The MEA MP Resource Library (updated April 1)

look under the "prestige mechanic info" section in my op on this date (3/4) and you'll see all related tweets to this system we have so far 

Not sure if this helps but...

Aɴɢᴇʟᴜs ᴅᴇ Mᴏʀᴛɪᴇʟ‏ Mortiel
My real concern is not that... It's permanent stat bonuses dividing the MP playerbase like what happened in @dragonage Inquisition's MP.

Ian S. Frazier‏ @tibermoon
Bonus stats are capped to avoid excessive playerbase stratification.

after this response I doubt we'd be able to turn the bonus stats off. I'll ask though.

This is the kind of shit that boggles my mind. The phrasing here implies that they're aware that such systems will fragment the playerbase, and therefore it's detrimental to the overall longevity of the game, yet they chose to include it anyway. What the fuck, man.

Grasping at straws much? There only looks to be 5 stats to boost. From the screen cap from day 2, looks like you can only take one at a time. Besides those bonuses are purely defensive, they're not gonna make yo M-8 Avenger Deadly on fullauto, nor do they appear to make you nigh invincible.

Perhaps. Perhaps not. Certainly engaging in that time-honored BSN pasttime of assuming the worst and hoping to be proven wrong. We don't know enough about how the system works yet. If, as you pointed out, we can only take one at a time then it won't really be a big deal as long as the caps are fairly low.

20 might still be too high. It should be 10 at most imo.

Respec cards is still here, like in ME3MP

Ian S. Frazier‏ @tibermoon
This is our "prestige" mechanic. Ex: Playing any character /w the Shields bonus stat can earn you +Shields for ALL your chars, up to a cap.

This is my assumption based on the information presented.

In the screenshots of the Human Vanguard and Infiltrator both characters only have one bonus stat(max health/health regen), and based off of the above tweet I imagine you have to pick one stat; that stat will only level up if it is selected. Since it takes 2,127,000 xp for level 1 bonus stats you'll have to get the xp requirement of a character from level 1 to 20(promoting them essentially).

In DAIMP you would have an attribute increase by 1 per character promotion, and the attribute affected would be determined by the characters class.

Warrior = strength/ Rogue = cunning/ Mage = willpower

In MEAMP you can increase the bonus stat by playing any character as long as the desired stat you wish to level is selected. Unlike DAIMP you don't have all bonus passive stats active at all times with endless increases(cunning has a soft cap of 200 because the stats increased by it were capped at this point I believe, correct me if I'm wrong); instead you only have one stat that has a cap. Also resetting a character's level is optional.

Jessie Lam‏ @axl99
@tibermoon Is there a way to recall previous build settings of a character/class you made then prestiged later so you can tweak as needed?

Ian S. Frazier‏ @tibermoon
@axl99 You don't promote up kits like you did in ME3 (this mechanic replaces that), so they won't get reset unless you choose to reset them.

Mass_Effect_Spectre‏ @djsrules
With MP do we possibly have to pay for MP maps like other EA games, or is it free like ME3, IF any??

Aaryn Flynn‏ aarynflynn
It's going to be just like ME3

Ian said that bonus stats connected with different kits, not with classes.

Got some more clarification on the bonus stats:

Fernando Melo‏ DiscoBabaloo 

On the 5th day of MP-mas, the MP dev team gave to you: a new feature in MEA - Missions. Your link between MP/SP. Play & get rewards in both.



I went to look on his twitter & found he posted it 7 mins ago lol.