As a person who plays only core engi (yes i am masochist) i had a lot of hope in this patch because the class is dead for 5+ years. Sadly it seems nothing really changed. Explosives rework looks decent but the main problem remains the same - kits are still outdated and weak. On core you dont have photon forge line holo or hammer like scrapper. With overall dmg reduction you can last a bit longer but your dmg output is still potato. Its actually got worse. One of the few playable builds was condi and it got destroyed by this patch. Firearms trait line was already lacking good traits and it got hit even more. pistol offhand - 2 stacks of burning on 15 sec cd, are you serious? Weapon set has no blocks, evades, ccs and mobility. The only thing it has is dmg, and main dmg source got destroyed. So whats the point of running pistol offhand? I understand that everything got nerfed across the board but how can you compare core engi to any of the builds that people run today. Its not even close. Why would you try to kill something thats already dead?