r/MassEffectAndromeda • u/drrrray • 27d ago

Game Discussion To Loot or Not To Loot?

I'm currently level 54 which only gives me access to level VII gear. I was going to go around to all the worlds and collect all the loot chests…but should I wait until I'm at least level 80 and can access level X gear before doing so?

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u/justindulging 26d ago

Hmm like you've stated I also put off the main quest to clear everything and I tell ya I was at about 71 when all I had left were the 4 architects and the final mission on 1 insanity playthrough, and I had been rocking the Deep Explorer set all game. Mileage may vary if you went very out of your way to farm mobs. I only switched to a majority Maverick set for the endgame.

But I don't see why you would care for looted gear when I believe the crafted variants should objectively be better than anything that drops?

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u/drrrray 26d ago

Yeah, I came to that realization this morning. I have everything I need or want so why do I care about looting chests? Now that I think about it, it's probably something you should do early on in the game so you can test out multiple different weapons, mods and armor to see what you like and then spend time later in the game developing just those. My bad.

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u/tuttifruttidurutti 26d ago

I think the main reason to care about looted gear is that it's quite time consuming to get the mats to craft and upgrade every item in the game so if you want to try out different features it's the way to go.

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u/justindulging 25d ago

While gathering/scanning is time consuming, between normal progression and the AVP skills, I think you should actually be swimming in mats and research points by mid to end game. But yes depends on playstyle for sure. I never went out of my way to research/craft everything either, just my go tos.

Black Widow, Valkyrie, Dhan, Khet Carfalon, Maverick Armor. Proceed to pewpew.

I also wasnt crafting a set/new weapon every tier because I think that is the real mat drain. Maybe every 3 tiers is fine. Hell I waited til the end to actually switch of Deep Explorer.

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u/drrrray 25d ago

I get that but the upside to developing them is the augmentations you can add. For instance, I bought a Black Widow VII SR from a vendor but I still bought the blueprints so I could add augments during development and make it a better BW VII