1. Mass Effect Legendary Edition Achievements
2. Gunsmith achievement

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Gunsmith achievement in Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Gunsmith

ME3: Upgrade any weapon to level 10.

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How to unlock the Gunsmith achievement

• Man78580,698

  24 Jun 2021 24 Jun 2021 24 Jun 2021
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  This is the only achievement in the whole series that requires you to play a new game+, but I completed it 50 minutes into that New Game+.
  
  1) Before you hit the point of no return in your first game

  *** Spoiler - click to reveal ***Cerberus HQ

  , upgrade the weapon you would like to level up to at least V (5), my Avenger was at 6 I think somehow.
  2) Complete your first playthrough of ME3.
  3) Start a new game with that first character and carry over all your previous save's gun levels.
  *Helpful: I turned the difficulty down to Narrative so I could run around and melee everything to work on Bruiser as well.
  4) Run through the game to the point you get control of the Normandy. About 50 minutes.
  5) After meeting with the Citadel Council for the first time, hit the Normandy's shuttle bay and level up a weapon to X.
  6) BOOM.
  
  It should cost 30-35K credits, which I made running through to that point in the game, not including what carried over in the new game+.

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• The Dawn of Don27,983

  03 Feb 2022 03 Feb 2022 03 Feb 2022
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  This is supposed to be supplementary to Man785's solution.
  
  Also I will be using 1-10 for the gun levels rather than the roman numerals. If you have problems converting between the two, that's a you problem.
  
  First and foremost, even if you never use the M-8 Avenger upgrade it to level 5 before finishing your first playthrough. I will explain why below in section 3.
  
  1. New Game + Bump
  

  All weapons obtained in your first playthrough get bumped up a level on your second playthrough (new game +). So if you upgrade any weapon to level 5 it will be at 6 upon starting the second playthrough. I had 9 guns all at level 5. They all were bumped to level 6 and everything that I left at level 1 was at 2 upon starting the second playthrough.

  2. Reacquire Bump
  

  During your second playthrough weapons get bumped up a few levels when reacquired. You get +2 upon reacquire if the weapon was at level 5 when you finished the first playthrough. You get +3 upon reacquire if it was below level 5.

  3. M-8 Avenger
  

  So, why did I ask you to upgrade the M-8 Avenger? Simple. It is the first gun you reacquire in your second playthrough.
  
  Towards the end of the prologue with Anderson you can grab it off the ground by the beacon used to signal the Normandy. The pistol Anderson gives you does not count as a reacquire.
  
  Assuming you upgraded the M-8 Avenger to level 5, it will be instantly bumped to level 6 for New Game + and then bumped to level 8 when reacquired in the prologue.
  
  After that you only need 17500 credits for the last two levels (7500 for level 9 and 10000 for level 10) to upgrade when back on the Normandy.