Non-Completionist Weapon and Character Goals

Never intended to get here, but here I am … maxed my MEAMP manifest.

I've been working on getting all my Ryders enough research points for their Level X weapons and armor … because I foolishly spent the research points on crap I never intended to make or use. Then there was no DLC … so a shortfall. Have 14 unique runs in SP (one of each character class, with both Ryders) … so that's a lot of research points. I'm guessing it will be about two more weeks of APEX missions before I finish my last Ryder's points. But before that happened … I ran out of UR weapons cards.  Really didn't see this happening, but eventually built a spreadsheet to track progress, because I knew it was getting close.  Why get the research points for completed SP runs? … because I'm a hopeless optimist.

Initially, the Bulwark variants had a sizeable lead, but averages averaged out and in the end, the last four weapons … one Bulwark, one Concussive and two Siphons were what I had in the last three UR drops. The concussive exited first, then the bulwark and one of the siphons (double UR drop in a premium pack) on 30 Sep … and finally, the last siphon on 1 Oct.

Including the baseline URs … 710 weapon cards, plus 140 character cards … 850 total URs.

Did basic packs until commons maxed, advanced packs until uncommons maxed, then went to expert packs to work on rares … went back to basic and advanced packs to max the uncommon variants and common/uncommon expanded characters, plus the technical mods pack to max the mod variants, then went back to the expert pack to work on the rare cards. Once the rare cards were exhausted, ran almost exclusively with the premium pack … tried some of the other higher end packs, was not impressed.

In the last two months, the drop rate seemed to pick up … to include more frequent double UR drops. Originally I figured that I wouldn't max the manifest until just before Anthem came out. By the time I got to 80% completion on my variants, the lead the bulwarks initially had was gone. After that, the variants went back and forth as to which had fewer cards to completion.

As far as I can tell, the bulwark variants are just UR card sinks. I don't notice that much difference between a siphon I and X weapons … though I'm sure there is a benefit. The level X concussive weapons are noticeably better than their lower level brethren … the booms for a weak point kill … even on gold is effective.

I really didn't play much platinum … a very few pugs and a larger number played with folks on my FL. Mostly I pugged gold and played with friends when they were available. And I avoided hosting … because the fourth player in the lobby invariable resulted in lag issues for everyone but me.  Prefer gold, because I can take any character and any weapon and do fine.  On platinum, that's not true.  Also, I can carry gold waves if necessary, I really can't do that on platinum.