Least Favorite Class

I have a hard time deciding what my least favorite class would be. I know that my favorite is infiltrator but I am not sure I have a least favorite. I kinda like most of the others equally, so I didn't vote.

I am kinda shocked soldier is getting so many votes in the poll. I mean, you guys do realize that you are supposed to shoot things in this game, right?

If I you'd force me to choose, I'd probably choose adept, since I am not that big on using powers all the time (and I've got squad mates for that). But again, it's not really a thing for me, I also had very entertaining PTs as an adept as well.

Engineer is just lame, the only thing they have is this one cool dialogue in the Omega DLC but it is not worth waving your omnitool for three games.


Soldier is my fave, something about Shepard screams soldier class to me and also feels right to use the coolest heavy guns with this class.

Yeah, I think tech armor is a trash skill. Being able to setup and detonate combos is nice, but you incur double cooldown for that, better use teammates anyway. Am I missing the right way to play Sentinel?

Other people also dislike Sentinel because of Tech Armor's long cooldown, which is understandable. Despite that, I don't think it makes Sentinel weak. Assault Armor is overpowered; you just have to spend a lot more time using it compared to your other abilities.

I'm not surprised Engineer is in second place. Seems like a combination of presentation and it being overshadowed by Infiltrator in 1 and 3 to some degree. I am surprised that Vanguard and Sentinel have more votes than Adept, but the sample size is still small.

Vanguard.

It really boring in ME1, buggy in ME2 with how charge won't work and gets you killed, and in ME3, I get bored of hearing RRRRAARRRRGHHHHH RRRRRRAAARRRRHHHHH every 2 seconds.

It also always bugged me that Shepard is the only organism in the galaxy that can biotic charge in an instant. Tel Vasir has to charge it for a few days first. And any species (Asari/Krogan or even other humans) that is highly trained with biotics cannot charge. Or Shepard just got lucky all his combatants can't do it.

Yes! This makes more sense given what we know about Jack's personality. Pull and Shockwave don't really fit her aggressive close quarter combat style as well as Charge would. Although developed later, Annihilation or Nova would also fit Jack's profile.

I am rather shocked that Soldier is number 1. Probably my second favorite class after Sentinels.

And playing as an adept was Hot Garbage for me. Also Vanguards in the trilogy were too high risk and not enough reward.

Never played an engineer.

Long stream of thoughts incoming:
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Coming back to this, I think my opinion is changing. Increasingly, I'm starting to appreciate Soldier in 2 and 3. I find that focusing on snipers and shotguns rather ARs, along with being selective about my use of Adrenaline Rush (i.e. using it sparingly in 2 and relying more on storm speed when using shotguns, and keeping the time dilation as low as it can get and also using it somewhat sparingly in 3) form the crux of my preferred playstyle. Because of the way I've decided I like to play each class in these games, I tend to only use certain weapons with Soldier, which makes it stand out more.

Most of my (limited) experience with Soldier back in the day was centered around the Revenant, and on Normal difficulty to boot - so a pretty dull experience. I don't remember how I integrated other weapon types into my playstyle (this was YEARS ago when 2 first came out.) I'm enjoying certain bonus powers with Soldier as well. Reave, for example, seems to fit with it the most naturally out of all the classes in 2. I enjoy Soldier to a degree in 1 and find it superior to the other pure classes. It's the only one that seems to have somewhat of a niche after bonus powers are unlocked.


I place Engineer respectably high on my list in 3, but in 2 I'm lukewarm on it despite it being better-designed in a lot ways than its counterpart. I notice that I end up neglecting a lot of my powers when I play it and focus on a couple almost exclusively, like Overload and Combat Drone, or Combat Drone and Cryo Blast. Engineer is versatile, but it almost seems so broad functionally that there's no real need to focus on all of its abilities. It still does stand out in a few ways: The Combat Drone is way better in 2 than in 3; Cryo Blast also has more utility in 2 and will usually see more use on an Engineer than on a Sentinel there.

I tried a bit of the Puppet Master Engineer build. My finding is that this build can be extremely fun, but it's inconsistent. On certain missions, such as Thane's recruitment, it can create absolute pandemonium and is a blast to play; on other missions with a more diffuse enemy layout and less robots, it loses some of its appeal. It does provide one more power than can see fairly consistent use (Dominate).


I recently started an Engineer playthrough in ME1, because I want to know where I rank it amongst the classes, and also to unlock AI Hacking as a bonus power. It's not horrible, but I don't see much of a need to play it now that I can put AI Hacking on a Sentinel or Infiltrator. I'm probably gonna scrap that character after doing one more major quest. It's basically a throwaway class now, similar to how the Adept is once you unlock Singularity as a bonus power; except the Adept has native protection (Barrier) along with a better set of offensive abilities.

I removed my vote for Soldier and currently have no choice selected. I want to play around with ME2 a bit more, and then come up with a more solid ranking for ME1's classes. I anticipate Engineer will be my choice over the course of the entire trilogy. If I don't count ME1 ...well, I don't know... I want to focus on coming up with an approximate ranking of the classes in each game right now, and then decide on my least favorite across the whole trilogy from there. I know at this point the ME3 Sentinel is my least favorite class out of them all in both games. If I only counted 2 and 3, that would definitely be something to consider.