Specializations?

No worries ... this is part of why BSNuf exists.

Thanks.

I did have a spin off question maybe someone can answer here though. DA:I got a lot of crap for their 8 ability limit (which turned out great IMO). My question is do you think they are only giving us three abilities due to controller reasons?

yeah they keep saying they'll give us moer info on this they haven't yet but hopefully they do soon

yeah I was surprised they didn't erveal anythin gabou the game this week but there's only 1 more week in January so hopefully we should get something next week.

You need to go back to the Tempest to respec, IE choose an entirely new set of abilities to replace your old ones, whereas you can change profiles, if they are available, and your abilities, if they are available, out in the field. 

Not sure I understand this. lol sorry.

So, the profiles give you buffs like 10% more damage with rifles or more tech damage or whatever right? Then you can put any 3 abilities into those profiles right?

If that's the case, when you switch profiles to another profile... that's the same as replacing abilities is it not? I guess unless you don't have other abilities set up in your other profiles?

So, you can only ever have 3 abilities unlocked at a time? Like you can't unlock... incinerate, cryo blast, shockwave, adrenaline, singularity and flamethrower and have Flame, adrenaline, and incinerate in say the sentinel profile and have cryo, shockwave, and singularity in the adept profile? Then when you switch profiles it switches to the other abilities? 

I just thought the 3 active abilities meant, you can only carry 3 with you in whatever profile you're using. 

Is there somewhere where this is better explained? Like a video or something? 

I was a bit brief there. Sorry, here's how we *think* it works:

You unlock powers like normal, only you aren't restricted by a preselected class. You can use any power you unlock, whether tech, biotic or combat.

Unlocking powers unlocks 'profiles' (soldier, engineer, etc... and explorer, which is a new hybrid profile of all three disciplines). Eg. if you unlock tech powers, the Engineer profile will become available. I'm thinking that the soldier profile is unlocked by default although that's speculation.

Each profile has different bonuses (probably only passive but we'll have to wait and see). Engineers have a combat drone, soldiers have 'marksman's focus' which stacks weapon damage per kill.

You choose whichever profile you want to use by going to the character menu, presumably at any time outside of combat. You can load any three of your unlocked powers into each profile. You can also switch these within profiles by going to the character menu.

We're not sure yet if there will be a hotkey to swap between your chosen profiles (each with three powers that you last preselected for those particular profiles) on the fly.

If that's not clear, I strongly recommend that you watch the CES trailer from Jan 4. You'll see the menus and profile/power switching in action.

Yes there are you get them in the undercroft where Harrit and Dagna are. But it does cost gold although I think in Andromeda it'lll be available fre of charge but only be able to do this in between missions on the Tempest.

The game is larger than the previous games with an expected 100 hours worth of content for completionists. No one is going to wait 100 hours to try a different class. And everything points to getting better bonuses by sticking to a class, so you wouldn't have any issues with sticking to Infiltrator.

This is exactly why I intend on sticking to engineer. Regardless of however long the game is. That way, my Ryders will all be different and I don't lose the replay value. 

I was just curious how the switching worked.