Best source of elemental ammo

They should add an ammo pack to the store.

I usually spend about 100K on jumbo packs per 1M. It seems pointless but I also hate not having ammo.

No.

I don't think there is any data to indicate one pack will give a higher % of ammo compared to the other boosters. AFAIK, it is all one pool, subject to RNG.  So about 1/6 boosters should be ammo.

If so, and if you don't mind low rank ammo, the best bet would be Supply Packs. Here's my calcs, based on rather limited pack openings:

Pack Boosters (NOT just ammo) per 100K
Supply 50 (1 in each 2K pack)
Basic ~25 (based on opening ~280 packs)
Advanced ~9 (based on opening ~150 packs)
Expert ~4 (small sample, but enough to see trend)

More expensive packs (unsurprisingly) trend to higher rank drops. But trend is clear, if you don't mind L1's, buy lowest level packs (Supply).

Best source? The Milky Way galaxy.

It would be a good idea to introduce ammo variants through weapon mods perhaps. Heck,  i could put disruptor mod on weapon 1, incendiary on weapon 2...

That doesn't sound like a good idea... it sounds like a RPG idea...as in not casual enough to be in MEA:srs:

As a greenhorn I used low level elemental ammo in bronze to get a sense for how priming worked and if it was much different from ME3MP.

I save that stuff for matches I expect to be challenging:  

-- Any match Silver and above with sub 500 Apex players--things can from bad to worse in the later rounds when half the team needs a pick up.  

-- Elemental ammo is pretty much required to make Gold matches tolerable for me--not falling for that stealth/flac crutch

-- Training sessions with noobs on Bronze--it really cool to follow the pack and prime groups of enemies for them.  A series of combos is like crack to a hobo  


The elemental ammo is the most useful consumable in the game.  I might equip other boosters but things like weapon, power and shield amps but these are difficult to judge in terms of effectiveness so I rarely utilize them.


This seems like a very fair ask in my opinion.  


If we are going to ask for things....I could use a big bag of res-packs.  I have 600 cobras and about 20 res-packs.  (I feel that if I got myself in an awkward situation and die it is not up to the team to drop what they were doing and save my dumb ass--don't assume I didn't try to cobra my way out of some of those tight spots but we all know what the situation with cobras is right now)

Pretty much fucked on that end. Like this game. Hard to give a shit when there's so much garbage blocking your way to useful equipment, weapons and characters. ME3 didn't have NEARLY this bad of a problem. Explosive ammo was pretty much the ONLY completely useless/obsolete thing as even Cryo Ammo and Targeting VI had their own niche uses. Hard to recover from this fuckbomb of a patch and it's almost killed my enthusiasm. I was a positive guy from day 1 and giving them a pass and time to improve things. Near perfect after 1.8 then it was FUBAR'd thanks to Shit Variants and reskinned guns. Fuck Bioware Montreal and fuck whoever made the decision to dump all this horseshit out all at once yet spoonfeeding interesting characters and powers every 4-5 weeks. If it weren't for AHF I'd have lost all interest in MP.

What's AHF? Argentine Hemorrhagic Fever?

Oh how I miss my 255 Cryo IV ammo from me3 now!

Not nearly as bad. Sure unlocking URs was harder but there were less items clogging the RNG. For example there was no Ammo Capacity or UR ammo nor was there 30+ variants of each gun or reskinned Common weapons. You also didn't have gimped points and playing higher levels of difficulty gave you higher rewards. Lastly, there weren't 20 versions of each character to unlock as you only needed 2-3 cards at best to unlock all color customizations and patterns with the added benefit of each class of characters being tied to the same XP points.