How much time should a Full Manifest grind take?

Fuckin' 600 hours in ME3MP and I still haven't got the Venom shotgun unlocked. It shouldn't take that long to unlock at least the lowest version of something. Maxing out ultra rares, okay, whatever, but unlocking them? Should really not take that fucking long. At some point all you'll get for weeks is ammo, ammo and ammo.

I really hope MEAMP won't be that bad, but it'll probably be worse.

The journey is great.  I had 2 or 3 friends who used to play with me and we all maxed ours just a few weeks apart from each other. And I have played the game much more after having maxed my manifest - my N7 e-peen rank was around 8k then, now it is 28k.

Still, I just think that in terms of reward over time a number like 600 hours for instance is a lot, an insane amount of time invested in one game. Most who will take up Multiplayer are not likely to see themselves playing it for that long, but they still need a rewarding sense of progress to keep themselves interested and relatively active. Therefore I believe that if compared to ME3MP, MEAMP Manifest grind should be shortened, ideally halved.

It was a major drag to me when they stopped the weekend challenges, personally found most of them a lot of fun, signing into the forum and helping others led to many great on line friends, the store seemed to be the biggest issue for those dropping coin, will be interesting again to see how far they take the online game

That is quite possible to happen in that game. I didn't get a Pyre of the Forgotten well until I was like 5th on the Leaderboards and had played for like 1,000 hours. DAMP has the worst RNG progression system in any game I have ever played or gotten to know about.

Indeed. While I believe that Platinum or something truly challenging should help one's progress, it definitely should not be a requirement to get one's Manifest completed.
I maxed mine in ME3 at around 860 hours doing a lot of Platinum, and I guess most players have had similar experiences. Playing just Gold would have taken way longer.

Truth be told, Platinum is just not accessible for the common Pug. It is not even viable for most BSNers (myself included) unless they are with friends. This level of grind to get a maxed Manifest under 1,000 hours is just silly, and I hope we don't see anything like that in MEAMP.

Even I didn't participate in most of these weekend events, maybe just did one or two. I only got into MP 10 months after it had been released.

But yeah, there were these events which rewarded players with the N7 weapons, the same from the campaign: Hurricane, Eagle, Valkyrie, Valiant and Crusader. These weapons could only be acquired through weekend events, but later they were available from the Store as UR weapons.

It would be really nice to have similar events with similar rewards in MEAMP, but the Super Deluxe Edition weekly packs seem to be pretty much the same in terms of rewards. And that makes me wonder whether the community at large is getting packs from weekly events or not.

I voted for 600 to 800 hours. That's about how long it took me to max my manifest in ME3 and I didn't feel like it was a grind in the slightest.

It should take longer than the average asari's lifespan.

Furthering this goal, Cryo IV ammo should have its drop rate increased by approximately %1337

I think that a little grind is important. It adds replay value and sense of achievement. But when you have played something for 300 hours and still missing several items, the grind can actually undermine any sense of achievement.

Also I believe there should be some alternatives to pure RNG lottery, like guaranteed unlocks on Challenges completion or Weekend events.

I already covered myself for that argument by using the word insane.

*points at Destiny*

I am really mixed on this. ME3MP took me around 850 hours to max out my manifest and I thought that was too long.

Then I started playing Destiny and found out what a grind really is. I have well over double the hours in Destiny than I do ME3, even though I played almost every day from ME3 launch to the launch of Destiny in Sept 2014. I Destiny at least the grind is to get new items not just new version of what you already have to upgrade, so maybe that is the difference.

I will be interested to see what this game will be like. If it is true that it will take around 120 hours of single player time (4 times for any MP complete play through previous) to do everything I just have no clue what MP will be like.

I voted 400-600 based on MP3.

ME3MP's took what...about an average of 300-500 hours? From what screen shots I have seen, looks like the amount of characters possibly has doubled and no doubt the number of weapons has increased quite a bit....so I would say 500-700 hours seems like a conservative best 1st guesstimate.