Andromeda build/loadout suggestions?

Well, I like Sentinel style, so Energy Drain + Double Throw. One can use Warp with mod instead of Throw but Throw has other niceties like Vadering enemies away from high platforms. For Energy Drain you'll get techsplosions or with detonating throw you get biotic... but by carefully launching them near eachother one can get double tech and one biotic - at least in MP. I dont remember if it applies to SP. Third power can be what one choose, but I imitated last time Asari Sentinel and used Backlash.

Favourite weapons N7 Valkyrie modded and Dhan shotgun modded to taste.

Since you already played weapon/biotic focused builds, how about my elementalist build:

• Snap Freeze (or Cryo Beam if you are on console)
• Incinerate specced for prime and detonate
• Energy Drain specced for prime and detonate
• Sentinel Profile
• Fusion Mod of Adrenaline, or Rapid Deployment
• Whichever light weapon you prefer

The idea is to have low power cooldowns and just cycle through your primers and detonators. Technically you have 3 primers, and 2 detonators.

The most fun I have had in SP was with:

* Cryo Beam - Snap Freeze evolution
* Invasion
* Turbocharge

Cryo Beam / Invasion can explode groups of mooks. The last skill could be subbed out for whatever (throw, incinerate), but is good for making weapons decent.

To answer the question above, you need to have the beam on the group a couple seconds. You need to be at relatively close range.

good to know about cryo beam, thanks. And I've always wanted to try to fit Invasion into a SP build (I liked it in my short time in MEA:MP) but can never seem to. And its pretty weak that you can't control squadmate power-use, Peebee never seems to cast Invasion where I need her to. So I may well try that- started a game earlier, but haven't gotten around to respeccing yet. 

I'm very bad remembering them, what I used, because it changes so much during my gameplays... they're all over 120h...
For armor I think I used mostly Angaran ones with some biotic parts for +biotic +tech.

In case you don't know putting Kinetic Coils on your melee weapon also counts towards your primary damage, Asari Sword and Kettt Carphalon (SP?) both have more slots so tahat will increase any damage you do via your gun.

So Autofire, Dual Mod Extension and I think at the start you can put three KC's on it, later once you get the cryo perk that lets you have an extra augmentation/mod (after Kadar is 40% I think)  you can put an extra one on.

Armour, I use Heleus Explorer or Pathfinder depending on what you are playing as.

do you remember off-hand where you get the auto-fire mod? Didn't see it in research/development and the Nexus vendor didn't have it, and I can't find anything else online about where you can get it. 

The Nexus Bendor has it and the dual mod extension every second time you visit her. So if you go there when you dock and go and see her she'll have either of them and then do some stuff on the Nexus and come back and she'll have the other one. You can rinse and repeat just by visiting another part of the Nexus I think.

I started Andromeda for the very first time this year and am having a lot of fun with the crafting and testing out different builds. Here is the current build I'm playing with and I am having a ton of fun:

The Shockwave Specialist.

At first I thought the biotic ability shockwave was useless for ME:A considering how wide open the fights are, however, it is now my favorite power especially once you achieve the Rank 6: Lifting Shockwave which briefly suspend enemies in the air AND prime them for combo detonations.

Shockwave is a fantastic crowd control ability because of it's ability to affect multiple enemies at once as well as travel through solid objects. It's the perfect power when approaching Kett and Outcast camps, where typically they like to cluster.

My strategy is simple:
1) Get as close to the cluster as you can and as quickly as you can. I mostly prefer to hide behind a large Kett vehicle or Nexus crawler for cover
2) Fire the shockwave through the cover towards the center of the cluster

This will effectively clear out any unshielded foes, sending them flying away from the main fight area. For example, firing shockwave in the middle of a cluster of 6 Kett, will fling the unshielded Chosen away, leaving only the Anointed and the Destined for you and the team to fight with a better numbers advantage (3 vs 2, 3 vs 3).

I like to pair Shockwave with a fast firing, fast recharge power:

• Incinerate (prime): Perfect for setting off fire explosions which is great against armor and also hilarious to watch your enemies launched into the air on fire
• Throw (detonate): Use this if you enjoy playing with your food. After shockwave sends your foe into the air, launch a biotic throw at them, however, make sure to aim below the target so the heat seeking biotic throw has to curve upward to hit your enemy. This will send them into the stratosphere. I've turned it into a bit of a game to see how high and far I can launch someone. Feel free to take out a sniper rifle for funsies.

As for your third power, that's totally up to you, I sometimes toggle between:

• Singularity: More combo explosions and pairs nicely with the N7 armor
• Remnant VI: Sometimes Zap will target an enemy hit by shockwave mid-air
• Aegis shield: Provides some instant mobile cover in case you do get flanked or need to move closer to the enemies you've flung around the map
• Charge: Launch an enemy in the air and finish them off in the air. It's a ton of fun

As for profiles, you'll want to focus on biotic/tech recharge speeds (depending on your other powers) as well as biotic/combo explosion damage and radius - which are your Sentinel, Adept, or Explorer profiles.

Depending on your recharge times, this can be a gunless build, but if you're looking for recommendations, I could probably write a whole new post. For now, I'll leave a couple of gun builds I'm currently using. Note that these are not the most powerful or recommended best guns, merely the ones I'm having fun with. My Ryder is at level 67 and at the point of OP so I'm kinda smurfing myself to play with my food longer.

• Cerberus Harrier: Mattock with Automatic Fire mod. Focus on damage, stability and penetration mods. If you want to be true to the original gun from ME3, keep the magazine small
• Fast Firing Carnifex: Carnifex with Automatic Fire mod. It's a lightweight, high damage, very stable gun. Focus on magazine and damage mods.

Lastly, I play on Insanity so these suggestions should work on any difficulty level.