Mastery Rank Data

There's a trick to this one. The chevron title needs to be active when you turn the chevron in.

Basically, when you turn in your chevron, you can no longer have the associated title. So if the title is active when you turn in the chevron, the game needs something to reset your title to- that's the Ballistager title.

For the sake of experimentation, does anyone have 950 Titles and is Rank 9 or 1050 Titles and Rank 10?

Oh good, I'll try this out then. Everyone else was just saying "give it back after a week" and it wasn't working after several tries so I just moved on for now. I'll give that a whirl and make sure I put the chevron back on first, if that works I'll be down to 5 titles left hah.

I don't think there are any known Rank 10s at the moment, and afaik we have one confirmed Rank 9 on this forum.

I have more than a thousand titles and I'm still rank 8, so there's more to this system than titles or titles have very uneven weights.

I capped all my random sub-skills (like staff and club on PLD) and got my remaining blue magic list down to 5 (3 WKR, 2 Vagary). Still rank 8! I plan to start fighting the fish list down later tonight and unlocked Mentor status on a mule, so I can start pushing myself up to gold.

Doing a reverse count (total of 1101 titles, subtracting the ones impossible to obtain due to bugs, unimplemented, exclusive, etc) and the six I don't have yet, I get a count of 1042 owned. 1043 once I retry Ballistager. 1048 would be the most possible without doing multiple escutcheons, going to a dead server for besieged BCNMs, and/or SE fixing broken titles.

Still rank 8 here.

There is probably a threshold for each content where each additional thing over the cap doesn't help with mastery rank. Same idea as having all quests done in game, all RoEs yet people are still rank 7 or rank 8. Maybe there is older content we are missing like game table, brenner, all escha vorseals, hunts, mandragora jingly, all campaign ops done, etc.

But I don't think we will know for sure unless they give us a progress bar or more information from development, especially regarding the recent changes of adding more content to mastery rank.

The game also tracks:
Chat Frequency (Total number of lines written in-game to social channels)
Conversations with NPCs (Total number of times you initiated a conversation with an NPC)
Parties Joined
Alliances Joined
Battles Fought
Number of Times KO'd
Enemies Defeated (Number of times you landed the killing blow on an enemy)
GMs Calls Made

Seen from a seasonal campaign. I wouldn't be surprised if that affected something too.

Ew, having done all the garrisons.

brb calling a GM on my mule for mastery rank

Wouldn't it be sadistic but on brand for SE if to get Mastery Rank 10 your total times KO'd couldn't be above a certain number?

Blood for the blood god, Skulls for the skull throne

Can someone do me a favor, while I multi-task myself into oblivion?

Can someone read every key item they currently have in game and observe if their Mastery Rank changes? ....Yes, I said it.

I'm not even sure what you're asking for.

It's a long-shot, but I never actually bother to mark my KIs as "Read". How silly would it be if reading all of the KIs fulfills some requirement?

Not going to lie, this thought crossed my mind earlier when someone said that the game tracks KO's... like you have to play hardcore to get R10... lol

sure lets find another way to screw over ninjas

i hope not. the one moogle told me 5/28/2024 i died exactly 10,000 times

That's the secret to Rank 10, you have to die/homepoint 10,000 times.

Oh, they reused the code from the Brown Mage?

edit: lmao wait I missed your earlier question, I compulsively mark my KIs as "read", I have 0 unread, and I'm still MR7

For fishing stats, in addition to "have you caught every fish?" the system also tracks:
* The number of times you have cast your line.
* The number of times you caught a fish.
* Your longest fish you've caught.
* Your heaviest fish you've caught.

Not sure what the longest/heaviest fish possible is, and I definitely can't compete with OG fish botters for number of casts / catches.

I went from 58 down to 0 fish remaining now and am still rank 8.

Ya reckon the game keeps track of how many of the BCNMs and other fights you've broken the clear time record for?

We need to stfu and stop giving them ideas.

Random Question: When you talk to Teilsa in Port Sandoria (near N. Sando) and you choose "I want to do some Quests!", what does she say?

Every Town has an NPC like this, but Teilsa isn't in the Adventurer/Tutorial NPC page: https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorial_NPC



Maybe folks with newer characters are more aware, but this NPC tells you how many Quest NPCs you have left to talk to, in Sandoria, Bastok and Windurst. (I don't know if there are more in other towns, but I'm not sure).

It just says "None."

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Quest_Guide_NPCs

Sandy: None
Bastok: 1 (escorting Ken)
Windurst: None
Mhaura: None
Selbina: None
Tavnazia: None
Looks like they never added it for other expansion towns


I finished fishing up one of each fish and I'm still rank 8. I'll do Ken's shitty escort later tonight, probably.

Regarding quest "All by Myself"

I had to get someone to hold all of the mobs along the path except the worms at the end. Too hard to do solo without any help because too many mobs and very easy to get caught. It really is one of the hardest escort quests currently.

How the hell did you fish up Bibiki Urchin when it doesn't exist (for me)?

That one sucks. It does exist though.

Slice of Bluetail and Ebisu+1, in the middle of the dock in the P.Isle side of the manaclipper.

I probably spent 3 hours wandering around the places it is supposed to bite and eventually ended up there.

It probably took more casts than the other 57 I fished up in the last 24 hours. Initially I thought it was glitched, but it is so weird across a so many dimensions that I now believe whoever made it at SE is just profoundly eccentric.

Level: 3
NPC price: 750G
Bite rate: almost zero
Used in: urchin sushi (before being added to the NPC iirc) and sublime afterwards
??? It looks like it is intended to be hard to catch, but catchable by anyone. I wonder if SE thought Urchin Sushi would make it worth farming back in the day

We could also just have the condition wrong (like, it needs the manaclipper to be docking or something).

I've spent probably 6+ hours in this spot using various baits, Ebisu +1 and Lu Shang's, and never seen it. Count yourself lucky for not having such a hard time with it.

To follow up on Hya's testimonial...

The bibiki urchin took me something like 15 hours over multiple 1-2hr sessions to find... a true nightmare.

When catching all the fish for completions sake, it was certainly not the hardest one to catch, but it was BY FAR the rarest

Just want to plug the greatest FFXI fishing resource of all time while people are on the topic: http://www.great-blue.jp/?lng=en