tech characters

you may have heard that tech characters are weak before they were buffed in a recent patch (1.06 i think?). most tech abilities got massive damage buffs, and i'm not talking 10-20% buffs, more like double damage. all tech classes now are very strong.

- the human engineer can clear huge swaths of red health enemies with snap freeze and cryo ammo
- the krogan engineer can self-detonate combos on any enemy in the game (overload -> incincerate for shielded enemies, incinerate -> overload for everything else)
- the salarian operator is arguably the best support class engineer in the game, able to debuff essentially the entire opposing faction to take more damage from teammates and also boost shields
- the insurgent (pretty sure he's considered an engineer) was top tier even in the beginning, and he still is
- the salarian architect is the closest thing the game has to a true pet class, and the remnant vi will regularly get kills on his own

I think a lot of what I was reading may have been from pre-buff then. I've been using the human engineer but I'm not a fan of cryo blast. Looking to eventually unlock either the krogan engineer or salarian architect, but no luck with packs yet. Also hate that the salarian got barricade instead of a more active power...

Tech characters are some of the best characters in the game... mainly because tech powers have secondary abilities like healing, burning, DOT, stunning. Some biotic powers have those abilities when you upgrade them (like Pull or Annihilation), but most tech inherently have them (Energy Drain, Shield Boost).

And unlike some biotic characters (Gladiator & Huntress), they can prime and detonate combos with just their abilities. Huntress can detonate ammo combos, but the dedicated engineers all have abilities to detonate their own powers without ammo. Some combat/engineer kits will need ammo to detonate like the Operator or Insurgent.

But with ammo items, they become even better.

The HEs have a definite learning curve with regard to using Cryo Beam effectively. A lot of people here don't like them.

Krogan Engineer is, IMO, one of the most underrated characters in the game.

The QME would like word. A well-played QME will lay down more hurt than any of those kits - with the possible exception of the GI depending on playstyle. 100% agree tech kits in MEAMP are excellent, but in no way are they more impactful than their ME3MP counterparts. ME3MP powers > MEAMP powers even now, after the patches.

Engineers are my favorite kits in both games. Human Engineer + Cryo combos in MEAMP are incredible against spawns. Krogan Engineer with new Rage survivability is pretty good for CQC detonations now. They're well balanced to other kits in MEAMP.

I didn't say there weren't any.



And... I also didn't say that either. Neither the part about all powers being better now, nor the part about tech kits being more powerful than in ME 3.

I was referring to their comparison specifically to other powers, which I said was much better in MEA than it had been in ME 3. I never said I felt the engineers were weaker, though I did refer to others feeling that way (as did OP.)

Honestly speaking, even before path 1.06... Engineer/Sentinel classes were still better than most soldier classes... lol

Engineer classes had huge damage buff by patch.. but they always had their special healing & CC ability. 



Soldier classes were just terrible back then.

1. We had no good weapon because it was not long after release.
2. Even the good weapons sucked. lol
3. They had very limited CC ability
4. Turbocharge was terrible power with worst cool down time in entire game.


Furthermore... The infamous Angara Insurgent is A TECH Class.

He was always considered the best of the best... lol

Give me some tips on the human engineer. I'm working on leveling the kit up and it's rough. I can't make it work, so if anyone has a good build and suggestions on boosters and weapons that would be awesome. Based on recent discussions I've picked up that snap freeze and cryo ammo are highly recommended, but what about the turret and overload?

I really like having flamethrower on my turret, ill drop it in a hallway or spawning area or to cover my back against dogs. I haven't gotten cryo ammo to drop yet and don't have snap freeze yet, ill work on those next.

My engineer plays fine on smaller maps that aren't super convoluted with lots of walls or halls, but does terrible on the larger open maps. It really is more of a camping playstyle, but I'm accustomed to that from other games where there's a turret using class.

I always used my 6 Ammo packs per game, so I would still outscore you. Nice try though