Mastery Rank Data

at +10 all stats it would still get used in situations where you are currently using like Ishvara, a few job abilities just care about raw stats too but ya you really want +15 or +20 before its worth the going rate it's at right now.

Idk, lol. I have done a lot of stuff in this game. I was worried that it was impossible to hit 9 without beating 4 master trials. As long as it is possible with only 3, then I am necessarily close.

The gaps in my achievements line up well with Liam's, so I kind of must be close.

Not picking on you, specifically (it's why I didn't use the direct quote with your name), I just think it's hilarious how every other post is "I must be just one more title/quest/craft/HTBF away from the next rank" comments in general.

They really need a tracker, NPC or progress bar. Based on reading this thread I should be Rank 4 lol. I'm rank7 without any effort put into titles or RoE (under 500)

Keeping it abstract and unknown motivates players to engage with all sorts of random content you otherwise wouldn't. If they outright say that a few pieces of content don't effect it, the people who might've been doing that content won't.

Brings back some of the mystery / group collaboration / problem-solving from the old era too. I kind of like that they kept it this way.

Not any (extra) effort, you mean.

Just playing the game. Doing missions. Which you do. Is hundreds of titles.

Just finishing city 10, cop, rotz, wotg, soa, rov, tvr would put you at a 5 or 6. All the VD tryharding htmb and rema and job mastery and all the minutia is everything everyone should automatically be doing. Every item you've ever chased, made you chase a title or a content clear organically.

It's the extra effort that will make you 8, 9 and 10

I wonder if they track total number of kinetic units "lost to the aether" or whatever, when you trade crystals to waypoints past the 50k cap.

Probably not. The reason for caps like that is so that they don't have to keep track of an arbitrarily large number, so they probably wouldn't implement a cap and then track an arbitrarily large number anyway.

I am honestly loving it. I am seeing places and structures in the game that I didn't know existed. Grauberg(S) has a cabin in the SW quadrant that I have never seen before.

In addition to this, I like that they have a (probably unreachable) rank 10. It gives a reason for people to keep striving.

Avereith and I did a bunch of crazy stuff earlier in this thread and then SE revealed that rank 8 was the cap and we slowed down/stopped.

C'mon Byrth, let your imagination go wild. There's a cap and maybe there's a SECOND SECRET CAP - say, losing 10,000 units to the aether. Maybe 100,000! Speculating nonsense is half the fun.

Define Crazy? lol

IIRC we made lists of stuff like every furniture that gives a reward in the mog house and tried to catch them all. Red string stuff!

I thought I was nowhere near rank 8, but doing Fiat Lux (S) - my first of the three nations - pushed me up to it.

Very surprised. Is it possible that Fiat Lux counts for a lot? I mean, anything's possible. but hell yeah rank eight

Actually, effortpost, I am amazed I hit rank 8:


All jobs 99
6 jobs mastered, 3 over ML5, highest is 31
12 job AF questlines complete
983 RoEs complete
Divine/Healing/Ninjutsu (lmao)/Puppet melee/Puppet magic skills not capped(!)
Current crafts all 70s + one 98 (have had a 110, started a shield but only got to second stage, currently deleveling / releveling them for KIs and titles)
Chocobo digging A45 (we still write that this way, right?)
~5 HTMB VD clears (all cleared on N)
All missions complete incl. Abyssea and 3 mini-expansions
Monstrosity: got some 90s
2 Mythic, 1 Aeonic, 1 Empyrean, 0 Relic, 0 Prime
Moogle Mastery 7/4/7, half of Sheol Gaol not even cleared at V0 (mostly tier 1/2)
Missing 100+ random sidequest titles, Lambton Worm, Cemetery Cherry, Tiamat, Jormungand, Tzee Xicu, Bakgodek
2/6 tier 3 voidwalker titles, no Yilbegan (yet!)
No total chocobo racing circuit wins titles / missing a few chocographs
Incursion KI 125 (2 levels above min)
No skirmish rank V clears
No Aminon kill
No Mastery Trials
No Tumult Curator
No Fu (I should get a Niqmaddu Ring someday, huh?)
All zilart/empyrean ws quests, 1 mythic ws quest
Fully merited except a few points short of Weapon Skill cap (1/5 in everything except 5/5 Requiescat + Last Stand, the ones I ever use)
Missing 500/1000 Mog Garden entries/ponds/lakes/beach items, do have 1000 kills
Missing 42 mementoes
100 Moblin Maze Mongers maze clears but only a few more (not all maze types clear, not all runes but yes everything you can buy)

If anyone wants to examine specific stuff I'm lacking, I can elaborate, but broadly I'm amazed it's actually this "low", even though I have a huge amount of playtime and have done a lot of stuff. 8 seems like it should have been higher!

I am rank 6 and the only things you are surpassing me in are:
-crafting shield
-chocobo digging
-abyssea titles
-monstrosity
-pre adoulin side-quests
-chocobo racing
-moblin maze stuff

And it seems that most of the above you haven't even gone to the max so the old content stuff must be worth alot!

Interested to know:
- Dyna-D progress
- Meebles
- In-game playtime
- Approx age of the character (real life time since it was created as a character in real life time)

-4/4 clears, 4 jobs +3 reforge unlocked, 3 others +2 reforge fully unlocked
-Both bosses cleared, but not all objectives 3/3 - I did them solo so some weren't happening
-737 days
-...Sometime in 2004-5? Pre-ToAU, quit pre-WotG, came back during COVID. Thought PlayOnline would have the date in a history somewhere but all I can see is that I last cancelled my single mule in 2007 (rip). My taru is maybe old enough to drink, but maybe it was early 2005 and needs a few more months.

edit: oh, and meant to post - Emporox categories missing are 198 Petrifacts, both Meebles, and the Einherjar ones that inexplicably cost an Eyepatch each. got the rest unlocked. you never know what they're counting.

Edit: I refreshed the page and my question was already answered.

Just got "Mastery" Rank 8 while going from 492 RoE to 503 RoE completed clearing some of the Quests (Artifact 2) and Quests (Artifact 3) that I already completed but I had never bothered to get RoE credit for these.

GEO Artifact Quest I
GEO Artifact Quest II
GEO Artifact Quest III
SMN Artifact Quest III
SMN Artifact Quest II
SMN Artifact Quest I
SAM Artifact Quest I
SAM Artifact Quest II
SAM Artifact Quest III
PUP Artifact Quest I
PUP Artifact Quest II

I haven't been paying attention for the past 5 days but I didn't get rank 8 after obtaining the titles "Pandemonium Queller" (title #891) and "Sworn to the Dark Divinity" (title #892).

Minimal chocobo digging, barely any blue magic, only the three Windurst titles from Dynamis - Divergence, missing these VNM titles:

Blobdingnag Burster
Dawon Trapper
Krabkatoa Steamer
Orcus Trophy Hunter
Yilbegan Hideflayer

I never even thought about this - I've had all BLU spells since I started my hunt, I wonder if those are worth basically zero "points" or whatever then?

"New criteria that influence Mastery rank have been added."

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/63504



They still haven't discussed the new criteria, which are probably related to why people got a rank increase after the version update.

They never mentioned spells specifically in that forum post, but here's an account of getting Mastery Rank 8 after learning a blue magic spell nearly 3 years prior to the update.

RoE objectives aren't actual quests but you can rank up off those also.

FWIW I still have RNG01 and BST01 as well as some other jobs sub-99 (BRD24, RDM, DRG, COR, DNC, RUN). When I had Mastery Rank 6, I did a bunch of Monstrosity (no level 99s though and not even close to having all species unlocked) but stopped doing that and went for titles (went from 783 titles to 870 titles in 3 weeks) and got Mastery Rank 7 on title #871 getting the title "Queller of Otherworldly Gales" from clearing Alluvion Skirmishes for both Rala Waterways and Cirdas Caverns with Torso V.

Edit: just FYI you don't need Torso V to get "Queller of Otherworldy Gales" for the first time and you can get that title in either Cirdas Caverns or Rala Waterways. (I got that title again repeating Cirdas Caverns once with Torso II and completing all 4 floors, no Balamor's Adumbration appearance. Other testimonials indicate using only Torso I)

New criteria isn't a new category, it's just new stuff. New missions were added after the creation of mastery. New content. New bosses.

Spells are almost certainly included in what counts, just as valid as combat skill to know all the spells

I can confirm a limbus page followed by a warp to HP upped me to rank 9

It sure was fun though! What a blast actually playing the game and all the neglected content within