Maxed Manifest (non-paid, pre-Patch 1.09).

I don't even know what we are talking about any more?

I don't know what you are talking about but I laughed my ass off when I read it...

That might be the greatest post of all time on this forum...

About the work grind.

Look, we all know that shit is shit.

They really need to nerf hours and buff pay. I def would support a Patch to nerf hours and buff pay, plus a little de-buff to management's SitAware would be too bad, given that the AI is far from I anyway.

44 hours of gold matches to max uncommon. started with 5k packs till I got commons then moved up to 20k packs. still enjoying the game and the rares are going to be rough.

First of all – well done and my congrats. To answer your question I’m still missing 67 URs but didn’t collect exclusively with in game earned credits but also spent some real money. But I see light at the end of the tunnel now…

Still dedicated way of my life time to the game already but predominantly as I consider it being a lot of fun (I like the Punchinello-like colored characters – I would also going kill them would I be a foe). What anyway should be the prime motivation.

With regards to the calculations/assumptions I’m more on the side of killabkilledb. ~400-500 hours to max out everything is most likely very optimistic and only achievable for a very dedicated and focused player like you, hence more describing an ideal/optimal scenario.
I did the math myself and here is what I come up with.

My simplified assumptions are
• Bronze: 10.000 Credits / Silver: 27.500 Credits / Gold: 55.000 Credits
• No credits “eaten” for replenishing your consumables
• Mission duration for Bronze: 10’ / Silver: 15’ / Gold (Slow): 20’ / Gold (Fast): 12’
• No time required for sitting/waiting in lobbies, changing your characters/weapons/boosters etc.
• Every base/bronze pack gives you 2 bronze/common cards until maxed out
• Every advanced/silver pack gives you 2 silver/special cards until maxed out
• Etc. expert/gold = 2x gold/rare cards
• Premium/platinum = 0.2 platinum/ultra rare cards

Number of cards currently are
• 54 Weapons (5 Bronze/10 Silver/25 Gold/14 Platinum)
• 29 Characters currently (12 Bronze/6 Silver/6 Gold/5 Platinum)
• 36 Characters likely as slots are available hence +2 Silver/+2 Gold/+3 Platinum; my calculation was done with these hypothetical 36 Character cards
• 20 Mods (8 Bronze/7 Silver/5 Gold)
• 4 Consumable Upgrade Cards to get from 2x consumables to 5x consumables
• 5 Bronze weapons and 12 Bronze characters are available at the beginning at rank I, hence you need 17 less in total
Calculation
• 1.100 Cards in total (250 Bronze/250 Silver/360 Gold/220 Platinum), 1.083 of which you need to earn
• In total this requires 1.532 packs (117 Bronze/125 Silver/190 Gold/1.100 Platinum) OR
• 122,6m Credits (582.500 for Bronze packs/2.500.000 for Silver/9.500.000 for Gold/110.000.000 for Platinum)
• If you played only Bronze it would take you 12.258 games or 2.452 hours
• Silver = 4.458 games/1.114 hours
• Gold (Slow) = 2.229 games/735 hours
• Gold (Fast) = 2.229 games/446 hours
Hence for gold farming exclusively you can assume it will take you between 450 (optimistic) to 750 hours (conservative) in total, average ~600 hours.

Bottom line: if you consider most people are dedicating 8-9 hours daily to work 5 days a week and you work 46 weeks a year (assuming 6 weeks vacation/holidays whatsoever), 600 hours correspond to ~30% of a full working year! Dedicated in your off time on top of your job to a game. Are we nuts???
I think I should stop playing now…

-The time reported by the app represents only games 'in match".  Actual time spent will always be higher.
-The chance of getting an UR was 0.12 in expert packs before the 1.07 nerf, and premiums always and still give around a 0.23 to 0.24.   In other words, the cost of maxing UR's with either pre-1.07 expert or the current premium packs is around 93-96M credits.
-There is absolutely no reason to indicate a price for the rares separately.  Are you implying that in the process of maxing rares people get zero UR's.  Delete the credits for rare from your calculation entirely.
-Pre-1.07 it was entirely viable to skip advanced packs and just get the uncommons from experts packs "accidently" while max your rares/getting UR's.  So if you got your rare's maxed prepatch 1.07, plus a few more packs, you didn't have to spend credits on advanced.    Since this is no longer true, I would say leave the uncommons cost in.  But keep in mind that some people made that 2.5M credit shortcut.

There you go:

400 something hours? thats not too bad.

i like that you farmed the apex missions.

Why in the hell does it take 15 minutes to do a gold match? You need to get a better squad. Even playing with pugs my missions average out at 11-13. With a solid group I happened to be the "pug" in the games averaged 10-11. And they instantly put on equipment and switched characters in lobby to the point it felt like I was waiting on map loads and the dam shuttle cutscene more than playing the game.

Yeah, but it will give you 10℅ on top of boosters
But xp needed to reach level 10 is around 120 millions per stat by my calculations, so happy hrinding...

I'm not suprized at all. Close to level 5 my self and bonuses are small but noticable.