Humangineer: Most Slept-On Platinum Kit?

Batarian has a 24% debuff that doesn't force your allies to run elemental ammo on top of having flak cannon.

Also, Flak cannon.

Did I mention Flak cannon?

Because Flak Cannon.

Had some plat runs with one in the team. Me playing BatScrap. Enemy armor got debuffed seriously but HumEng too squishy. Not much gain when he/she goes down all the time.
(I must add though, that I was in bad shape, played like shit and I had to be revived all the time too.)
For more objective information: Engineer guy performed well, I was 4th all the night then with 17k-ish points. Maybe if I were playing better, stronger, the Engineer could have been utilized more.
For my defense: I do more points on Gold, sometimes I just can't handle platinum.

These are really two separate questions.


(1) Is the HE better than the Scrapper? No.

(2) Is a well-played HE excellent on Plat? Yes.


Nothing else in the game compares favorably to the Scrapper in terms of Plat utility. The Scrapper is peerless due to his massive armor debuff and ability to deal massive damage independent of his team. But only using one character gets really boring really fast, and the Scrapper is approaching Avenger/Huntress-level oversaturation in Plat PUGs.

You can`t shoot while using the beam.

He's pretty good against Kett. But Outlaws? Not so much. He's a god on Gold because of mook composition, but only rather effective against Kett on Platinum.

Not really when you're speccd for Shatter.

You can always spec Purplelips for the other evolutions, since you have two of them!

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Ofcourse. I only meant that I think I more or less mastered her on Platinum. No pun intended...

Perhaps my most used platinum character.

Reasons many folks do not bring the humengineer

1) Squishiness: However, it can get fixed with shield reset (6a), multicapacitor equipment and proper use of the turret (it has to be used as a decoy at times).
2)Turret Off-Host Issues: The turret only works right if you're hosting and they still have not fixed it. When you're hosting, don't forget you also have the cryoturret's massive armor debuff (in addition to cryobeam's debuffs)
3) Requires you to GIT GUT: Not as easy/dumb as playing the angara avenger.

Platinum build I run,
1 (overload)
6 ( Cryobeam w/max brittle freeze and cryotrap)
6 (Turret with recharge speed, omni-link, cryoturret)
6 (offensive tech with damage/duraton, anti-armor, elemental tech
6 (support systems with tech radius, advanced construction, shield reset)

Edit:
I also spec into tech sabotage at times. Survivability seems more or less equal with tech sabotage or shield reset. If anyone here has experimented with both on platinum, feel free to comment.

Agreed.

A lot of people seem inexplicably to have forgotten how soft cover / right-hand advantage works between ME3 and MEA. Especially ironic, since it's now an ambidextrous advantage.

If you stand in the open, you're going to die on Plat, but Cryo Beam doesn't require that.

He's excellent against all factions because of overload. And cryo beam helps against all armor so great against outlaw as well.
The most slept on kit would be the kineticist I think, closely followed by the gladiator.