Mastery Rank Data

It's definitely a nonlinear increase in required accomplishments. People that play the game normally these days are at 5-6. People who have played a lot and also done some obscure stuff (like quests) are at 7. People that have done most of the obscure stuff are at 8. People that have done almost all of it are 9.

I mean, I was rank 8 before the rank cap increase and continued to be rank 8 afterwards and I have one monster at 90 and nothing else. I do assume it counts for more than usual due to how many things there are with it but obviously isn't required.


Well, obviously some people who hit rank 9 are lacking quite a ton of content, so either that content doesn't matter, or they've done enough unknown other content that they have the buffer room to still get it. We know the theoretical max is rank 10 but given there's like less than a dozen people even hitting 9 so far, it's probably quite literally impossible even with 100% of existing tracked content so if 9 is the current "cap" then a buffer exists at least.


You shouldn't think of it in terms of a percentage. You should assume that content is worth points, and that some may be weighted. Finishing a mission might be 2 points. Getting a title might be one point. Medal of Altana might be worth 10 points. And to hit each "rank" requires a ever-increasing amount of total points, not the same amount for each one. Think like 100 for rank 1, 350 for rank 2, 750 for rank 3, etc.

/raises hand

I was Rank7 from the day they added Mastery Rank, never did Monstrosity (I actually did level a monster to like, level 15? years ago when they introduced it, will check the details later on during the currently ongoing campaign).

Got auto-bumped to Rank8 when they raised the cap with the Hoxne patch.
Still no monstrosity.


Since then I did:
1) second path of Meeble Burrows (completely skipped it at the time, now I got all objs in all paths)
2) Over 100 RoEs I was missing (and I still miss many! I was at 700ish now I'm like close to 900?)
3) Over 50 titles I was missing (I'm still low, at like 900ish?)
4) Choco Digging was 0, now it's like 55+
5) Sheol A is now MM15 (was uhm, 10 or 11)
6) Lotsa limbus (well not that much tbf, my zone cap is still like what, 250k? Skipped limbus entirely for the past month)
7) Got a S5 Prime and a couple of new R15 Mythics and 1 new R15 Aeonic
8) One new job JP master (was lv99 but at 0 JPs) and with completed AF, Relic, Empy and ML30ish or w/e it is

If you have questions for me shoot and I'll be glad to answer!

10 may or may not exist yet, the point is, there are rank 9s who still have things they haven't done, so if you want to eventually hit 10, nothing is off the table.

It's not completely off the table that they implemented Mastery rank10 thinking that people will start to unlock it in the near future, but not already obtainable today even if you literally did 100% of everything possible.

(the fact that we don't know exactly what counts and what doesn't and how much it counts is another story entirely... but in the end it's very faithful to the legacy of FFXI I guess lol)

If I was them, I would make it unreachable, but reachable at some point in the future (similar to how they release Master Trials that they don't think we can beat). Then, everyone that's on the grind has to do new content.

Kinda dumb that we didn't have a system like this before Mastery Rank, tbf

I just wish they'd put a bar for progress similar to rank points, Because if the client is being provided values for a display, we could probably read them out of the packets or memory and be able to monitor exactly when things go up and by how much. Would make it much easier to strike off things that don't contribute and narrow down on what does.

Which is probably exactly why they'll never give us something like that.

I'm surprised one of the program wizards hasn't found a packet with values of some kind

It has to be tracking something to know youve done X of them

That's basically what HiPotion is doing, but it isn't conveniently sent to the client in a clean packet. If we wanted something like that, best bet would be to revive ffxidb, hook up an xichecklist-like achievement tracker to it, and also record mastery rank, then automate collection of what happened in zone before mastery rank ups.

There aren't that many of us anymore, but we would still figure stuff out a lot faster than this thread and we wouldn't be so heavily biased towards obscure ***because the only people that find this thread are already done the normal stuff that gives rank.

It literally sends a single value with the mastery rank only basically.

https://github.com/Windower/Lua/blob/5a35aeffa01aa47ea2a7898a7015fccb586728a0/addons/libs/packets/fields.lua#L1555

just ding mastery rank 8 after doing campaign ops Delta strike
770/1047 titles

all missions 100%
campaign ops 13% (all cities combined)
side quests for sandy, windy, basty, adoulin and crystal war 97%+
rest about 60%
all crafts 70 WW100 fish 110 synergy 28
1 monster in monstrocity to 99
1047 RoE completion
only need tumult curator clear on unity
only need cait sith and alexander VD clear
gaol t1 v25 clear t2 only need marmorcrab v25 t3/4 max v15 clear
moogle mastery 35

cant think of any more info worth giving. hope this is some help

I loved ffxidb data collection, without starting a shitstorm why was it taken offline and stopped collecting? I still use it today for drop rates on where I should go to get random items

edit: I woud glady donate the data from all the accounts I access to build the database

FFXI DB got data forwarded from Guildwork, which got data from the Guildwork plugin. Fixing it is a tough proposition without Guildwork access, and obviously we wouldn't want to recreate a system with the same problems (dependent on a service that the windower team doesn't control), so we'd be looking at a rewrite instead of bugfixes.

That's not impossible and the server code was updated a few years ago, but we haven't had the time to rewrite xidb.

What affects Influence in Campaign?

The most obvious thing to me is slaughtering beastmen defenders (with or without battle), and doing defensive battles. But do the non-combat ops also contribute? I'm curious how fast one can flip a territory's influence, especially late in the week. Trying to rebuild Windurst's territory on Asura so I can actually do Plucking Wings, and ideally keep Xarc for SOME faction so we can move forward toward Fiat Lux.

Hey. I just hit Rank 8 and have been tracking things pretty religiously. I hope this helps with understanding mastery rank.

Also, this could be used as a general checklist. Just run a script to delete each word with more than 4 X's in a row and it should clear up my data.

I haven't filled out all the teleport points yet. But otherwise everything else is tracked. Assume I have them all.

Can't post text files and it's too long to post here raw, so linking temporarily.

https://filebin.net/kqrn2r4vi2ij59ea

All the best, enjoy

What ranked you up?

Impressive you got 8 considering the wide range of content you're missing still

Congrats

Also you have "Phoenix" listed under your learned spells?

Good catch! I used the spellcheck addon to see what I was missing and then auto-filled in everything else (a list of SMN spells from BG wiki). Normmaly I catch stuff like that, but I must have not paid attention and left in Pheonix, haha.

The last thing I did was get all job points for Ninja.

Like I saud, assume all the telepoints are filled out :)

I'll post an updated version as I get more stuff.

Also, I onnce had Medal of Altana, and lost it. So I'm not sure if it still counts.

There is also some data that I didn't include. Like I have WAR M.lvl 48, Geo M.lvl 44 etc, but not at 50, so I didn't list them. Similarly I have way more REMAS, like Farsha, Thwashtar, Mandau and Rhongomiant, but not at 119. I also have most combat/magic skills capped. RoE's are not listed, but at a quick glance I have 863 complete.

It doesn't, we've had people deliberately rank down that way.

I have been stuck on Rank 4 for quite a while and I am thinking I am capped. Rough stats are 730+ RoE clears, 570 titles, 600~ quests, all HP/survival/lyco, all jobs 99. Finishing up last of Sandorian mission line and then I am done with all missions.

Playtime I suspect might be a cap because I am only 57 days of playtime total.

You could prove it, make sure you don't do anything on milestone days

75, 100 if you rank on a milestone day without adding anything new you'll verify it.

I'd wager there's some weighted titles from key NMs or final pieces of content you're missing

Hard to tell without seeing a complete breakdown

I can verify that there's not a hard cap anywhere in the 70-75 days playtime range - my little man was Rank 5 a week ago and is also Rank 5 today, but my /playtime is 75 days, 20 hours as of literally right when I wrote this post.

Can't say it doesn't contribute to the invisible points, obviously, but it's definitely not a hard cap.

(Fiat Lux done, Abyssea storyline done, you know how it is I got those checkmarks)

Just a heads up that the new update has about a dozen new very low effort RoE to clear. Literally just entering Dynamis zones and unlocking stuff you already had

Notes on the new ROEs:

The "Reforge relic armor" specifically has to be the chestpiece like the AF ones, but it doesn't say that.

The Ambsucade weapon ones don't seem to allow for higher tiers unlike the armor ones. I could use a piece of +2 for all three armor ones (as they do say) but the weapon ones don't work. I used a voucher to get the base weapon and completed the first ROE but the "reforged" one still doesn't let you use a final stage. So it sounds like you'll have to reforge one stage at a time and go back to the NPC between each of them. Which is fairly annoying considering I have every weapon at max stage, but I guess I'll do later this month once I have the free hallmark items.

The deeds/unlock ones are fast and the dynamis ones are just the old areas. Nothing with divergence or new limbus.

EDIT: Also, the rewards are a bit off. It says 300 sparks, 1500 exp, 30 accolades, but for some reason I got 57 accolades on each of the dynamis ones.

Confirming Fulmination Disruptor and Champion of the Dawn titles are now fixed on the bards. Can select both of them when I couldn't before.

Currently still only showing Interrupter of Dreams instead of both the Waking the Beast titles, will confirm if they're still mutually exclusive later when I redo the quest for a third time and pick the other option.

Maybe, hopefully, final stage are going to work for the successive RoEs?

Also I didn't notice new Dynamis RoEs! Damn me!

I exchanged for a Tokko Sword and it worked for the first ROE that Naegling didn't. But Naegling still doesn't work for the second one which just says "reforge a weapon". I'm assuming it will want an Ajja > Eletta > Kaja (no idea how many total ROEs there are to do yet). But at the least, not working as of the second one.

Gonna keep my fingers crossed they'll "fix" it next month then >_>

It's base -> first upgrade -> Kaja -> Naegling

the second RoE asks for either Ajja or Eletta or whatever the ones are called that are between base and Kaja.