Please get decent gear before you go to Silver...

Are you saying my Avenger I, Katana I, level 2 soldier character with a biotic amplifier and pistol amp 2 isn't a viable build?

Not for silver. But you are totally platready.

Too OP for silver.

When I use 3 medigels on the extraction zone because I've been standing there for the entire 2 minutes and got hoarded by an army that would make Genghis Khan blush, that's also entirely intentional and is also due to my l33t platskills that I picked up playing Call of Duty: Zombies.

Just so you know.

I imagine the OP is just trolling/joking, but the sad thing is that there really are people this pitiful and scrubtastic: just today a friend told me she got kicked out of a Silver lobby, because her Apex rating wasn't very high and her character was only level 8. Kicked, on Silver! This is someone who was doing Platinum speedruns with UpperReality and I back in ME3MP, and is now being kicked out of a Silver lobby by some sorry little scrubs who are afraid that they won't be able to succeed on Silver unless they have 4 players with level 20 kits and high Apex ratings. 

I got kicked from a Silver match a few days ago with a level 9 Kroguard / Falcon lol

I was suprised

Ohh wow, elitism in a horde mode? lol

That's pretty much my plan. Unfortunately, extractions have been rare on Bronze so far, but I have only played it for a bit on my first day. The character levels really slowly, so it took me a long time to get to level 10, and I sort of decided to play SP for now. Funnily, the character levels up really fast in SP in comparison. Weird. Used to be exactly the opposite, they went up like a rocket in MP.

EDIT: Oh, I also get kicked out of a Bronze lobby on a level 2 Adept on that first day the game started with my Predator. If not Bronze, what am I supposed to do...? Wish upon a star?

I mean, Bronze should be a sanctuary to wear whatever gear, try whatever class, and not being yelled at for being lost or confused or not really knowing much. Eh, well, on-line MP games are what they are...

This was an annoyance for my first couple of days on this game. I was surprised there were no threads like this, so I made one.

There aren't enough whiners on here!
Step it up, BSN.

You'll get the hang of it. Weapons and powers are trash, with a few exceptions. Until you get one of those exceptions, its about how you move and such.

I got kicked from Bronze, too! On my second day though. Level 1 Asari Sentinel, Katana V, Predator VI.
People are jerks, they have an easier time being a jerk when you are a made-up name with low game stats attached.

I'm teaching my cousin the game, starting him on Bronze and moving up from there. If you're on PC... well, the fewer PUG's the better, you and anyone else on the thread that is having trouble extracting can join

So, is it better as, for example, a soldier to go into a Silver match with a lvl X Avenger/Charger or a lvl 1 Thokin/Hurricane?

In bronze matches the rarer guns seem way more effective and even maxed commons.

edit: Also, I have been spamming Basic packs and have all my common weapons at X, should I now be moving on to Advanced packs or stickign with Basics to level my mods now?

Thanks. Switched to Thonkin from Avenger. but I guess, it's Basic packs until all commons are to Level X? Otherwise won't you be leveling the Commons with 20K packs?