URs: characters or weapons?

LOL, I’m at 1.5 UR per week, not per day. Although, actually, it is more ch closer to 2. I have over 100 URs...

If it’s 1.5 UR per week (sorry, misread your OP), I would focus on getting those UR characters to X and then switching to Jumbo Premium Packs and letting RNG surprise you. Otherwise, you will be spending a lot of time grinding to get those characters to XX when you could be leveling weapons to variant status.

You can use TheThirdRace’s builder to see how much more powerful your characters will be with Rank XI-XX stats. 40% power and combo damage sound nice but I don’t think it’s gamebreaking levels of damage bonus. Getting a Siphon variant on the other hand would be much more useful.

Sure, I’ve been keeping track of almost all of my pack purchases for the past year. Lately, I’ve been buying Jumbo Premium Packs (JPP). I usually get at least one UR from the pack, sometimes two and very rarely three or four URs (never got the five UR Jumbo Premium Pack). On occasion, I get the 0 UR JPP and it’s a bummer. I know though that the next one I get will have at least one UR. The text description says an even higher chance for URs, but I don’t know if that’s really the case.

Before switching over to JPP, I was buying Reserve Packs for the UR characters. Once those were maxed, I switched over to Premium Packs or Arsenal Packs. Since I have been keeping track of my pack purchases, I knew when I was close to the pity timer.

Once I got my Shorty Siphon, I started doing all of those Platinum solos; I traded farming Platinum for many failed attempts and lots of Jumbo Supply Pack purchases. Since I wasn’t earning that much in the way of credits, I didn’t want to burn them on one or two Premium packs at a time. So, I saved my credits until I hit over 500K and bought a single JPP.

Doing the JPP purchase also makes it easier to track things on my spreadsheet since I don’t have to enter 5 entries like I would for a Premium pack.

Hope this helps!

Interesting. I only recently started my save to 1e6 then buy strategy, I think for similar reasons to what motivated you to adopt your strategy, namely frustration with buying a premium pack every day or two and getting nothing interesting - it FEELS like the RNG treats you differently in that scenario (although I don't have any evidence to suggest it does, of course). Saving for a situation where you know you will open something good (due to hitting a the pity timer if nothing else) feels better, even if there isn't probably really much difference. I also track my buys in a spreadsheet and it is interesting to see the long-term price of a UR for me (counting all the support/supply packs and premium and expert packs, but ignoring technical mods and advanced packs, because I buy them for different reasons than to get URs) is a bit over 500k, which strikes me as fairly efficient in terms of the amount of support packs I need to buy since the drop rate for URs seems to be between 20 and 25% in premium packs. At any rate, I'll probably run my current premium strategy for a while, but I'll also try the JPP strategy and see if I like it. Sadly, it will take quite a while to compile the data to see if some method or another really works better...

It's pretty awesome.  It was my only variant UR for a very long time, because the way the cards fell for me I got the hurricane to X before I'd even unlocked half the other URs.  So when the variants came, the siphon came pretty quickly.

I finally maxed out the last of my Rare Gold mods last night. I do find myself using the AR Short Barrel with the PAW, but many of the other Rare Gold mods are lackluster.

If you're going for min/maxing the special mods are worth it in so much that you can improve your character with no or very little detriment.  For example, Heavy Magazines are great for lighter weapons because you can have the extra capacity while still remaining under or at least close to the 100% recharge rate threshold.  That said, from what I can tell from games on gold, they aren't game breaking.  You can do just fine with the regular mods.

If only there weren't so many other mods.  : (

I have three more variants to unlock -- Rozerad Bulwark, Silhesh Concussive, and Ushior Concussive -- before I have one of each UR variant. These are non-essential weapons, however, and I won't be sad if I never get them. I'd rather get a PAW Siphon II-X before any of them!

I’ve had a pretty good run of packs and I’ve got all my characters to X now! I can finally build them all properly, LOL, especially the Avenger. Been waiting forever on that one... I’ve run her more at VIII than any other character except my Asari Huntress (who I got to XX a long time ago, of course).

Congrats! Venom Siphon was one of my last Rare Siphon drops; was happy when I got it, since I do like the Venom on certain characters.

Dhan was my first Siphon variant, and I used that for a long time since my other UR weapons were much lower rank. Today, I rarely use it, even after the clip size buff I find myself missing a lot with the Dhan; guess I have gotten used to the spray and pray approach with pistols or the aim while shooting technique with the PAW.