Non-Completionist Weapon and Character Goals

You are probably talking about Platinum,

but Gold difficulty is so easy now I find it annoying just to revive people. 

Maxing all the characters to XX and the regular UR weapons to X and not caring TOO much about the variants.

Got all UR chars-except-Exemplar at X when 1.09 dropped, and those are at least at XII now.

I already got a few UR weapons at X, and managed to get the N7 Valkyrie and Black Widow to X, and the Dhan and Piranha to IX since 1.09 dropped.

After the 1.09 drop, my manifest goals now only consist of trying to get my Dhan to a V or so.... still don't have a Black Widow I...
There are lots of crappy weapons that I am not going to waste my time on.

Before 1.09 I was buying only Reserve packs in hope to get more UR character levels, I only had the time to get them at level II-III. Now with the sh*tload of weapons, I seem to only get weapons even with the 'higher' chances of getting a character... and my Batarian is still stuck at level one while my turian agent is XVIII.

As of late last night, it’s done. I got my final UR weapon unlock (Sovoa X) to bring all of my non-variant UR weapons to Rank X. I maxed out my UR character cards a long time ago, having focused on them exclusively since before the loot pool expansion.

Still have a bunch of Uncommon variants to get to X, but I rarely use those weapons so I’ll get to those eventually (figure an easy 1.5 million credits buying Advanced Packs to complete them). Now, I’m hoping to get lucky with pack RNG to get siphon variants of the following UR weapons: Hurricane, Shorty, PAW, Soned, Sovoa (I actually like this weapon), and Kishock Harpoon Gun. These would expand my weapon choices for my Gold and Platinum solo attempts I’ve been doing lately. Bulwark variants will be my bane, and I won’t mind too much any Concussive variants if they happen to drop.

Total time to get this done was about 2/3 the time (600 hours) it took me to max my manifest in ME3MP.

Well, I did manage to get a Dhan V in the first month that I played. That almost counts!

I'm not nearly as ambitious. I would like to max all my non UR characters (pretty close to that already). As for weapons, the only thing I'm looking for are Siphon Equalizer and Charger. I'm conceding that it is unlikely I will max my manifest given the amount of time I play MEA. ... I tell myself I'm happy with what I have now so I can sleep at night. With those goals I'll be content with my manifest.

I just want my gold chars maxed and the valkyrie.

I have 16 UR weapon variants left to unlock before I have one of each. I already have the ones I really wanted (Siphon P.A.W./Shorty/Hurricane). Of the ones remaining, I'd like to get the Siphon variants of the Dhan, Kishock and Soned and the Concussive P.A.W. I'm not too bothered about the likes of the Bulwark Crusader and I'm not interested in getting the UR variants to X.

My UR characters are all between XV and XX, with 23 unlocks left to max them all. I focused on getting the UR characters to X first, then UR weapons to X, then getting the variants I wanted. Now I'm buying Jumbo Premium and APEX Elite packs and don't mind if weapons or characters are done first.

My UR Characters are also between XV and XX as well. All Challenges done up to (and including) Gold but two Sniper Rifle Challenges left for OCD. Only thing that's way off are the UR Weapons. I think I got one Variant...

Just got my Rosebud to X! If only it would now blossom into a Siphon...