Anyone else feel horrible after doing "hunting the archon" and deciding to...

No. Fuck Krogans. 

I made an emotional choice : I saved the krogans.

And I remembered that the salarians were the only ones to not be on my side on ME3 because I cured the genophage (exception of Kirrahe of course, best salarian ever with Mordin)... the krogans, in the contrary, were always by my side. So yeah, krogans forever and I really have no regret.

Now I have a team of pathfinder newbies (Avitus, Hayjer and Vederia) and I'm perfectly fine with it.

I always saved the Krogans and wasn't going to stop now. This mission (I suppose you could argue over this on any mission) points out the flaw of not ever having the choice of forming two teams.

I was playing Ryder as someone who makes spectacularly poor decisions, so I figured he'd be the type to save the scouts just to make Drack happy. It just felt like the right choice for the character.

Saved the Salarians. Salarian pathfinder was more important to my eyes than a handful of krogan scouts.

I saved the Krogans but I didn't do it for Drack, but because an army of exalted Krogans seemed like a really fighting outcome. But I still felt guilty about losing another Pathfinder and was afraid to go talk to Kallo. Especially since I took Gil's side about the ship, I was thinking he must certainly hate me by now,

Na - I felt sorry for Drak (both times), especially since I had him with me (I dreaded a Wrex-Genophage-Scene the first time (where I had to threaten him with a gun or something)), but a pathfinder (especially an original one, not a replacement!) is worth way more than what basically amounts to some grunts (Krogan or not)

So no...I kind of feel good about saving the Salarian Pathfinder, despite the game IMHO trying to influence you to go after the Krogan (in a kind of: Stupid Salarian, you should have stayed put! Didn't I tell you to stay put?)

greetings LAX

I saved Raeka because she's the last original pathfinder alive and the scouts are, well, scouts.
What I really didn't like is how the game is treating the choice more as a krogan vs salarian scenario, and you can't explain it beyond saying you're sorry.
Drack reacts like a child and acts like you betrayed him even if you were the best of friends and it locks you out of his final companion quest. It felt really off and petty coming from him personality-wise and considering I gave the krogan the drive core, so the usual victim complex was misplaced.

As for the better than/worse than choice...


One thought on justifying it is that you aren't saving Raeka necesasarily, though she's certainly an asset. You can justify it in that you're keeping a set of SAM implants from falling into the hands of the enemy.

SAM implants are supposedly a Big Deal, and in rather short supply. Probably not the best thing for Kett to get their hands on, even if you didn't catch that the Archon knows about the AI in your head.

It doesn't actually matter, of course, but it could be a factor that makes Raeka unique rather than exxpendible.

Raeka made a massive judgement call, and the Ark shouldn't have been in that situation in the first place, so while it was hard to leave her behind, it was a lot easier than leaving the Krogan scouts.

I'm sure the kett can make something creepy out of the salarians as well, but I'd rather they don't have attack krogans.

Also, I told Raeka to stay behind because I had serious doubts about this genius plan of Fronline Attack Salarian Who Has Been Defrosted 10 Minutes Ago. Her "rescue" scene was hard to take serious because by the time she showed up, there was a whole of two normal kett soldiers left on my field my primary concern was why Jaal and Vetra were screaming WE ARE GETTING OVERWHELMED (I was playing on normal and not exceptionally well, so I'm not sure what happened there). She got advice from my Ryder, she didn't heed it, and then the consequences happened.

I think it was too easy to replace Pathfinders. I knew they could just stuff the salarian SAM into the next guy, so losing her personally was not that big a deal.