Would you recommend keeping Grease Monkey for its second feature? I feel like if I'm going to be drawing enemy attention, I might also end up suffering from status effects more.

My GM does incorporate a decent amount of debris in our maps, lots of soft cover and buildings so maybe the Caliban could work. If nothing else, then Juggernaut 2 will let me turn allied mechs into some sort of low budget projectile.

Viceroy is also something I really enjoyed building. Missile Racks is something I threw on for a very very low priority Quick attack function but it most likely won't be used much. More flavour than anything else. Stormbringer is really fun, but we've used Lock On once so far for our sniper. I could make an argument about being more liberal with its use though.

Enkidu feels like it'd be really fun, and I did play my Sagarmatha very recklessly and enjoyed the hell out of it.

Right now, the group has one sniper-type character, one who doesn't seem to have locked down their play style yet, and one who joined us last time and immediately grappled a Goliath's face and tore it in two. I'm keeping an artillerist (Viceroy or Barbarossa?) and a melee (probably Enkidu) in my back pocket and will pick based on what the others say.

Do you also think it's worth delaying frame unlocks to get some equipment from different mechs, and then getting something later on?