That sounds amazing I would have loved something like a cryo based salarian soldier.
Yeah I was thinking about this again today when I woke up. So the kit would have had:
Fortification
Energy Drain
Cryo Grenade
Passives
Fitness
So you get damage reduction and power damage from Fortification. You open with Energy Drain to strip shields, stun mooks, top off your own shields, gain damage reduction which stacks with Fortification, and prime enemies for a Tech Burst.
Then you immediately throw a Cryo Grenade to slow enemies, weaken armor, detonate Energy Drain for a Tech Burst, prime enemies for a Cryo Explosion, do AoE damage, and look freaking awesome.
Then you shoot your gun and do ridiculous damage.
Against mooks, this is plenty powerful. Against bosses who would still have Shields/Barriers, you can Cryo Grenade then Energy Drain for those sweet Cryo Explosions.
This could also work as a Sentinel by trading Fortification for Tech Armor. I actually would prefer this option because I love to flaunt stolen technology, and Tech Armor is pretty flamboyant. I just can't decide which race to steal it from!
With any luck, we'll get one of these for ME4MP.
As much as I rag on them for being the lesser tech race, 2 salarians compared to 4 baterrorists, 3 vorcha and 4 goddamn volus is thematically quite silly. I mean, we nearly have as many of a Council race as playable Collectors.
Still, SP salarians for the most part (exept for that badass Kirrahe and his buddies) do decide to be whiny babbies and not help you with anything unless you extinct the krogan, which is sort of dickish, so I guess it canonically makes a little sense that you only get a few.
Many of our leaders are decidedly self-serving, and should not be interpreted as representative of the majority. I'm sure most races could say the same for themselves, Quarians no exception.
As for the Salarian Soldiers you met ingame, they held the line, and did not whine. It's too bad we only got to hear about Virmire; seeing it in action would no doubt have been the stuff of legends and movies.
Your support for the deployment of additional Salarian Soldiers is noted.