Exemplar is perfectly functional with a 1/1/1/6/6 build - and I presume such build can be achieved as an unlock level 1. The only thing you will be missing is the extra shield regen from Energy Drain, but he is still a monstrous Tech Combo machine with 1 point in Overload and 1 point in Energy Drain, in which case Overload is the primer.

As a pure combo platform, the Exemplar is better, since he can dispatch groups of mooks way faster and still do significant damage against Armor using ammo priming and his fast combos. Barricade is also a much better one pointer than Turret, you press one key and you find yourself protect behind hard cover - it is perfect for objetives and reviving team mates.

There is a niche for the Krogan Engineer, however. Her Fire combos are very satisfying, her voice acting (despite being weird) can be considered funny by some and she levels up a different stat: Health and Shield Regen delay. And I think she is still the coolest character to grind that stat.

Depends on the enemy faction.
Against outlaw, who needs to be a combo king when you can OHK most of the mid tier enemies with incinerate. Anything you can't (shielded targets), you could overload shield strip first (leaving them stunned), then one shot their health.

Against other two factions, I'd probably call it a wash. Armor isn't the main theme in both cases, but the fact that they both have overload means that observer/destined/anointed shields are trivial as well. So the question becomes, do you want to combo health bars to death or burn them to death?

but like all bonus stats, it's imperceptibly small. like all passives too. in fact pretty much all skill and power etc bonuses in this game are just meaningless. I bet most people couldn't tell 90% of the skills are active or not if given blind tests.

one of the main reasons this game won't have any real longevity IMO. it's a thousand meaningless choices

Krogan Engineer really needs to boost durability & power charge to be most effective as well though.


I probably won`t have such bad impression toward Krogan Engineer only if she had some kind of real healing/defense factor. 

It seems like almost all kits have it.. except her..

I really wish her turret had function like geth healing turret instead of cooldown...