Krogans or Salarians?

You can save Captain Dunn?

Wait so can become a Pathfinder?

Okay but does Drack/Kesh/the other krogan get mad about this?

Mad? Yes, but "let's let people die on purpose"-mad? Nope (haven't gone on in the story, I am clearing up loyalty missions ATM, just die Peeb's and Dreadlock's missions (damned, I wanted to airlock both of them for a short while, so RECKLESS! Damned guys, my ship not your fucking personal power trip (I am reasonable, I don't demand crap and I am not a dictator - but just overruling me and endangering everyone doesn't fucking fly! I liked how you can tell Peebee off, sadly you can't tell Liam off (neither can you tell the director where to stick it!)), I don't believe so, having some Krogan on our side would be nice, but then again: I have Drak and pathfinders seem pretty special individuals which aren't easy to replace (sorry Krogans but you guys are replaceable!). Ryder is kind of the odd-man-out because he/she is not anything special before his/her father drops the job into their lap...all the other pathfinders and even all of their seconds have something going for them:

- the Asari Pathfinder replacement is a fucking seasoned commando (she wrote manuals for commando (huntress) training after all and she's kind of the Asari version of Shepard (the hero background!), she just wasn't chosen as a SPECTRE probably!) and she's a damned strong biotic (remember that nice shield on the Ark...note: I'd have loved it if Ryder helps, too (at least if you have the biotic profile active after the fight!))...she's also not afraid of making the hard calls (I think what she did is right, I just hate that she lied about it - so for me she will stay pathfinder (another rookie wouldn't help IMHO, so no replacing the replacement!))

- the Turian Pathfinder replacement is a former SPECTRE (so he's probably special forces, too), sadly he's kind of whiny (I let him off the hook this time...if I could edit the game files I probably would (I have the feeling I am too nice sometimes...this decision kind of pisses me off, same for saving Sloan Kelly -.- I wanted her in prison, not killed, so I had to save her ))

- the Salarian Pathfinder is into tech (and surprisingly: Female! I love this, a Salarian female who's not into fucking politics...gotta love people who don't follow the easiest path, the one society expects from them!) and quite savy (hiding with a false identity? Genius!)

Compared to that Ryder is a fucking nobody (either a damned "door" (relay!) guard or a scientist babysitter!)...only the extreme connection with S.A.M. and the profiles make him/her special (compared to your dad you are still a bad replacement, I mean the guy was N7, a seasoned soldier and explorer and he had access to the profiles etc. too!)

greetings LAX
ps: Despite the fact that he's an old man, I kind of think that Alec would have made for a better player character (sadly that wouldn't have worked as a blank slate and it would have locked the gender...)

I saved the Salarian Pathfinder but made an Alliance with Krogans on Elaaden which I found politically more important than to save the few Krogan scouts :-)

Its a lot like the Falere dilemma theres no real reason to save the scouts.

Drack doesnt even get mad enough to stop talking to you and the dialogue itself might be worth it.

I saved the Pathfinder because although Pathfinders can be replaced, it's not very easy to do because only those who are highly skilled are usually chosen for the job. All except for Mr/Miss Nepotism.

Krogan scouts on the other hand are far more easily replaced, and not worth the effort of picking over a Pathfinder, imo. I was also pissed that Drack never mentions these scouts at all yet expected me to detour helping the Salarians for him. Nope, I'm here for Salarians not the scouts you never thought were important enough to mention in the first place. Reika is also a good character and can be made ambassador at the end which is good for a Pro Nexus run and it felt good having all the Pathfinders I went in to save have my back at the end and saving Cpt Dunn was good. So I think the Pathfinders are more useful storywise than Krogan scouts, who do come to your aid but have no plot significance.

By the time my choice came up, I had already given the Krogan the core and had a colony on Elaadan and that is acknowledged by Kesh even if she is angry about the scouts being left behind. Drack gets angry but I actually liked it because the companions were a bit too "Let's be a family in five minutes of knowing each other" and it felt good to have some sort of disagreement and conflict with a companion. Drack eventually forgets it and it's all good. Especially since I had already done his loyalty mission.

I guess I don't really like the Salarians in general.. never played earlier ME games, so maybe there is some lore that would change my mind, but they aren't shown in the greatest light in this game, imho.

I did save the Pathfinder the first time, mostly because the Pathfinder chose to enter the ship knowing the dangers and was good to fight with. Sort of a 'leave no man behind' with the group that entered the ship with me.

But, not facing beserkers in the rest of the game would be a nice benefit. And pathfinders seem to be fairly replaceable as well. And holding the life of the pathfinder over scouts seems a bit too self-serving to me a I sit back and read it. The pathfinders life is not inherently better than any of the other life.. is it because I am a pathfinder that I over-value that? I cringe through most the game when my own pathfinder ability is over-valued, and then I turn around and do the same thing.

I hadn't done any of Drack's personal quest or Elaadan at the time.

I did my original run having Ryder make poor decisions (I figured it fit with his inexperience), and saved the scouts, purely because Drack was in the squad at the time. But in the end it turned out to be neutral, so I supposed there's no real poor decision to be made.

It doesn't make a difference. I saved the scouts and Dunn lived. Dunn's survival is all about having Avitus as the Turian pathfinder and having either one of the two Asaris in place. 
ETA: Someone beat me to it!

Krogans dont have an ark and instead came aboard the nexus. Each ark has a sam and a pathfinder.

You can talk to him immediately after hes finished saying that.

Just hold triangle again.

Its almost stupid.

unless it was a bug.