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