Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, the long-awaited remaster of BioWare's classic sci-fi RPG series, is launching this week. At the start of each of the individual games within Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, players will be able to pick one of six classes.

The classes of the Mass Effect series can be divided by their area of focus, either Tech, Combat, or Biotics. Three of these classes dedicate themselves to a single discipline, while the rest combine two into a hybrid. The class which dedicates itself solely to Tech is the Engineer, and it gains several unique and powerful abilities by doing so.

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As the ultimate Tech specialist, the Engineer fills a support role in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. This begins in Mass Effect 1, with a range of Talents that allow the Engineer to help their team, hinder their enemies, and control the battlefield. The most important of these Talents are Hacking, Damping, and Medicine.

Hacking, and its precursor Decryption, allow the Mass Effect 1 Engineer to not only disable enemy weaponry and open sealed doors, but also cause synthetic hostiles to turn on their allies. Damping, and its precursor Electronics, gives the Engineer access to the Overload and Damping powers. Overload can be used to quickly disable enemy shields, while Damping can completely shut down enemy Tech and Biotic abilities.

The Mass Effect 1 Engineer's final core Talent is Medicine. Not only does the Medicine talent massively reduce the cooldown of the First Aid ability, it also grants access to the powerful Neural Shock. Neural Shock induces paralysis in its target, as well as dealing toxic damage. Combined with Hacking, this allows the Engineer to disable both synthetic and organic enemies with ease.

Like all of the classes in the Mass Effect series, the Engineer will gain new powers as players enter the Mass Effect 2 portion or Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. Mass Effect 2 made a lot of changes to the classes, which would last for the rest of the series. The most important change for the Engineer in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is the Combat Drone power.

The Combat Drone is considered to be the Engineer's core power throughout Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3. It enables the Engineer to summon a small, holographic drone to fight by their side. The drone is an incredibly useful tool, primarily because of its ability to draw enemy fire and melee combatants. Although the drone isn't particularly tough, on higher difficulties the attention it draws away from the rest of the party can make the difference between life and death.

As well as drawing fire, the Combat Drone can also deal damage itself. The base drone is capable of stunning enemies and taking out shields, while an upgraded Attack Drone can also damage health, armor, and Biotic barriers. In Mass Effect 3, which makes up the third and final part of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, the Combat Drone gets a big boost. The ME3 Drone gets access to all kinds of different attacks, and its Health and Shields are also improved.

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Right from the start of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, most enemies have some kind of protection beyond Health. These additional defenses consist of Armor, Shields, or Biotic Barriers, denoted by orange, blue, or purple bars respectively. While some Mass Effect classes excel at dealing with certain defenses, not many can handle all of them equally well.

The Engineer is the exception, with access to Mass Effect Tech powers that enable them to quickly neutralize any kind of protection. The first of these is Incinerate, which appears in the second and third games within Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. Incinerate fires a projectile from the Engineer's omni-tool, which homes onto the targeted enemy and strikes in a fiery burst. This is especially effective against Armor, and deals 25% of its damage over-time, preventing health regeneration.

The weakness of Incinerate is that it deals reduced damage to Shields and Biotic Barriers. Fortunately, the Engineer also has access to Overload throughout the Mass Effect story. Overload is the mirror-opposite of Incinerate, dealing heavy damage to Shields and Barriers but less to Armor. However, it does deal full damage to the Armor of synthetic enemies.

There's no doubt that the Engineer is one of the most versatile classes in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. Although they don't pick up their signature Combat Drone until the second game, they have access to a suite of useful Tech powers throughout.

Any player who likes to take on a support role should consider picking up the Engineer. It's a class that offers an answer to every situation, and the ability to completely control the battlefield. Whether facing Mass Effect's Geth, Krogan, or Reaper enemies, the Engineer class is ready and able to take them down.

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition releases May 14 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

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