Mastery Rank Data

I feel like I'm in super cool best friends club that you don't understand the point of and are mad about the club existing for some reason

Guys what if rank 10 is the friends we made along the way??!11one

Word.

Time to max out the friend list!

How about You give an example of what is oh so important that people aren't doing?

Briefly skimmed your posts in this thread, and its been mostly complaining about people tracking things that you dont have any concrete evidence on... but that's the thing, no one has concrete evidence on anything. We only know what has ranked people up, not the value of what that task was, how close they were to rank up prior, etc... SURE some things may not contribute at all, but if your goal is MR9, then doing everything is simply the easiest solution.

If you're convinced that task X Y or Z are the must do things, and that'd help people get 6 7 or 8 easier, then just post that and stop yelling at everyone tracking stuff that's trackable in the game. That's the best we can go by... with all due respect

I reel like being helpful and discussing things is what this thread is for...: A) What ranked someone up, where they were at etc, B) How to do old/forgotten tasks in an attempt to make everyone's life easier, or C) sharing one's overall achievements for comparison.
Outside of that, just coming here to yell at others that they're dumb or wrong for pursuing X task in the game, with no evidence on the contrary just sounds bitter and a waste of everyone's time



It'd been stated by users that alot of things that many considered "useless" rank people up:
-Monstrosity levels / species unlocks (not lv 99)
-Campaign ops that arnt Fiat Lux/Stronghold
-Time played(?)
-Seemingly random field NM titles
-Certain/overall Quest completions that Dont reward titles
-Trust Points (?)
etc... you get the point

If you've been compiling some master list that is so much better, just post it instead of having this holier than thou attitude

Most regular folks just make a list of all the things, approach them in a manner that's more easily obtainable, or delegated to daily completion, and just chip away at one task at a time.

who the hell keeps killing Jormungand on Phoenix

I mean there's also at least one person who said they were camping King Arthro for the drop and didn't invite another human for the title (sicko behavior)

but like, come on, I just need the title for all these big nerds, who is monopolizing them ;_;

I would literally pay more than the drops are worth for them to let me join for title! Gil is worthless! Glory is eternal!

I've had similar experiences with people who just dont give a ***what you're doing, even if it doesnt negatively impact them in any way, they enjoy that you get screwed or even better, mad.

Best to just Blist and avoid those types of people

I don't have a list and frankly much less experience with MR than most people in this thread, so I don't mean to imply (and I don't think I've ever said anything remotely close to) that someone should ask ME what to upgrade.

My point was that there are (and remain) lots of posts on here suggesting that people pursue things that, while they might rank them up, are very high hanging fruit. I've continued to use Aery as an example because it's a good one, but there are endless posts talking about title chasing, how many RoEs you have completed, spending hours raising chocobos, working on combat skills, chasing down random quests in towns, doing maps, home points, chocobo digging, unlocking spells, key items, mounts, and all those other things.

If it's clear that some things count more than others, then why aren't people suggesting THOSE things instead of telling people to chase titles (generically)?

Mission completions
Combat content like SR, Vagary, Sortie, Ody, Dynamis [D], Gaes Fete, HTBF, Skirmish, Omen, Incursion, sky, sea, voidwatch
Craft levels
World bosses like Cerberus, KB, Khimaira, Vrtra, etc.
Campaign Ops

I mentioned it because I have these things (though no campaign ops, but I think they're valuable for MR) ^^ and I don't have any of the other things I listed. I think it's a pretty valuable lesson in terms of the weights of things, but yet this thread is still populated with people touting random completionist ***.

Sure, maybe it only takes an hour or two to chase down some scrolls, and a couple hours to enter the random zones you haven't entered, and only an hour to do 5-10 RoEs, and so on...but that ***adds up fast and in the same amount of time you could've done WAY more useful ***instead of wasting your time penny pinching.

Play the game however you want, but if you're gonna tell people it's a good way to raise MR I'm gonna raise a couple eyebrows.

I've been "stuck" at Mastery Rank 5 for over a year now. What I can absolutely tell you does not help very much is RoE completion as I'm at 865 completed (the fishing / harvesting / Vanaversary ones are the big categories left uncompleted for now). So, I would not focus on RoEs for early advancement.

I also just finished up my last "easy' quest granted title the other day (quests requiring fishing skill remain), but note that I focused purely on quests that gave titles, I still have almost all of them that are not directly related to Mission progression / REMA or other notable gear left undone, so it would appear total quests completed is a higher weight.

One big gap I have is crafting. I have only Woodworking at 70 and no key items for it. I was hoping that maybe I could push to 6 or 7 without doing more, but looks like they are weighted just as highly as actual job leveling (for the record, I'm 99 on all jobs, 8 jobs have capped JP and my highest master level is 32 with the other capped JP jobs around 15-20).

The other big gaps are that I have only scratched the surface on Coalitions (something that I'm 100% going to jump in on with the new upcoming campaign, I think I've used less than 20 imprimaturs ever) and Campaign content. Again, almost nothing done ever for that, too.

This is all from a fresh character I made returning for the 20th anniversary, so lots of playtime from the past few years.

TL;DR - Looks like overall quest total is important, as well as expansion "completion" beyond just the storyline missions (Campaign, Coalitions, Assault, etc).

Random completionist *** is fun, but yeah, I'd imagine you're better served doing the lowest-hanging fruit first even if it's tedious (looking at you, crafting levelling.)

My guess would be that it's not a common recommendation because everyone should already know it by the time they get to posting here? Like, everyone knows the nation missions up to rank 10 exist. Obviously you do them and it helps make your mastery rank go up.

(I do think you're underrating RoE completion and spell learning, but I can't prove it. Spells mostly because, again, they were on the dev list.)

This is wild to me. I have a character who was created Feb 13th this year and he's MR6. Two jobs not even level 99, three crafts at 0.

But on the other hand:
nearly every Campaign Op (including 3/3 Fiat Lux)
every mission line done (including the add-ons, I am READY for the HTMBs)
all Coalitions (7/7 Legend + all assignments done etc)
all Assaults (because I made a mythic)
all spells learned (including BLU)
all geas fete titles (because I made an Aeonic)

Which lends credence to the idea of... almost "second tier" content? Stuff that's not main story missions but that's one step below that (and one step above "random sidequest" or "skill level")

Actually, I have all spells and all skills capped for 119. I suppose I should run the tracker and do a dump as I think my case is unique enough to be helpful for some data points. I'll see if I can get that done in the next few days.