

In my opinion this is one of the few classes that can be an effective team member using only powers.

Obviously a good weapon helps, but since it will take a long time to level up those rares, and especially ultra-rares, this class can make due with a basic arsenal. I don't think that was the case prior to the buffs Bioware bestowed upon the human engineer, but since then the combat drone is actually useful. Someone who is new to the game can start multiplayer right out of the box with the human engineer and still be of some assistance to the team, theoretically even on gold with the right build. I wanted to choose a class that is friendly to inexperienced players, but also one that is viable on Gold difficulty, which is what all my builds will be balanced around (I don't know much about Platinum yet, so we'll see how that changes things). I decided to do a build for the human engineer.

As promised, here is the first character guide.
