Engineer Hybrid

Notes

The meta skill layout would be to skip Shield Capacity, Endurance, and Armor in favor of Improved Weapon Damage, Weapon Criticals, and Weapon Penetration. I just think ground on higher difficulties requires a bit more survivability than that and haven't felt the need to change it. 

Notes

• A Romulan Plasma Wide Beam or Split Beam Rifle is probably the better Romulan Plasma weapon. 

• Replacing the Romulan Imperial Navy Kit with a Risian Kit would be the meta (and better) choice. Will probably do that at some point since the Romulan Imperial Navy 3-piece is not worth much.

Budget Notes:

• Replace the Elachi Combat Walker with literally anything. It doesn't do much.

• Paradox Corrector can easily be replaced. 

• Everything else is fairly cheap.

Notes:

• Anchor of Gre'thor is the single most powerful Engineering kit ability, though the Ba'ul Obelisks are up there. 

• Could drop the Protomatter Drone for Mudd's Time Device for cooldowns. I find Overboosters are enough

• Typical combo on the move is -> Anchor of Gre'thor group of targets, V'Ger Probes, Rapid Lithic Formation, Gravity Pull and then weapon fire for the finish. Pre-cast Obelisks if not moving too much.

• If spending for V'Ger Probes and Obelisks are out of your budget, try the following:

  • Ball Lightning (Summer Event)

  • Chain Conduit Capacitor (Cheap on the Exchange)

• The meta kit modules are probably picking from this pool:

  • Universal: Ball Lightning, Ba'ul Obelisk Network, Gravity Containment Unit, Mudd's Time Device, Chain Conduit Capacitor, Kuumarke Drones, V'ger Probes, Rapid Lithic Formation

  • Tac: Trajectory Bending, Graviton Spike, Motivation, Chroniton Micro-Torpedo Spread, Battle Strategies

  • Eng: Anchor of Gre'thor, Explosive Drone, Chroniton Mines

  • Sci: Cold Fusion Flash, Exothermic Induction Field, Andorian Summer

If you want to do that on every character, be my guest. 

Meta-Focused Tweaks:

• Probably dropping Nanomolecular Architect for Terran Vision, maybe fitting in Adaptive Offense on an Alien

Budget Tweaks:

• Assault Drone Fabrication is the easy one to drop for Rifle/Assault Training depending on what weapon you're using

• Drop Serenity for Peak Health 

• Drop Space Explorer is a Great Gig for Soldier

• Honestly ground traits aren't super expensive on the exchange. Prioritize Upgraded Gear and Orbital Devastation

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