Your preferred Character Progression in the next future Mass Effect game

I prefer the class system with a lot of skill in that class to choose from [Like ME1 LOTS of skill]
While ME:A Customization skill set are nice but limited it to only 3 skills to use is kinda... pointless
to have those customize.

also please bring back squad command. >.>''

I loved what MEA did. The NG+ is awesome in this system, no need to re-level, and re-pick all the silly low-level gear, just add new ability you want to use, and you are good to go! Loved it! I don't like any sort of lock outs in the games on skills.

The system needs to be ditched. Centrally, it's a system that is designed specifically to complement a large open world and single playthroughs, and that's simply not something I want encouraged in a Mass Effect game. The fewer systems that play into the open world paradigm, the better. Of course, that's not the least of the system's problems.

For a game that is supposedly about choice, one would imagine that the game designers would wish to create systems that promoted as much uniqueness as possible, and that's what classes do: they give you a tailored, unique experience throughout a game. Ideally, playing as a different class should feel like a totally fresh experience, so that even if I'm getting largely the same narrative, the game doesn't feel so repetitive.

As it is now, every power needs to be balanced as a standalone. That may sound nice (everybody loves balance, right?), but the actual effect is that loadouts can't diverge nearly as much as they could. You can't have a class with a power that works exclusively in tandem with another, in other words: no neat power combos, just prime and detonate. Sure, Mass Effect has never had an especially compelling combo system, and its only ever doubled down harder on the prime/detonate paradigm, but Andromeda's leveling system essentially requires that to be the case. I always hoped BioWare would improve upon their power system by diversifying the kinds of effects/use cases for each ability, but now most things, more than ever, needs to be just different shades of damage and AoE.

I wanted Biotics to feel like the fatiguing, dangerous things that we've always been told they were and Tech to be the meticulous and manipulative things they were always supposed to be. But when they all need to be balanced together, BioWare simply can't make the necessary mechanics to make that happen. Everything needs to work on the same kind of cooldown and all be activated at the press of a button.

From a narrative standpoint, the system also negates any sort of uniqueness from "being a biotic" or "being an engineer." It's not necessarily the character background that I care about, it's the in-game feeling you get by being one of those classes. Andromeda devalues these disciplines as a whole. More than any other Mass Effect powers just feel like pocket calculators now: just pick em' up and use em': nothin' to it. Sure, there's a lore excuse for Ryder, but that doesn't change the fact that powers, under this system, can't ever feel all that special. I suppose it doesn't help that I'm also tired of being "the one" in BioWare games. I don't want to be the "one dude who can do it all," just a humble specialist. Again, Mass Effect never did this all that well, but this, more than anything, is what BioWare should have tried to improve, not big open worlds and quirk characters.

MEA system plus the wheel. That would be perfect.

This depends on who the next protag is.

If it's Ryder then obvs stick with MEA's systam. It (mostly) makes sense in the context of SAM, with the possible exception of the biotics-if the twins were biotic surely Ellen Ryder would have noticed what with her work on biotic implants? Her exposure to eezo could have made the twins biotic, as well as made her ill, but it's not in their history. (Little plot hole. I can look past it.)

If another protag altogether? I like the freedom to pick and choose skills, a lot. But for biotics powers it needs to be a yes/no thing. if you pick "yes I'm a biotic god" then perhaps some changes to the other skills like maybe your combat/tech skills are augmented by your biotic power in some way, while a non-biotic combat/tech skill are enhanced in a different way.

Does that make sense? Like your skill tree has a different set of options if you're biotic or not.

So same if it's Ruder, same but with changes if it's not.

Keep amdromeda's system, just change the 3 skill limit thing, or allow us to change between profiles more smoothly.

Andromeda's system plus a power wheel would be ideal.

Only change I'd make is having the profile swapping be instantaneous but make a cool down on when you can do it again.

I don't get this, because for the powers to be effective you have to max them out and to be really effective you have to focus on passives after maxing out three to four powers. So first of all, although I have completed the game 5 times now with three different setups, there is still a lot of replayability through concentrating on other powers and secondly with only three to four (or if you want six active powers using two or more favorites let's say six) active powers I also don't see why you can't concentrate on a class from a role-play standpoint if you want? Although I agree that the power wheel for squadmates was a staple of ME - so I have nothing against it returning - squadmates still could be very useful (Cora's cryo ammo for example, or Peebees pull).

In one playthrough you usually don't get to a point where it reduces replay-ability, so IMO it is a pretty cool system.

MeA system kills erplay value. An aditional reason i played me2 10+ times was that i ROLEPLAYED as a different class in my mind every time.
Sadly In MEA in one playthrough i could see all skills..
I HOPE DA4 DOES NOT INHERIT MEA CLASSLESS SYSTEM

I mean profile loadouts. Why, what do you think I mean?  

That's not a bad idea. Some kind of player choice but with limits. I think that was the idea behind the 3 skills per loadout with a cooldown, but it just ends up being annoying. So annoying I defaulted to my usual headshot sniping and mostly ignored the skills.