The Grind: Max Manifest Breakdown

Pfff... 500 hours of camping Darude Sandstorm on the roof? Where do I sign up? /s

The ultra rare grind is insane. If an average game is 15 minutes that's 550 hours. And that's no including time between games and time spent searching.... Inlcuding that you're looking at around 30 days of playtime to max out ur's probably. ME3 only had 7 ultra rares at launch so that was a lot easier to max out. So glad they added level x characters and trash guns like ushior and n7 eagle so we have more to play for.......

These numbers are depressing. So many of the current guns and characters don't deserve to be ultra rare. If every ultra rare was at least good it wouldn't be so bad. But right now only 4 guns are decent and the rest are garbage, and they truly are garbage. Getting n7 cards and them turning into stuff like eagle, valkyrie and ushior feels like a slap in the face. Or kineticist.

This so called "grind" is literally the game. These 500h IS the game. The real game is not what comes after (hint: nothing happens after). If you do not enjoy playing the game, getting credits and opening pack the for Gods sake stop!

Oh hell yes.

I would literally jump for joy if they demoted the kineticist to a rare character so I don't have to suffer the UR grind to max it.

For me "the game" is having fun with all the characters and all the guns in the game at their full potential and not playing with subpar stuff for 550h before that happens (which means never in my case, cause I won't spend that much time with the game).

So no, that's not literally the game, even though Bioware might like to think so...

That's about how long it took me in ME3 on PC - of course that was with every DLC present when I started... and I only played Silver twice before going to Gold...

so you're unable to acknowledge that some people enjoy playing games for the gameplay? you're pretty narrow minded.

lol.

This.

I'd even go a step further. If you don't like playing MP, then stop. You can beat the SP without even touching MP.

I always was puzzled when some people announced tp stop playing MP when they finally got that Harrier 10 / BW 10. Why the grind when you not intend to play the Harrier 10?

I know the feels xD  I have my complaints but I play on sticking around for a while; I find the combat too enjoyable.  I'm taking my time with the single player, but like ME3, it's the MP that's gonna keep me around, and I'm glad to realize it's the same this time around. 

Keep in mind the data is for worst case scenario. I often get multiple or a tier higher than what I am supposed to when opening boxes. I have friends who have gotten two Ultra Rares in one Premium box.

The credits needed to get a max gold manifest seems extremely reasonable and fair. Great progression curve.

The Ultra Rare max manifest will be frustrating for those who get bad RNG and don't unlock something they really want until they already have Rank 10 of all the fodder.

I think Bioware did a decent job. All they need to do to make everyone and themselves happy, microtransactions, is make it so you unlock all Rank 1's of a specific tier before moving on to Rank 2's.