Powers of Human Vanguards need to be changed.

Two major gripe I have, when I play Human Vanguards, is that they are fragile despite being frontline units, and their damage output is inconsistent.

I had some time to look at each Vanguard's Power list, and noticed moderate difference between them that made Human Vanguards less reliable in terms of durability and firepower.



1. Lack of Health increase in Barrier Passive









As you see, the image above show Combat Fitness, Rage and Barrier which have been invested to Level 4. The reason they are upgraded to Lv4, is because Combat Fitness and Barrier no longer provide Shield & Health Increase from that point.

• Combat Fitness Lv4 grants +50% Health & Shield Increase, +30% Melee Damage.
  
• Rage Lv4 confers +40% Health & Shield Increase, +15% Melee Damage, +25% Weight, and unique Rage system that grants Health Regeneration, DR, Melee Damage when certain conditions are met.
   
• Barrier Lv4 gains +55% Shield increase, +30% Melee Damage, +25% Shield Regen Speed, and +25% Regen Delay Reduction.

I assume Barrier do not grant Health increase, because this passive is also shared by Adept classes which are mostly mid-to-rear line combatants.

However, due to this design aspect, Human Vanguards are losing out potential Health Increase to make them more durable. It makes little sense that Human Engineers can have Health advantage to Human Vanguards.

Shield Regen Speed, and Regen Delay Reduction contribute little to Human Vanguards because they simply do not have time to regenerate their Shields during combat; they draw a lot more fire than Adepts due to their aggressive, short-range Powers naturally requiring approach to the target, thus in game Vanguards are always taking a single bullet that immediately halts their Shield regeneration process. Vanguards mostly use Charge Power to regenerate their Shields, not cover.


Suggestion : Spread out +55% Health Increase to Barrier Rank 1 ~ 4 Upgrades for Human Vanguards only.



2. Saving Barrier, "Failsafe Upgrade" for Barrier Passive is not reliable enough to be a final defense.







Above three are the well-known "failsafe upgrades" that prevent the user from dying, at a cost of potential combat effectiveness that is offered by the other evolution option. While they are not meant to rely on, they have a high chance to save the user on the verge of death. Hold the Line is arguably the most popular and reliable failsafe upgrade, due to extreme DR that it offers when the user is at low Health.

However, on the other hand Saving Barrier lacks the reliability of being a failsafe due to several reasons;

• Its cooldown is 15 seconds, which is noticeably long even for Adepts, and too long for Human Vanguards who stay at frontline.
• Cooldown is not indicated, which is the major reason for being unreliable.
• Human Soldier's Hold the Line with all Health Increase allows you to withstand 225 Health * 2 = 450 Damage (assuming 200 DR still cuts damage in 50%) before death, meanwhile Human Vanguard's Saving Barrier with all Shields Increase allows you to withstand 387.5 Shields + 100 Health = 487.5 Damage before death. The number difference is negligible, and of course we need to remember 200 DR grants more than 50% damage reduction, and the long cooldown.
  

3. Human Vanguard's unique firepower source, "Double Nova" tactic is too hard to even initiate.








Currently (18/August/2017), amongst all Charge or Nova users, Human Vanguard is the only character that can use Nova twice in a row, without requiring a kill (whether it be a biotic kill or an Annihilation-ed enemy death), or a Shield Boost by a teammate. Above three evolutions are required to use a "Double Nova" tactic. This aspect makes Human Vanguard unique, so you lose out his own style if you intend to upgrade him in a different way.

Double Nova tactic allows you to do very high damage in an area at a cost of Shield removal in CQC, but it is too hard to pull off due to reasons below;

• Due to Bastion evolution, you need to wait 6 seconds to fully charge your Shields again; I have done "Jump Nova" which is performed by using Nova with jetpack-jump, so you can exploit Nova's invincibility frames as long as possible. But even with double shots of Jump Nova, there are moments where your Health is still vulnerable and your Charge is still on cooldown.
• Biotic Alacrity evolution only reduces Nova's Shields cost to 90%; if you somehow get hit by anything before/after using the first Jump Nova, you cannot do the second Jump Nova which is very hard to prevent, and breaks the tactic.
• Barrier Drain evolution is not reliable for Human Vanguard; By attempting a melee-attack to restore some Shields, you become vulnerable to any attack that staggers, or almost kills you due to depleted Shields. And remember that Human Vanguard lacks Health Increase.
• By adopting Active Barrier evolution, you must kill an enemy with a biotic Power to restore some Shields; but if you are going to rely on biotic kills to do consecutive Novas, then Krogan Gladiator is more suited for this playstyle; Human Vanguards gain unconditional +50% Power Damage by their APEX Training while Krogan Gladiator gains unconditional +90% Power Damage by her Offensive Biotics, so she is more likely to secure a kill.

Any thoughts?