Questions/polls on leveling and playing multiple walkthroughs!

Did an NG+ once to make Sara into a demigoddess of war.

Gonna be doing new game for each character from now on. Probably not on Insanity, I'd like to see a Viper instakill something. Narrative o'clock.

I played NG+ and NG++ with Scott to max out everything and get all profiles to level 6 (without re-speccing) and also to play the higher difficulties and get the Insanity achievement. Now I'm back to brand new game with Sara, starting over from scratch to try out biotics for the most part since all my previous games focused on tech/Infiltrating.

So, do whatever you want to do, basically. There's no one right way to play.

I'm still technically in my first playthrough with Scott, although I've been going back and forth a lot in sections choosing different dialogue options and then playing that section one final time making the dialogue selections that best suit the Ryder character I'm building.  This probably means I'm doing about the equivalent of 4 or so playthroughs within this single one.  Then I'll probably start the same sort of process with Sara before moving onto an NG+ with one of them (although it will go quicker because I'm sure they have similar dialogue options in most places, so I'll go back and forth only when I figure her lines are quite a bit different than Scott's lines.  Then I'll probably continue to play NG+ games selecting different choices to make different personalities.

I'm not really into collecting things like all the best guns, etc.   Where I go with it really depends on how many different personalities of Ryders I feel I can generate within the story.  I do like the fact that I'll likely be leveling up still even if/when I go into a second NG+ playthrough with the same Ryder, as opposed to Shepard who pretty much topped out on levels during the first playthrough in both ME2 and ME3 and topped out on levels during the first NG+ playthrough in ME1.

I'm on my third playthrough trying to max out my favorite weapons. Thing I'm sad about is not being able to make guns for Ryder's underlings.

on my third real playthrough and I couldn't care less about levels, all I end up doing is playing sniper anyway (its the only thing that feels good :/). What I focus on is doing the main planet quest, vault + architect, squadmates + crew, and the main quest ofc. As for the squads I usally forget about them so I only have two at max level and geared on out for night time and the other one has the advance ai or what ever it is. I just hope by the time I get through this play through DLC will come around.

1. I can't say is that most people are doing, but I am doing it. Especially since I can do completely different Ryder in NG+ so I no longer have to grind for exp and resources.

2. I did it at first, but now I started a playthrough and I'll ignore all quests that don't affect final mission and can be completed after ending. In case I decide I'll go and complete all side quests later on.

3. Yeah, I done that ages ago. Now more important for Mission Funds, as Multiplayer Item Store is selling good stuff.

4. First playthrough it will feel grindy for sure, but it doesn't have to be. If you think you'll play ME:A with many different playthroughs, just do that. Unless you hurt for resources to craft weapons and armours you want to make, you can avoid grinding and get to max level by just playing the game at pace you want with multiple NG+.

yeah I don' t do NG+ either. All my characters start off at level 1 I did consider doing a NG+ once before to see what it was like but chose not to in the end as generally I prefer the challenge to build characters from scratch and using NG+ kind of felt like cheating that tbh. Personally I mix them up by giving them different personalities so they kind of approach the situations differently also giving them different powers each time as well. For example my first character was a mix of an Adept and an Infiltrator in that she was an Infiltrator that had some biotic powers to back her up.. My current one which I've almost finished is a more straightforward Vanguard type. The next hero I've got in mind will be moer of a Sentinel in that she'll be a girl that won't rely so much on her guns but more on her powers. She still will use gun but they won't be the main focus of her build.

I'm on my second playthrough but I went for a restart at level 1 again as, I agree, there's something more pure about starting from scratch. I will definitely do NG+ at some point though. Probably for the harder difficulty levels (which I haven't tried yet).

My main motivation for new playthroughs is experiencing different gender, different dialogue choices, different story choices, different combat styles, different romances and different difficulty levels. That's usually more combinations than I have the patience or time for, to be honest. I still haven't quite finished all the combos for ME3 yet!

The actual level I reach isn't really that relevant. To be honest, I thought they'd said there wasn't a level cap but I suppose eventually you just run out of skills to put your points in

I played new game plus, plus, plus, plus etc. I have one Ryder at level 132. I have another Ryder that's at level 104.

As said above. It would be nice to craft weapons for the squad. It would be nice to craft armor for them as well.

Yeah there is no level cap you can just keep levelling up as you wish. My current Ryder's at level 53 but then I'm almost at the end of the game with her. Only got got a couple of side quests and the final missoin to go. I may end up going in and doing them at some point today but I'm doing a couple of quests for my DAI hero first atm.

yea, i keep wanting to do only the story quest, but every time i see a quest, i cannot help myself lol.. I must get it and finish it lol.. Except for all the bugged ones i keep getting.. Very frustrating. But still really like this game a lot more than most.