Remember when core engi with bomb kit was the best engi spec to raid with, at the start of HoT?
Anyways, core engi sucks in high end PvE, because all you want there is pure damage output. In that regard, Holosmith >> Tools, Scrapper kind of equal to Tools, but it gives extra utility, and survivability. (Comparing to Tools, because that is our third, semi damage focused line.)
If they wanted to bring core engineer to the meta, they would have to nerf Holosmiths condi output, buff kit condi damage, and make Tools minor trait: Excessive Vigor, to affect condi damage. This way core engi becomes the go-to condi spec, holo becomes our power spec, and scrapper becomes the laid back dps, or support.
> @"Dawdler.8521" said:
> Is any other core build much better off in PvE? The meta is all PoF or HoT specs (which incidently include both holo and scrapper).
Core Guardian is better than DH, when you can keep high Aegis uptime.