Mass Effect 3: Possible conflicts of interests - War assets Mass Effect 3 guide, walkthrough
Last update: 29 October 2022
On this page of the Mass Effect 3 game guide you will find warnings about major conflicts of interest that may lead to the weakening or loss of selected war assets. These situations should be avoided, or your allied fleet may get weaker when you advance to the campaign's finale.
Notice! This part of the guide lists only two most important scenes of the game that involve important choices and may result in losing a lot of war assets if a wrong decision has been made.
Notice! All the hints contained on this page have SPOILERS, so you should read them only if you know the storyline of the game or if you don't care about spoiling the main plot and want to gather as many war assets as possible.
Potential conflict 1 - Genophagy cure
The first important conflict of interests occurs at the end of Priority: Tuchanka main quest, because you're asked during a conversation with Mordin to make a decision what you want to do with the genophage cure (screen above).
If Wrex is leading the krogan race then you shouldn't disperse the false cure, because he will find out about your treachery over time and it will lead to a confrontation with him (after Priority: The Citadel #3) which will result in losing all krogan assets.
If Wreav is leading the krogan then dispersing the false cure is a much better idea, because he won't find out about your deception and you'll gain support of both the krogan and the salarians (don't forget that using the false cure is only possible if you didn't tell Eva about the plan).
Potential conflict 2 - Quarians and geths
The second important conflict of interests occurs at the end of Priority: Rannoch main quest (screen above), because you're forced to support the geth or the quarians.
It's highly recommended that you fulfill the requirements needed to form a truce between both parties, because this is the only way to gain support from both of them (otherwise you'll lose quarian war assets or geth war assets).