The Character Levelling Speed

if you go infiltrator or sentinel and take the ammo evolution the lanta becomes pretty decent although you will likely spam the powers on the sentinel more than scoping the ranged targets for the tech splosions, (I have only done a couple of gold matches so far, and all of them on the vg, cos talon + punches ) the lanta doesn't need to hit the weakpoints on most mooks to kill them body shots while scoped will do the job and the ammo evo gives you 3 shots

I only play Gold.On PC.
Btw, were you once member of "Legion effect" group?

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The real difference is in credits earned.  10K for bronze, 50K for gold.  Bioware understands how to balance some rewards for higher difficulty, but not others.

It's actually 55k for Gold. I do agree that 10k/25k/55k is a bit too much of a gap considering how difficult Bronze can be at times.

Maybe 20k/35k/55k would be more appropriate.

You want to level your adept to 20 on bronze? K, see you in a week.

But, but, but that guy said there is really no significant difference in the XP gain between even Bronze and Gold, so why look for misadventures for one's skinny ass?

XP gain is significant, credit gain not as much.

You should try learning quick scope: instead of zooming all the time, put the crosshairs on an enemy without zooming in and quickly zoom-in, shoot and zoom-out. This way you don't loose awareness. It takes a while to get used to, but it is not that hard.

That sounds like fun. Sure, gold MEA is hard enough atm when the best weapon you have is a common level X or a rare level 1, with no ammo and weapon consumables level 4. As long as you equipped that on ME3 you were good to go for anything.

But just wait for mods, I'll make another torture difficulty edition for you. Diamond (and insanity) difficulty mods were the best on ME3. Imagine turbocharged ravagers with 4 collector captains constantly spawning countless swarms, meanwhile several faster zombie husks and possed abominations charging you on top of buffed brutes, upgraded weapons on Praetorians, fast Atlases, one shot kill Nemesis, rapid fire Geth Primes... And make a crazy themed mix of them that completely changes every single wave...

There was no gear that could help you against those odds, you just had to be really good. But it was all for the experience of it. It was really fun experiencing something so crazy and different from the vanilla game. MEMP on steroids, literally, and challenge can be fun. Or just something different. And even your gear didn't matter anyway because I took the time to completely rebalance all the gear to bring it to "not suck" Harrier level of goodness. There were many options but once you remove the restriction limitations of "this weapon is only uncommon hence it can't be as good as a rare" and treat all of them equally, you can do some very diverse balance changes.

Modding saved and put another few hundred hours of play into my ME3MP time, I really hope we'll get the chance to do the same for MEA. Then, you will see what difficult really means (and it's fun!)

You don't aim when you quick scope, you aim beforehand and only do scope+shoot without taking the time to aim (most of the time).

Or only aim at enemies that are stationary in cover (can use jump jets in MEA to exploit this), while the bigger ones are really simple to hit anyway.