The super premium prepurchase is cost effective, sort of...

I view it more in terms of time saved to be honest.

Each of those boxes are worth 4 silver extrations currently, or about 100 minutes of playtime.

So the 100$ purchase is worth 50 hours worth of playtime.

Over time as we Progress into Gold, and can extract there reguarly, my percieved value of the boxes will go down. However, given the mechanic of stats upgrades, that cannot be purchased buying too many boxes will not give you the powerhouse you could get in ME3MP, since MP is likely balanced around these upgrades being applied.

You mind if I ask how many packs you bought to manage to max out a rare weapon?

I think you're right. I think i'm tired, that's my excuse for failing to read english.

One Premium Pack early in the game is a substantial headstart, but as the weeks go by and people play more, these paid-Packs effectiveness decrease. A Premium Pack 10 weeks from now may not mean that much anymore, let alone 20 weeks from now.

Had their offered 10 Premium Packs right away, it would have been a better, more significant deal for us.

Right now the main selling point of the Super Deluxe Edition is its name, really. I know people who are not that interested in MP and have pre-ordered that, pretty much because of its name.

Well I bought a few packs. Got a kineticist, which I'm not even going to attempt to play with until I have some clue what I am doing.

Trying out the Turian Havoc, which seems decent. Can't say I'm liking any of the assault rifles though. Took the Sone into my only Bronze match, it does decent damage but the warm up is painful. The Sandstorm is like the Mat, never cared for single shot weapons. I can tell I'm going to be really missing the Harrier.

Took me forever to figure out how to hover.

I suspect it will be like the Drell.  Everyone can kick ass with it ... except me

Premiums, so my odds were better

She can detonate with Lance and throw enemies into other enemies. After getting a few kills, you can hold the melee button to activate her special mode which allows you to use powers without cooldowns by consuming barrier.

Playing a game with three Kineticists and one shield boost kit should be fun.

How many packs will $50 get you? I plan on donating on release day for sure LOL

A few pack related questions. I purchased points to get 20 of the "N7" boxes and whatever i got for the digital collectors edition.

I got a fair few of the rate toons, some great guns. (the SMG that needs no ammo is hands down the OP at bronze / silver)

Question, i have not seen any "equipment". Consumables and weapon mods, but no equipment???

Someone did an analysis early in ME3 MP and worked out it was better to buy the cheap boxes until you had all the common chars/weapons vs buying the most expensive box early on and wasting that on "common" stuff. That still the case?

Yeah, the thing is ; You are likely not going to be extracting on Silver right away, which would further schew the cost/benefit on time gained by throwing money at the problem.
 I bought enough points for 30 Premium crates during the trial, and it helped me avoid just sticking to Bronze.


And it also depends how much time you can devote to grinding which can wary greatly.



Once my vacation is up as an example, I'll not be able to devote huge amounts of time to it - but tossing money at it as DLC is released will let me taste just a sip of the new weapons and classes we expect to be released over time. I'll still be behind over time, because of the extra stats like in DAIMP (which requires grinding, not buying), but it would keep me in the loop.

It's important to note however that the value of those packs is at it's highest when you start playing.

Getting a Piranha VIII to IX isn't gonna make much of a difference. But going from a Charger I on a human adept to a Hurricane I on an Asari adept with Annihilation is the difference of playing on bronze versus playing on silver or gold.