PSA: Expert Packs are better than Premium Packs (using credits)

Holy hell, you opened 37 packs in a single day? That's an insane level of grinding.

Been wondering about this, good to see some numbers. Also, for people who haven't maxed uncommons (like me), going with Expert packs doubles the number of chances to get an Uncommon drop from packs as well.

108 hours according to Apex HQ

I play games almost all day given the chance, but doing nothing but playing MEAMP between getting out and back into bed is too much even for me.

I've heard that expert packs are better for URs than premium but was never too sure, but I'm hearing it more and more which is reassuring since I'd hate to grind for 100k then receive cryo ammo IV instead.

You couldn't have posted this at a better time than today. I JUST finished maxing out every single uncommon and was looking forward to buying premium packs. Thank you x a million.

Appreciate the sample OP.

Will stick to expert packs.

I played 45 hours and so far acquired 88 rare items excluding consumables. 

As expected then

so, if it really turns out that Expert Packs are better than Premium Packs I will turn my back on this company.

I noticed (and posted) on day one that Expert Packs seem to be better but then I was thinking: "No - this comapany cannot be that stupid. Nobody would simply double the costs and chances - while giving less items"

Especially considering that the ITEM STORE is the very thing EA probably has had the highest attention on
Rather than balancing, etc.  .... 

Remember how it was in ME3? The Spectre Pack was 60k and the Premium Pack was 99k which I consider a reasonable distribution.
Everbody knows that you'd rather get a quantity discount than the opposite

You might be right.
The only thing I could think of would be that the number of opened packs for the statistics isn't high enough yet to completely rule out RNG-Luck.

Looking back at ME3MP, Premium Spectre Packs were long considered to be the best at dropping UR (even stated so by the ingame tooltip) until the figures were high enough to show that Arsenal Packs had the statistically highest chance.

That said, I've been extremely lucky getting URs with Arsenal Packs - however, a friend of mine got most of her URs by buying only Spectre Packs...Arsenal Packs didn't nearly pay out as well for her. 
On a sidenote, Spectre Packs also gave you a much higher chance of maxing uncommon mods and gear - Veteran Packs were only good for uncommon weapons, strangely.

Seems to be not so different to ME3MP in that regard, but the cost difference between Expert and Premium Packs definitely shifts the balance towards Expert in general, I believe.