Mass Effect Andromeda - I'm not Commander Shepard and this is my favorite sequel

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@Grifman

Of course they do. The ability to effectively use two different profiles is not something that you should be able to do on a whim or easily. Take Skyrim for example. You could go mostly melee, mostly ranged or some combination. Or Fallout where you could go guns or melee, or maybe both. But to be effective at a combination you’re going to have to really invest points into both. Any time you try to use a couple of different classes in an RPG, it’s going to require an investment in time with your character. Nothing new here really. Any classless RPG has the same issues. But here you have a class RPG that lets you use skills from more than one class, so in some sense it is classless. Do you complain about classless RPG’s also?

You missed the point. MEA has branching on its passives, some of which are designed to support aoe skills, some have duration or cdr, etc. Most of the evos are designed to work with a particular set of skills within that tree while being useless for the others. I don’t know about you, but unless it’s a utility skill/spell I’m not going to use an unsupported spell on the enemy when my spellbook is full of others that are stronger. Plus, as I said, Bioware supported this feature narratively. They outright sadi that Sam can overwrite your biological abilities on the fly so I don’t see why you’d have to be locked into passives.

@Grifman

No, not really. I haven’t felt off at all. And my skills at level 50 are pretty well maxed for both of my main profiles as I noted above. As I noted above, I have cloak/pull/throw and all biotic passives maxed, and cloak/overload/incinerate and all tech passives maxed out. Exactly what am I missing at this point?

A clue? How about you go sentinel, slot in ED, Incinerate and detonate both with Lance. It covers shields, armor and all enemy types. This is what I mean with faffing about, you switch profiles to target different enemies in each pack when you don’t have to. Also, your biotic setup has only 2 biotic skills so you’re effectively wasting 1/3 of your biotic profile’s passives. Your tech profile doesn’t have any constructs so you’re throwing away all the construct passives. Please at least tell me that you’re wearing a suit of armor with general damage type bonus and not either biotic or tech.

@Grifman

All back to your “effectiveness” meme again :). Who cares? You totally ignore play styles. Someone going the sniper route is going to hang back, pick off the enemy before closing. I use cloaking with a sniper rifle to pick off enemies, use biotics for crowd control while sniping so I can’t be rushed. If that’s “faffing around” then so be it. The way you play is not the way I play and neither is better or worse, and I wish you’d stop implying that your way is better. There is no one way, no best way to play an RPG…

Well I mean you’re on playing on normal, everything works there. What you’re doing is not adapting to situation, you’re just killing enemies in style because it looks cool when they get blasted by biotic combos. That’s what I mean with faffing about. There are several builds in MEA that work versus everything and work well, and instead of doing that you’re switching to suboptimal loadouts that aren’t even better at the job they’re supposed to be the best at.