Mastery Rank Data

Skills definitely count and there have been multiple reports of them ranking people up.

My rank 3 mule is still rank 3 despite me leveling 12 jobs to 99 on him and doing 13 sets of AF quests. I also got all the white/black magic. I did all the Adoulin quests (but not coalitions yet). I avoided skilling up the jobs because it is annoying to zone after every level and I want to know exactly when I rank up so I can do things like figure out how many skill levels an AF quest is worth.

Yeah, we know they count, but we have no idea how much (it isn't much I think, based on the infrequency of ranking up from it even at low ranks, but it happens, see above!)

By that logic, getting War to ML50 and doing skill ups to cap will get you most bang for buck skill up wise.

I believe that is actually the case, assuming every single skill level counts!

Now, that said... if I was square enix it'd be a binary flag for "lowest job skill cap at 99" so all those D+ jobs would be bailing us all out.

mastery levels technically likely count anyway so it's not super relevant.

Speaking of skills, Automaton Skills merit points raises your effective skills on PUP, but don't seem to pass the cap.

I am ML 18 PUP and raised my skill to 442, which raised the reported value in the automaton equip menu to 452/452. My Automaton had 977 pet Acc. When I actually skilled up to 452, my Automaton skill had 977 pet Acc and the reported value in the automaton equip menu was still 452/452.

That feels like a bug to me. Should I swap away from automaton skill merits at least? It looks like they don't do anything at the skill cap.

how do u copy and paste xichecklist here?

//xic help

-Mastery Rank: 8
-Playtime: 3619 Days
-Checklist Progress 11397/12421
======= General =======
-RoE 1103/1104
-Zones visited 292/292
-Titles 1010/1051
-Missions 671/829
-Quests 1078/1110
-Magic 881/881
-Warps 440/440
======= Story =======
-San d'Oria Missions 20/20
-Bastok Missions 20/20
-Windurst Missions 20/20
-RotZ Missions 17/17
-CoP Missions 63/63
-Assaults 52/52
-ToAU Missions 47/47
-Campaign Ops 88/246
-WoTG Missions 53/53
-ACP Missions 11/11
-MKD Missions 14/14
-ASA Missions 14/14
-SoA Missions 110/110
-RoV Missions 97/97
-TVR Missions 45/45
-San d'Oria Quests 81/81
-Bastok Quests 93/93
-Windurst Quests 90/90
-Jeuno Quests 144/146
-Other Quests 84/90
-Outlands Quests 55/57
-Aht Urhgan Quests 65/72
-Crystal War Quests 91/91
-Abyssea Quests 176/191
-Adoulin Quests 109/109
-Coalition Assignments 90/90
======= Key Items =======
-Permanent Key Items 315/374
-Magical Maps 116/116
-Mounts 39/40
-Claim Slips 43/89
-Abyssea 210/210
-Voidwatch 80/80
-Mog Garden 124/124
-Active Effects 45/45
-Atmacite Levels 600/600
======= Magic =======
-White Magic 185/185
-Black Magic 169/169
-Summoner Pacts 22/22
-Ninjutsu 37/37
-Bard Songs 103/103
-Blue Magic 196/196
-Geomancy 60/60
-Trusts 109/109
-Corsair Rolls 31/31
-Puppetmaster Attachments 127/127
======= Leveling =======
-Craft Skills 757/790
-Wing Skill 20/100
-Merit Points 919/919
-Job Points Maxed 22/22
-Master Levels 887/1100 (Highest: 50)
-Alter Ego Points 313/550
======= Warps =======
-Home Points 121/121
-Survival Guides 97/97
-Waypoints 51/51
-Telepoints 9/9
-Cavernous Maws 9/9
-Lycopodium 3/3
-Eschan Portals 32/32
-Outposts 17/17
-Proto-Waypoints 26/26
-Abyssea Conflux 75/75
======= Other Content =======
-Fishes Caught 163/164
-Ergon Locus 30/30
======= Monstrosity =======
-Monster Levels Maxed 63/64
-Race/Job Instincts 32/32
-Monster Variants 87/89
-Monster Instincts 189/192
======= Battle Content =======
-MMM Vouchers Unlocked 9/9
-MMM Runes Unlocked 19/100
-MMM Maze count 51/1000
-Meeble Burrows Goal #3 26/32
-Sheol A (2/20)
-Sheol B (30/31)
-Sheol C (11/11)
-Sheol Gaol Vengeance (425/425)
-Eschan Vorseals (181/185)
-Emporox Goodness 7/13
======= Titles =======
-Titles 1010/1051
--Ballista titles 2/3
--Master Trials titles 3/7
--Crafting titles 27/33
--Fishing titles 5/8
--Quests titles 356/359
--Other titles 4/6
--Moblin Maze Mongers titles 1/5
--Mog Garden titles 40/47
--Walk of Echoes titles 25/30
--Chocobo Racing titles 5/6
--NM titles 59/61
--Voidwalker titles 6/7
--Sortie titles 4/5
--Battlefield / BCNM / HTMB titles 55/56
still rank 8 :/

Youve got to be like 10 campaign ops from 9

oh yeah, 20 wing skill, get on that diggin

Campaign Ops, Quests, MMM Runes, craft skills, digging skill. It's an impressive accomplishment list, but there's more than no work to do there.

craft skill is low cause i delevel my main cloth to get all the titles from the other crafts currently only have 2 left then that will be taken back to 110 capaign ops im stuck on windy still need 8 then i can swap to another nation and start fresh. meebles ive completed all at 3 but it didnt recored all of them so ill go back and redo them. abyssea quests ive done em all but same as meebles the repeatable ones didnt record "/

What Voidwalker are you missing? NM Titles?
Make sure to take advantage of the Chocobo Digging campaign coming up.

I mean, 99% chance it's Yilbegan.

one Fish

that thing's a jerk, to be fair

This is depressing me :<

This is an old bug that's existed from when PUP merits were first introduced. Pups can always skill up to the raised cap of their skills, it just doesn't seem do anything.

Melee 491, Ranged 497
Acc 1576, Att 1384, R.Acc 1641, R.Att 1392

Lower merits from 5->4
Melee 489, Ranged 495
Acc 1575, Att 1381, R.Acc 1640, R.Att 1390

Does it matter for mastery rank? No idea, but the merits definitely *do* go over the cap.

Okay, so the merits raise the numerator and denominator by 10, and you can skill up to the raised cap even though those levels have no effect.

If Eschuteons for multiple crafts count, I think rank 10 may be possible.

Judging by the amount of ***a 9 has to do, I'm inclined to disagree, shields are probably a lot of "points" but not that many.

I fully support someone doing it though (as a cheerleader, not financially)

...It's not even a huge financial undertaking tbh, but that synthesizer *** would be pure insanity. If it were just money, a few people would've already done it.

Indeed the threshold for rank 9 (considering it's not the max rank) could and should have been a little bit lower, I suppose.
Not much, but a little bit?
Seeing these guys who have completed almost everything save for a couple of things and they're still rank 8, when there are 10 ranks in game, feels a bit off.
The gap between 8 and 9 feels a tiny bit larger than it should've been, if you ask me.

And I'm super fine with Rank 10 being wherever it is right now. For all we know, it could be impossible to reach atm but possible in a few months/years with new content/achievements being added in the near future, and I'd still be fine with that.
Granted that, by the same logic, even Rank9 will consequentially become slightly easier to reach in that scenario, and maybe it's fine, maybe it's how things should be.
I don't know but I still feel the 8>9 gap is a bit too large.

Who will be first to write automation that does everything required to get rank9 and later 10 is the bigger question.

one would have to be able to quantify what's needed for rank to automate it. After 131 pages we still only have hypothesis.

Thanks!

My experience with my mule is biasing me away from this viewpoint. I think the distance between ranks may be constant in terms of number of points, but the remaining stuff you could do to get those points (master trials, Eschuteons, etc.) becomes increasingly crazy as you rank up. If the distance between 9 and 10 is the same as between 3 and 4, then maybe a couple big things (like the other Eschuteons) could do it.

It increases each level, its noticeable

1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > 7 > 8 > 9 > 10 are all like 125% more than previous

That's the thing about small increase, it seems reasonable at the beginning.

Youre an intelligent dood, compute literacy wise at least. You should (if motivated) be able to sus out the values of ***.

not yili

its the antlion orcus been farming it but no shadow yet

the one fish is the seazombie from pirates

Just pasting mine here in case it helps anything. I got a few lower hanging fruit I need to talk myself into doing sometime, but otherwise I've been "oh I bet I'll hit rank 9 on the next thing! for a long time now. only like 200 more days of mog garden fish to get. :/

Skirmish titles go!

Those missing 20 titles from sortie and bcnm should be super low hanging fruit

200/1100 master levels lookin pretty scant too