Profiles were they a Mistake?

Oh, not that shit again...It's been told MANY times already.. Deep breath and repeat slowly:
SHITTY GAME\UI DESIGN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PLATFORM AND\OR CONTROLLER TYPE.

Console\gamepad players have SAME fucking restrictions, they suffer from SAME godawful 'favourites' and they also want MORE than 3 bloody skills to fight with! I'm a 100% PC player, but I've played DAI with the gamepad - it was slightly less terrible than K+M, but not even close to the 'optimized for the gamepad'. ME players had always had their access to ANY of their multiple powers (with K+M players having more hotkey options). That was also true for the squad's powers. 3-button mashers had always had an option to autolevel\use the defaults. The options had been taken away from EVERYONE, I'm yet to see a console player who's happy about the awkward CD_based system hard-limiting them with 3 buttons.


And your level is?..What? 50? 60?

I've played Vanguard the entire game and have never come across a situation where I said I need to switch to 'X' class to do this. The only reason I've used another second profile was just to see what is was. I switched to Explorer once.

They make Ryder feel unrealistic and OP which goes completely against the kind of greenhorn status he's supposed to have so I dislike it.

Yep. They are prectically useless during the 'orb' bossfights (which are numerous). Could be a bug, but I'm yet to see either of the two doing ANY damage to the 'shield-orb', even when directly set to attack it. Same true for the 'legs' (I think, I've only done the Kadara Architect) 

I like the profiles. Sometimes you don't know exactly what to expect, so I have 4 different profiles for each situation. And sometimes it's just fun to try out different combinations in different situations.

I do not really think those 3 slots are a big problem. It let's you think how to build up your profiles. On top of that, I think more than 3 slots would make the game too easy even with a "general" cool down. But that's only my take on it.

I didn't like them before I played it. But afterwards, I don't mind it at all. I was strictly Adept on my first playthrough.
Never changed. Ever.

But after beating the game, at least you can try out the other classes. Get a feel for the others. Which makes playing Insanity easier.
And it helps you plan out the next build.

If this systems makes 5% more people switch from soldier into trying something new than it was an absolute success. I don't have anything in particular against the soldier profile. It's how I started Mass Effect because it was the thing I understood. Getting locked into what you understand is a big problem with gameplay design. You never experience anything new. This game rewards experimentation and that is wonderful.

While I do not use profiles, and voted for them being a mistake, that is possibly an overly harsh assessment. I play as a soldier, and since I can pick my active powers from any tree, I get to be an overload/incinerate soldier with turbocharge and all of my other inherent soldier bonuses to weapons.

I can deal with shields. I can deal with armor. I can deal with enemies at any distance, with a slight problem when I get rushed by a pack of melee animals. And by slight problem I mean I sometimes get my shields damaged before they start dying. I can use my powers to flush mooks out of cover, and I can stack powers to melt boss mooks. (Incendary ammo + use a power for Tech Ammo + Turbocharge + Valkyrie = dead boss mook, quickly.)

I have not once in the game (about 100 hours played) said, damn, I need to switch to a different profile to help me out/solve this tactical problem. Not. Once.

That tells me that profiles are broken. Was it a mistake to spend so much dev time on a system that doesn't do what is intended? Probably.

I just went with turbocharge, grenades (6 of em due to kett armor & combat fitness) and barricade. This coupled with a AR, sniper and shotty covered everything. Grenades with kett armor seriously hurt and served my need perfectly. I wanted to have the VI and turret but had no skill slots and one cannot get a turret/VI and switch profile since the turret disappears if its not on your skill list so that plan was shot to hell as well.

It was the team that did the MP for ME3, and it worked just fine in there. It actually worked better in fact with just 3.

I like the idea of profiles, but in reality I think there were only a couple of the longer combat sections where I actually used them. I think I stayed with my standard Adept profile for 95% of the game. I might mix it up more if I replay, but I'm not sure if/when I'm going to do that. Since I didn't really use them, I'd have to say it's a neutral for me.

I didn't think it would be something I would like, but I picked Infiltrator at the very start and never changed it again so it hardly matters I suppose.